CONCACAF Gold Cup
This article describes the men's CONCACAF Gold Cup. For the women's football competition, see CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup.
The CONCACAF Gold Cup (Spanish: Copa de Oro de la CONCACAF), also known as the Gold Cup for short, is a continental tournament for national football teams held since 1963 to determine the football champions of North, Central America and the Caribbean. The competition is organised by CONCACAF.
After CONCACAF was founded (1961), the CONCACAF Nations Cup (Spanish: Copa de Naciones de la CONCACAF) initially replaced the predecessor tournaments of North America (NAFC Championship) and Central America and the Caribbean (CCCF Championship). This was held every two years from 1963 and every four years from 1973, when it was given World Cup qualifying tournament status. In 1991, it was renamed the CONCACAF Gold Cup and has been held every two years since then. It has since lost its role as a World Cup qualifier.
The competition regularly involves national football teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. South American teams also participated by invitation from 1996 to 2005. The CONCACAF Gold Cup 2000 and 2002 also saw South Korea, one of the hosts of the 2002 World Cup, as the first Asian country, and South Africa, host of the 2010 World Cup, as the first African country, invited in 2005. No visiting team has won the tournament so far, but Brazil reached the final twice and Colombia once. No visiting teams have been invited since 2007.
In February 2018, CONCACAF announced plans to increase the field of participants from 12 to 16 teams from the 2019 Gold Cup onwards. The newly created CONCACAF Nations League will also serve as a qualifying tournament.
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Following are all the national teams that have participated in this tournament so far.
- Teams in bold were CONCACAF Nations Cup or CONCACAF Gold Cup winners in their first appearance.
- Teams in italics were hosts for their first participation.
- Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.
| Year(s) | First-time participants | |||
| 1963 | Costa Rica | El Salvador | Guatemala | Honduras |
| Jamaica | Mexico 1934 | Nicaragua 1908 | Netherlands Antilles 1959 | |
| Panama | ||||
| 1965 | Haiti 1807 | |||
| 1967 | Cuba | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| 1969–1973 | no first-time participants | |||
| 1977 | Canada | Suriname | ||
| 1981–1985 | no first-time participants | |||
| 1989 | United States USA | |||
| 1991 | no first-time participants | |||
| 1993 | Martinique | |||
| 1996 | Brazil | Saint Vincent Grenadines | ||
| 1998 | no first-time participants | |||
| 2000 | Colombia | Peru | Korea Sud South Korea | |
| 2002 | Ecuador | |||
| 2003 | no first-time participants | |||
| 2005 | Sud Africa | |||
| 2007 | Guadeloupe | |||
| 2009 | Grenada | |||
| 2011 | no first-time participants | |||
| 2013 | Belize | |||
| 2015 | no first-time participants | |||
| 2017 | (Curaçao | French Guiana | ||
| 2019 | Bermuda | Guyana | ||
| 2021 | Qatar | |||
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The tournaments at a glance
CONCACAF Nation's Cup
| Year | Host | Final Standings | |||
| Winner | 2nd place | 3rd place | 4th place | ||
| 1963 | El Salvador | Costa Rica | El Salvador | Netherlands Antilles 1959 | Honduras |
| 1965 | Guatemala | Mexico 1934 | Guatemala | Costa Rica | El Salvador |
| 1967 | Honduras | Guatemala | Mexico 1934 | Honduras | Trinidad and Tobago |
| 1969 | Costa Rica | Costa Rica | Guatemala | Netherlands Antilles 1959 | Mexico |
| 1971 | Trinidad and Tobago | Mexico | Haiti 1964 | Costa Rica | Cuba |
| *1973* | Haiti | Haiti 1964 | Trinidad and Tobago | Mexico | Honduras |
| *1977* | Mexico | Mexico | Haiti 1964 | El Salvador | Canada |
| *1981* | Honduras | Honduras | El Salvador | Mexico | Canada |
| *1985* | - – | Canada | Honduras | Costa Rica | unplayed |
| *1989* | - − | Costa Rica | United States USA | Trinidad and Tobago | Guatemala |
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* at the same time qualification for the respective football world championship in the following year
CONCACAF Gold Cup
| Year | Host | Finale | Match for 3rd place / Semifinalists 1 | ||||||
| Winner | Result | 2nd place | 3rd place | Result | 4th place | ||||
| 1991 | USA | United States USA | 0:0 n. V. | Honduras | Mexico | 2:0 | Costa Rica | ||
| 1993 | USA / Mexico | Mexico | 4:0 | United States USA | Costa Rica | 1:1 n. V. | Jamaica | ||
| 1996 | USA | Mexico | 2:0 | Brazil | United States USA | 3:0 | Guatemala | ||
| 1998 | USA | Mexico | 1:0 | United States USA | Brazil | 1:0 | Jamaica | ||
| 2000 | USA | Canada | 2:0 | Colombia |
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| 2002 | USA | United States USA | 2:0 | Costa Rica | Canada | 2:1 | Korea Sud South Korea | ||
| 2003 | USA / Mexico | Mexico | 1:0 n. GG | Brazil | United States USA | 3:2 | Costa Rica | ||
| 2005 | USA | United States USA | 0:0 n. V. | Panama |
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| 2007 | USA | United States USA | 2:1 | Mexico |
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| 2009 | USA | Mexico | 5:0 | United States USA |
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| 2011 | USA | Mexico | 4:2 | United States USA |
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| 2013 | USA | United States USA | 1:0 | Panama |
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| 2015 | USA / Canada | Mexico | 3:1 | Jamaica | Panama | 1:1 n. V. | United States USA | ||
| 2017 | USA | United States USA | 2:1 | Jamaica |
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| 2019 | USA / Costa Rica / Jamaica | Mexico | 1:0 | United States USA |
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| 2021 | USA | | |||||||
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1 As in 2000 and from 2005 to 2013, no third-place match has been played since 2017. In the semi-finals listed, the former was defeated by the eventual Gold Cup winner, the latter by the other finalist.
Ranking
| Rank | Country | Title | Year(s) | 2nd Pl. |
| 1 | Mexico | 11 | 1965, 1971, 1977, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019 | 2 |
| 2 | United States USA | 06 | 1991, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2017 | 6 |
| 3 | Costa Rica | 03 | 1963, 1969, 1989 | 1 |
| 4 | Canada | 02 | 1985, 2000 | 0 |
| 5 | Honduras | 01 | 1981 | 2 |
| Guatemala | 01 | 1967 | 2 | |
| Haiti 1964 | 01 | 1973 | 2 | |
| 8 | El Salvador | 2 | ||
| Brazil | 2 | |||
| Panama | 2 | |||
| Jamaica | 2 | |||
| 12 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | ||
| Colombia | 1 |
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italics: CONCACAF Nation's Cup
Questions and Answers
Q: What is the CONCACAF Gold Cup?
A: The CONCACAF Gold Cup is an association football tournament held every two years between national teams that are members of CONCACAF.
Q: When was the first tournament held?
A: The first tournament was held in 1991.
Q: What was the predecessor to the CONCACAF Gold Cup?
A: Before 1991, the CONCACAF Championship was the first organized tournament for national teams in the region.
Q: Which countries participate in this tournament?
A: The CONCACAF Gold Cup features teams from Central America, North America and the Caribbean.
Q: Who has been most successful team in this tournament?
A: The Mexico national football team has been the most successful team in this tournament, having won 8 times.
