2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

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]

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)
← 2023 2027 →

The matches took place March 21–25, 2025.^[3][4]

Format

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.

Teams

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

Seeding

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

Summary

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

Matches

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]

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

FFB Stadium, Belmopan

Referee: Adonis Carrasco (Dominican Republic)

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

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

21:00 (19:00 UTC−6)

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.

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

19:00

Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown

Attendance: 8,250^[9]

Referee: Karen Hernández (Mexico)

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

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

20:00 (19:00 UTC−5)

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.

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

19:00 (20:00 UTC−3)

Bermuda National Stadium, Devonshire

Attendance: 545^[11]

Referee: Reon Radix (Grenada)

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

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

22:00 (20:00 UTC−6)

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.

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

21:00

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

Attendance: 136^[15]

Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

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

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

20:30 (18:30 UTC−6)

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.

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

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

16:00

Estadio Antonio Maceo, Santiago de Cuba

Attendance: 3,500^[17]

Referee: Juan Gabriel Calderón (Costa Rica)

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

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

19:00

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.

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Suriname	1–0	Martinique
Kerk 52'	Report

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

18:00 (19:00 UTC−3)

Dr. Ir. Franklin Essed Stadion, Paramaribo

Attendance: 2,748^[19]

Referee: Víctor Cáceres (Mexico)

Martinique	0–1	Suriname
	Report	Pherai 80'

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

19:00

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.

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Guadeloupe	1–0	Nicaragua
David 17'	Report

21 March 2025 (2025-03-21)

20:00

Stade Roger Zami, Le Grosier

Attendance: 1,351^[21]

Referee: Nelson Salgado (Honduras)

Nicaragua	0–1	Guadeloupe
	Report	Mirval 64'

25 March 2025 (2025-03-25)

20:30 (18:30 UTC−6)

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.

Qualified teams

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.

Goalscorers

There were 47 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 3.36 goals per match.

3 goals

• Manfred Ugalde
• Álvaro Zamora
• Isaiah Jones
• Isaiah Lee

2 goals

• Alejandro Bran
• Luis Palma
• Romell Quioto

1 goal

• Carlos Bernárdez
• Kane Crichlow
• Zeiko Lewis
• Djair Parfitt
• Josimar Alcócer
• Alonso Martínez
• Jeyland Mitchell
• Kenneth Vargas
• Yasniel Matos
• Florian David
• Raphaël Mirval
• Erick Lemus
• José Carlos Martínez
• José Carlos Pinto
• Rubio Rubin
• Jorge Benguché
• Julián Martínez
• José Pinto
• Leon Bailey
• Warner Brown
• Renaldo Cephas
• Oalex Anderson
• Gyrano Kerk
• Immanuel Pherai
• Nathaniel James
• Kevin Molino
• Steffen Yeates

1 own goal

• Donell Arzu (against Costa Rica)
• Andrew Johnson (against Jamaica)

Notes

1. Honduras played their home match behind closed doors as they were punished for the incidents in their match against Mexico on 15 November 2024 valid for the quarter-finals of the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A.^[12][13]
2. Guyana will play their home match at the BFA Technical Centre in Bridgetown (Barbados) instead of their regular home stadium Synthetic Track and Field Facility, Leonora due to logistical challenges and playing conditions.^[14]