FRISCO, Texas (Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015) – FC Dallas’ Toyota Stadium will host the 2016 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying championship from Feb. 10 to 21, featuring the U.S. Women’s National Team, U.S. Soccer and CONCACAF announced today.

“We couldn’t be more excited about bringing the defending Women’s World Cup Champion here to Frisco for multiple matches in Toyota Stadium next February,” said FC Dallas President Dan Hunt. “What they accomplished in the past couple of months is nothing short of remarkable, and we are thrilled to once again share top-flight international soccer with FC Dallas fans and our local community.”

BBVA Compass Stadium, home to the Houston Dash of the NWSL and the Houston Dynamo of MLS, will also host tournament matches. The United States will be in Group A and will play all of its group matches in Frisco. The round-robin stage of the tournament will be conducted with three doubleheaders in each group. Group A will play doubleheaders at Toyota Stadium on Feb. 10, 13 and 15. Group B will play doubleheaders at BBVA Compass Stadium on Feb. 11, 14 and 16. The semifinal and championship matches will be in Houston on Feb. 19 and 21, respectively.

The top two finishers in the tournament will qualify for the 2016 Women’s Olympic Football Tournament that will run from Aug. 3 through Aug. 20 in six Brazilian cities, including host city Rio de Janeiro.

“The Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship is a tremendous platform for our brightest stars on the women’s stage,” said CONCACAF Acting General Secretary Ted Howard. “At CONCACAF we take pride in the quality of our women’s football and look forward to following our teams on their path to Rio.”

The tournament will feature eight nations divided into two groups of four, with the top two finishers in each group, after round-robin play, advancing to the semifinals. The winners of the semifinals qualify for the Olympics.

General public ticketing information for the competition will be announced at a later date. FC Dallas season ticket members will have the exclusive option through Oct. 25 of applying the credit from their 18th “bonus” match ticket to secure their seats to either one or all of the qualifying matches at Toyota Stadium. For more information on this special offer, call 888.FCD.GOAL (323.4625), e-mail seasontickets@fcdallas.com or visit FCDallas.com/membership.

The eight participating nations will include host United States as well as Canada and Mexico, which get automatic berths into the tournament. Those three countries will be joined by three nations from the Caribbean region and two from Central America, with qualifiers in those regions beginning in late September.

“We’re excited to host this event at two excellent venues and look forward to some entertaining matches in what will be the first tournament competition for our team since the Women’s World Cup,” said U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati. “The quality of women’s soccer in CONCACAF continues to improve over every cycle and we expect that to be the case once again over the 15 matches in Texas.”

The final tournament schedule and kick-off times will be set following the qualifying tournaments in Central America and the Caribbean.

2016 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship Schedule