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. 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.
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).
Curaçao have qualified for the continental championship six times. As the Netherlands Antilles, the team scored good results in the 1960s, including two third-place finishes. Since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, Curaçao have qualified twice. In 2017, they lost all three group matches. In 2019 however, they reached the knockout stage after earning a 1–0 victory over Honduras and drawing 1–1 against Jamaica with a stunning injury time equalizer by Juriën Gaari. They were then eliminated after losing 1–0 to the United States in the quarter-finals.
Of the other CONCACAF members that used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire and Sint Maarten), none have qualified for a Gold Cup as of 2025.
Overall record CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup record Qualification recordYearRoundPositionSquad as 1963Third place3rd8503149Squad220041 1965Fifth place5th5023416SquadQualified automatically 1967Did not qualify402246 1969Third place3rd5212912SquadQualified automatically 1971Did not enterDid not enter 1973Sixth place6th5023419SquadQualified automatically 1977 Did not qualify200219 198140311219852011041989420247 1991200205 1993Did not enterDid not enter 1996 Did not qualify53111111 1998 100112 20006213813 2002Did not enterDid not enter 2003Did not qualify411236 2005WithdrewWithdrew 2007 Did not qualify301217 2009 5113511as as 2011Did not qualify301257 2013 3003211 201592341115 2017Group stage11th300306Squad6501184 2019Quarter-finals8th411223Squad4301222 2021Qualified but withdrew412133 2023Did not qualify511339 2025Group stage10th302123Squad6411153TotalThird place7/283388173568—84271934122138
Match overview
TournamentRoundOpponentScoreVenue 1963First round2–1Santa Ana0–12–1Final round0–1San Salvador2–34–1 1965Final round1–1Guatemala City0–50–62–31–1 1969Final round1–2San José1–63–12–22–1 1973Final round0–3Port-au-Prince2–20–82–20–4 2017Group stage0–2San Diego0–2Denver0–2San Antonio 2019Group stage0–1Kingston1–0Houston1–1Los AngelesQuarter-finals0–1Philadelphia 2025Group stage0–0San Jose1–1Houston1–2San Jose
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