The CONCACAF Gold Cup is North America's major tournament in senior men's football and determines the continental champion. Until 1989, the tournament was known as CONCACAF Championship. It is currently held every two years. 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.
Since the inaugural tournament in 1963, the Gold Cup was held 28 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (13 titles).
In select editions, teams from other confederations have regularly joined the tournament as invitees. During this time span, Brazil participated three times: in 1996, 1998 and 2003. They reached the tournament final twice, but lost to Mexico on both occasions. Thanks to their good results they rank 13th out of 33 nations in the tournament's all-time table, in spite of only three participations - right ahead of Cuba, who participated twelve times.
Record at the CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup
CONCACAF Gold CupYearResultPosition 1996Runners-up2nd4301103 1998Third place3rd522162 2003Runners-up2nd530264Total3/2813/3314824229
1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Group C TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts220091+86 2 1 0 1 4 5 –13 2 0 0 2 1 8 –70
Semi-final
Final
1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Group A Team321052+37312051+45302134−12301206−61
Semi-final
Third-place match
2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Group A
TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts 2 1 1 0 1 0 +1 4 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1
Quarter-final
Semi-final
Final
Record players RankPlayerMatchesGold Cups1Flávio Conceição91996 and 1998Zé Maria91996 and 19983Edmundo51998Gonçalves51998Júnior51998Romário51998Taffarel51998Zinho51998Adriano52003Alex52003Diego52003Heurelho Gomes52003Júlio Baptista52003Kaká52003Luisão52003Maicon52003Paulo Almeida52003Robinho52003
Top goalscorers At each of Brazil's three Gold Cup participations, one player scored three goals during the tournament.
RankPlayerGoalsGold Cups1Caio31996Romário31998Kaká320034Jamelli21996Sávio21996Élber21998Diego220038André Luiz11996Leandro11996Edmundo11998Maicon12003
See also Brazil at the Copa América Brazil at the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil at the FIFA World Cup
References
Head-to-head record OpponentWin %Total