Overview:
Haiti’s girls’s nationwide staff, seeded prime of Group D, will play qualifiers throughout November 2025, February and April 2026. They have to win the group to achieve the 2026 Concacaf W Championship — a pathway to the 2027 World Cup and 2028 Olympics.
MIAMI — Haiti’s girls’s nationwide staff, Les Grenadières, discovered their destiny on Aug. 20 in Miami. They’ll lead Group D within the upcoming Concacaf W Qualifiers, which start in November 2025 and proceed in February and April 2026. The staff will face the Dominican Republic, Suriname, Belize and Anguilla.
The format is easy: every staff performs 4 video games—two at house and two away—and solely the group winner strikes on. That subsequent stage, the 2026 Concacaf W Championship, is the place Haiti may safe a spot at each the 2027 FIFA Girls’s World Cup in Brazil and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Haiti enters the qualifiers using the momentum of a historic 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup debut in Australia and New Zealand, which adopted their under-20 look in France 5 years earlier. These milestones cemented Les Grenadières as one of many Caribbean’s prime girls’s groups, alongside Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Now, because the highest-ranked side in Group D, the duty is obvious: win the group to safe a spot in subsequent yr’s decisive Concacaf W Championship.
But, current preparatory outcomes — together with failing to qualify for the 2024 Concacaf Girls’s Gold Cup after a 1-0 loss to Puerto Rico within the preliminary spherical and back-to-back pleasant losses to Canada in Could and June this yr — uncovered the staff’s defensive frailties, restricted cohesion and institutional instability. Issues stem considerably from lapses in home league operations, coaching disruptions and management turnover.
“The target is obvious: end prime of the group and attain the ultimate part subsequent November.”
Haitian Soccer Federation official
Regardless of setbacks, the staff stays anchored by star names. Midfielder Melchie Dumornay, a standout on the final World Cup, this yr’s France Soccer Ballon d’Or nominee and finest younger participant on the 2022 Concacaf W Championship, continues to encourage the squad. Different established contributors like strikers Nérilia Mondésir and Batcheba Louis, defenders Claire Constant, Armandine Pierre-Louis, Ketna Louis, Chelsea Surpris and Betina Petit-Frère, midfielder Sherly Jeudy and rising abilities akin to younger prodigy Lourdjina Etienne and Anyssa Ibrahim are anticipated to supply firepower and defensive resilience.
Off the sector, the Haitian Soccer Federation (FHF) just lately organized a qualifying coaching camp in Santiago, Chile, the place gamers — many primarily based in Europe and North America — ready for the upcoming competitions. Nevertheless, home instability stays a hurdle, as coaching facilities in Haiti typically face entry challenges amid persistent insecurity.
Because the Grenadières step into group play, they face a vital roadmap: regain momentum via unity and tactical self-discipline, whereas navigating administrative and logistical constraints. The journey to the 2027 World Cup and 2028 Olympics is determined by it.