CONCACAF Gold Cup

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 pay 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 considred the CONCACAF champion.

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

Results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
		Champion	Score	Second Place	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1991 Details	USA	File:Us flag large.png USA	0 - 0 aet	File:Honduras flag large.png Honduras	File:Mexico flag large.png Mexico	2 - 0	File:Costa rica flag large.png Costa Rica
		4 - 3 on penalty shootout
1993 Details	USA / Mexico	File:Mexico flag large.png Mexico	4 - 0	File:Us flag large.png USA	Costa Rica and Jamaica tied 1 - 1 after extra time and the teams shared Third Place.
1996 Details	USA	File:Mexico flag large.png Mexico	2 - 0	File:Brazil flag large.png Brazil	File:Us flag large.png USA	3 - 0	File:Guatemala flag large.png Guatemala
1998 Details	USA	File:Mexico flag large.png Mexico	1 - 0	File:Us flag large.png USA	File:Brazil flag large.png Brazil	1 - 0	File:Jamaica flag large.png 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	File:Us flag large.png USA	2 - 0	File:Costa rica flag large.png Costa Rica	Canada	2 - 0	File:South korea flag large.png South Korea
2003 Details	USA / Mexico	File:Mexico flag large.png Mexico	1 - 0 asdet	File:Brazil flag large.png Brazil	File:Us flag large.png USA	3 - 2	File:Costa rica flag large.png Costa Rica
		Match decided on golden goal

(invited teams in italics)

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

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