CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

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CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
Founded1963
RegionNorth America, Central America, and Caribbean (CONCACAF)
Teams41 (overall)
Qualifier forCONCACAF Gold Cup
Related competitionsCONCACAF Nations League
2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

This page is a summary of the CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification, the process that CONCACAF-affiliated national association football teams go through in order to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

The CONCACAF Gold Cup is an international association football competition held every two years between countries in North America, including Central America and the Caribbean. There have been several formats of qualifying which determine the countries that will participate in the final tournament.

Format evolution

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Number of teams entering qualification

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CONCACAF Championship (1963–1989)
El Salvador
1963 		Guatemala
1965 		Honduras
1967 		Costa Rica
1969 		Trinidad and Tobago
1971 		Haiti
1973 		Mexico
1977 		Honduras
1981 		1985 1989
Total entrants[a] 2 8 8 10 12 14 15 15 10 10
Qualified through qualification 1 1 4 5 3 5 5 5 4 5
Qualified automatically 8 5 2 1 3 0 0 0 1 0
Total finalists 9 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 9 5
CONCACAF Gold Cup (1991–present)
United States
1991 		Mexico
United States
1993 		United States
1996 		United States
1998 		United States
2000 		United States
2002 		Mexico
United States
2003 		United States
2005 		United States
2007 		United States
2009 		United States
2011 		United States
2013 		Canada
United States
2015 		United States
2017 		Costa Rica
Jamaica
United States
2019 		United States
2021 		Canada
United States
2023 		Canada
United States
2025
Total entrants[a] 21 27 26 30 33 31 29 38 32 33 37 32 33 31 34 41 41 41
Qualified through qualification 4 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 9 9 9 9 9 10 15 15 15
Qualified automatically 4 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 6 0 0 0
Total finalists 8 8 9 10 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 16 16 16 16
  1. ^ a b Data is about qualifications only (automatic qualifiers are not counted).

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For 1963 to 1989, regional qualifiers were played for each sub-confederation.

From 1991 to 2017, similar qualification processes were used. Spots in the Gold Cup were allocated to each of the sub-confederations: the North American Football Union (NAFU), the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), and the Central American Football Union (UNCAF). Typically the NAFU would receive three berths in the tournament, and the remaining berths were divided between CFU and UNCAF. Because the NAFU only has three members, each country (Canada, Mexico, United States) would qualify automatically. The CFU and UNCAF would use the results of the Caribbean Cup and Copa Centroamericana to determine its entrants to the Gold Cup.

From 1996 to 2005, some nations from outside the CONCACAF region received invitations to the Gold Cup and did not need to qualify. From 1998 to 2003 and again from 2015 to 2017, specific qualifying tournaments were held to determine the final one or two spots in the Gold Cup.[1]

For the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the two berths allocated to the Caribbean Football Union were to be awarded to the winners of the 1996 and 1997 Caribbean Cups. Because Trinidad and Tobago won both tournaments, a one match playoff between the two runners-up was played.

For the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Canada did not qualify automatically and competed in a round-robin playoff along with two Caribbean and one Central American nation. The top two teams would qualify for the Gold Cup.

The final spot in the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup was determined by a two-leg playoff between the fourth place team at the 2001 Caribbean Cup and the fourth place team at the 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup. This format would be re-used in 2015 and 2017.

There was not a Caribbean Cup held before the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup to determine the CFU's entrants. Instead, a one-off CFU Qualifying Tournament was held to determine the two Gold Cup participants and the two playoff participants. The two Caribbean teams were joined by the fourth place team in the 2003 UNCAF Nations Cup in a round-robin playoff for two spots in the Gold Cup.

From 2007 to 2017, no nations from outside the CONCACAF region participated in the Gold Cup. The 12-team tournament consisted of three North American, five Central American, and four Caribbean teams. For the 2015 and 2017 tournaments, the fifth Central American spot was awarded to the winner of a two-leg playoff featuring the 5th place teams from the Copa Centroamericana and the Caribbean Cup.[2][3] The Central American team won the playoff on both occasions.

Beginning with the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup, qualification has been linked to the CONCACAF Nations League. Held in 2018–19, the one-off CONCACAF Nations League qualifying tournament determined ten of the sixteen Gold Cup participants. For the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup, twelve spots were awarded based on the results of the 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League, an invitation was given to Qatar, and the final three berths were determined from a two-round play-off qualifier.[4] For the final round of qualification in 2023, 12 teams competed for 3 berths while in 2025, 14 teams competed for 7 berths.

Participating teams

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All national teams that are members of CONCACAF are eligible to enter the qualification for the Gold Cup. A total of 41 distinct entities have made attempts to qualify for the Gold Cup. Due to political changes, one of the entity has appeared under one incarnation (see the footnotes to the below table), the Netherlands Antilles team is now defunct.

First appearance in qualification by team
Year Debuting teams Successor teams Renamed teams
Teams No. CT
1963 File:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador[a], File:Flag of Haiti (1820–1849, 1859–1964).svg Haiti, File:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1959–1986).svg Netherlands Antilles[A] 3 3
1965 File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala[b], File:Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg Honduras, File:Flag of Nicaragua (1908–1971).svg Nicaragua 3 6
1967 File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba, File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica, File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama, File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago 4 10
1969 File:Flag of Bermuda 1910.svg Bermuda, File:Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica, File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico, File:Flag of the United States.svg United States 4 14
1971 File:Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana, File:Flag of Suriname.svg Suriname 2 16
1973 File:Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg Antigua and Barbuda, File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada, File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico 3 19
1977 File:Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados, File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic 2 21
1981 File:Flag of Grenada.svg Grenada 1 22
1985 0 22
1989 0 22
1991 File:Flag of Anguilla.svg Anguilla, File:Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg British Virgin Islands, File:Flag of the Cayman Islands (pre-1999).svg Cayman Islands, File:Flag of French Guiana.svg French Guiana, File:Flag of Guadeloupe (local).svg Guadeloupe, File:Snake Flag of Martinique.svg Martinique, File:Flag of Montserrat.svg Montserrat, File:Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg Saint Kitts and Nevis, File:Flag of Saint Lucia (1979-2002).svg Saint Lucia 9 31
1993 File:Flag of Dominica.svg Dominica, File:Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, File:Flag of Sint Maarten.svg Sint Maarten[c] 3 34
1996 File:Flag of Aruba.svg Aruba, File:Flag of Belize.svg Belize 2 36
1998 0 36
2000 File:Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas, File:Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg Turks and Caicos Islands, File:Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg U.S. Virgin Islands 3 39
2002 File:Flag of France.svg Saint Martin 1 40
2003 0 40
2005 0 40
2007 0 40
2009 0 40
2011 0 40
2013 0 40 File:Flag of Curaçao.svg Curaçao[A]
2015 File:Flag of Bonaire.svg Bonaire[c] 1 41
2017 0 41
2019 0 41
2021 0 41
2023 0 41
2025 0 41
Successor teams inheriting the records of former teams (as considered by CONCACAF and FIFA)
  1. ^ Qualified automatically for the 1963 CONCACAF Championship as host.
  2. ^ Qualified automatically for the 1965 CONCACAF Championship as host.
  3. ^ a b Bonaire and Sint Maarten previously competed as parts of the Netherlands Antilles (1958–2010).
Teams competing as parts of other teams
  1. ^ a b The Netherlands Antilles national football team broke apart after the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

See also

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References

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