French Guiana at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

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Striker Roy Contout scored French Guiana's first goal at a continental championship and played in all three matches. Roy Contout.jpg
Striker Roy Contout scored French Guiana's first goal at a continental championship and played in all three matches.

The CONCACAF Gold Cup is North America's major tournament in senior men's football and determines the continental champion(s). Until 1989, the tournament was known as CONCACAF Championship. It is currently held every two years. From 1996 to 2005, nations from other confederations have regularly joined the tournament as invitees. In earlier editions, the continental championship was held in different countries, but since the inception of the Gold Cup in 1991, the United States are constant hosts or co-hosts.

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From 1973 to 1989, the tournament doubled as the confederation's World Cup qualification. CONCACAF's representative team at the FIFA Confederations Cup was decided by a play-off between the winners of the last two tournament editions in 2015 via the CONCACAF Cup, but was then discontinued along with the Confederations Cup.

Since the inaugural tournament in 1963, the Gold Cup was held 27 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (12 titles).

French Guiana started participating in the qualification tournaments with the instatement of the Gold Cup format in 1990. Since then, they have qualified once, in 2017. They were eliminated in the group stage after three defeats.

Being a CONCACAF, but not a FIFA member, French Guiana would not be eligible to represent CONCACAF at a FIFA Confederations Cup even if they were to win the tournament.

Overall record

CONCACAF Championship
YearResultPositionPldWDLGFGA
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Flag of the United States.svg 1991 Did not qualify
Flag of the United States.svg 1993
Flag of the United States.svg 1996
Flag of the United States.svg 1998
Flag of the United States.svg 2000
Flag of the United States.svg 2002
Flag of Mexico.svg Flag of the United States.svg 2003
Flag of the United States.svg 2005
Flag of the United States.svg 2007
Flag of the United States.svg 2009
Flag of the United States.svg 2011
Flag of the United States.svg 2013
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Flag of the United States.svg 2015
Flag of the United States.svg 2017 Group stage12th3003210
Flag of Costa Rica.svg Flag of Jamaica.svg Flag of the United States.svg 2019 Did not qualify
Flag of the United States.svg 2021
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Flag of the United States.svg 2023
TotalGroup stage1/173003210

2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup

Squad

Group stage

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 321051+47Advance to knockout stage
2Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 312053+25
3Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg  Honduras 311131+24
4Flag of French Guiana.svg  French Guiana 300321080
Source: CONCACAF
French Guiana  Flag of French Guiana.svg 2–4 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Report
Red Bull Arena, Harrison
Attendance: 25,817 [1]
Referee: John Pitti (Panama)

Honduras  Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg 3–0
Awarded [note 1]
Flag of French Guiana.svg  French Guiana
Report
BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston
Attendance: 12,019 [3]
Referee: Yadel Martínez (Cuba)
  1. CONCACAF awarded Honduras a 3–0 win as a result of French Guiana fielding the ineligible player Florent Malouda, after the match had finished 0–0. Malouda had previously represented France and did not meet eligibility rules. [2]

Costa Rica  Flag of Costa Rica.svg 3–0 Flag of French Guiana.svg  French Guiana
Report
Toyota Stadium, Frisco
Attendance: 10,098 [4]
Referee: César Ramos (Mexico)

Florent Malouda incident

Among Florent Malouda's honours include a Champions League title, a Premier League Championship and playing in the 2006 FIFA World Cup final. Malouda2012.JPG
Among Florent Malouda's honours include a Champions League title, a Premier League Championship and playing in the 2006 FIFA World Cup final.

French Guiana's second group match at the 2017 Gold Cup against Honduras ended 0–0, but was later counted as a 3–0 win to Honduras. The reason was the fielding of 37-year-old veteran Florent Malouda, who played 80 international matches for France between 2004 and 2012.

Commonly, a player who has played a competitive match for one international team can no longer be fielded by a second. However, French Guiana was not a FIFA member. As such, they were able to field Malouda at the 2017 Caribbean Cup – which is not an official FIFA tournament – without repercussions.

In spite of a precedent case at the 2007 Gold Cup, when former French international Jocelyn Angloma represented Guadeloupe, Guiana was threatened to have their matches counted as forfeit if they were to field Malouda. [5] Unsure of the legal situation, Guiana coach Jaïr Karam left Malouda benched in their first group match against Canada.

For the second match, Karam was optimistic, saying: "Now that we’re sure about our legal situation, we’ve decided to go fight, and it’s a fight we’re going to win." [6] Malouda played as captain in the next match and led Guiana to a 0–0 against Honduras – a respectable result for the French territory. On July 14, the day of their final group match against Costa Rica, CONCACAF announced in a statement that Honduras had been awarded a 3–0 victory. In addition, French Guiana were fined an undisclosed amount and Malouda received a two-match stadium ban. [7]

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