CONCACAF Gold Cup

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The CONCACAF Gold Cup is the main national football (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, three times 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.

1 Results
2 Pre-Gold Cup results
3 Most Gold Cup wins
4 Most Gold Cup hosts
5 Most overall CONCACAF wins
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1991 Details	USA	USA	0 - 0 aet 4 - 3 ps	Honduras	Mexico	2 - 0	Costa Rica
1993 Details	USA / Mexico	Mexico	4 - 0	USA	Costa Rica and Jamaica ⁽¹⁾
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	Peru and Trinidad and Tobago ⁽²⁾
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
2005 Details	USA	USA	0 - 0 aet 3 - 1 ps	Panama	Honduras and Colombia ⁽²⁾
2007 Details	USA

(invited teams in italics)

¹ Costa Rica and Jamaica tied 1-1 after extra time and shared Third Place.

² No Third Place match was played, Third Place was shared.

Key:
- aet - after extra time
- asdet - after sudden death extra time
- ps - after penalty shootout

[edit] Pre-Gold Cup results

Year	Champion	Host
CONCACAF Championship
1963	Costa Rica	El Salvador
1965	Mexico	Guatemala
1967	Guatemala	Honduras
1969	Costa Rica	Costa Rica
1971	Mexico	Trinidad and Tobago
Qualifying Champions
1973	Haiti	Haiti
1977	Mexico	Mexico
1981	Honduras	Honduras
1985	Canada
1989	Costa Rica

[edit] Most Gold Cup wins

Wins	Nation	Year(s)
4 times	Mexico	1993, 1996, 1998, 2003
3 times	USA	1991, 2002, 2005
1 time	Canada	2000

[edit] Most Gold Cup hosts

Hosts	Nation	Year(s)
9 times	USA	1991, 1993^, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003^, 2005, 2007
2 times	Mexico	1993^, 2003^

^Mexico and the United States co-hosted the 1993, and 2003 Gold Cups.

[edit] Most overall CONCACAF wins

7 wins	Mexico	1965, 1971, 1977, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003
3 wins	Costa Rica	1963, 1969, 1989
3 wins	United States	1991, 2002, 2005
2 wins	Canada	1985, 2000
1 win	Guatemala	1967
1 win	Haiti	1973
1 win	Honduras	1981