CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
| CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup | |
| abbreviation | Women's Gold Cup |
| Association | CONCACAF |
| First edition | 1991 |
| Teams | 8th |
| Game mode | Round tournament (2 groups of 4 teams each) / knockout system from the semi-finals |
| Title holder |
 United States
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| Record winner |
USA (8 wins)
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| Record player | ? |
| Record scorer | ? |
| Website | concacaf.com |
| Qualification for | Women's soccer World Cup |
The CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup is the Central and North American championship for women's national soccer teams . It currently bears the official name CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifying , as it is mainly used to determine the participants in the women's soccer World Cup . The region was initially entitled to two permanent places, and three teams have been able to qualify since 2014. The fourth place competed in a play-off against a representative from another continent (most recently South America) for another starting place. In addition, the team of the host country was automatically qualified for the World Cup if it took place in North America and then did not take part in the Gold Cup.
The first tournament took place in Haiti in 1991 . Until 1998 the competition was called the CONCACAF Women's Championship. The record winners are the USA with eight titles, which again won the tournament in 2018 and in 2014 achieved their highest victory in a final of the competition with a 6-0 win over Costa Rica. So far, all titles have gone to either the USA or Canada, which won in 1998 when the USA did not participate as they had already qualified as hosts for the 1999 World Cup, as well as in 2010, when the USA was the only game in the Gold Cup in the semifinals lost to Mexico.
In 1993 New Zealand and in 2000 Brazil and China each took part as visiting teams.
The record participant is Trinidad and Tobago , which was the only team to take part in all events. Canada and the USA did not take part once because as World Cup hosts they didn't have to qualify for the World Cup. Mexico did not participate in 1993.
mode
Eight national teams take part in the final round. There has been a qualification since 1998. Since then Canada , Mexico and the USA have automatically qualified - provided they participate. There are also two nations from the Central America qualification and three or four nations from the Caribbean qualification.
The eight national teams have been divided into two groups of four teams each since 2000 (in 1998 there were two groups of three teams each). Within the group, each team plays each other once. The group winners and runners-up reach the semi-finals. The semi-final winners reach the final, the semi-final losers play for third place.
First participations
Below are all national teams that have taken part in this tournament so far.
- Teams in bold became CONCACAF champions when they first competed.
- Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
- Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.
| year | First time participant | |||
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| 1991 |
 Costa Rica
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 Haiti
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 Jamaica
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 Canada
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 Martinique
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 Mexico
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 Trinidad and Tobago
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United States
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| 1993 |
 New Zealand
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| 1994 | no first-time participants | |||
| 1998 |
 Guatemala
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 Puerto Rico
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| 2000 |
 Brazil
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 China
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| 2002 |
 Panama
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| 2006 | no first-time participants | |||
| 2010 |
 Guyana
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| 2014 | no first-time participants | |||
| 2018 |
 Cuba
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The tournaments at a glance
| year | host | final | Game for third place | ||||
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| winner | Result | Second place | third place | Result | fourth place | ||
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1991 details |
Haiti |
 United States |
5-0 |
 Canada |
Trinidad and Tobago |
4: 2 |
Haiti |
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1993 details |
United States |
United States |
League system |
 New Zealand |
Canada |
League system |
Trinidad and Tobago |
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1994 details |
Canada |
United States |
League system |
Canada |
 Mexico |
League system |
Trinidad and Tobago |
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1998 details |
Canada |
Canada |
1-0 |
Mexico |
 Costa Rica |
4-0 |
 Guatemala |
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2000 details |
United States |
United States |
1-0 |
 Brazil |
 China |
2: 1 |
Canada |
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2002 details |
Canada / USA |
United States |
2: 1 n.GG |
Canada |
Mexico |
4: 1 |
Costa Rica |
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2006 details |
United States |
United States |
2: 1 a.d. |
Canada |
Mexico |
3-0 |
Jamaica |
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2010 details |
Mexico |
Canada |
1-0 |
Mexico |
United States |
3-0 |
Costa Rica |
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2014 details |
United States |
United States |
6-0 |
Costa Rica |
Mexico |
4: 2 a.d. |
Trinidad and Tobago |
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2018 details |
United States |
United States |
2-0 |
Canada |
Jamaica |
2: 2 n.V., 4: 2 i. E. |
 Panama |
Ranking list
| rank | country | title | Year (s) | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | 4th pl. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United States
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8th | 1991, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2014, 2018 | / | 1 | / |
| 2 |
Canada
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2 | 1998, 2010 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 |
Mexico
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2 | 4th | / | ||
| 4th |
Costa Rica
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1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 5 | New Zealand |
1 | / | / | ||
| Brazil |
1 | / | / | |||
| 7th |
Trinidad and Tobago
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/ | 1 | 3 | ||
| 8th |
Jamaica
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/ | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9 | China |
/ | 1 | / | ||
| 10 |
Haiti
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/ | / | 1 | ||
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Guatemala
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/ | / | 1 | |||
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Panama
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/ | / | 1 |
* Italic: visiting teams
Eternal table
| Pl. | country | Years | Sp. | S. | U | N | T + | T- | Diff. | Points | Ø pt. | title |
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| 1. |
United States
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9 | 39 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 199 | 6th | +193 | 112 | 2.87 | 7th |
| 2. |
Canada
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9 | 39 | 29 | 1 | 9 | 179 | 32 | +147 | 88 | 2.26 | 2 |
| 3. |
Mexico
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9 | 36 | 18th | 2 | 16 | 94 | 80 | +14 | 56 | 1.56 | - |
| 4th |
Trinidad and Tobago
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10 | 37 | 13 | 2 | 22nd | 44 | 127 | −83 | 41 | 1.11 | - |
| 5. |
Costa Rica
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7th | 29 | 13 | 1 | 15th | 46 | 74 | −28 | 40 | 1.38 | - |
| 6th |
Haiti
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5 | 17th | 5 | 0 | 12 | 15th | 59 | −44 | 15th | 0.88 | - |
| 7th |
Jamaica
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6th | 19th | 4th | 1 | 14th | 26th | 69 | −43 | 13 | 0.68 | - |
| 8th. | China |
1 | 5 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 24 | 6th | +18 | 12 | 2.4 | - |
| 9. | Brazil |
1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 22nd | 3 | +19 | 10 | 2 | - |
| 10. |
Panama
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3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 32 | −20 | 10 | 1.11 | - |
| 11. |
Guatemala
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4th | 14th | 2 | 0 | 12 | 11 | 68 | −57 | 6th | 0.43 | - |
| 12. | New Zealand |
1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7th | 3 | +4 | 4th | 1.33 | - |
| 13. |
Martinique
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3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7th | 12 | 59 | −47 | 2 | 0.22 | - |
| 14th |
Guyana
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1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 19th | −16 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 15th |
Cuba
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1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 20th | −20 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 16. |
Puerto Rico
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1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 38 | −38 | 0 | 0 | - |
| As of October 18, 2018 | ||||||||||||
Varia
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| 1991 | 1 | 1 | 8th | 8th | 16 | 96 | 6.00 | ||||||||
| 1993 | 1 | 1 | 4th | 4th | 6th | 24 | 4.00 | ||||||||
| 1994 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 68 | 6.80 | ||||||||
| 1998 | ? | ? | 13 | 8th | 16 | 85 | 5.31 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 4th | 4th | 10 | 8th | 16 | 104 | 6.50 | ||||||||
| 2002 | 4th | 4th | 22nd | 8th | 16 | 80 | 5.00 | ||||||||
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 6th | 6th | 16 | 2.67 | ||||||||
| 2010 | 1 | 2 | 26th | 8th | 16 | 62 | 3.88 | ||||||||
| 2014 | 4th | 4th | 31 | 8th | 16 | 65 | 4.06 | 28 | 1.75 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.13 | ||
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 8th | 16 | 83 | 5.19 | ||||||||
| Respective record | |||||||||||||||