The U.S. national team learned Wednesday that it will start down the road to the 2022 World Cup on the road—possibly in Trinidad & Tobago—and that it’ll face Mexico in October 2021 (home) and January 2022 (away) as Concacaf conducted its qualifying draw.
The revamped qualifying format sends Concacaf’s top five teams based on FIFA ranking straight to an expanded octagonal final round, which will be played as a home-and-away round robin from June 2021 through March 2022. The octagonal’s other three participants will be decided via two rounds of qualifying comprising 30 teams that kicks off in October.