2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup

2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup

Tournament details
Host country	United States
Dates	July 7–28
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	13 (in 13 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (5th title)
Runners-up	Panama
Tournament statistics
Matches played	25
Goals scored	67 (2.68 per match)
Attendance	907,208 (36,288 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Landon Donovan Gabriel Torres Chris Wondolowski (5 goals each)
Best player(s)	Landon Donovan
Best goalkeeper	Jaime Penedo
Fair play award	Panama
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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, 2013, at the Rose Bowl,^[1] and ended with the final on July 28, 2013, at Soldier Field,^[2] with the United States defeating Panama 1–0. In this edition of the Gold Cup, Mexico participated with an alternative squad due to the main players competing at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup prior to the Gold Cup. Despite not playing with their full squad, they reached the semi-finals where they lost to eventual runners-up Panama with a score of 1–2.

United States won the tournament, which qualified them for a play-off match against the champions of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, to decide which team would represent CONCACAF in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.^[3] The playoff was played in a single match held on October 10, 2015, which Mexico won 3–2.

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.

Team	Qualification	Appearances	Last appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA Ranking
North American zone
United States	Automatic	12th	2011	Champions (1991, 2002, 2005, 2007)	22
Mexico (TH)	Automatic	12th	2011	Champions (1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2011)	20
Canada	Automatic	11th	2011	Champions (2000)	88
Caribbean zone qualified through the 2012 Caribbean Cup
Cuba	Winners	7th	2011	Quarterfinals (2003)	82
Trinidad and Tobago	Runners-up	8th	2007	Semifinals (2000)	87
Haiti	Third Place	5th	2009	Quarterfinals (2002, 2009)	69
Martinique	Fourth Place	4th	2003	Quarterfinals (2002)	N/A
Central American zone qualified through the 2013 Copa Centroamericana
Costa Rica	Winners	11th	2011	Runners-up (2002)	39
Honduras	Runners-up	11th	2011	Runners-up (1991)	55
El Salvador	Third Place	8th	2011	Quarterfinals (2002, 2003, 2011)	94
Belize	Fourth Place	1st	None	Debut	130
Panama	Fifth Place	6th	2011	Runners-up (2005)	51

Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.

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.^[4]

CONCACAF announced the 13 host cities and venues for the tournament on January 23, 2013.^[5] Each venue will host 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
Group A	Semi-finals	Group A	Group B	Quarter-finals
Baltimore	Pasadena Seattle Denver Harrison Miami Gardens Houston Portland Sandy East Hartford Atlanta Baltimore Arlington Chicago class=notpageimage| Location of the host cities of the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup.			Seattle
M&T Bank Stadium				CenturyLink Field
Capacity: 71,008				Capacity: 67,000
Quarter-finals				Group A
Chicago				East Hartford
Soldier Field				Rentschler Field
Capacity: 61,500				Capacity: 40,000
Final				Group C
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
Group B	Group B	Group C	Group C

Each team can register a squad of 23 players; 3 of them must be goalkeepers. Any team that qualifies for the knockout stage may replace up to four players in the squad after completion of the group stage, where the new players must come from a provisional list of 35 players chosen before the tournament.^[6][7]

Each CONCACAF federation submitted a list of match officials to the CONCACAF Referee's Commission for the 2013 Gold Cup Tournament.

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.^[2][8]

In the group stage, if two or more teams are equal on points (including among third-placed teams in different groups), the ranking of teams will be determined as follows:^[6]

1. Greater goal difference in all group matches
2. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
3. Greatest number of points obtained in group matches between the teams concerned (applicable only to ranking in each group)
4. 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.^[7]

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

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Panama	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
3	Martinique	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	Canada	3	0	1	2	0	3	−3	1

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Honduras	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	El Salvador	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
4	Haiti	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3

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Pos	Team v t e	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

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	El Salvador	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Cuba	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3
3	Martinique	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3

In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.^[6]

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	21 July – M&T Bank Stadium
	United States	5
					24 July – AT&T Stadium
	El Salvador	1
					United States	3
	21 July – M&T Bank Stadium
					Honduras	1
	Honduras	1
									28 July – Soldier Field
	Costa Rica	0
									United States	1
	20 July – Georgia Dome
									Panama	0
	Panama	6
					24 July – AT&T Stadium
	Cuba	1
					Panama	2
	20 July – Georgia Dome
					Mexico	1
	Mexico	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0

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5 goals

4 goals

• Rodolfo Zelaya

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

• Dalton Eiley (playing against Costa Rica)

2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners
United States Fifth title

State Farm Fair Play Award	Sprint Golden Glove[9]	Santander Golden Boot[10] 1	Miller Lite Golden Ball[11]
Panama	Jaime Penedo	Gabriel Torres Chris Wondolowski Landon Donovan	Landon Donovan

Notes

¹ Award is shared between the three players. It was the third time that Landon Donovan has been the competition's top scorer and also the third time he has shared the award with others.

"Cups" by actress Anna Kendrick (from the film Pitch Perfect) is the official song of the tournament.^[12]

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.^[13] 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.^[14]

• 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.^[15]

• Official website