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

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CONCACAF Championship & CONCACAF Gold Cup record Qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
  1963 Part of   United Kingdom Part of   United Kingdom
  1965
  1967
  1969
  1971
  1973
  1977
  1981
1985 Not a CONCACAF member Not a CONCACAF member
1989 Did not enter Did not enter
  1991
    1993
  1996 Did not qualify 2 0 0 2 1 5
  1998 2 0 1 1 1 2
  2000 2 0 0 2 1 12
  2002 2 0 1 1 3 7
    2003 Did not enter Did not enter
  2005 Did not qualify 3 0 0 3 0 7
  2007 3 0 0 3 3 7
  2009 3 0 1 2 3 7
  2011 3 0 1 2 3 8
  2013 Group stage 12th 3 0 0 3 1 11 Squad 5 1 1 3 2 4
    2015 Did not qualify 3 0 0 3 1 6
  2017 5 0 1 4 2 10
      2019 4 2 0 2 6 3
  2021 6 2 0 4 6 12
    2023 6 0 1 5 2 10
Total Group stage 1/27 3 0 0 3 1 11 49 5 5 39 34 100

Group stage

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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: [citation needed]
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'
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Record players

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

Rank Player Matches
1 Dalton Eiley 3
Ian Gaynair 3
Trevor Lennan 3
Evan Mariano 3
Deon McCaulay 3
Tyrone Pandy 3
Michael Salazar 3
Elroy Smith 3
Evral Trapp 3

Top goalscorers

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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 Gaynair 1

References

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