2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
The 8-team tournament was originally scheduled to be played from April 21 to May 2 and hosted by Mexico at the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana.However, the tournament was cancelled on April 27 due to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.[1] At the time that the tournament was cancelled the group stage had already been played, and the four teams who could qualify to the U-17 World Cup[2][3] – Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States – had already done so.[3] The match schedule for the groups and final rounds were announced two weeks later.[2] The championship round, however, was not played because it was cancelled due to a swine flu outbreak.