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.

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 thirteen (ten 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
1963 Group stage 7th 3 1 1 1 9 2 Squad Qualified automatically
1965 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 13 2 Squad Automatically entered
1967 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1 10 1 Squad Qualified as defending champions
1969 Fourth place 4th 5 1 2 2 4 5 Squad 2 1 0 1 4 2
1971 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 6 1 Squad 2 2 0 0 6 0
1973 Third place 3rd 5 2 2 1 10 5 Squad 4 4 0 0 8 3
1977 Champions 1st 5 5 0 0 20 5 Squad 4 1 2 1 3 1
1981 Third place 3rd 5 1 3 1 6 3 Squad 4 1 2 1 8 5
1985 Withdrew to host the 1986 FIFA World Cup Withdrew
1989 Banned Banned
1991 Third place 3rd 5 3 1 1 10 5 Squad Qualified automatically
1993 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 28 2 Squad
1996 Champions 1st 4 4 0 0 9 0 Squad
1998 Champions 1st 4 4 0 0 8 2 Squad
2000 Quarter-finals 7th 3 1 1 1 6 3 Squad
2002 5th 3 2 1 0 4 1 Squad
2003 Champions 1st 5 4 1 0 9 0 Squad
2005 Quarter-finals 6th 4 2 0 2 7 4 Squad
2007 Runners-up 2nd 6 4 0 2 7 5 Squad
2009 Champions 1st 6 5 1 0 15 2 Squad
2011 Champions 1st 6 6 0 0 22 4 Squad
2013 Semi-finals 3rd 5 3 0 2 8 5 Squad
2015 Champions 1st 6 4 2 0 16 6 Squad
2017 Semi-finals 3rd 5 3 1 1 6 2 Squad
2019 Champions 1st 6 5 1 0 16 4 Squad
2021 Runners-up 2nd 6 4 1 1 9 2 Squad 4 4 0 0 13 3
2023 Champions 1st 6 5 0 1 13 2 Squad 4 2 2 0 8 3
2025 Champions 1st 6 5 1 0 10 3 Squad 4 3 0 1 8 3
Total 13 Titles 26/28 129 90 22 17 281 76 28 18 6 4 58 20

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  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
2025  United States 2–1 Javier Aguirre R. Jiménez, E. Álvarez Houston

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
 Brazil 3 0 0 3 4 0
 Canada 6 1 1 8 23 7
 Colombia 0 0 1 1 1 2
 Costa Rica 7 6 1 14 17 7
 Cuba 6 0 0 6 25 1
 Dominican Republic 1 0 0 1 3 2
 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 8 4 1 13 19 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
 Saudi Arabia 1 0 0 1 2 0
 South Africa 0 0 1 1 1 2
 South Korea 0 1 0 1 0 0
 Suriname 2 0 0 2 10 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 5 3 1 9 19 10
 United States 6 0 3 9 18 8

Record players

Edson Álvarez is Mexico's record appearance holders at continental championships, with 28. Goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa has won the title a record six times, in 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023 and 2025. 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
1 Edson Álvarez 28 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025
2 Jesús Gallardo 27 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025
3 Guillermo Ochoa 25 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023
4 Andrés Guardado 24 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019
5 Orbelín Pineda 22 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025
6 Gerardo Torrado 20 2000, 2007, 2009 and 2011
7 Roberto Alvarado 18 2019, 2023 and 2025
8 Jonathan dos Santos 17 2015, 2019 and 2021
Raúl Jiménez 17 2013, 2019 and 2025
10 Ramón Ramírez 16 1993, 1996, 1998 and 2000
Claudio Suárez 16 1993, 1996, 1998 and 2000
Carlos Salcido 16 2005, 2007 and 2011
Francisco Rodríguez 16 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Goals Gold Cups
1 Luís Roberto Alves 12 1991 (1) and 1993 (11)
Andrés Guardado 12 2007 (1), 2011 (3), 2015 (6) and 2019 (2)
3 Raúl Jiménez 10 2013 (2), 2019 (5) and 2025 (3)
4 Hugo Sánchez 7 1977 (4) and 1981 (3)
Jared Borgetti 7 2003 (3), 2005 (2) and 2007 (2)
Javier Hernández 7 2011
7 Víctor Rangel 6 1977
Giovani Dos Santos 6 2009 (2), 2011 (3) and 2015 (1)
Orbelín Pineda 6 2017 (1), 2021 (3) and 2023 (2)
10 Ernesto Cisneros 5 1965
Javier Fragoso 5 1965
Luis Miguel Salvador 5 1993
Cuauhtémoc Blanco 5 1996 (2), 1998 (2) and 2007 (1)
Luis Hernández 5 1998 (4) and 2000 (1)
Pablo Barrera 5 2009 (2) and 2011 (3)

Awards and records

Team awards

Individual awards

Team records

  • Most titles (13)
  • Most titles in a row (3, 1993–1998)
  • Most tournament participations (26)
  • Most matches (129)
  • Most victories (90)
  • Most goals (281)
  • 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