ESPN.com · Jul 18, 2022
Should CONCACAF persist with the W Championship format?
Monday's decider Canada and the USWNT will be a great spectacle, but the jury is out on if CONCACAF can come up with a better tournament format. Jaime Lopez/Jam Media/Getty ImagesMONTERREY, Mexico -- It's been 16 games in 15 days. One host city, two stadiums.
The parameters of the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship look familiar. A top-heavy region known to have two global heavyweights -- and then everyone else -- has long held short, quadrennial qualifying tournaments each for the World Cup and Olympics. This time, there's a catch: double jeopardy.