The Bahamas have withdrawn from CONCACAF’s qualifiers for Brazil 2014, citing issues at the rebuilt national stadium in Nassau. Though they began their campaign brightly by defeating the Turks-Caicos Is in their preliminary round series, they are now pulling out of first phase group C, which will continue with only Panama, Dominica, and Nicaragua. According to reports, the new Thomas Robinson Stadium is complete but is unusable because it is still missing external interfaces such as access roads and sewage lines.

All but one CONCACAF preliminary round serieses have completed, placing four teams in the first group phase. Series aggregate results are shown below. more...

Some changes have been made to the opening rounds of CONCACAF qualifiers for the 2014 Men’s World Cup. Instead of an opening round involving all 35 member nations, there will now be a preliminary round in which the ten lowest ranked teams play off for five places in the first group phase. Here, six groups of four teams each are formed, and the group winners proceed. These teams, plus six other teams that received byes, enter the semifinal round. From then on, the qualifying campaign proceeds as normal. The top two teams in each of the three semifinal groups advance to the final round, a single group from which the top three qualify and the fourth placed team enters the playoffs. more...