MIAMI — The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Prelims will be played on March 21 and 25, with fourteen countries competing for the final seven berths in the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Group Stage.
What
The 2025 Gold Cup Preliminary Round (Prelims) will determine the final seven berths in the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Group Stage.
Who
The fourteenth national teams that will participate are:
· Belize
· Bermuda
· Costa Rica
· Cuba
· Guadeloupe
· Guatemala
· Guyana
· Honduras
· Jamaica
· Martinique
· Nicaragua
· Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
· Suriname
· Trinidad and Tobago
When
The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Prelims will be played on March 21 and 25, to determine the remaining seven participants in the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup.
● First leg: March 21, 2025
● Second leg: March 25, 2025
The competition’s complete match schedule is available HERE.
Where
Matches will be hosted by each participating nation, with the lowest-ranked national teams hosting the first leg and the highest-ranked national team housing the second leg encounters.
Qualification for 2025 Gold Cup
The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Prelims will serve as one of the qualifiers for the 2025 Gold Cup. The Prelims matchups were determined based on the Concacaf Nations League results and the Concacaf Rankings.
The following are the previous participations from nations in the 2025 Prelims at the Concacaf Gold Cup:
- Costa Rica (16): 1991, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
- Honduras (16): 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
- Jamaica (13): 1991, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
- Guatemala (12): 1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2021, 2023
- Trinidad and Tobago (12): 1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023
- Cuba (10): 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2023
- Martinique (8): 1993, 2002, 2003, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
- Guadeloupe (5): 2007, 2009, 2011, 2021, 2023
- Nicaragua (3): 2009, 2017, 2019
- Belize (1): 2013
- Bermuda (1): 2019
- Guyana (1): 2019
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1): 1996
- Suriname (1): 2021
Format
The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Prelims will include 14 teams competing in home and away play for the final seven berths in the Gold Cup Group Stage. The aggregate score winner in each matchup will qualify for the Gold Cup Group Stage.
The Prelims matchups were determined based on the Concacaf Nations League results and the Concacaf Rankings.
The seven matchups are as follows:
(1) Costa Rica vs Belize (14)
(2) Jamaica vs Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (13)
(3) Honduras vs Bermuda (12)
(4) Guatemala vs Guyana (11)
(5) Trinidad and Tobago vs Cuba (10)
(6) Martinique vs Suriname (9)
(7) Nicaragua vs Guadeloupe (8)
Qualification for the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup
The seven series winners in the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Prelims will qualify for the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup.
