CONCACAF Gold Cup

Tournaments
	1991; 1993; 1996; 1998; 2000; 2002; 2003; 2005; 2007; 2009; 2011; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2019; 2021;

CONCACAF Gold Cup
*Coupe D'or CONCACAF* (French)
*Copa de Oro CONCACAF* (Spanish)
Founded	1963[1]
Region	North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)
Number of teams	16 (finals)
Current champions	Mexico (8th title)
Most successful team(s)	Mexico (8 titles)
Website	www.goldcup.org
	2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup

The CONCACAF Gold Cup (Spanish: Copa de Oro de la CONCACAF, French: Coupe D'or CONCACAF) is the main association football competition of the men's national football teams governed by CONCACAF, determining the continental champion of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The Gold Cup is held every two years. It was previously referred to as the CONCACAF Championship before being renamed to the CONCACAF Gold Cup starting in 1991.

History

Winners of the CONCACAF Gold Cup up to 2019

Championships before CONCACAF

Before the Confederation of North American (including Central America) and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) was formed in 1961, association football in the region was divided into smaller, regional divisions. The two main bodies consisted of the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF) founded in 1938 (consisting of Central America and most of the Caribbean) and the North American Football Confederation (NAFC) founded in 1946 (consisting of the North American nations of United States, Mexico, Canada, and Cuba). Each confederation held its own competition, the CCCF Championship and the NAFC Championship. The CCCF held 10 championships from 1941–'61, Costa Rica winning seven ('41, ’46, ’48, ’53, ’55, ’60, ’61), and one each by El Salvador ('43), Panama ('51) and Haiti ('57). The NAFC held four championships in 1947 and '49 and later, after 41 years of absence, in 1990 and '91 for the North American zone as the North American Nations Cup with Mexico winning three times ('47, ’49 & '91) and Canada winning once ('90) [2]

CONCACAF Championship (1963–1989)

CONCACAF was founded in 1961 through the merging of NAFC and CCCF which resulted in a single championship being held for the continent. The first CONCACAF tournament was held in 1963 in El Salvador with Costa Rica becoming the first champion. The CONCACAF Campeonato de Naciones, as it was called, was held every two years from 1963 to 1973. The second tournament was held in Guatemala in 1965 when Mexico defeated the host country in the final of a six-team tournament. The 1967 competition was held in Honduras and saw a third champion crowned, Guatemala. Costa Rica won their second title as hosts in 1969, knocking off Guatemala, while two years later, Mexico won their second championship as the tournament moved to Trinidad & Tobago, the first time in the Caribbean. In 1973, the tournament kept the same format of six teams playing a single round-robin, but there were bigger stakes attached: CONCACAF's berth in the FIFA World Cup tournament in 1974. In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the host country pulled off an upset by winning the tournament and claiming a spot in the World Cup in West Germany.

With the Campeonato de Naciones doubling as the final World Cup qualifying tournament, the next two editions were held in Mexico City and Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1977 and 1981, respectively. In each case the host country was crowned champion and earned a spot in the World Cup. In 1985 and 1989, the winner of the World Cup qualifying tournament was again crowned Confederation champion. Canada and Costa Rica were named champions in 1985 and 1989, receiving a trophy.[3]

CONCACAF Gold Cup (since 1991)

In 1990, CONCACAF renamed and restructured the CONCACAF Championship as the CONCACAF Gold Cup, with the United States hosting the first competition in 1991, and hosting or co-hosting every subsequent iteration of the tournament (as of 2019). The host country was the inaugural champion of the eight-team tournament. Mexico dominated the remainder of the decade, winning three consecutive CONCACAF Gold Cup titles in 1993, 1996 and 1998.

In 1996, the Gold Cup field included its first guest team, the defending FIFA World Cup Champions Brazil. Guests were invited to participate in the six Gold Cup tournaments from 1996 to 2005. Starting with the 2000 Gold Cup, the tournament field was increased to twelve teams and for the 2007 tournament, the Gold Cup again was contested exclusively by nations within CONCACAF.

The 2007 Gold Cup hosts successfully defended their title beating Mexico in the final 2–1 in Chicago; Canada and Guadeloupe shared third place. Mexico won the 2009 Gold Cup by beating the United States 5–0. In the 2011 Gold Cup, Mexico defeated the USA 4–2 in the final while the USA won the 2013 Gold Cup by beating Panama 1–0.

Since the formation of the Gold Cup in 1991, the CONCACAF Championship has been won eight times by Mexico, six times by the United States, and once by Canada. Runners-up include Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, and Jamaica.

Before 2015, when the Gold Cup did not fall in the same year as the FIFA Confederations Cup, the winner, or highest-placed team that is a member of both CONCACAF and FIFA, qualified for the next staging of that tournament. In 2015, the winners of the previous two Gold Cups (the 2013 and 2015 editions) faced each other in CONCACAF Cup – a playoff to determine the CONCACAF entrant to the 2017 Confederations Cup.[4]

In January 2017, Victor Montagliani announced the expansion of the Gold Cup from 12 to 16 teams, starting with the 2019 tournament.[5] In November 2018, Costa Rica was announced as one of the hosts of the 2019 tournament, with a group B double-header set to be held at the Estadio Nacional. [6] In April 2019, it was announced that Jamaica would host a doubleheader in group C at Independence Park. [7]

Results

CONCACAF Gold Cup
Edition	Year	Host(s)	Final			Third place match			Number of teams
Edition	Year	Host(s)	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place	Number of teams
1	1991	United States	United States	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 pen.)	Honduras	Mexico	2–0	Costa Rica	8
2	1993	United States Mexico	Mexico	4–0	United States	Costa Rica	1–1 (a.e.t.) ⁽¹⁾	Jamaica	8
3	1996	United States	Mexico	2–0	Brazil	United States	3–0	Guatemala	9
4	1998	United States	Mexico	1–0	United States	Brazil	1–0	Jamaica	10
5	2000	United States	Canada	2–0	Colombia	Not Held			12
5	2000	United States	Canada	2–0	Colombia	Peru Trinidad and Tobago			12
6	2002	United States	United States	2–0	Costa Rica	Canada	2–1	South Korea	12
7	2003	United States Mexico	Mexico	1–0 (a.s.d.e.t.)	Brazil	United States	3–2	Costa Rica	12
8	2005	United States	United States	0–0 (a.e.t.) (3–1 pen.)	Panama	Not held			12
8	2005	United States	United States	0–0 (a.e.t.) (3–1 pen.)	Panama	Colombia Honduras			12
9	2007	United States	United States	2–1	Mexico	Canada Guadeloupe			12
10	2009	United States	Mexico	5–0	United States	Costa Rica Honduras			12
11	2011	United States	Mexico	4–2	United States	Honduras Panama			12
12	2013	United States	United States	1–0	Panama	Honduras Mexico			12
13	2015	United States Canada	Mexico	3–1	Jamaica	Panama	1–1 a.e.t. (3–2 pen.)	United States	12
14	2017	United States	United States	2–1	Jamaica	Not held			12
14	2017	United States	United States	2–1	Jamaica	Costa Rica Mexico			12
15	2019	United States Costa Rica Jamaica	Mexico	1–0	United States	Haiti Jamaica			16
16	2021	TBD							16

a.e.t.: after extra time
a.s.d.e.t.: after sudden death extra time
pen: after penalty shoot-out

⁽¹⁾ Costa Rica and Jamaica shared third place.

Performance by country

The following table shows cumulative top four results for all editions of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The third place column lists third-place match winners (or shared-draws) and teams that were eliminated in the semi-finals in years without a third-place match. The fourth place column lists opponents who had lost the third-place match or had a weaker cumulative result where a third-place match wasn't played. Guest nations are listed in italics.

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
Mexico	8 (1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019)	1 (2007)	3 (1991, 2013, 2017)	—
United States	6 (1991, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2017)	5 (1993, 1998, 2009, 2011, 2019)	2 (1996, 2003)	1 (2015)
Canada	1 (2000)	—	1 (2002)	—
Panama	—	2 (2005, 2013)	2 (2011, 2015)	—
Jamaica	—	2 (2015, 2017)	1 (1993)	2 (1998, 2019)
Brazil	—	2 (1996, 2003)	1 (1998)	—
Honduras	—	1 (1991)	2 (2005, 2009)	2 (2011, 2013)
Costa Rica	—	1 (2002)	1 (1993)	4 (1991, 2003, 2009, 2017)
Colombia	—	1 (2000)	—	1 (2005)
Haiti	—	—	1 (2019)	—
Trinidad and Tobago	—	—	1 (2000)	—
Peru	—	—	—	1 (2000)
Guadeloupe	—	—	—	1 (2007)
Guatemala	—	—	—	1 (1996)
South Korea	—	—	—	1 (2002)

Records and statistics

All-time table

Rank	Team	Part	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Points	Best result
1	Mexico	23	111	76	20	15	249	69	+180	248	Champions (11x) (1965, 1971, 1977, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019)
2	United States	17	91	67	13	11	172	61	+111	214	Champions (6x) (1991, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2017)
3	Costa Rica	20	95	41	28	26	154	97	+57	151	Champions (3x) (1963, 1969, 1989)
4	Honduras	20	86	32	20	34	118	105	+13	116	Champions (1x) (1981)
5	Canada	17	63	23	19	21	80	80	0	88	Champions (2x) (1985, 2000)
6	El Salvador	17	67	20	18	29	72	99	-27	78	Runners-up (1963, 1981)
7	Guatemala	18	69	19	20	30	82	88	-6	77	Champions (1x) (1967)
8	Haiti	14	58	18	12	28	56	80	-24	66	Champions (1x) (1973)
9	Trinidad and Tobago	16	62	17	15	30	75	105	-30	66	Runners-up (1973)
10	Jamaica	13	54	18	10	26	57	91	-34	64	Runners-up (2015, 2017)
11	Panama	10	46	15	17	14	67	54	+13	62	Runners-up (2005, 2013)
12	Curaçao	6	30	8	6	16	33	65	-32	30	Third place (1963, 1969)
13	Brazil ¹	3	14	8	2	4	22	9	+13	26	Runners-up (1996, 2003)
14	Cuba	10	37	5	6	26	27	112	-85	21	Fourth place (1971)
15	Colombia ¹	3	13	5	2	6	14	17	-3	17	Runners-up (2000)
16	Martinique	6	17	4	2	11	16	37	-21	14	6th place (2002)
17	Guadeloupe	3	12	4	1	7	12	18	-6	13	Fourth place (2007)
18	South Africa ¹	1	4	1	3	0	7	6	+1	6	7th place (2005)
19	Peru ¹	1	4	1	1	2	7	7	0	4	Fourth place (2000)
20	South Korea ¹	2	7	0	4	3	5	9	-4	4	Fourth place (2002)
21	Bermuda	1	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3	11th place (2019)
22	Ecuador ¹	1	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3	9th place (2002)
23	Guyana	1	3	0	1	2	3	9	-6	1	13th place (2019)
24	Suriname	2	9	0	1	8	8	26	-18	1	6th place (1977)
25	Nicaragua	5	18	0	1	17	6	50	-44	1	6th place (1967)
26	French Guiana	1	3	0	0	3	2	10	-8	0	12th place (2017)
27	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	2	0	0	2	0	8	-8	0	9th place (1996)
28	Belize	1	3	0	0	3	1	11	-10	0	12th place (2013)
29	Grenada	2	6	0	0	6	1	25	-24	0	11th place (2011)
30	Qatar ¹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

¹ Guest Nations.

Years in italics indicate tournament in CONCACAF Championship era

Media coverage

In the United States, the CONCACAF Gold Cup airs on CBS (since 2011), ABC (since 2015), Spectrum Sports (since 2011), ESPN (since 2015), Univision (since 2000) and Telemundo (since 2002). In Mexico it airs on Televisa and TV Azteca. In Canada, after years on Sportsnet and TSN, it will be broadcast exclusively on OneSoccer starting in 2021.

Official songs

Like most international football tournaments, the CONCACAF Gold Cup has featured official songs for each tournament since 2002. Unlike most larger tournaments, such as the FIFA World Cup, the songs were usually mainstream music released at around the same year of each tournament, in English or Spanish (the tournament's official languages) as well as several other languages.

Gold Cup	Official Song/Anthem(s)	Language(s)	Performer(s)	Home country
2002	"More Than a Woman"	English	Aaliyah	United States
2003	"That Don't Impress Me Much (Greatest Hits version)"	English	Shania Twain	Canada
2005	"Broken Home"	English	Fan 3	United States
2007	"Hit Me Up"	English	Gia Farrell	United States
2007	"Baila la Copa"[lower-alpha 1]	Spanish	Osé	Venezuela
2009	"Know Your Enemy"	English	Green Day	United States
2011	"More (RedOne Jimmy Joker Remix)"	English	Usher
2013	"Cups"	English	Anna Kendrick
2013	"Superhero"	English	Sophia & A-Lo	Canada
2015	"Sun Goes Down"	English	Robin Schulz with Jasmine Thompson	England (Thompson) Germany (Schulz)
	"All The Way"	English Spanish	Reykon with Bebe Rexha	Colombia (Reykon) United States (Rexha)
	"You Are Unstoppable"	English	Conchita Wurst	Austria
2017	"The Arena" "Don't Let This Feeling Fade"	English	Lindsey Stirling	United States
	"Bia Beraghsim"	English Persian	Mahan Moin	Sweden
	"Levántate"	Spanish	Gale	Puerto Rico
	"Thunder" "Whatever It Takes"	English	Imagine Dragons	United States
2019	"He Loves U Not"	English	Dream
	"My Way"	English	Limp Bizkit
	"Caliente"	Spanish Portuguese	Lali ft. Pabllo Vittar	Argentina Brazil
	"Kobotama"	English	Sam Renascent	Belgium
2021	"Would I Lie"	English	Keiino ft. Electric Fields	Norway Australia
2021	"Let me go"	English	Robin Schulz with Emin Agalarov	Azerbaijan (Emin) Germany (Schulz)

Notes

Was also used for the 2007 Copa América

References

"2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup – Technical Report" (PDF). CONCACAF. 12 November 2007. p. 4. Archived from the original (pdf) on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
http://www.goldcup.org
"1985 Gabriel Kafaty Cup". Flickr. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
"2013, 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners will play one-off match for 2017 Confederations Cup berth". MLS Soccer. April 5, 2013.
"Montagliani happy with 2016, sees big things for CONCACAF in new year". Jamaica Observer. 5 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 13 February 2017. Of course the Gold Cup is this year and it is the last edition of 12 teams as we will increase it to 16 for the 2019 version.
"Costa Rica to host 2019 Gold Cup group matches". 26 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
"Concacaf Announces Jamaica as a Host Venue for the 2019 Gold Cup". 2 April 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.

External links

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[8] Was also used for the 2007 Copa América

[1] "2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup – Technical Report" (PDF). CONCACAF. 12 November 2007. p. 4. Archived from the original (pdf) on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

[2] ttp://www.goldcup.org

[3] "1985 Gabriel Kafaty Cup". Flickr. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2016.

[4] "2013, 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners will play one-off match for 2017 Confederations Cup berth". MLS Soccer. April 5, 2013.

[5] "Montagliani happy with 2016, sees big things for CONCACAF in new year". Jamaica Observer. 5 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 13 February 2017. Of course the Gold Cup is this year and it is the last edition of 12 teams as we will increase it to 16 for the 2019 version.

[6] "Costa Rica to host 2019 Gold Cup group matches". 26 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

[7] "Concacaf Announces Jamaica as a Host Venue for the 2019 Gold Cup". 2 April 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.

CONCACAF Gold Cup
Editions	United States 1991 Mexico–United States 1993 United States 1996 United States 1998 United States 2000 United States 2002 United States–Mexico 2003 United States 2005 United States 2007 United States 2009 United States 2011 United States 2013 United States–Canada 2015 United States 2017 United States–Costa Rica–Jamaica 2019 TBA 2021 TBA 2023
Finals	1991 1993 1996 1998 2000 2002 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
Squads	1991 1993 1996 1998 2000 2002 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
Broadcasters	2021
Qualification	2003 2015 2017 2019 2021 Former: Copa Centroamericana Caribbean Cup
Statistics	Finals Goalscorers Records and statistics Penalty shoot-outs Venues
Related	CONCACAF Cup
Predecessor: CONCACAF Championship (1963–1989)

CONCACAF Championship
Editions	El Salvador 1963 Guatemala 1965 Honduras 1967 Costa Rica 1969 Trinidad and Tobago 1971 Haiti 1973 Mexico 1977 Honduras 1981 1985 (No fixed venue) 1989 (No fixed venue)
Qualification	1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989
Squads	1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989
Successor: CONCACAF Gold Cup (since 1991)

Countries at the CONCACAF Gold Cup
CFU	Bermuda Cuba Curaçao French Guiana Grenada Guadeloupe Guyana Haiti Jamaica Martinique Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago
NAFU	Canada Mexico United States
UNCAF	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
Invitee	Brazil Colombia Ecuador Peru Qatar South Africa South Korea

International association football
FIFA Federations Teams Competitions World Cup U-20 U-17 Olympics Youth Olympics Universiade World Rankings The Best FIFA Football Awards Timeline
Africa	CAF – Africa Cup of Nations U-23 U-20 U-17 African Nations Championship Regional (CECAFA, CEMAC, COSAFA, WAFU) Intercontinental (UAFA, FAC)
Asia	AFC – Asian Cup U-23 U-20 U-17 U-14 Regional (ASEAN, EAFF, SAFF, CAFA, WAFF) Interregional (AFF-EAFF) Intercontinental (UAFA, FAC)
Europe	UEFA – Euro U-21 U-19 U-17 Nations League
North & Central America and the Caribbean	CONCACAF – Gold Cup U-20 U-17 U-15 Nations League
Oceania	OFC – Nations Cup U-19 U-16
South America	CONMEBOL – Copa América U-20 U-17 U-15
Non-FIFA	CONIFA – CONIFA World Football Cup ConIFA European Football Cup IIGA – Island Games South American Board of New Federations (CSANF) World Unity Football Alliance (WUFA)
Games	African Games Asian Games Central America Central America and Caribbean East Asian Games Francophonie Games Indian Ocean Island Islamic Solidarity Games Lusophone Games Mediterranean Games Pan American Games Pan Arab Games Pacific Games South Asian Games Southeast Asian Games West Asian Games
See also Geography Codes Player/Club of the Century Women's football