COUNTRIES that have qualified for the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship will know who their first-round opponents are following an official draw which takes place at Hilton Rose Hall Resort and Spa in Montego Bay, next Wednesday.

In the 12-team play-offs, host Jamaica will be placed with Canada, Costa Rica and the United States in one pot, while the four remaining Central American teams — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama — will be grouped in the other.

Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba, who have clinched berths, will be joined in a third group by two other Caribbean sides, who will be known later this week after the completion of the final qualifying play-offs among host Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guyana and Barbados.

One team from each group will be drawn into one of the four first-round groups in a ceremony to be conducted by CONCACAF deputy general secretary Ted Howard and the confederation’s director of marketing and television Manolo Zubiria.

The February 14-27 event will be divided between the 25,000-capacity Trewlany Multi-Purpose Stadium and the 7,000-seat Catherine Hall Stadium in Montego Bay.

Four teams from the CONCACAF finals will advance along with host Mexico to next year’s Under-17 World Cup June 18-July 10.

The last time Jamaica hosted the Under-17 CONCACAF qualifying tournament — also on the westerrn end of the island — they qualified for the World Cup in New Zealand in 1999.