The 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification or 2025 Gold Cup Prelims was the tournament that determined the final seven teams to qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The matches took place from 21 to 25 March 2025.
Format Unlike the previous Gold Cup Prelims, this edition consisted of a single round in which the 14 involved teams were divided into 7 ties.
The ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the highest-ranked team in each tie hosting the second leg. If the aggregate score is level at the end of the second leg the away goals rule would be applied (e.g. the team that scores more goals away from home advanced to the final tournament). If away goals were also equal, then 30 minutes of extra time would be played without taking into account the away goals rule during this time. If still tied after extra time, the tie would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.
The winners qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Teams Fourteen teams qualified for the 2025 Gold Cup Prelims through their participation in the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League. From Nations League A, the four quarter-final losers as well as the third and fourth-placed teams in both Group A and Group B qualified. From Nations League B, the top-two second-place finishers qualified. The final four spots in the qualification tournament went to the winners of the Nations League Play-in between the top-four teams in Nation League C and the fifth and sixth-placed teams of each group from League A.
The following 14 teams qualified:
+ League A (QF losers) Team QF1 QF2 QF3 QF4 + League A (3rd and 4th places) Group Team A B A B + League B (top-2 second places) Group Team A D + Play-in winners Team PI1 PI2 PI3 PI4
Seeding In order to determine the 7 matchups, the teams were seeded 1–14 based on the CONCACAF Rankings as of 20 November 2024, with the 7 highest-ranked teams facing the 7 lowest-ranked teams (1 v 14, 2 v 13, 3 v 12, 4 v 11, 5 v 10, 6 v 9 and 7 v 8).
Seed Team Rank 1 5 1,658 2 6 1,574 3 7 1,513 4 9 1,423 5 10 1,313 6 11 1,296 7 13 1,198 8 14 1,139 9 16 1,128 10 17 1,112 11 19 1,024 12 21 885 13 22 870 14 25 791
Summary
The two legs were played on March 21 and 25, 2025.
Matches The fixture list and matchups were confirmed on 20 November 2024. All match times are in EDT (UTC−4) (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Costa Rica won 13–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Jamaica won 4–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Honduras won 7–3 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Guatemala won 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Trinidad and Tobago won 6–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Suriname won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Guadeloupe won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Qualified teams
Team Qualified as Qualified onPrevious appearances in CONCACAF Gold Cup1only Gold Cup era (since 1991) 9 (2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023) 13 (1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) 2 (2017, 2019) quarterfinal winner 17 (1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) quarterfinal winner 11 (1993, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) 0 (debut) quarterfinal winner 16 (1991, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) quarterfinal winner 17 (1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) 0 (debut) 12 (1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023) 1 (2021) 13 (1991, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) 5 (2007, 2009, 2011, 2021, 2023) 12 (1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2021, 2023) 16 (1991, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) 16 (1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Goalscorers
Notes
References
External links CONCACAF Gold Cup Official Website CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification at ESPN