The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) announced some significant changes to the qualifying process for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Those changes will likely benefit the “Big 3” in the region.
The long and short of it is this: the US Men’s National Team, assuming their ranking stays within the top six in the region, will be able to skip what was previously the fourth round of World Cup qualifying and proceed directly to the Hex — where their 2018 World Cup dreams met their demise.
That group of six will be set as of June 2020 and is based on FIFA’s published rankings.