The 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the ninth edition of the Gold Cup, the soccer championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF), and was won by the United States over Mexico. It was contested in the United States from June 6 to 24, 2007.
This competition was the third overall edition of the tournament without guests (for the first time since 1993) from other confederations. As the winner, the United States represented CONCACAF at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.
Qualified teams A total of 12 teams qualified for the tournament. Three berths were allocated to North America, five to Central America, and four to the Caribbean.
TeamQualificationAppearancesLast AppearancePrevious best performanceFIFA RankingNorth American zone (TH) Automatic 9th 2005 Champions (1991, 2002, 2005) 25 Automatic 9th 2005 Champions (1993, 1996, 1998, 2003) 20 Automatic 8th 2005 Champions (2000) 94Caribbean zone qualified through the 2007 Caribbean Cup Winners 3rd 2002 Quarterfinals (2002) 85 Runners-up 7th 2005 Third Place (2000) 67 Third Place 5th 2005 Quarterfinals (2003) 71 Fourth Place 1st None Debut N/ACentral American zone qualified through the 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup Winners 8th 2005 Runners-up (2002) 52 Runners-up 3rd 2005 Runners-up (2005) 60 Third Place 8th 2005 Fourth Place (1996) 87 Fourth Place 5th 2003 Quarterfinals (2002, 2003) 144 Fifth Place 8th 2005 Runners-up (1991) 55
Venues
Miami Carson Foxborough Miami Orange Bowl The Home Depot Center Gillette Stadium Capacity: 72,319 Capacity: 27,000 Capacity: 68,756 East Rutherford Houston Chicago Giants Stadium Reliant Stadium Soldier Field Capacity: 80,042 Capacity: 71,500 Capacity: 61,500
Squads
The 12 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.
Competition format The twelve teams that qualified were divided into three groups. The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage along with the best two of the third-place teams, filling out the knockout field of eight.
If teams were level on points, they were ranked on the following criteria in order:
Head to head matches between the tied teams (if applicable) Greatest goal difference in group matches Greatest number of goals scored in the three group matches If teams are still tied, CONCACAF will hold a drawing of lots
Match officials
Mauricio Navarro Wálter Quesada Javier Jauregui Joel Aguilar Carlos Batres José Pineda
Courtney Campbell Benito Archundia Germán Arredondo Marco Antonio Rodríguez Roberto Moreno
Enrico Wijngaarde Neal Brizan Lee Davis Terry Vaughn
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics Goalscorers 5 goals Carlos Pavón
4 goals Landon Donovan
3 goals
Dwayne De Rosario Ali Gerba Walter Centeno Carlos Costly Blas Pérez
2 goals
Julian de Guzman Reynier Alcántara Jocelyn Angloma Amado Guevara Jared Borgetti José Luis Garcés DaMarcus Beasley
1 goal
Iain Hume Jaime Colomé Dennis Alas Ramón Sánchez Cédrick Fiston David Fleurival Richard Socrier José Manuel Contreras Carlos Ruiz Alexandre Boucicaut Monès Chéry Cuauhtémoc Blanco Nery Castillo Andrés Guardado Pável Pardo Carlos Salcido Carlos Rivera Errol McFarlane Silvio Spann Carlos Bocanegra Brian Ching Clint Dempsey Benny Feilhaber Frankie Hejduk Eddie Johnson Taylor Twellman
Awards
Winners
Individual awards Top Scorer:Most Valuable Player:Top Goalkeeper:Fair Play Award: Carlos Pavón Julian de Guzman Franck Grandel Honduras
All-Tournament team
The All-Tournament Team was selected by the CONCACAF Technical Study Group and features the "Best XI" along with seven Honorable Mentions. The player selections were made from the eight teams that reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. All-Star TeamGoalkeepersDefendersMidfieldersForwards Franck Grandel Felipe Baloy Richard Hastings Frankie Hejduk Carlos Salcido Walter Centeno Julian de Guzman Pablo Mastroeni Pável Pardo Carlos Pavón Blas Pérez
Honorable MentionGoalkeepersDefendersMidfieldersForwards Jose Francisco Porras Samuel Caballero Paul Stalteri DaMarcus Beasley Andrés Guardado Jocelyn Angloma Landon Donovan
Controversy During the last minutes of the semi-final match between Canada and the U.S.A., Canada's Atiba Hutchinson scored a goal that would have equalised the score for Canada. However, a linesman erroneously indicated that Hutchinson was offside, and the referee Benito Archundia subsequently nullified Hutchinson's goal. Video replays showed that the football came into contact with the U.S.A.'s defender Oguchi Onyewu immediately before Hutchinson scored the goal. Therefore, according to the laws of the game, there was no offside offence for Hutchinson.
References
External links
2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup Dates Announced 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup (with all matchreports)