Reggae Girlz seal CONCACAF W Championship spot as Latibeaudiere and Mason-Clark earn Premier League promotion

Jamaica’s senior women’s side have booked a place in the final round of CONCACAF W Championship qualifying after sweeping their first-phase group with four wins from four outings.

The Reggae Girlz sat alongside Dominica, Nicaragua, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda and finished first in the standings. Across those four matches they scored 27 times while conceding twice. The sequence read an 18-0 rout of Dominica, a 3-2 victory over Nicaragua, a 4-0 defeat of Antigua and Barbuda and a 2-0 result against Guyana. The six group winners in the wider qualifying window join the United States and Canada in the closing stage.

Khadija Shaw has nine goals in this qualifying cycle and now stands on 66 strikes in national colours. Deneisha Blackwood, Jody Brown and Sheena Halel each have three; Shanae Buckley, Natasha Thomas and Kalyssa Van Zanten have two apiece; Konya Plummer and Atlanta Primus have one each.

The championship round will feature eight sides—three from North America, three from Central America and two from the Caribbean—and differs from the previous edition staged in Mexico. Four quarter-finals will be played; the four winners qualify directly for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil next summer. The four beaten quarter-finalists enter a play-in, and must win that tie to reach the intercontinental playoffs set for February next year. The Jamaica Football Federation expects CONCACAF to confirm November dates and venues in due course.

Based on current FIFA rankings, Jamaica sit fourth in the region and could be paired with fifth-ranked Costa Rica, while the United States might meet El Salvador, Haiti could face Mexico and Canada could take on Panama; organisers have yet to confirm the exact bracket.

Separately, defenders Joel Latibeaudiere and forward Ephron Mason-Clark will play in the English Premier League next season after Coventry City secured promotion with a positive result against Blackburn Rovers on Friday, locking in a place for the 2026-2027 campaign. Mason-Clark’s rise from non-league football mirrors paths taken by Marlon King, Michail Antonio and Ethan Pinnock, while Latibeaudiere continues a tradition of centre-backs under six feet tall succeeding at the top level in England, a line Jamaican supporters also associate with Adrian Mariappa’s career.