Haiti withdrew from Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship, reducing Group B to three teams.
Because a host country could not be found for Group D, Trinidad played St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Aruba played Suriname in two two-leg series with the winners facing off to determine the group winner.
El Salvador had called-up United States under 17 international Dustin Corea to their national under-20 national team but did not write to FIFA request a change of association for the player as is required.
However matters were complicated as Belize would have won their Group A game 3-0 against El Salvador and qualified for the play-off had the forfeit been brought in at an earlier time.
Instead El Salvador reached the play-off final and played Costa Rica twice – later forfeiting both games 3-0, allowing Costa Rica to qualify despite losing the matches 2-1 on aggregate.