The football tournament at the 2017 Central American Games took place in December 2017.

[2][3] In October 2017, CONCACAF wrote to ORDECA to confirm that teams from Guatemala would not be eligible for the competitions due to suspension of the National Football Federation of Guatemala from FIFA.

[4] Honduras and Belize did not enter a team into the women's competition.

If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:[5]

For the men's, the top three teams qualified for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games as the UNCAF representatives: For the women's, the top two teams qualified for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games as the UNCAF representatives: