Scotland Opponents Qualification – Part One
HAITI
Concacaf Qualifying saw 32 Countries compete through qualifying with 3 automatic qualifiers being the 3 Third Round group winners as well as the 3 Host Nations , Canada , Mexico and USA , meaning 6 qualifiers in total. In addition 2 countries progressed to the Inter Continental Playoffs in March 2026.
First Round
The First Round saw the teams ranked 29-32 compete for a place in the Second Round
Anguilla beat Turks and Caicos Islands 4-3 on penalties after 0-0 and 1-1 draws in the two legs
British Virgin Islands also won on penalties 4-2 against US Virgin Islands after their games finished 1-1 and 0-0.
Second Round
Haiti were drawn in Group C with Curacao , Sanit Lucia , Aruba and Barbados, with each team playing 2 home games and 2 away games , with the top 2 qualifying for the Third Round.
The games were played over two windows in June 2024 and June 2025.
Curacao opened with a 4-1 home win over Barbados.
Haiti who are unable to play games at home due to the political situation opened with a come from behind win over Saint Lucia 2-1 in Barbados in front of 88 fans.
A few days later they beat Barbados again in Barbados 3-1 while Curacao won 2-0 in Aruba.
Saint Lucia drew 2-2 with Aruba again in Barbados , to end the June 2024 matches.
In June 2025, Barbados drew 1-1 with Aruba.
Curacao’s 4-0 home win over Saint Lucia clinched their spot in Round 3 while Haiti also qualified with a 5-0 win in Arbua.
Curacao then beat Haiti 5-1 at home in a dead rubber.
Third Round
Haiti were drawn in a group with Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua with the games played over three windows in September , October and November 2025.
September saw the first games with Haiti drawing 0-0 with Honduras , a home game played in Curacao.
A late penalty earnt Nicaragua a surprise 1-1 home draw with Cost Rica.
Honduras would top the group with 4 points after beating Nicaragua 2-0 at home.
Costa Rica raced into a 2-0 lead at home to Haiti before a hat trick by former St Mirren loanee Duckens Nazon put Haiti 3-2 ahead after 86 minutes before Costa Rica grabbed a late equaliser to draw 3-3.
The October window opened with Haiti drawing level with Honduras at the top of the group as they won 3-0 in Nicaragua , as Honduras drew 0-0 at home to Costa Rica. This put both of them on 5pts ahead of Costa Rica on 3 points at the half way stage of the group.
Honduras took a firm grip of the group going into November when they beat Haiti 3-0 to move to 8 points as Costa Rica moved into second place on 6 points after beating Nicaragua 4-1 at home.
November saw Honduras travel to Nicaragua where a win would secure qualification for the World Cup against a team who had taken 1 point from 4 games.
In a remarkable turn of events Haiti beat Costa Rica 1-0 in a game played in Curacao as Nicaragua upset the odds and beat Honduras 2-0.
This left Honduras and Haiti on 8 points and Costa Rica on 6 points going into the final games.
Costa Rica and Honduras drew 0-0 to effectively eliminate both as Haiti beat Nicaragua 2-0 in Curacao to qualify as Group winners.
The three Group winners Haiti , Curacao and Panama qualified with the best runners up Jamacia with 11 points Suriname with 9 points moving into the Inter Continental Playoffs . Honduras with 9 pts and +3 goal difference lost out to Suriname on goals scored.
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