CONCACAF Gold Cup - Definition and Overview

The CONCACAF Gold Cup is the main national soccer competition of the CONCACAF nations. The participating nations are from North and Central America and from the Caribbean islands. In addition, up to three entrants from the other world football confederations are invited to play in the final tournament. The Gold Cup has been hosted by the United States each time, twice co-hosted with Mexico.

The first CONCACAF Championship was held in 1963 and replaced the CCCF Championship (1941-61), which was for Central American and Caribbean nations only. It lasted until 1971, and from 1973 until 1989 no tournament was held; the top team in World Cup qualifying was considered the CONCACAF champion.

In 1991, the championship was reborn as the Gold Cup. Since then, it has been won four times by Mexico, twice by the United States, and once by Canada.

The UNCAF Nations Cup (Central America) and the Caribbean Cup serve as qualification tournaments for the Gold Cup.

Results

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1991 Details	USA		USA	0 - 0 aet	Honduras		Mexico	2 - 0	Costa Rica
			4 - 3 on penalty shootout
1993 Details	USA / Mexico		Mexico	4 - 0	USA		Costa Rica and Jamaica tied 1 - 1 after extra time and the teams shared Third Place.
1996 Details	USA		Mexico	2 - 0	Brazil		USA	3 - 0	Guatemala
1998 Details	USA		Mexico	1 - 0	USA		Brazil	1 - 0	Jamaica
2000 Details	USA		Canada	2 - 0	Colombia		No Third Place Match was played, Trinidad and Tobago and Peru shared Third Place.
2002 Details	USA		USA	2 - 0	Costa Rica		Canada	2 - 0	South Korea
2003 Details	USA / Mexico		Mexico	1 - 0 asdet	Brazil		USA	3 - 2	Costa Rica
			Match decided on golden goal
2005 Details	USA

(invited teams in italics)

• Key:
  • aet - after extra time
  • asdet - after sudden death extra time

Pre-Gold Cup Results