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Mexico at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

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Scene from the 2009 semi-final against Costa Rica. Mexico went on to win the tournament, and their eighth of eleven continental championships.

The CONCACAF Gold Cup is North America's major tournament in senior men's soccer 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.

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.

Mexico are the most successful team in the history of CONCACAF continental championships. They have won the most titles, with twelve (nine in the Gold Cup era), and hold various records. They hosted the tournament once, in 1977, and were co-hosts with the United States in 1993 and 2003. On all three occasions, Mexico won the title on home soil.

Overall record

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CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup record Qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
El Salvador 1963 Group stage 7th 3 1 1 1 9 2 Squad Qualified automatically
Guatemala 1965 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 13 2 Squad Automatically entered
Honduras 1967 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1 10 1 Squad Qualified as defending champions
Costa Rica 1969 Fourth place 4th 5 1 2 2 4 5 Squad 2 1 0 1 4 2
Trinidad and Tobago 1971 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 6 1 Squad 2 2 0 0 6 0
Haiti 1973 Third place 3rd 5 2 2 1 10 5 Squad 4 4 0 0 8 3
Mexico 1977 Champions 1st 5 5 0 0 20 5 Squad 4 1 2 1 3 1
Honduras 1981 Third place 3rd 5 1 3 1 6 3 Squad 4 1 2 1 8 5
1985 Withdrew to host the 1986 FIFA World Cup Withdrew
1989 Banned Banned
United States 1991 Third place 3rd 5 3 1 1 10 5 Squad Qualified automatically
Mexico United States 1993 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 28 2 Squad
United States 1996 Champions 1st 4 4 0 0 9 0 Squad
United States 1998 Champions 1st 4 4 0 0 8 2 Squad
United States 2000 Quarter-finals 7th 3 1 1 1 6 3 Squad
United States 2002 5th 3 2 1 0 4 1 Squad
Mexico United States 2003 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 9 0 Squad
United States 2005 Quarter-finals 6th 4 2 0 2 7 4 Squad
United States 2007 Runners-up 2nd 6 4 0 2 7 5 Squad
United States 2009 Champions 1st 6 5 1 0 15 2 Squad
United States 2011 Champions 1st 6 6 0 0 22 4 Squad
United States 2013 Semi-finals 3rd 5 3 0 2 8 5 Squad
Canada United States 2015 Champions 1st 6 4 2 0 16 6 Squad
United States 2017 Semi-finals 3rd 5 3 1 1 6 2 Squad
United States Costa Rica Jamaica 2019 Champions 1st 6 5 1 0 16 4 Squad
United States 2021 Runners-up 2nd 6 4 1 1 9 2 Squad 4 4 0 0 13 3
Canada United States 2023 Champions 1st 6 5 0 1 13 2 Squad 4 2 2 0 8 3
Total 12 Titles 25/27 123 85 21 17 271 73 24 15 6 3 50 17

Match overview

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Winning finals

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The CONCACAF Championship was played in round-robins rather than knockout matches. For the three titles in that era, the decisive matches are listed.

Year Opponent Result Manager Goalscorer(s) Final location
1965  Guatemala 2–1 Mexico Ignacio Trelles E. Cisneros, J. Fragoso Guatemala Guatemala City
1971  Honduras 2–1 Mexico Javier de la Torre O. Muciño (2) Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain
1977  Canada 3–1 Mexico José Antonio Roca J. Guzmán (2), H. Sánchez Mexico Monterrey
1993  United States 4–0 Mexico Miguel Mejía Barón I. Ambriz, D. Armstrong (o.g.), Zague, G. Cantú Mexico Mexico City
1996  Brazil 2–0 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bora Milutinović L. García, C. Blanco United States Los Angeles
1998  United States 1–0 Mexico Manuel Lapuente L. Hernández United States Los Angeles
2003  Brazil 1–0
(a.s.d.e.t.)
Argentina Ricardo La Volpe D. Osorno Mexico Mexico City
2009  United States 5–0 Mexico Javier Aguirre G. Torrado, G. Dos Santos, C. Vela, J. Castro, G. Franco United States East Rutherford
2011  United States 4–2 Mexico José Manuel de la Torre P. Barrera (2), A. Guardado, G. Dos Santos United States Pasadena
2015  Jamaica 3–1 Mexico Miguel Herrera A. Guardado, J. Corona, O. Peralta United States Philadelphia
2019  United States 1–0 Argentina Gerardo Martino J. Dos Santos United States Chicago
2023  Panama 1–0 Mexico Jaime Lozano S. Giménez United States Inglewood

Record by opponent

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Mexico have a positive record against every team they have played from CONCACAF. However, due to losses against invitees, they have negative records against Colombia, South Africa and Qatar. Notably, they were matched up with record world champions Brazil three times, and won all three matches without conceding.

CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup matches (by team)
Opponent W D L Pld GF GA
 Brazil 3 0 0 3 4 0
 Canada 6 1 1 8 23 7
 Colombia 0 0 1 1 1 2
 Costa Rica 7 5 1 13 17 7
 Cuba 6 0 0 6 25 1
 El Salvador 6 0 1 7 15 3
 Guadeloupe 2 0 0 2 3 0
 Guatemala 8 3 2 13 19 7
 Haiti 7 2 0 9 18 3
 Honduras 7 4 1 12 18 5
 Jamaica 9 1 1 11 33 4
 Martinique 3 0 0 3 15 3
 Netherlands Antilles /  Curaçao 3 1 1 5 18 4
 Nicaragua 2 0 0 2 6 0
 Panama 3 1 2 6 7 6
 Qatar 0 0 1 1 0 1
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1 0 0 1 5 0
 South Africa 0 0 1 1 1 2
 South Korea 0 1 0 1 0 0
 Suriname 1 0 0 1 8 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 5 3 1 9 19 10
 United States 5 0 3 8 16 7

Record players

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Andrés Guardado in 2018.
Guillermo Ochoa has made the most appearances for Mexico at the Gold Cup.

Guillermo Ochoa is Mexico's record player at continental championships. He has won the title a record five times, in 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023. From the pre-Gold Cup era, the most fielded player is defender Jesús del Muro, with 13 matches from 1963 to 1967.

Rank Player Matches Gold Cups
1 Guillermo Ochoa 25 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023
2 Andrés Guardado 24 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019
3 Edson Álvarez 22 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023
Jesús Gallardo 22 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023
5 Gerardo Torrado 20 2000, 2007, 2009 and 2011
6 Orbelín Pineda 18 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023
7 Jonathan dos Santos 17 2015, 2019 and 2021
8 Ramón Ramírez 16 1993, 1996, 1998 and 2000
Claudio Suárez 16 1993, 1996, 1998 and 2000
Carlos Salcido 16 2005, 2007 and 2011
Francisco Rodríguez 16 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015

Top goalscorers

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Rank Player Goals Gold Cups
1 Luís Roberto Alves 12 1991 (1) and 1993 (11)
Andrés Guardado 12 2007 (1), 2011 (3), 2015 (6) and 2019 (2)
3 Hugo Sánchez 7 1977 (4) and 1981 (3)
Jared Borgetti 7 2003 (3), 2005 (2) and 2007 (2)
Javier Hernández 7 2011
Raúl Jiménez 7 2013 (2) and 2019 (5)
7 Víctor Rangel 6 1977
Giovani Dos Santos 6 2009 (2), 2011 (3) and 2015 (1)
Orbelín Pineda 6 2017 (1), 2021 (3) and 2023 (2)
10 Ernesto Cisneros 5 1965
Javier Fragoso 5 1965
Luis Miguel Salvador 5 1993
Cuauhtémoc Blanco 5 1996 (2), 1998 (2) and 2007 (1)
Luis Hernández 5 1998 (4) and 2000 (1)
Pablo Barrera 5 2009 (2) and 2011 (3)

Awards and records

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Team awards

Individual awards

Team records

  • Most titles (12)
  • Most titles in a row (3, 1993–1998)
  • Most tournament participations (25)
  • Most matches (123)
  • Most victories (85)
  • Most goals (271)
  • Most goals in a single tournament (28, 1993)
  • Only team to win a tournament without conceding (1996 and 2003)
  • Highest victory (9–0 over Martinique, 11 July 1993)
  • Highest victory in a final/Most goals in a final (5–0 over United States, 2009)

Individual records

See also

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References

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