Reggae Girlz squad announced for World Cup qualifiers

The Jamaica Football Federation has submitted its 20-member team for the CONCACAF Women's Championships, which takes place across three US cities from October 4 - 17. 

The squad features all the top names including attackers Trudi Carter and Khadija Shaw as well as other standouts such as Lauren Silver, Allyson Swaby, Ashleigh Shim among others. 

CONCACAF announced that all eight competing teams have submitted their final squads ahead of the tournament, which will be used to determine the confederation's representatives at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. 

The 2018 edition of the women’s championship will be disputed in two rounds. After round-robin play in Cary, NC and Edinburg, TX, the two group winners, plus the two second-place finishers will advance to the knockout round. The semi-finals, third place match and final will take place at the Toyota Stadium, in Frisco, TX.

The tournament will qualify the top three finishers to the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 and a fourth team to an intercontinental playoff versus Argentina. Fans will be able to follow the tournament through Concacaf GO and the Confederations rights partner networks, including Univision and Fox Sports in the United States and Fox Sports Latin America in Mexico.  

Jamaica has been drawn in Group B alongside Canada, Costa Rica and Cuba. Group A features the USA, Panama, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago. 

Full Jamaican Squad:

Allyson Swaby, Ashleigh Shim, Chantelle Swaby, Chinyelu Asher, Christina Chang, Deneisha Blackwood, Dominique Bond, Giselle Washington, Jadyn Matthews, Jody Brown, Khadija Shaw, Konya Plummer, Lauren Silver, Marlo Sweatman, Nicole McLure, Sashana Campbell, Shanise Foster, Sydney Schneider, Toriana Patterson, Trudi Carter.