2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup Prelims
Tournament details
Dates	March 21–25
Teams	14
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	47 (3.36 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Manfred Ugalde Álvaro Zamora Isaiah Jones 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]

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.

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

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

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

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Belize	1–13	Costa Rica	0–7	1–6
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1–4	Jamaica	1–1	0–3
Bermuda	3–7	Honduras	3–5	0–2
Guyana	3–4	Guatemala	3–2	0–2
Cuba	1–6	Trinidad and Tobago	1–2	0–4
Suriname	2–0	Martinique	1–0	1–0
Guadeloupe	2–0	Nicaragua	1–0	1–0

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]

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Belize	0–7	Costa Rica
	Report	Ugalde 7', 36' (pen.) K. Vargas 38' Mitchell 65' Zamora 70', 88' Alcócer 81'

FFB Stadium, Belmopan

Referee: Adonis Carrasco (Dominican Republic)

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

21:00 (19:00 UTC−6)

Costa Rica	6–1	Belize
Arzu 1' (o.g.) Bran 6', 66' Martínez 8' Ugalde 36' Zamora 69'	Report	Bernárdez 47'

Estadio Nacional, San José

Attendance: 11,877^[8]

Referee: Julio Luna (Guatemala)

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

19:00

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

Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown

Attendance: 8,250^[9]

Referee: Karen Hernández (Mexico)

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

20:00 (19:00 UTC−5)

Jamaica	3–0	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Brown 27' Johnson 89' (o.g.) Cephas 90+4'	Report

Sabina Park, Kingston

Attendance: 6,500^[10]

Referee: Pierre-Luc Lauzière (Canada)

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

19:00 (20:00 UTC−3)

Bermuda	3–5	Honduras
Crichlow 1' Parfitt 44' Lewis 90+2' (pen.)	Report	Quioto 60', 66' Palma 64' Martínez 89' Pinto 90+4'

Bermuda National Stadium, Devonshire

Attendance: 545^[11]

Referee: Reon Radix (Grenada)

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Honduras	2–0	Bermuda
Benguché 53' Palma 57'	Report

Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 0^{[note 1]}

Referee: Bryan López (Guatemala)

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

21:00

Guyana	3–2	Guatemala
I. Jones 9', 36', 56'	Report	Martínez 29' Pinto 80' (pen.)

BFA Technical Centre, Bridgetown (Barbados)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 136^[15]

Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

20:30 (18:30 UTC−6)

Guatemala	2–0	Guyana
Rubin 11' Lemus 76'	Report

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

Attendance: 7,200^[16]

Referee: Lukasz Szpala (United States)

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

16:00

Cuba	1–2	Trinidad and Tobago
Matos 6'	Report	Lee 20' Yeates 53'

Estadio Antonio Maceo, Santiago de Cuba

Attendance: 3,500^[17]

Referee: Juan Gabriel Calderón (Costa Rica)

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

19:00

Trinidad and Tobago	4–0	Cuba
Lee 22', 37' Molino 51' James 84'	Report

Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva

Attendance: 6,241^[18]

Referee: César Arturo Ramos (Mexico)

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

18:00 (19:00 UTC−3)

Suriname	1–0	Martinique
Kerk 52'	Report

Dr. Ir. Franklin Essed Stadion, Paramaribo

Attendance: 2,748^[19]

Referee: Víctor Cáceres (Mexico)

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

19:00

Martinique	0–1	Suriname
	Report	Pherai 80'

Stade Pierre-Aliker, Fort-de-France

Attendance: 2,000^[20]

Referee: José Torres (Puerto Rico)

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

20:00

Guadeloupe	1–0	Nicaragua
David 17'	Report

Stade Roger Zami, Le Grosier

Attendance: 1,351^[21]

Referee: Nelson Salgado (Honduras)

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

20:30 (18:30 UTC−6)

Nicaragua	0–1	Guadeloupe
	Report	Mirval 64'

Estadio Nacional de Fútbol, Managua

Attendance: 15,630^[22]

Referee: Fernando Hernández (Mexico)

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

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.

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

• CONCACAF Gold Cup Official Website
• CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification at ESPN