2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A

The 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A was the top division of the 2024–25 edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, the fourth season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of CONCACAF. The initial group stage was held from 5 September to 15 October 2024.^[1][2]

2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A

Tournament details
Dates	Group phase: 5 September – 15 October 2024 Quarter-finals: 11–19 November 2024 Nations League Finals: 20–23 March 2025
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Mexico (1st title)
Runners-up	Panama
Third place	Canada
Fourth place	United States
Relegated	Cuba  French Guiana  Guadeloupe  Guyana
Tournament statistics
Matches played	36
Goals scored	93 (2.58 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Raúl Jiménez (5 goals)
← 2023–24 2026–27 →

League A culminated with the Nations League Finals in March 2025 to crown the champions of the CONCACAF Nations League.^[3]

This edition of the CONCACAF Nations League A served to determine the four teams that qualify directly for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States. The top four teams qualified for the final tournament, while the remaining League A teams could still qualify via the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.^[4]

Format

League A maintained the same format introduced for the 2023–24 season, consisting of a group stage, a quarter-finals round and the finals.^[5] The 16 involved teams entered the competition in the group stage or directly into the quarter-finals according to their position in the CONCACAF Rankings (as of 31 March 2024), with the 12 lowest-ranked teams entering the group stage and the top four ranked teams receiving a direct pass to the quarter-final round.^[3]

The group stage consisted of two groups of six teams, with each team playing four matches against opponents of its group (two at home and two away) on a Swiss-system basis. The top two teams from each group advanced to the quarter-finals where they joined the four teams that qualified directly to this round. The bottom two teams from each group were relegated to the 2026–27 CONCACAF Nations League B, but also advanced to the play-in round, in which they joined four teams from League C in order to compete to qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.^[3]

The quarter-finals were played on a two-legged home-and-away basis, with the four winners advancing to the Nations League Finals and qualifying directly to the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Nations League Finals, consisting of a semi-final round, third place play-off and the final match, were played in March 2025 at a centralised venue in Inglewood, California.^[3]

2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

As announced by CONCACAF in February 2023, the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League served as a qualifier for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.^[5] League A teams qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup final tournament or the Gold Cup qualification tournament (also called CONCACAF Gold Cup prelims) or advanced to the play-in round based on their performance in the group stage and quarter-finals round, as follows:^[4]

• The four quarter-finals winners (i.e., the four teams involved in the finals) qualified directly for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
• The four quarter-finals losers qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
• The third and fourth placed teams of each group also qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
• The fifth and sixth placed teams of each group advanced to the play-in round, where they faced the top four teams in the League C for the last four slots in the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.

Teams

A total of sixteen national teams contested League A, including the top twelve sides from the 2023–24 season and four promoted from the 2023–24 League B.

Team changes

The following were the team changes in League A regarding the 2023–24 season:

Incoming Promoted from Nations League B  French Guiana  Guadeloupe  Guyana  Nicaragua

Outgoing Relegated to Nations League B  Curaçao  El Salvador  Grenada  Haiti

Teams promoted from League B

French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Guyana reached the top flight of the CONCACAF Nations League for the first time, with French Guaiana and Guyana spending the first three seasons in League B while Guadeloupe started in League C in the inaugural edition before spending two seasons in League B. Nicaragua had already been promoted to the League A in the previous season but were disqualified for regulatory reasons before the start of the season, so this was their first appearance in CONCACAF Nations League A.^[6]

Seeding

The pots were confirmed on 19 April 2024, with the lowest twelve League A ranked teams, based on the CONCACAF Rankings as of 31 March 2024, being split into six pots of two teams. The top four ranked teams (Mexico, the United States, Panama and Canada) were directly seeded in the quarter-finals.^[3]

Pot	Team	Rank[7]	Pts
1	Jamaica	5	1,677
	Costa Rica	6	1,621
2	Honduras	7	1,431
	Guatemala	9	1,395
3	Trinidad and Tobago	10	1,344
	Martinique	11	1,322
4	Cuba	13	1,158
	Guadeloupe	15	1,119
5	Nicaragua	16	1,112
	Suriname	17	1,070
6	French Guiana	18	1,058
	Guyana	19	1,054

Draw

The group stage draw was held on 6 May 2024, 19:00 EDT (UTC−4), in Miami, Florida, United States,^[8] where the twelve involved teams were drawn into two groups of six. The draw began by randomly selecting a team from Pot 1 and placing them into Group A and then selecting the remaining team from Pot 1 and placing them into Group B. The draw continued with the same procedure done for the remaining pots.

The draw resulted in the following groups:^[8]

Group A Pos Team A1  Costa Rica A2  Guatemala A3  Martinique A4  Guadeloupe A5  Suriname A6  Guyana

Group B Pos Team B1  Jamaica B2  Honduras B3  Trinidad and Tobago B4  Cuba B5  Nicaragua B6  French Guiana

Group stage

The fixture list was confirmed by CONCACAF on 23 May 2024.^[1][2][9] All match times are in EDT (UTC−4) as listed by CONCACAF (local times, if different, are in parentheses).^[10][11]

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Costa Rica	4	2	2	0	7	1	+6	8	Advance to quarter-finals		—	—	3–0	—	3–0	—
2	Suriname	4	2	1	1	9	4	+5	7			1–1	—	—	—	—	5–1
3	Guatemala	4	2	1	1	6	5	+1	7	Qualification for Gold Cup prelims		0–0	—	—	3–1	—	—
4	Martinique	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1	5			—	—	—	—	0–0	2–2
5	Guadeloupe (R)	4	1	1	2	1	4	−3	4	Advance to play-in and relegation to League B		—	1–0	—	0–1	—	—
6	Guyana (R)	4	0	1	3	5	13	−8	1			—	1–3	1–3	—	—	—

Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(R) Relegated

5 September 2024 (2024-09-05)

16:00

Guyana	1–3	Suriname
Glasgow 43' (pen.)	Report	Van der Kust 18' Montnor 66' Misidjan 83'

Synthetic Track and Field Facility, Leonora

Attendance: 500^[12]

Referee: Christopher Mason (Jamaica)

5 September 2024 (2024-09-05)

20:00 (18:00 UTC−6)

Costa Rica	3–0	Guadeloupe
Calvo 50' Lassiter 77' Madrigal 80'	Report

Estadio Nacional, San José

Attendance: 7,542^[13]

Referee: Katia García (Mexico)

5 September 2024 (2024-09-05)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Guatemala	3–1	Martinique
Rubín 3' Pinto 61' (pen.) Martínez 90+5'	Report	Appin 51'

Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 14,006^[14]

Referee: José Torres (Puerto Rico)

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9 September 2024 (2024-09-09)

16:00

Guadeloupe	1–0	Suriname
Leborgne 67'	Report

Stade Roger Zami, Le Gosier

Attendance: 1,850^[15]

Referee: Reon Radix (Grenada)

9 September 2024 (2024-09-09)

16:00

Martinique	2–2	Guyana
Labeau 45+2' Varane 86'	Report	I. Jones 14', 24'

Stade Pierre-Aliker, Fort-de-France

Attendance: 220^[16]

Referee: Kwinsi Williams (Trinidad and Tobago)

9 September 2024 (2024-09-09)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Guatemala	0–0	Costa Rica
	Report

Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 18,115^[17]

Referee: Daniel Quintero (Mexico)

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11 October 2024 (2024-10-11)

16:00

Guadeloupe	0–1	Martinique
	Report	Labeau 86'

Stade Roger Zami, Le Gosier

Attendance: 1,820^[18]

Referee: Selvin Brown (Honduras)

11 October 2024 (2024-10-11)

18:00 (19:00 UTC−3)

Suriname	1–1	Costa Rica
Vlijter 34'	Report	Alcócer 12'

Dr. Ir. Franklin Essed Stadion, Paramaribo

Attendance: 3,274^[19]

Referee: Adonai Escobedo (Mexico)

11 October 2024 (2024-10-11)

21:00

Guyana	1–3	Guatemala
Duke-McKenna 31'	Report	Santis 17', 68' Castellanos 61'

Synthetic Track and Field Facility, Leonora

Attendance: 756^[20]

Referee: Ismael Cornejo (El Salvador)

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15 October 2024 (2024-10-15)

20:00 (18:00 UTC−6)

Costa Rica	3–0	Guatemala
Madrigal 9' Vargas 38' Calvo 72'	Report

Estadio Nacional, San José

Attendance: 20,450^[21]

Referee: Joseph Dickerson (United States)

15 October 2024 (2024-10-15)

20:00

Martinique	0–0	Guadeloupe
	Report

Stade Roger Zami, Le Gosier (Guadeloupe)^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 1,550^[25]

Referee: Pierre Luc Lauziere (Canada)

15 October 2024 (2024-10-15)

20:00 (21:00 UTC−3)

Suriname	5–1	Guyana
Becker 3', 10' Misidjan 33' Jubitana 51' Haps 69'	Report	J. Jones 13'

Dr. Ir. Franklin Essed Stadion, Paramaribo

Attendance: 3,274^[26]

Referee: Steffon Dewar (Jamaica)

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Jamaica	4	2	2	0	4	1	+3	8	Advance to quarter-finals		—	0–0	—	—	0–0	—
2	Honduras	4	2	1	1	8	4	+4	7			1–2	—	—	4–0	—	—
3	Nicaragua	4	2	1	1	5	5	0	7	Qualification for Gold Cup prelims		0–2	—	—	—	—	3–2
4	Trinidad and Tobago	4	1	2	1	5	7	−2	5			—	—	—	—	3–1	0–0
5	Cuba (R)	4	0	3	1	4	6	−2	3	Advance to play-in and relegation to League B		—	—	1–1	2–2	—	—
6	French Guiana (R)	4	0	1	3	4	7	−3	1			—	2–3	0–1	—	—	—

Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(R) Relegated

6 September 2024 (2024-09-06)

15:00 (16:00 UTC−3)

French Guiana	0–1	Nicaragua
	Report	Talavera 90+5'

Stade Municipal Dr. Edmard Lama, Remire-Montjoly

Attendance: 450^[27]

Referee: Julio Luna (Guatemala)

6 September 2024 (2024-09-06)

20:00 (19:00 UTC−5)

Jamaica	0–0	Cuba
	Report

Independence Park, Kingston

Attendance: 9,900^[28]

Referee: Filiberto Martínez (El Salvador)

6 September 2024 (2024-09-06)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Honduras	4–0	Trinidad and Tobago
A. López 39' Arriaga 45+2' Rodríguez 54' Ruiz 86'	Report

Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 7,481^[29]

Referee: Tori Penso (United States)

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10 September 2024 (2024-09-10)

16:00

Cuba	1–1	Nicaragua
Espino 42' (pen.)	Report	Talavera 90+7'

Estadio Antonio Maceo, Santiago de Cuba

Attendance: 3,565^[30]

Referee: Pierre-Luc Lauzière (Canada)

10 September 2024 (2024-09-10)

19:00

Trinidad and Tobago	0–0	French Guiana
	Report

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet

Attendance: 2,100^[31]

Referee: Adonis Carrasco (Dominican Republic)

10 September 2024 (2024-09-10)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Honduras	1–2	Jamaica
Ruiz 50'	Report	Maldonado 49' (o.g.) Antonio 76' (pen.)

Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés, Tegucigalpa

Referee: Víctor Cáceres (Mexico)

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10 October 2024 (2024-10-10)

15:30 (16:30 UTC−3)

French Guiana	2–3	Honduras
Galas 56' Haabo 90+4'	Report	Lozano 45+1' Flores 67' Benguché 74'

Stade omnisport [fr], Sinnamary^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 204^[34]

Referee: Lukasz Szpala (United States)

10 October 2024 (2024-10-10)

16:00

Cuba	2–2	Trinidad and Tobago
Reyes 64' Casanova 75'	Report	Bateau 8' J. Jones 70'

Estadio Antonio Maceo, Santiago de Cuba

Attendance: 4,500^[35]

Referee: Sergio Reyna (Guatemala)

10 October 2024 (2024-10-10)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Nicaragua	0–2	Jamaica
	Report	Quijano 32' (o.g.) Williams 69'

Estadio Nacional de Fútbol, Managua

Attendance: 16,630^[36]

Referee: Mario Escobar (Guatemala)

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14 October 2024 (2024-10-14)

21:00 (20:00 UTC−5)

Jamaica	0–0	Honduras
	Report

Independence Park, Kingston

Attendance: 11,263^[37]

Referee: Armando Villarreal (United States)

14 October 2024 (2024-10-14)

21:00

Trinidad and Tobago	3–1	Cuba
Gilbert 13' J. Jones 28' Gill 65'	Report	Matos 62'

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet

Attendance: 3,543^[38]

Referee: Bryan López (Guatemala)

14 October 2024 (2024-10-14)

21:00 (19:00 UTC−6)

Nicaragua	3–2	French Guiana
Moreno 54' Barrera 79' Fletes 84'	Report	Baal 16' Haabo 62'

Estadio Nacional de Fútbol, Managua

Attendance: 12,634^[39]

Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

Quarter-finals

The quarter-finals pairings were determined based on the CONCACAF Rankings published after the October 2024 FIFA Match Window for the four pre-seeded teams and the group stage results for the winners and runners-up of each group.^[4]

Seeded teams Pos Team Rank[a] Pts 1  Mexico 1 1,900 2  Canada 2 1,807 3  United States 3 1,776 4  Panama 4 1,730 CONCACAF rankings (as of 16 October 2024)[40]

Group stage winners and runners-up Rank Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 A  Costa Rica 4 2 2 0 7 1 +6 8 2 B  Jamaica 4 2 2 0 4 1 +3 8 3 A  Suriname 4 2 1 1 9 4 +5 7 4 B  Honduras 4 2 1 1 8 4 +4 7 Source: CONCACAF Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

The match-ups were as follows:

• Quarter-final 1 (QF1): Fourth-ranked pre-seeded team vs Best ranked group winner
• Quarter-final 2 (QF2): Third-ranked pre-seeded team vs Worst ranked group winner
• Quarter-final 3 (QF3): Second-ranked pre-seeded team vs Best ranked group runner-up
• Quarter-final 4 (QF4): First-ranked pre-seeded team vs Worst ranked group runner-up

Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the order of legs being decided by the four pre-seeded teams that received a direct bye to the quarter-finals (Canada, Mexico, Panama and the United States). If the aggregate score was level at the end of the second leg the away goals rule was applied. If away goals were also equal, then 30 minutes of extra time was played without taking into account the away goals rule during this time. If still tied after extra time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out.

Winners advanced to the Nations League Finals and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup, while losers qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.

Summary

The first legs were played on 14 and 15 November, and the second legs were played on 18 and 19 November 2024.^[41]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Costa Rica	2–3	Panama	0–1	2–2
Jamaica	2–5	United States	0–1	2–4
Suriname	0–4	Canada	0–1	0–3
Honduras	2–4	Mexico	2–0	0–4

Matches

The fixture list was confirmed by CONCACAF on 23 May 2024,^[1][2] with the matchups being confirmed on 16 October 2024.^[41] All match times are in EST (UTC−5) as listed by CONCACAF (local times, if different, are in parentheses).^[42]

14 November 2024 (2024-11-14)

21:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Costa Rica	0–1	Panama
	Report	Fajardo 66' (pen.)

Estadio Nacional, San José

Attendance: 29,201^[43]

Referee: Saíd Martínez (Honduras)

18 November 2024 (2024-11-18)

21:00

Panama	2–2	Costa Rica
Blackman 14' J. Rodríguez 45+3'	Report	Bran 24' Martínez 73'

Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City

Attendance: 21,249^[44]

Referee: César Ramos (Mexico)

Panama won 3–2 on aggregate, advanced to the Finals and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Costa Rica qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification.

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14 November 2024 (2024-11-14)

20:00

Jamaica	0–1	United States
	Report	Pepi 5'

National Stadium, Kingston

Attendance: 20,513^[45]

Referee: Juan Gabriel Calderón (Costa Rica)

18 November 2024 (2024-11-18)

20:00 (19:00 UTC−6)

United States	4–2	Jamaica
Pulisic 14' Bernard 33' (o.g.) Pepi 42' Weah 56'	Report	D. Gray 53', 68'

Energizer Park, St. Louis

Attendance: 21,080^[46]

Referee: Mario Escobar (Guatemala)

The United States won 5–2 on aggregate, advanced to the Finals and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Jamaica qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification.

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15 November 2024 (2024-11-15)

18:30 (20:30 UTC−3)

Suriname	0–1	Canada
	Report	Hoilett 82'

Dr. Ir. Franklin Essed Stadion, Paramaribo

Attendance: 3,500^[47]

Referee: Oshane Nation (Jamaica)

19 November 2024 (2024-11-19)

19:30

Canada	3–0	Suriname
David 23' Shaffelburg 30', 67'	Report

BMO Field, Toronto

Attendance: 13,239^[48]

Referee: Katia Itzel García (Mexico)

Canada won 4–0 on aggregate, advanced to the Finals and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Suriname qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification.

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15 November 2024 (2024-11-15)

21:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

Honduras	2–0	Mexico
Palma 64', 83'	Report

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula

Attendance: 12,866^[49]

Referee: Walter López (Guatemala)

19 November 2024 (2024-11-19)

21:30 (20:30 UTC−6)

Mexico	4–0	Honduras
Jiménez 42' Martín 72', 90+7' (pen.) J. Sánchez 85'	Report

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca

Attendance: 26,898^[50]

Referee: Drew Fischer (Canada)

Mexico won 4–2 on aggregate, advanced to the Finals and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Honduras qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification.

Nations League Finals

Main article: 2025 CONCACAF Nations League Finals

Seeding

The four teams were ranked based on their results in the two quarter-finals legs to determine the semi-final matchups. The first seed played the fourth seed and the second seed played the third seed.^[51]

Seed	QF	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	QF3	Canada	2	2	0	0	4	0	+4	6
2	QF2	United States	2	2	0	0	5	2	+3	6
3	QF1	Panama	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	4
4	QF4	Mexico	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	3

Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	20 March – Inglewood
	Canada	0
					23 March – Inglewood
	Mexico	2
					Mexico	2
	20 March – Inglewood
					Panama	1
	United States	0
	Panama	1
					Third place play-off
					23 March – Inglewood
					Canada	2
					United States	1

Semi-finals

20 March 2025 (2025-03-20)

19:00 (16:00 UTC−7)

United States	0–1	Panama
	Report	Waterman 90+4'

SoFi Stadium, Inglewood

Referee: Oshane Nation (Jamaica)

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20 March 2025 (2025-03-20)

22:30 (19:30 UTC−7)

Canada	0–2	Mexico
	Report	Jiménez 1', 75'

SoFi Stadium, Inglewood

Attendance: 50,295^[52]

Referee: Saíd Martínez (Honduras)

Third place play-off

23 March 2025 (2025-03-23)

18:00 (15:00 UTC−7)

Canada	2–1	United States
Oluwaseyi 27' J. David 59'	Report	Agyemang 35'

SoFi Stadium, Inglewood

Referee: Katia Itzel García (Mexico)

Final

Main article: 2025 CONCACAF Nations League final

23 March 2025 (2025-03-23)

21:30 (18:30 UTC−7)

Mexico	2–1	Panama
Jiménez 8', 90+2' (pen.)	Report	Carrasquilla 45+2' (pen.)

SoFi Stadium, Inglewood

Attendance: 68,212^[53][54]

Referee: Mario Escobar (Guatemala)

Goalscorers

There were 93 goals scored in 36 matches, for an average of 2.58 goals per match.

5 goals

• Raúl Jiménez

2 goals

• Jonathan David
• Jacob Shaffelburg
• Francisco Calvo
• Warren Madrigal
• Jules Haabo
• Oscar Santis
• Isaiah Jones
• Luis Palma
• David Ruiz
• Demarai Gray
• Brighton Labeau
• Henry Martín
• Sheraldo Becker
• Virgil Misidjan
• Joevin Jones
• Ricardo Pepi

1 goal

• Junior Hoilett
• Tani Oluwaseyi
• Josimar Alcócer
• Alejandro Bran
• Ariel Lassiter
• Alonso Martínez
• Kenneth Vargas
• Aniel Casanova
• Karel Espino
• Yasnier Matos
• Rey Ángel Rodríguez
• Jordan Leborgne
• Óscar Castellanos
• José Carlos Martínez
• José Carlos Pinto
• Rubio Rubín
• Ludovic Baal
• Raphaël Galas
• Stephen Duke-McKenna
• Omari Glasgow
• Jalen Jones
• Kervin Arriaga
• Jorge Benguché
• Deybi Flores
• Alexander López
• Anthony Lozano
• Edwin Rodríguez
• Romario Williams
• Michail Antonio
• Kevin Appin
• Rudy Varane
• Jorge Sánchez
• Juan Barrera
• Marvin Fletes
• Harold Medina
• Jaime Moreno
• Widman Talavera
• César Blackman
• Adalberto Carrasquilla
• José Fajardo
• José Rodríguez
• Cecilio Waterman
• Djevencio van der Kust
• Ridgeciano Haps
• Denzel Jubitana
• Jaden Montnor
• Gleofilo Vlijter
• Sheldon Bateau
• Dantaye Gilbert
• Real Gill
• Patrick Agyemang
• Christian Pulisic
• Tim Weah

1 own goal

• Denil Maldonado (against Jamaica)
• Di'Shon Bernard (against United States)
• Josué Quijano (against Jamaica)

Notes

1. Martinique played their home match against Guadeloupe at Stade Roger Zami in Le Gosier (Guadeloupe) instead of the originally scheduled stadium Stade Pierre-Aliker, Fort-de-France due to security reasons related to the 2024 social unrest in Martinique.^[22][23][24]
2. French Guiana played their home match against Honduras at Stade omnisport, Sinnamary instead of the originally scheduled Stade Municipal Dr. Edmard Lama, Remire-Montjoly which did not meet CONCACAF requirements (playing field in poor condition).^[32][33]