And then there were two.

The battle for the Concacaf presidency will come down to a straight fight between Larry Mussenden and Victor Montagliani, the Canada Soccer Association president.

Gordon Derrick, the general secretary of the Antigua and Barbuda Football Association, had announced his intention to run, but has failed a Fifa integrity check.

That means that Derrick, who was reprimanded by Fifa in 2011 violating its ethics code, is barred from running.

More importantly for Mussenden, it now makes him the clear favourite to win next month’s election. With 40 votes up for grabs, some 30 of those belong to nations in the Caribbean, where the Bermuda Football Association president has plenty of support.

Domenico Scala, chairman of Fifa’s audit and compliance committee, said in a statement today that Derrick had been disqualified, but added that “for privacy reasons, we are not in a position to go into further details.” Derrick is also president of the Caribbean Football Union.

In November 2011, Fifa’s ethics committee gave Derrick a reprimand and fined him $328 as part of sanctions announced for “apparent violations” of its ethics code that occurred at a CFU meeting on May 10-11 that year.

Football officials were alleged to have been offered or to have received $40,000 cash payments there during Mohamed bin Hammam’s campaign for Fifa president. Fifa have not specified the violation Derrick committed.

Concacaf’s president is automatically a Fifa vice-president and member of Fifa’s ruling executive committee, which is being renamed the Fifa council.

The vote for the top job in the Americas region will take place in Mexico City on May 12.

Concacaf said Luis Hernandez of Cuba and John Krishnadath were running for Fifa council member from the Caribbean, and Pedro Chaluja of Panama was running unopposed for council member for the Caribbean.

Sonia Bien-Aime of Turks and Caicos, elected as the Caribbean’s member of the Fifa executive committee last July, is running for Concacaf’s female member of the new council against Joanne Salazar of Trinidad and Tobago.