1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup

1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup

CONCACAF Championship
1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country	USA
Dates	June 28 – July 7
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (1st title)
Runners-up	Honduras
Third place	Mexico
Fourth place	Costa Rica
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	50 (3.13 per match)
Attendance	437,916 (27,370 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Benjamin Galindo (4 goals)
Best player	Tony Meola
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The 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the first edition of the Gold Cup, the football (soccer) championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). The last time the CONCACAF Championship was held was 1971, from that point on the first-place finishers of World Cup qualifying were considered continental champions.

The tournament was held in the United States, in California cities Los Angeles and Pasadena. The eight teams were broken up into two groups of four; the top two teams of each group would advance to the semifinals. The Gold Cup was won by the US, who eliminated Mexico in the semifinals match, and went on to beat Honduras on penalties after tying them in the final 0-0.

Participating nations

Team	Qualification	Appearance in Gold Cup
North American zone
United States	Host	1st
Mexico	Automatic	1st
Canada	Automatic	1st
Caribbean zone qualified through the 1991 Caribbean Cup
Jamaica	Winners	1st
Trinidad and Tobago	Runners-Up	1st
Central American zone qualified through the 1991 UNCAF Nations Cup
Costa Rica	Winners	1st
Honduras	Runners-Up	1st
Guatemala	3rd Place	1st

See also: 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup squads

Venues

Los Angeles	Pasadena
Memorial Coliseum	Rose Bowl

First round

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Honduras	5	3	2	1	0	10	3	+7
Mexico	5	3	2	1	0	8	3	+5
Canada	2	3	1	0	2	6	9	-3
Jamaica	0	3	0	0	3	3	12	-9

1991-06-28	Canada	2–4	Honduras	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Angeles (USA)
	Mitchell  66', 72' Forrest  28'	Report	Bennett  28' (pen.) Espinoza  35' Cálix  44' Flores  51'

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1991-06-28	Mexico	4–1	Jamaica	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Success (ANT)
	Galindo  28' (pen.), 55' (pen.) Zaguinho  39' Hermosillo  59'	Report	Reid  39'

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1991-06-30	Honduras	5–0	Jamaica	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 4,797 Referee: Forbes (TRI)
	Cálix  28', 51' Anariba  32' Bennett  69' Yearwood  89'	Report

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1991-06-30	Canada	1–3	Mexico	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 4,797 Referee: Gutiérrez (CRC)
	Lowery  83'	Report	Hermosillo  4' de la Torre  40' Galindo  89' (pen.)

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1991-07-03	Jamaica	2–3	Canada	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 36,703 Referee: Ortíz (ESA)
	Wright  42' Reid  63'	Report	Mitchell  36' Miller  54' Limniatis  60'

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1991-07-03	Mexico	1–1	Honduras	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 36,703 Referee: Majid (USA)
	Hermosillo  67'	Report	Anariba  10'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
United States	6	3	3	0	0	8	3	+5
Costa Rica	2	3	1	0	2	5	5	0
Trinidad and Tobago	2	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1
Guatemala	2	3	1	0	2	1	5	-4

1991-06-29	Costa Rica	2–0	Guatemala	Rose Bowl, Pasadena Attendance: 18,435 Referee: Siefert (CAN)
	R. Gómez  14' Flores  17' González  86'	Report

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1991-06-29	United States	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago	Rose Bowl, Pasadena Attendance: 18,435 Referee: Ortíz (ESA)
	Murray  85' Balboa  87'	Report	Lewis  67'

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1991-07-01	Trinidad and Tobago	2–1	Costa Rica	Rose Bowl, Pasadena Attendance: 6,344 Referee: Garza (MEX)
	Lewis  38' Thomas  89'	Report	Medford  6'

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1991-07-01	United States	3–0	Guatemala	Rose Bowl, Pasadena Attendance: 6,344 Referee: Success (ANT)
	Murray  11' Quinn  46' Wynalda  52' Balboa  89'	Report

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1991-07-03	Trinidad and Tobago	0–1	Guatemala	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 36,703 Referee: Fuentes (HON)
		Report	Espel  89'

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1991-07-03	United States	3–2	Costa Rica	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 36,703 Referee: Brizio Carter (MEX)
	Vermes  6' Pérez  49' (pen.) Marchena  59' (o.g.)	Report	Arguedas  30' Jara  33'

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	July 5 - Los Angeles
	Honduras	2
	Costa Rica	0
					July 7 - Los Angeles
					United States	0 (4)
					Honduras	0 (3)
					Third place
	July 5 - Los Angeles			July 7 - Los Angeles
	United States	2		Mexico	2
	Mexico	0			Costa Rica	0

Semifinals

Friday July 5, 1991	Honduras	2–0	Costa Rica	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 41,103 Referee: Angeles (USA)
	Bennett  38' Flores  79'	Report

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Friday July 5, 1991	United States	2–0	Mexico	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 41,103 Referee: Ortiz (SLV)
	Doyle  48' Vermes  64'	Report

Third place match

Sunday July 7, 1991	Mexico	2–0	Costa Rica	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: 39.873 Referee: Forbes (TRI)
	Farfán  9' Galindo  89'	Report

Final

Main article: 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final

Sunday July 7, 1991	United States	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Honduras	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Attendance: : 39.873 Referee: Brizio Carter (MEX)
		Report
		Penalties
	Balboa Vermes Pérez Caligiuri Eck Quinn Kinnear Clavijo	4–3	Castro Anariba Yearwood Flores Zapata Cálix Vallejo Espinoza

Results and Awards

1991 Gold Cup Winners
United States First title

Top scorers

4 goals

• Benjamin Galindo

3 goals

• Dale Mitchell
• Eduardo Bennet

• Luis Cálix

• Carlos Hermosillo

2 goals

• Marco Anariba
• Eugenio Dolmo Flores

• Roderick Reid
• Leonson Lewis

• Bruce Murray
• Peter Vermes

1 goal

• John Limniatis
• Jamie Lowery
• Colin Miller
• Juan Carlos Arguedas
• Leonidas Flores
• Róger Gómez
• Claudio Jara

• Hernán Medford
• Juan Carlos Espinoza
• Gilberto Yearwood
• Luis Espel
• Héctor Wright
• Luis Roberto Alves
• Gonzalo Farfán

• José Manuel de la Torre
• Alvin Thomas
• Marcelo Balboa
• John Doyle
• Hugo Pérez
• Brian Quinn
• Eric Wynalda

Team statistics

Team		GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Dif
F	United States	5	4	1	0	10	3	+7
F	Honduras	5	3	2	0	12	3	+9
S	Mexico	5	3	1	1	10	5	+5
S	Costa Rica	5	1	0	4	5	9	-4
1	Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1
1	Canada	3	1	0	2	6	9	-3
1	Guatemala	3	1	0	2	1	5	-4
1	Jamaica	3	0	0	3	3	12	-9

External links

• Lineups/Squads