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 overall CONCACAF wins
5 See also
6 External links

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Results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1991 Details	USA	Image:Flag of the United States.svg USA	0 - 0 4 - 3 ps	Image:Flag of Honduras.svg Honduras	Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico	2 - 0	Image:Flag of Costa Rica state.svg Costa Rica
1993 Details	USA / Mexico	Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico	4 - 0	Image:Flag of the United States.svg USA	Image:Flag of Costa Rica state.svg Costa Rica	1 - 1⁽¹⁾ aet	Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica
1996 Details	USA	Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico	2 - 0	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Under-23s	Image:Flag of the United States.svg USA	3 - 0	Image:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala
1998 Details	USA	Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico	1 - 0	Image:Flag of the United States.svg USA	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil	1 - 0	Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica
2000 Details	USA	Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada	2 - 0	Image:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia	Image:Flag of Peru.svg Peru	(n/a)⁽²⁾	Image:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago
2002 Details	USA	Image:Flag of the United States.svg USA	2 - 0	Image:Flag of Costa Rica state.svg Costa Rica	Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada	2 - 0	Image:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
2003 Details	USA / Mexico	Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico	1 - 0 asdet	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil	Image:Flag of the United States.svg USA	3 - 2	Image:Flag of Costa Rica state.svg Costa Rica
2005 Details	USA	Image:Flag of the United States.svg USA	0 - 0 3 - 1 ps	Image:Flag of Panama.svg Panama	Image:Flag of Honduras.svg Honduras	(n/a)⁽²⁾	Image:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia

(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

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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

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Most Gold Cup Wins

4 wins	Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico	1993, 1996, 1998, 2003
3 wins	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States	1991, 2002, 2005
1 win	Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada	2000