Mexico at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

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.

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

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

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
1985Withdrew to host the 1986 FIFA World Cup Withdrew
1989Banned 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
Total12 Titles25/27123852117271732415635017

Match overview

Winning finals

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 Guatemala2–1Mexico Ignacio TrellesE. Cisneros, J. FragosoGuatemala Guatemala City
1971 Honduras2–1Mexico Javier de la TorreO. Muciño (2)Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain
1977 Canada3–1Mexico José Antonio RocaJ. Guzmán (2), H. SánchezMexico Monterrey
1993 United States4–0Mexico Miguel Mejía BarónI. Ambriz, D. Armstrong (o.g.), Zague, G. CantúMexico Mexico City
1996 Brazil2–0Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bora MilutinovićL. García, C. BlancoUnited States Los Angeles
1998 United States1–0Mexico Manuel LapuenteL. HernándezUnited States Los Angeles
2003 Brazil1–0
(asdet.)
Argentina Ricardo La VolpeD. OsornoMexico Mexico City
2009 United States5–0Mexico Javier AguirreG. Torrado, G. Dos Santos, C. Vela, J. Castro, G. FrancoUnited States East Rutherford
2011 United States4–2Mexico José Manuel de la TorreP. Barrera (2), A. Guardado, G. Dos SantosUnited States Pasadena
2015 Jamaica3–1Mexico Miguel HerreraA. Guardado, J. Corona, O. PeraltaUnited States Philadelphia
2019 United States1–0Argentina Gerardo MartinoJ. Dos SantosUnited States Chicago
2023 Panama1–0Mexico Jaime LozanoS. GiménezUnited States Inglewood

Record by opponent

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
 Brazil300340
 Canada6118237
 Colombia001112
 Costa Rica75113177
 Cuba6006251
 El Salvador6017153
 Guadeloupe200230
 Guatemala83213197
 Haiti7209183
 Honduras74112185
 Jamaica91111334
 Martinique3003153
 Netherlands Antilles /  Curaçao3115184
 Nicaragua200260
 Panama312676
 Qatar001101
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines100150
 South Africa001112
 South Korea010100
 Suriname100181
 Trinidad and Tobago53191910
 United States5038167

Record players

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
1Guillermo Ochoa252007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023
2Andrés Guardado242007, 2011, 2015 and 2019
3Gerardo Torrado202000, 2007, 2009 and 2011
4Orbelín Pineda182017, 2019, 2021 and 2023
5 Ramón Ramírez161993, 1996, 1998 and 2000
Claudio Suárez161993, 1996, 1998 and 2000
Carlos Salcido162005, 2007 and 2011
Francisco Rodríguez162005, 2007, 2011 and 2015
9 Giovani Dos Santos152009, 2011 and 2015
Alberto Medina152005, 2007 and 2009

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Goals Gold Cups
1Luís Roberto Alves121991 (1) and 1993 (11)
Andrés Guardado122007 (1), 2011 (3), 2015 (6) and 2019 (2)
3 Hugo Sánchez71977 (4) and 1981 (3)
Jared Borgetti72003 (3), 2005 (2) and 2007 (2)
Javier Hernández72011
Raúl Jiménez72013 (2) and 2019 (5)
7 Víctor Rangel61977
Giovani Dos Santos62009 (2), 2011 (3) and 2015 (1)
Orbelín Pineda62017 (1), 2021 (3) and 2023 (2)
10 Ernesto Cisneros51965
Javier Fragoso51965
Luis Miguel Salvador51993
Cuauhtémoc Blanco51996 (2), 1998 (2) and 2007 (1)
Luis Hernández51998 (4) and 2000 (1)
Pablo Barrera52009 (2) and 2011 (3)

Awards and records

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

References

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