Belize at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

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 27 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (12 titles).

It took Belize fourteen years from their independence in 1981 to their debut in international football in 1995. Since then, they have entered the tournament continuously, but only qualified once in 2003. Losing all three matches, they placed last in the tournament and are ranked 29th out of 31 nations in the all-time table.

Record at the CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup

CONCACAF Championship & CONCACAF Gold Cup record Qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
1963Part of  United Kingdom Part of  United Kingdom
1965
1967
1969
1971
1973
1977
1981
1985Not a CONCACAF member Not a CONCACAF member
1989Did not enter Did not enter
1991
1993
1996Did not qualify 200215
1998 201112
2000 2002112
2002 201137
2003Did not enter Did not enter
2005Did not qualify 300307
2007 300337
2009 301237
2011 301238
2013 Group stage 12th 3 0 0 3 1 11 Squad 511324
2015 Did not qualify 300316
2017 5014210
2019 420263
2021 6204612
2023 6015210
Total Group stage 1/27 3 0 0 3 1 11 49 5 5 39 34 100

2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup

Group stage

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United States 3 3 0 0 11 2 +9 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Costa Rica 3 2 0 1 4 1 +3 6
3  Cuba 3 1 0 2 5 7 2 3
4  Belize 3 0 0 3 1 11 10 0
Source:
Belize 1–6 United States
Gaynair 40' Report Wondolowski 12', 37', 41'
Holden 58'
Orozco 72'
Donovan 76' (pen.)
Attendance: 18,724
Referee: Héctor Rodríguez (Honduras)
Costa Rica 1–0 Belize
Eiley 49' (o.g.) Report
Attendance: 17,597
Cuba 4–0 Belize
Martínez 38', 62', 84'
Márquez 90+3'
Report

Record players

Nine players have been fielded in all three matches at Belize's only Gold Cup appearance.

Rank Player Matches
1 Dalton Eiley3
Ian Gaynair3
Trevor Lennan3
Evan Mariano3
Deon McCaulay3
Tyrone Pandy3
Michael Salazar3
Elroy Smith3
Evral Trapp3

Top goalscorers

During their 1–6 defeat against the United States, Ian Gaynair scored the only Belizean goal in Gold Cup history.

Rank Player Goals
1 Ian Gaynair1

References

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