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The semifinal round will have teams from each group facing each other in home-and-away encounters from 20 August - 19 November 2008.   
 
The top two from each of the three groups will advance to the six-team CONCACAF Final Round scheduled for 11 February - 14 October 2009.
 
The top three teams from the CONCACAF Final Round in 2009 will automatically qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. CONCACAF's fourth place finisher will play off with CONMEBOL's fifth-place team in a home-and-away series for one of the last berths to the FIFA event.

Second Legs Round Up 

The second-leg encounters of the 2010 CONCACAF World Cup Qualification Stage 2 had two surprises and several near upsets last week as two of the 11 teams that advanced from Stage 1 were able to reach the Semifinal Round.
 
Surinam, who defeated Montserrat early this year in Stage 1, eliminated Guyana from Stage 2 with a 2:1 second-leg win on the road in Georgetown on Sunday and therefore winning the series 3:1 on aggregate score.  This is the first time since the 1977 that Surinam advanced past two rounds of CONCACAF World Cup Qualification.
 
Another team that were victorious in Stage 1 (over Anguilla), El Salvador came back from a 1:0 deficit to defeat visiting Panama 3:1 in San Salvador and win the series 3:2 on aggregate.
 
In other second-leg surprises, Trinidad & Tobago scored twice in the 2:0 win over Bermuda in Hamilton and eliminating the hosts 3:2 on aggregate on Sunday, while an own goal gave Haiti a 1:0 triumph on road against Netherlands Antilles in Willemstad.
 
Also last weekend: Sunday - Cuba defeated Antigua & Barbuda 2:0 (won 8:3 aggregate) in Havana; while the USA topped Barbados 1:0 in Bridgetown (won 9:0 aggregate); Saturday - Guatemala posted a 3:1 win over St. Lucia (won 9:1 on aggregate) in Los Angeles, California; Costa Rica blanked Grenada 3:0 (won 5:2 on aggregate) in San José; and Mexico easily beat Belize by a score of 7:0 (won 9:0 on aggregate) in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
 
In other encounters earlier last week: Jamaica defeated the Bahamas 6:0 (won 13:0 on aggregate) in Greenfield on Wednesday; while Canada posted a 4:1 triumph over St. Vincent & The Grenadines (won 7:1 on aggregate) in Montréal, Quebec on Friday.(Cocacaf)

 Semi-Final Round Fixtures