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The CONCACAF Gold Cup 2023 will take place between June 24 and July 16. Sixteen teams from the CONCACAF federation, which covers North America, Central America and the Caribbean, will take part in the tournament.
This is the 17th edition of a competition which began
in 1991. Prior to the Gold Cup, national teams in the region contested the CONCACAF Championship, which dates all the way back to 1969. For the sake of clarity, this article refers to the tournament in its post-1991 iteration.
The United States and Canada will co-host the upcoming event, with the vast majority of games being played in the former country. Qatar, the host nation of World Cup 2022, has been invited to participate despite being based in the Asian Football Confederation.
Qatar are not the first outsiders to be involved, however: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, South Korea, Ecuador and South Africa have all featured in the Gold Cup in the past.
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The USMNT are the favorites to win the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2023 with the best online sportsbooks. The Stars and Stripes recently won the CONCACAF Nations League thanks to victories over Mexico and Canada, the other two big powers in the region.
However, the USA have not named their strongest possible squad for the tournament, with the likes of Weston McKennie, Christian Pulisic, Yunus Musah and Folarin Balogun absent.
Mexico have also left out some of their big names, but there is still plenty of quality and experience within their roster. That makes them a tempting pick in the futures market, although they are working under an interim head coach in Jaime Lozano.
Runners-up in the CONCACAF Nations League, Canada will be looking to go one better at the Gold Cup. Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David and other high-profile players have been excused, but John Herdman’s men should not be written off.
Jamaica, Costa Rica and Panama are among the outsiders who could triumph if all of the big three underachieve.
The USMNT were the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2021 winners, so they will be defending their crown this summer.
They began their campaign by topping a group which also contained Canada, Haiti and Martinique, with the USA winning each of their three matches. They went on to beat Jamaica in the quarter-finals and Qatar in the semi-finals, before edging out Mexico 1-0 in the showpiece.
El Tri reached the final after finishing first in their group ahead of El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guatemala. Prior to their loss to the USA, they defeated Honduras and Canada in the knockout phase.
National Team | Victories | Runners-up |
Mexico | 8 | 2 |
USA | 7 | 5 |
Canada | 1 | 0 |
Jamaica | 0 | 2 |
Panama | 0 | 2 |
Brazil | 0 | 2 |
Colombia | 0 | 1 |
Costa Rica | 0 | 1 |
Honduras | 0 | 1 |
Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
USA | Mexico | Costa Rica | Canada |
Jamaica | Haiti | Panama | Guatemala |
Trinidad and Tobago | Honduras | El Salvador | Cuba |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Qatar | Martinique | Guadeloupe |
The CONCACAF Gold Cup is a biennial tournament, which means it is held every two years. This stands in contrast to other continental competitions such as the European Championship and Copa America, which are staged on a four-year basis.
Whether the Gold Cup should follow suit is up for debate. The major powers in the region, such as the USA, Mexico and Canada, are increasingly selecting weaker rosters for the tournament. If it was held every four years instead, perhaps they would pick their strongest squads.
However, smaller nations within CONCACAF would likely push back at the idea of making the Gold Cup a quadrennial competition.
The United States and Canada have been chosen as the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2023 hosts. Miami, St Louis, New Jersey, San Diego, Toronto, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Chicago, Glendale, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Charlotte and Arlington will all stage matches throughout the tournament.
The opening game on June 24 between the USMNT and Jamaica will take place at Soldier Field in Chicago. The final on July 16 will be at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
The USA has hosted - either exclusively or together with another country - every Gold Cup since 1991. There are two main reasons for this.
The first is that a tournament in the USA makes much commercial sense for CONCACAF. The second is that the USA has sufficient stadia, training camps, hotels and travel infrastructure for visiting players, fans and journalists.
A pan-Caribbean tournament has been mooted in the past, while in the CONCACAF Championship era was hosted by the likes of Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala and El Salvador.
That is no longer feasible. The predecessor to the Gold Cup contained at most nine teams. The CONCACAF Gold Cup now has 16 competitors, so it makes sense for the USA to host the bulk of the games.
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Greg Lea is a freelance soccer journalist from London. He is the former editor of The Set Pieces, and has contributed to the Guardian, FourFourTwo, and ESPN. A Crystal Palace fan, he is a long-time subscriber to the belief that it's the taking part that counts. Email: [email protected]
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