Concacaf preliminary draw for FIFA World Cup 2022™ to take place on 19 August
The pots for the first-round draw are as follows: Pot 1: El Salvador, Canada, Curaçao, Panama, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago Pot 2: Antigua and Barbuda, Guatemala, St Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic Pot 3: Grenada, Barbados, Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Bermuda, Belize Pot 4: St Lucia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Montserrat, Dominica, Cayman Islands Pot 5: Bahamas, Aruba, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla The six highest-ranked teams in the first round – El Salvador, Canada, Curaçao, Panama, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago – will be pre-seeded into groups A to F respectively. The first round will be played in a single round-robin format, meaning each team will play four matches: two home and two away. During the second round, the six group winners will face off in a home-and-away elimination format in three predetermined pairings. The winners of each tie will proceed to the final round. The final round will see the thr