Canada Soccer has announced today the selection of 21 players who will represent Canada at the 2024 Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship Qualifiers. The three-game group stage will take place in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago and serve as a qualifier to the 2024 Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship this summer. The tournament’s host and draw details will be published following the conclusion of the Qualifiers.
Canada has been drawn in Group D, where they will face Dominica, St. Vincent & The Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago. The team will begin the group stage against Dominica on Friday 23 February, followed by St. Vincent & The Grenadines on Sunday 25 February, and concluding against Trinidad & Tobago on Tuesday 27 February. Canada will gather in Trinidad & Tobago on Friday 16 February in preparation for the Qualifiers.
“With this new format for the Concacaf Men’s U-20 Championship, we’ll have to earn our way into the final qualifying round with no margin for error. While the environment and opponents will be a big test, especially Trinidad & Tobago in Port-of Spain, we see it as a real blessing to be able to bring a new generation of players together for the first time and do it in such meaningful matches.”
- Andrew Olivieri, Canada Soccer’s Men’s National Youth Excel Director and Men’s U-20 National Team Head Coach.
Following group stage play, teams that top each of the six groups will claim their spot at this summer’s 2024 Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship.
Canada is looking to secure their 25th appearance at the Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship having won the tournament twice (1986, 1996). At the 2022 edition of the bi-annual competition, Canada advanced from their group but were eliminated in the Round of 16 to Guatemala on penalties.
All of Canada’s matches will air LIVE and exclusively on OneSoccer, available on the fuboTV Canada platform, as a linear channel on Telus’s Optik TV (Channel 980), as well as online at OneSoccer.ca and through the OneSoccer app. Fans will find extended coverage across Canada Soccer’s digital channels on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube featuring the hashtag #CANM20.
CANADA
GK – Grégoire Świderski | FRA / Girondins Bordeaux
GK – Ivan Pavela | CRO / Hadjuk Split
GK – Nathaniel Abraham | CAN / Toronto FC
D – Theo Rigopoulos | CAN / Toronto FC
D – Christian Greco-Taylor | Unattached
D – Sergei Kozlovskiy | CAN / CF Montréal
D – Lazar Stefanovic | CAN / Toronto FC
D – James Cameron | CAN / Vancouver FC
D – Ethan Schilte-Brown | SCO / Kilmarnock FC
D – Adam Pearlman | Unattached
M – Alessandro Biello | CAN / CF Montréal
M – Tiago Codinha | NED / Twente Enschede
M – Jeevan Badwal | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC
M – Jesse Costa | GER / VFL Wolfsburg
M – Matteo Schiavoni | CAN / CF Montréal
M – Myles Morgan | Unattached
F – Oumar Diallo | ITA / Inter Milan
F – Kimani Stewart-Baynes | USA / Colorado Rapids
F – Kevaughn Tavernier | CAN / Forge FC
F – Tavio Ciccarelli | ENG / Sheffield United
F – Santiago Lopez | MEX / Pumas Unam
CANADA (A-Z)
Player | Birthyear | City in which they grew up | Notable Canadian youth clubs
Abraham, Nathaniel | 2007 | Vaughan, ON | Vaughan SC
Badwal, Jeevan | 2006 | Surrey, BC | Surrey FC
Biello, Alessandro | 2006 | Montréal, QC | FC St-Léonard
Cameron, James | 2005 | North Vancouver, BC | North Vancouver FC
Ciccarelli, Tavio | 2006 | Winnipeg, MB | Bonivital SC
Codinha, Tiago | 2005 | Bussum, NED | SDO Bussum
Costa, Jesse | 2005 | Brampton, ON | Brampton Blast
Diallo, Oumar | 2005 | Aurora, ON | Scarborough National Team
Greco-Taylor, Christian | 2005 | Calgary, AB | Calgary Rangers SC
Kozlovskiy, Sergei | 2008 | Longueuil, QC | AS Dynamo
Lopez, Santiago | 2005 | Oakville, ON | Oakville SC
Morgan, Myles | 2005 | Pickering, ON | Ajax SC
Pavela, Ivan | 2005 | Georgetown, ON | Croatia Norval SC
Pearlman, Adam | 2005 | Toronto, ON | Glen Shields FC
Rigopoulos, Theo | 2006 | London, ON | London Norwest
Schiavoni, Matteo | 2005 | Montréal, QC | Lachine SC
Schilte-Brown, Ethan | 2005 | Tampa, USA | Halifax Wanderers FC
Stefanovic, Lazar | 2006 | Oakville, ON | Oakville SC
Stewart-Baynes, Kimani | 2005 | Toronto, ON | Vaughan SC
Swiderski, Gregoire | 2005 | Bordeaux, FRA | FC Saint-Médard-en-Jalles
Tavernier, Kevaughn | 2006 | Brampton, ON | Glen Shields SC
