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2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

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2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup Prelims
Tournament details
DatesMarch 21–25
Teams14
Tournament statistics
Matches played14
Goals scored47 (3.36 per match)
Top scorer(s)Costa Rica Manfred Ugalde
Costa Rica Álvaro Zamora
Guyana Isaiah Jones
Trinidad and Tobago Isaiah Lee
(3 goals each)
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The 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification or 2025 Gold Cup Prelims was the tournament that determined the final seven teams to qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[1][2]

The matches took place March 21–25, 2025.[3][4]

Format

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Unlike the previous Gold Cup Prelims, this edition consisted of a single round in which the 14 involved teams were divided into 7 ties.

The ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the highest-ranked team in each tie hosting the second leg.[4] If the aggregate score is level at the end of the second leg the away goals rule would be applied (e.g. the team that scores more goals away from home advanced to the final tournament). If away goals were also equal, then 30 minutes of extra time would be played without taking into account the away goals rule during this time. If still tied after extra time, the tie would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.[5]

The winners qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Teams

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Fourteen teams qualified for the 2025 Gold Cup Prelims through their participation in the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League. From Nations League A, the four quarter-final 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 spots in the qualification tournament went to the winners of the Nations League Play-in between the top-four teams in Nation League C and the fifth and sixth-placed teams of each group from League A.[3][6]

The following 14 teams qualified:

League A (QF losers)
QF Team
QF1  Costa Rica
QF2  Jamaica
QF3  Suriname
QF4  Honduras
League A (3rd and 4th places)
Group Team
A  Guatemala
B  Nicaragua
A  Martinique
B  Trinidad and Tobago
League B (top-2 second places)
Group Team
A  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
D  Bermuda
Play-in winners
PI Team
PI1  Guadeloupe
PI2  Cuba
PI3  Belize
PI4  Guyana

Seeding

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In order to determine the 7 matchups, the teams were seeded 1–14 based on the CONCACAF Rankings as of 20 November 2024, with the 7 highest-ranked teams facing the 7 lowest-ranked teams (1 v 14, 2 v 13, 3 v 12, 4 v 11, 5 v 10, 6 v 9 and 7 v 8).[3]

Seed Team Rank[7] Points
1  Costa Rica 5 1,658
2  Jamaica 6 1,574
3  Honduras 7 1,513
4  Guatemala 9 1,423
5  Trinidad and Tobago 10 1,313
6  Martinique 11 1,296
7  Nicaragua 13 1,198
8  Guadeloupe 14 1,139
9  Suriname 16 1,128
10  Cuba 17 1,112
11  Guyana 19 1,024
12  Bermuda 21 885
13  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22 870
14  Belize 25 791

Summary

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The two legs were played on March 21 and 25, 2025.[4]

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Belize 1–13 Costa Rica0–71–6
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1–4 Jamaica1–10–3
Bermuda 3–7 Honduras3–50–2
Guyana 3–4 Guatemala3–20–2
Cuba 1–6 Trinidad and Tobago1–20–4
Suriname 2–0 Martinique1–01–0
Guadeloupe 2–0 Nicaragua1–01–0

Matches

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The fixture list and matchups were confirmed on 20 November 2024.[3] All match times are in EDT (UTC−4) (local times, if different, are in parentheses).[4]

Belize 0–7 Costa Rica
Report
Costa Rica 6–1 Belize
 Report Bernárdez 47'

Costa Rica won 13–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1–1 Jamaica
Anderson 65' Report Bailey 90+4' (pen.)
Jamaica 3–0 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 Report

Jamaica won 4–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Bermuda 3–5 Honduras
 Report
Referee: Reon Radix (Grenada)
Honduras 2–0 Bermuda
 Report

Honduras won 7–3 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Guyana 3–2 Guatemala
I. Jones 9', 36', 56' Report
Guatemala 2–0 Guyana
 Report

Guatemala won 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Cuba 1–2 Trinidad and Tobago
Matos 6' Report
Trinidad and Tobago 4–0 Cuba
 Report

Trinidad and Tobago won 6–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Suriname 1–0 Martinique
Kerk 52' Report
Martinique 0–1 Suriname
Report Pherai 80'

Suriname won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Guadeloupe 1–0 Nicaragua
David 17' Report
Nicaragua 0–1 Guadeloupe
Report Mirval 64'

Guadeloupe won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Qualified teams

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Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in CONCACAF Gold Cup1
only Gold Cup era (since 1991)
 Haiti CNL League B Group C 1st place 15 November 2024 9 (2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 El Salvador CNL League B Group A 1st place 17 November 2024 13 (1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 Curaçao CNL League B Group B 1st place 18 November 2024 2 (2017, 2019)
 United States CNL League A quarterfinal winner 18 November 2024 17 (1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 Panama CNL League A quarterfinal winner 18 November 2024 11 (1993, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 Dominican Republic CNL League B Group D 1st place 19 November 2024 0 (debut)
 Canada CNL League A quarterfinal winner 19 November 2024 16 (1991, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 Mexico CNL League A quarterfinal winner 19 November 2024 17 (1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 Saudi Arabia Invitees 19 December 2024 0 (debut)
 Trinidad and Tobago Gold Cup Prelims Winner Matchup 5 25 March 2025 12 (1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 Suriname Gold Cup Prelims Winner Matchup 6 25 March 2025 1 (2021)
 Jamaica Gold Cup Prelims Winner Matchup 2 25 March 2025 13 (1991, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 Guadeloupe Gold Cup Prelims Winner Matchup 7 25 March 2025 5 (2007, 2009, 2011, 2021, 2023)
 Guatemala Gold Cup Prelims Winner Matchup 4 25 March 2025 12 (1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2021, 2023)
 Costa Rica Gold Cup Prelims Winner Matchup 1 25 March 2025 16 (1991, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
 Honduras Gold Cup Prelims Winner Matchup 3 25 March 2025 16 (1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

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There were 47 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 3.36 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes

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  1. ^ Guyana will play their home match at the BFA Technical Centre in Bridgetown (Barbados) instead of their regular home stadium Synthetic Track and Field Facility, Leonora due to logistical challenges and playing conditions.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "CONCACAF announces formats for men's national team competitions for the 2023–2026 cycle". CONCACAF. February 28, 2023. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
  2. ^ "Concacaf confirms qualification pathway for 2025 Gold Cup". Miami, FL: CONCACAF. December 19, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d "Concacaf confirms 2025 Gold Cup Prelims participating national teams and matchups". CONCACAF. November 20, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d "Concacaf announces schedule for the 2025 Gold Cup Prelims". CONCACAF. February 13, 2025. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  5. ^ "CONCACAF Gold Cup Regulations 2025" (PDF). CONCACAF. February 21, 2025 [Approved on 20 February 2025]. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
  6. ^ "CONCACAF Nations League Regulations 2024" (PDF). CONCACAF. April 17, 2024 [Approved on March 2024]. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
  7. ^ "Men's National Team CONCACAF RANKING INDEX As of November 30, 2024". CONCACAF. Archived from the original on December 1, 2024. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
  8. ^ "Gold Cup clash between Guyana and Guatemala moved to Barbados". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. February 16, 2025.
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