2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup


The 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 15th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the biennial international men's football championship of the North, Central American, and Caribbean region organized by CONCACAF. The tournament was primarily being hosted in the United States, with Costa Rica and Jamaica hosted double-headers in the first round of matches in groups B and C, respectively.
The United States were the defending champions, having won the 2017 tournament. With the abolition of the FIFA Confederations Cup, the CONCACAF Cup was annulled and the Gold Cup did not qualify the winner to a major tournament for the first time since 2009.
In February 2018, CONCACAF announced that the tournament would expand to 16 teams from 12.
Mexico won their eighth Gold Cup title with their 1–0 victory over the United States in the final.

Qualified teams

The qualification system was changed and no longer divided into Central American and Caribbean zones. Among the 16 teams, six qualified directly after participating in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying Hexagonal, while the other 10 teams qualified through the 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League qualifying.
Bermuda and Guyana made their Gold Cup debuts.
TeamQualificationDate of
qualification		Gold Cup appearances
Last appearancePrevious best Gold Cup performance
FIFA Ranking
at start of event		CONCACAF Ranking
at start of event
15th 2017
Champions 		181
14th 2017
Champions 		393
9th 2017 755
14th 2017
Champions 		614

15th 2017
Runners-up 		302
10th 2015
Runners-up 		9211
7th 2015
Champions 		10110
14th 2017
Champions 		786
6th 2017 N/A12
2nd 2017
Third place 		7915
1st -17420
9th 2015
Fourth place 		17513
1st -17722
11th 2017 547
3rd 2017
Sixth place 		12914
11th 2017
Runners-up 		699

Venues

In May 2018, CONCACAF confirmed that matches would be held in Central America and the Caribbean in addition to the United States. This was the first time that the Gold Cup was held in the Caribbean, with all previous matches having taken place in the United States, Mexico, or Canada.

United States

In May 2018, CONCACAF announced the 15 venues in the United States which would host matches. Soldier Field in Chicago was announced on 27 September 2018 as the venue of the final.

Costa Rica

On 26 November 2018, CONCACAF announced that Costa Rica would host a double-header in the first round of matches of Group B on 16 June 2019, taking place at the Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica in San José.
San José
Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica
Capacity: 35,175

Jamaica

On 2 April 2019, CONCACAF announced that Jamaica would host a double-header in the first round of matches of Group C on 17 June 2019, taking place at the Independence Park in Kingston.
Kingston
Independence Park
Capacity: 35,000

Seeding and schedule

On 31 August 2018, CONCACAF announced that the top four teams of the September 2018 CONCACAF Ranking Index were seeded for the group stage of the tournament:
RankSeeded team
12,042
21,872
31,798
41,632

The groups and full match schedule were revealed on 10 April 2019, 18:00 EDT, in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Squads

Each team had to submit a list of 23 players.

Officials

Match officials were announced on 15 May 2019.
;Referees
;Assistant Referees
;Targeted advanced referee program
The match dates and the assignments were announced by CONCACAF on 9 October 2018. The quarter-final pairings were later amended on 12 October 2018. The top two teams from each group qualified for the quarter-finals.
All match times listed are EDT, as listed by CONCACAF. If the venue is located in a different time zone, the local time is also given.

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
  1. Points obtained in all group matches ;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
  5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
  6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
  7. Fair play points in all group matches :
  8. Drawing of lots.

    Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was tied after 90 minutes, extra time was played, where a fourth substitute was allowed for each team. If still tied after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Awards

Winners

Individual awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
The technical study group selected the tournament's best XI.
GoalkeeperDefendersMidfieldersAttacker

  • Guillermo Ochoa
  • Luis Rodríguez
  • Carlos Salcedo
  • Aaron Long
  • Jesús Gallardo
  • Michael Bradley
  • Andrés Guardado
  • Jonathan dos Santos
  • Jonathan David
  • Christian Pulisic
  • Raúl Jiménez

    • Statistics

    Goalscorers

    Final ranking

    As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

    Sponsors

    CONCACAF

    International