Pots Made for CONCACAF Draw

There are four pots in the CONCACAF region, with St. Vincent and the Grenadines being the only member of pot 2. Pot 1 holds the 12 highest-seeded teams in the region, all of whom are automatically through to the second round of qualifying. St. Vincent and the Grenadines also advance clear to round two, but they will be thrown into pot 2 along with the eleven winners of the first round matches, waiting to be drawn against the top twelve squads.

For the first round there are two pots, Pot A and Pot B. Eleven home-and-away ties will be played between the countries to determine who moves on to round two. The draw to match the teams in these pots will occur in Durban in November.

The following are the seedings for the CONCACAF draw:

1. México
2. United States
3. Costa Rica
4. Honduras
5. Panamá
6. Trinidad and Tobago
7. Jamaica
8. Cuba
9. Haiti
10. Guatemala
11. Canada
12. Guyana

13. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Pot A
14. Barbados
15. Suriname
16. Bermuda
17. Antigua and Barbuda
18. Saint Kitts and Nevis
19. Dominican Republic
20. El Salvador
21. Bahamas
22. Nicaragua
23. Grenada
24. Saint Lucia

Pot B
25. Turks and Caicos Islands
26. Netherlands Antilles
27. British Virgin Islands
28. Dominica
29. Cayman Islands
30. Puerto Rico
31. Anguilla
32. Belize
33. U.S. Virgin Islands
34. Montserrat
35. Aruba