Haiti at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

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The CONCACAF Gold Cup is North America's major tournament in senior men's football and determines the continental champion. 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).

Haiti have won the tournament once, as hosts in 1973. That the success was not due to the home advantage alone, but had shown good results at the previous and following editions (1971 and 1977), where they each ended up as runners-up on both occasions. They are currently ranked tenth in the tournament's all-time table.

Overall record

CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup record Qualification record
YearResultPositionPldWD*LGFGASquadPldWDLGFGA
Flag of El Salvador.svg 1963 Did not qualify200214
Flag of Guatemala.svg 1965 Sixth place6th5014313SquadQualified automatically
Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg 1967 Fifth place5th510459Squad431073
Flag of Costa Rica.svg 1969 Disqualified220030
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg 1971 Runners-up2nd523091SquadQualified automatically
Flag of Haiti (1964-1986).svg 1973 Champions1st540183Squad2200120
Flag of Mexico.svg 1977 Runners-up2nd531166Squad7520193
Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg 1981 Sixth place6th502329Squad421142
1985 Group stage9th400409Squad210152
1989 Did not enterDid not enter
Flag of the United States.svg 1991 Did not qualify211043
Flag of Mexico.svg Flag of the United States.svg 1993 Did not enterDid not enter
Flag of the United States.svg 1996
Flag of the United States.svg 1998 WithdrewWithdrew
Flag of the United States.svg 2000 Group stage11th201114 Squad 106132211
Flag of the United States.svg 2002 Quarter-finals7th310234 Squad 8521309
Flag of Mexico.svg Flag of the United States.svg 2003 Did not qualify530276
Flag of the United States.svg 2005 530276
Flag of the United States.svg 2007 Group stage10th302124 Squad 138142712
Flag of the United States.svg 2009 Quarter-finals8th411247 Squad 311144
Flag of the United States.svg 2011 Did not qualify311135
Flag of the United States.svg 2013 Group stage9th310223 Squad 11812195
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Flag of the United States.svg 2015 Quarter-finals6th411223 Squad 7331139
Flag of the United States.svg 2017 Did not qualify64021514
Flag of Costa Rica.svg Flag of Jamaica.svg Flag of the United States.svg 2019 Semi-finals3rd540195 Squad 4400192
Flag of the United States.svg 2021 Group stage11th310236 Squad 6232136
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Flag of the United States.svg 2023 Group stage12th310246 Squad 6510225
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Flag of the United States.svg 2025 Group stageTBD301224 Squad 6600295
Total1 Title17/28672013346596118741925285116

Match overview

1973 CONCACAF Championship

1973 was the first of five times where the tournament was played as the final round of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers. It was also the first time this round was played as a "Hexagonal" – six times playing each other in a round-robin. This format has established itself in CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers since then.

The Haitian home tournament was held from 29 November to 18 December 1973. The title holders and favorites from Mexico started off with two draws, against Guatemala and Honduras, and only won their third match against the Netherlands Antilles. Haiti on the other hand kept winning and after their fourth consecutive victory, a 2–1 win over Guatemala with two goals by Emmanuel Sanon, the tournament standings were as follows:

Ranking as of 13 December 1973
RankTeamPldGFGAPts
1Flag of Haiti (1964-1986).svg  Haiti 4828
2Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 3914
3Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg  Honduras 4554
4Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 3342
5Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 4352
6Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1986-2010).svg  Netherlands Antilles 43142

With Mexico being a match and four points down, they would have had to win their next match, and then defeat Haiti in an all-or-nothing final on the last day. However, Mexico surprisingly lost 0–4 to Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico's highest defeat ever at a continental championship, and Haiti was certain to win the tournament and qualify for the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Haiti lost their final match 0–1 to Mexico, with the end table as follows:

Final ranking
RankTeamPldGFGAPts
1Flag of Haiti (1964-1986).svg  Haiti 5838
2Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 51146
3Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 51056
4Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg  Honduras 5665
5Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 5463
6Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1986-2010).svg  Netherlands Antilles 53182

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