2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup

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2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Copa Oro de la CONCACAF 2025 (Spanish)
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This Is Ours
Spanish: Esto Es Nuestro
Tournament details
Host countriesCanada
United States
DatesJune 14 – July 6
Teams16 [1]
Venue(s)14 (in 13 host cities)
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The 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup will be the 18th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the biennial international men's soccer championship of the North, Central American and Caribbean region organized by CONCACAF. Canada and the United States will host the tournament, which will begin on June 14, 2025. The final is scheduled to be played on July 6, 2025, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. [2]

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The venues in the United States were mainly in the western part of the country in order to avoid scheduling conflicts with the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup which will be held around the same time as the Gold Cup on the East Coast. [3] [4]

Mexico is the defending champion, having won its record-extending 9th title in 2023 after defeating Panama 1–0 in the final on July 16 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. [5]

Venues

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Location of the host cities of the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

CONCACAF announced the 14 host venues for the 2025 Gold Cup on September 25, 2024. They included a mix of soccer-specific stadiums primarily occupied by Major League Soccer teams and larger American football stadiums. BC Place in Vancouver was the sole venue outside of the United States. The venues were mostly limited to the Western United States to avoid conflicts with the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup happening on the East Coast at the same time. [6] CONCACAF announced that it had awarded the tournament final to NRG Stadium in Houston on October 30, 2024. [2]

2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup venues [6]
Arlington, Texas
(Dallas/Fort Worth area)		 Houston, Texas
AT&T Stadium ‡ NRG Stadium ‡ Shell Energy Stadium
Capacity: 80,000Capacity: 72,220Capacity: 22,039
Cowboysstadium js.jpg NRG stadium prepared for Super Bowl Li (32513086661).jpg BBVA Compass Stadium 2013-04-28.jpg
Inglewood, California
(Los Angeles area)		 Santa Clara, California
(San Francisco Bay Area)		 Minneapolis, Minnesota
SoFi Stadium Levi's Stadium U.S. Bank Stadium ‡
Capacity: 70,240Capacity: 68,500Capacity: 66,860
SoFi Stadium 2023.jpg Entering Levi's Stadium.JPG U.S. Bank Stadium (53164481575).jpg
Glendale, Arizona
(Phoenix area)		 Paradise, Nevada
(Las Vegas area)		 Vancouver, British Columbia San Diego, California
State Farm Stadium ‡ Allegiant Stadium ‡ BC Place ‡ Snapdragon Stadium
Capacity: 63,400Capacity: 61,000Capacity: 54,500Capacity: 35,000
State Farm Stadium 2022.jpg Las Vegas (5152659900-Cropped2).jpg BC Place 2015 Women's FIFA World Cup.jpg Snapdragon Stadium interior-Night panorama view 1.jpg
Carson, California
(Los Angeles area)		 St. Louis, Missouri Austin, Texas San Jose, California
Dignity Health Sports Park Energizer Park Q2 Stadium PayPal Park
Capacity: 30,510Capacity: 22,500Capacity: 20,730Capacity: 18,000
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  • A double-dagger (‡) denotes an indoor stadium with a fixed or retractable roof with interior climate control.

Teams

Qualification

In February 2023, CONCACAF announced that the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League would serve as qualification for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. [7] [8] All 41 member associations of CONCACAF will participate in the Nations League, which is divided into three tiers. The quarterfinal winners of 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A will automatically qualify for the Gold Cup; the third and fourth-placed teams in League A will qualify for the Gold Cup preliminary round that will take place in June 2025, while the fifth and sixth-placed teams of each group will advance to the play-in round where they will face the top-four teams in the League C for the last four spots in the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification. [9] The winners of each group in 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League B will automatically qualify for the Gold Cup; the top-two second-place finishers will qualify for the Gold Cup preliminary round. Each group winner in 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League C will advance to the play-in round along with the best-ranked runner-up from across all three groups. [10] Eight different nations from CONCACAF will be confirmed to compete in the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup from both the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A (4) and 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League B (4) by November 19, 2024.

Additional teams from other confederations have been speculated to fill the remaining Gold Cup qualifiers and provide increased competition for North American teams Mexico, Canada, and the United States; these three teams will not play in the World Cup qualifying cycle due to their automatic qualification as hosts of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. [11] [12]

Teams qualified for the group stage

The following teams have qualified for the group stage.

Teams qualified for preliminary round

The following teams have qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup Prelims: [1]

Schedule

The competition schedule was released on September 25, 2024. [13]

RoundDate(s)
Group stageJune 14–24
QuarterfinalsJune 28–29
SemifinalsJuly 2
FinalJuly 6

Marketing

Broadcasting rights

TerritoryBroadcastRef.
United States Fox Sports (English)
TUDN (Spanish) 		[14] [15]
Mexico TUDN [15]
Canada OneSoccer [16] [ failed verification ]
Caribbean ESPN [17]
Central America ESPN [17]
South America ESPN [17]

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