[8] For six of the available eight slots, thirty teams were drawn into six groups of five, and played two home and two away matches in a single round-robin format.

[5] In addition, Canada and the United States, the two highest-ranked CONCACAF teams in the FIFA Women's World Rankings of August 2020, qualified automatically.

On 14 February 2022, CONCACAF announced that the tournament would be held in Mexico and that matches would be played in the cities of Guadalupe and San Nicolás de los Garza, both located in the Monterrey metropolitan area within the state of Nuevo León.

[1] The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage, and qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

[5][3] The number of slots is an expansion from the previous Women's World Cup qualifying competition, which allocated only 3.5 spots to CONCACAF.

[13] Each national team had to submit a preliminary list of up to 60 players, 5 of whom must be goalkeepers, at least thirty days before the opening match of the tournament.

[17] The top two teams of each group qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

The winner qualified for the football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics in France and the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup.

[6] However, Canada declined to participate citing scheduling issues and was replaced by Mexico,[23][24] the next NAFU best team.