Mexico At The Concacaf Gold Cup

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.

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.

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	Guatemala	2–1	Ignacio Trelles	E. Cisneros, J. Fragoso	Guatemala City
1971	Honduras	2–1	Javier de la Torre	O. Muciño (2)	Port-of-Spain
1977	Canada	3–1	José Antonio Roca	J. Guzmán (2), H. Sánchez	Monterrey
1993	United States	4–0	Miguel Mejía Barón	I. Ambriz, D. Armstrong (o.g.), Zague, G. Cantú	Mexico City
1996	Brazil	2–0	Bora Milutinović	L. García, C. Blanco	Los Angeles
1998	United States	1–0	Manuel Lapuente	L. Hernández	Los Angeles
2003	Brazil	1–0 (a.s.d.e.t.)	Ricardo La Volpe	D. Osorno	Mexico City
2009	United States	5–0	Javier Aguirre	G. Torrado, G. Dos Santos, C. Vela, J. Castro, G. Franco	East Rutherford
2011	United States	4–2	José Manuel de la Torre	P. Barrera (2), A. Guardado, G. Dos Santos	Pasadena
2015	Jamaica	3–1	Miguel Herrera	A. Guardado, J. Corona, O. Peralta	Philadelphia
2019	United States	1–0	Gerardo Martino	J. Dos Santos	Chicago
2023	Panama	1–0	Jaime Lozano	S. Giménez	Inglewood

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
Brazil	3	0	0	3	4	0
Canada	6	1	1	8	23	7
Colombia	0	0	1	1	1	2
Costa Rica	7	5	1	13	17	7
Cuba	6	0	0	6	25	1
El Salvador	6	0	1	7	15	3
Guadeloupe	2	0	0	2	3	0
Guatemala	8	3	2	13	19	7
Haiti	7	2	0	9	18	3
Honduras	7	4	1	12	18	5
Jamaica	9	1	1	11	33	4
Martinique	3	0	0	3	15	3
Netherlands Antilles /   Curaçao	3	1	1	5	18	4
Nicaragua	2	0	0	2	6	0
Panama	3	1	2	6	7	6
Qatar	0	0	1	1	0	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	0	0	1	5	0
South Africa	0	0	1	1	1	2
South Korea	0	1	0	1	0	0
Suriname	1	0	0	1	8	1
Trinidad and Tobago	5	3	1	9	19	10
United States	5	0	3	8	16	7

 

 

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.

Team awards

• Winners (12): 1965, 1971, 1977, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023
• Runners-up (3): 1967, 2007, 2021
• Third place (5): 1973, 1981, 1991, 2013, 2017
• Fair play award: 2011

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player:
  • Jorge Campos (1991)
  • Ramón Ramírez (1993)
  • Raúl Lara (1996)
  • Jesús Arellano (2003)
  • Giovani Dos Santos (2009)
  • Javier Hernández (2011)
  • Andrés Guardado (2015)
  • Raúl Jiménez (2019)
  • Héctor Herrera (2021)

• Golden Boot:
  • Ernesto Cisneros (1965, 5 goals)
  • Víctor Rangel (1977, 6 goals)
  • Hugo Sánchez (1981, 3 goals)
  • Benjamín Galindo (1991, 4 goals)
  • Luís Roberto Alves (1993, 11 goals)
  • Luis Hernández (1998, 4 goals) (shared)
  • Miguel Sabah (2009, 4 goals)
  • Javier Hernández (2011, 7 goals)

• Best Goalkeeper:
  • Oswaldo Sánchez (2003)
  • Guillermo Ochoa (2019, 2023)

• Best Young Player:
  • Jesús Corona (2015)

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

• Most goals in one tournament: Luís Roberto Alves (11, 1993)
• Most goals in one match: Luís Roberto Alves (7, against Martinique, 11 July 1993)

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