Martinique 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. As Non-FIFA members, Martinique were not able to qualify for the Confederations Cup, even if they had won the tournament.

Since the inaugural tournament in 1963, the continental championship was held 27 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (12 titles).[1]

The Martinican football federation has been an associate member of CONCACAF only since 1991, which enabled them to enter the qualification stage for the inaugural CONCACAF Gold Cup when the CONCACAF Championship was rebranded under that name. Since then, they have qualified for eight tournaments, which puts them among the more successful Caribbean teams in tournament history. They qualified for the knockout stage once, in 2002, after a 1–0 victory against Trinidad and Tobago.[2]

In their first tournament match in 1993, Martinique was on the receiving end of a 9–0 defeat to Mexico, still the highest victory in tournament history. Seven of those goals were scored by striker Luís Roberto Alves, another unique record.[3]

Overall record

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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 Not a CONCACAF member Not a CONCACAF member
  1965
  1967
  1969
  1971
  1973
  1977
  1981
1985
1989
  1991 Did not qualify 5 2 1 2 8 5
    1993 Group stage 8th 3 0 1 2 3 14 Squad 7 5 2 0 15 6
  1996 Did not qualify 3 1 1 1 5 4
  1998 6 5 0 1 19 5
  2000 9 4 0 5 18 20
  2002 Quarter-finals 6th 3 1 1 1 2 3 Squad 7 5 1 2 20 5
    2003 Group stage 12th 2 0 0 2 0 3 Squad 6 3 1 2 16 10
  2005 Did not qualify 5 2 2 1 7 3
  2007 9 5 1 3 11 12
  2009 5 3 1 1 10 6
  2011 3 0 1 2 1 3
  2013 Group stage 10th 3 1 0 2 2 4 Squad 11 5 5 1 34 10
    2015 Did not qualify 9 5 3 1 19 11
  2017 Group stage 9th 3 1 0 2 4 6 Squad 6 5 1 0 17 2
      2019 Group stage 12th 3 1 0 2 5 7 Squad 4 4 0 0 10 2
  2021 Group stage 15th 3 0 0 3 3 12 Squad 4 0 3 1 4 5
    2023 Group stage 11th 3 1 0 2 7 9 Squad 6 2 1 3 6 10
Total Quarter-finals 8/27 23 5 2 16 26 58 105 56 24 25 220 119

Match overview

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Tournament Round Opponent Score Venue
    1993 Group stage   Mexico 0–9 Mexico City
  Canada 2–2
  Costa Rica 1–3
  2002 Group stage   Costa Rica 0–2 Miami
  Trinidad and Tobago 1–0
Quarter-finals   Canada 1–1
(5–6 p)
    2003 Group stage   United States 0–2 Foxboro
  El Salvador 0–1
  2013 Group stage   Canada 1–0 Pasadena
  Panama 0–1 Seattle
  Mexico 1–3 Denver
  2017 Group stage   Nicaragua 2–0 Nashville
  United States 2–3 Tampa
  Panama 0–3 Cleveland
      2019 Group stage   Canada 0–4 Pasadena
  Cuba 3–0 Denver
  Mexico 2–3 Charlotte
  2021 Group stage   Canada 1–4 Kansas City
  United States 1–6
  Haiti 1–2 Frisco
    2023 Group stage   El Salvador 2–1 Fort Lauderdale
  Panama 1–2 Harrison
  Costa Rica 4–6

Record players

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Rank Player Matches Gold Cups
1 Daniel Hérelle 14 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023
2 Stéphane Abaul 10 2013, 2017, 2019 and 2021
3 Jean-Sylvain Babin 9 2013, 2019 and 2021
Sébastien Crétinoir 9 2013, 2017, 2019 and 2021
Kévin Parsemain 9 2013, 2017 and 2019
Kévin Fortuné 9 2019, 2021 and 2023
7 Jordy Delem 7 2013, 2017 and 2019
Christophe Jougon 7 2017, 2019 and 2021
Johnny Marajo 7 2017, 2019 and 2021
Karl Vitulin 7 2017, 2019 and 2021

Top goalscorers

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Kévin Parsemain, who captained the Martinique national team in 2013 and 2017, is the top scoring Martiniquais player at CONCACAF Gold Cups, with five goals. In 2017, his three goals were enough to make him shared top-scorer of the tournament, although the Golden Boot award went to Canadian Alphonso Davies.

Rank Player Goals Gold Cups
1 Kévin Parsemain 5 2013 (1), 2017 (3) and 2019 (1)
2 Kévin Fortuné 3 2019, 2021 and 2023
Patrick Burner 3 2023
4 Emmanuel Rivière 2 2021
5 Twelve players 1 Various
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References

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  1. ^ "CONCACAF Gold Cup". BetsAPI. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  2. ^ "MARTINIQUE". CONCACAF. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Gold Cup 1993". Inside World Football. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Martinique - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news". Soccerway. Retrieved 26 October 2022.