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]  (from 2 confederations)
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]

Contents

The venues in the United States are 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 participated in the Nations League, which is divided into three tiers. The four quarterfinal winners of Nations League A and the four group winners of Nations League B qualified directly for the Gold Cup. A Gold Cup preliminary round will be held in March 2025 where seven additional teams will qualify for the main tournament.

On December 19, 2024, it was announced that Saudi Arabia would be invited as a guest team for the 2025 and 2027 tournaments. [9]

It was previously reported that the tournament would expand to 24 teams for this edition (16 CONCACAF teams and 8 invited guest teams) to 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. [10] [11]

TeamQualificationDate of
qualification		 Gold Cup appearances
(+ CONCACAF Championship)		Last
appearance		Previous best Gold Cup performance [A]
(+ CONCACAF Championship)		Rankings at start of event
FIFA [12] CONCACAF
Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti CNL League B
Group C winners		November 15, 202410th (17th) 2023 Semi-finals(2019)
Champions ( 1973 )
Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador CNL League B
Group A winners		November 17, 202414th (20th) 2023 Quarter-finals(2002, 2003, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2021)
Runners-up ( 1963 , 1981)
Flag of Curacao.svg  Curaçao CNL League B
Group B winners		November 18, 20243rd (7th) 2019 Quarter-finals(2019)
Third place (1963, 1969)
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
(co-host)		 CNL League A
quarterfinal winner 		November 18, 202418th (20th) 2023 Champions( 1991 , 2002 , 2005 , 2007 , 2013 , 2017 , 2021 )
Runners-up (1989)
Flag of Panama.svg  Panama CNL League A
quarterfinal winner 		November 18, 202412th (13th) 2023 Runners-up(2005, 2013, 2023)
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic CNL League B
Group D winners		November 19, 20241stN/ADebut
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
(co-host)		 CNL League A
quarterfinal winner 		November 19, 202417th (20th) 2023 Champions(2000)
Champions (1985)
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
(title holders)		 CNL League A
quarterfinal winner 		November 19, 202418th (26th) 2023 Champions( 1993 , 1996, 1998, 2003 , 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023)
Champions (1965, 1971, 1977 )
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia Invited guestDecember 19, 20241stN/ADebutN/A

Preliminary round

Fourteen teams qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup Prelims through CONCACAF Nations League. From Nations League A, the four quarterfinal losers as well as the third and fourth-placed teams in both Group A and Group B qualified. From Nations League B, the top-two second-place finishers qualified. The final four sports in the preliminary round went to the winners of a playoff between the top-four teams in Nation League C and the fifth and sixth-placed teams of each group from League A. [7] [13]

The following 14 teams qualified: [1]

The two legs will be played in March 2025. [14]

Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Costa Rica  Flag of Costa Rica.svg–Flag of Belize.svg  Belize – –
Jamaica  Flag of Jamaica.svg–Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – –
Honduras  Flag of Honduras.svg–Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda – –
Guatemala  Flag of Guatemala.svg–Flag of Guyana.svg  Guyana – –
Trinidad and Tobago  Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg–Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba – –
Martinique  Flag-of-Martinique.svg–Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname – –
Nicaragua  Flag of Nicaragua.svg–Flag of Guadeloupe (local).svg  Guadeloupe – –

Schedule

The competition schedule was released on September 25, 2024. [15]

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

Marketing

Broadcasting rights

TerritoryBroadcastRef.
United States Fox Sports (English)
TUDN (Spanish) 		[16] [ failed verification ] [17]
Mexico TUDN [17]
Canada OneSoccer [18] [ failed verification ]
Caribbean ESPN [19] [ failed verification ]
Central America ESPN [19] [ failed verification ]
South America ESPN [19] [ failed verification ]

Sponsorship

Notes

  1. ↑ Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting or co-hosting the event.

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