The 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 12th CONCACAF Gold Cup competition and the 22nd CONCACAF regional championship overall in CONCACAF's fifty years of existence. The United States was the host nation.

The competition began on July 7 at the Rose Bowl, and ended with the final on July 28, 2013, at Soldier Field, with the United States defeating Panama 1–0. In this edition, defending champions Mexico participated with an alternative squad due to the main players competing at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup prior to the Gold Cup. Despite this, they still reached the semi-finals, where they were eliminated by eventual runners-up Panama.

As winners of the 2013 tournament, the United States qualified for a play-off match against the champions of the 2015 Gold Cup, which ended up being Mexico, to decide which team would represent CONCACAF at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. The play-off was a single match held on October 10, 2015, which Mexico won 3–2.

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 Automatic 12th 2011 Champions (1991, 2002, 2005, 2007) 22 (TH) Automatic 12th 2011 Champions (1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2011) 20 Automatic 11th 2011 Champions (2000) 88Caribbean zone qualified through the 2012 Caribbean Cup Winners 7th 2011 Quarterfinals (2003) 82 Runners-up 8th 2007 Semifinals (2000) 87 Third Place 5th 2009 Quarterfinals (2002, 2009) 69 Fourth Place 4th 2003 Quarterfinals (2002) N/ACentral American zone qualified through the 2013 Copa Centroamericana Winners 11th 2011 Runners-up (2002) 39 Runners-up 11th 2011 Runners-up (1991) 55 Third Place 8th 2011 Quarterfinals (2002, 2003, 2011) 94 Fourth Place 1st None Debut 130 Fifth Place 6th 2011 Runners-up (2005) 51 Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.

Venues Thirty venues across the United States participated in the start of the stadium selection process with Soccer United Marketing, the event partner for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

CONCACAF announced the thirteen host cities and venues for the tournament on January 23, 2013. Each venue hosted two matches, with the final being held at Chicago's Soldier Field. Pasadena Arlington Denver Miami Gardens Atlanta Rose Bowl Cowboys Stadium Sports Authority Field at Mile High Sun Life Stadium Georgia Dome Capacity: 92,542 Capacity: 80,000 Capacity: 76,125 Capacity: 74,918 Capacity: 71,228 Baltimore Seattle M&T Bank Stadium CenturyLink Field Capacity: 71,008 Capacity: 67,000 Chicago East Hartford Soldier Field Rentschler Field Capacity: 61,500 Capacity: 40,000 Harrison Houston Portland Sandy Red Bull Arena BBVA Compass Stadium Jeld-Wen Field Rio Tinto Stadium Capacity: 25,189 Capacity: 22,039 Capacity: 20,438 Capacity: 20,213

Squads

Each team could register a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. Any team that qualified for the knockout stage could replace up to four players in the squad after completion of the group stage, where the new players had to come from a provisional list of 35 players chosen before the tournament.

Match officials Each CONCACAF federation submitted a list of match officials to the CONCACAF referee's commission for the 2013 tournament.

Referees David Gantar Jeffrey Solis Calderón Hugo Cruz Alvarado Wálter Quesada Marcos Brea Joel Aguilar Elmer Bonilla Armando Castro Héctor Rodríguez Courtney Campbell Marco Rodríguez Javier Santos Enrico Wijngaarde Mark Geiger Jair Marrufo

Assistant referees Philippe Brière Joe Fletcher Octavio Jara William Torres Mejía Juan Zumba Hermenerito Leal Christian Ramírez Ricardo Morgan Garnet Page Marcos Quintero Marvin Torrentera Graeme Browne Ramon Ricardo Louisville Eric Boria Sean Hurd

Group stage CONCACAF announced the groups, where the twelve teams were divided into three groups of four teams, and the match schedule for the 2013 Gold Cup on March 13, 2013.

In the group stage, if two or more teams were equal on points (including among third-placed teams in different groups), the ranking of teams was determined as follows: Greater goal difference in all group matches Greater number of goals scored in all group matches Greatest number of points obtained in group matches between the teams concerned (applicable only to ranking in each group) Drawing of lots by the Gold Cup Organizing Committee This was changed from previous tournaments, where head-to-head record was used as the primary tiebreaker.

Key to colors in group tablesTeams that advanced to the quarter-finals Group winners Group runners-up Best two third-placed teams among all groups

All times are US Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

Awards State Farm Fair Play AwardSprint Golden GloveSantander Golden Boot1Miller Lite Golden Ball Jaime Penedo Gabriel Torres Chris Wondolowski Landon Donovan Landon Donovan

Notes 1 Award was shared between the three players. Team of the Tournament The following team was selected as the Team of the Tournament by Eat. Sleep. Soccer.:

GoalkeeperDefendersMidfieldersForwards Jaime Penedo DaMarcus Beasley Román Torres Víctor Bernárdez Michael Orozco Landon Donovan Mix Diskerud Alberto Quintero Marco Fabián Gabriel Torres Chris Wondolowski

Official song

"Cups" by actress Anna Kendrick (from the film Pitch Perfect) was the official song of the tournament.

Marketing In December 2012, Traffic Sports USA were awarded the rights to manage the marketing of the tournament, which continued a relationship between CONCACAF and the parent company Traffic Sports Marketing. In 2015, this business deal led to charges in the 2015 FIFA corruption case, which identified bribes given from top Traffic officials to CONCACAF chairman, Jeffrey Webb.

Game notes On July 7, 2013 – A Guinness world record 566 mariachis performed at the half-time of the first-round game between Mexico and Panama at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California.David Zahniser, Mariachi Guinness World Record broken at Rose Bowl, Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2013

References

External links

Official website