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The 2016 CONCACAF Gold CUp, commonly referred to as 2016 Gold Cup was the 14th CONCACAF, the quadrennial international men's football championship of North America organised by CONCACAF. It was held in Cuba from 10 June to 10 July 2016. Mexico were the defending champions, having won the 2012 tournament, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Cuba. Costa Rica won the tournament for the first time, following a 3–2 victory after extra time over the United States, in the final played at the Estadio Pedro Marrero.

The tournament was contested by 16 teams. Under the format, the finalists contested a group stage consisting of four groups of four teams, followed by a knockout phase including three rounds and the final. Fifteen teams – joined Cuba in the final tournament, who qualified automatically as hosts.

Cuba was chosen as the host nation on 28 May 2010, after a bidding process in which they beat Aruba and Canada for the right to host the 2016 finals. The matches were played in ten stadiums in ten cities: Camagüey, Cienfuegos, Guantánamo, Havana, Holguín, Manzanillo, Nuevitas, Pinar del Río, Santa Clara and Santiago.

As the winners, Costa Rica earned the right to compete at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.

Qualification

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

The qualifying draw took place at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Las Vegas, on 23 February 2014.

A total of 39 teams competed for 15 places in the final tournament to join Cuba, who have automatically qualified as hosts. The seeding pots were formed on the basis of the Elo ratings.

The 39 national sides were drawn into four groups of seven teams and two groups of six teams. The group winners, and runners-up qualify directly for the final tournament. The six third-placed teams contested two-legged play-offs to determine the last three qualifiers.

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament
Canada	Group C winner	12 June 2015	13 (1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1948, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008)
Costa Rica	Group E winner	12 June 2015	16 (1936, 1940, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Cuba	Host	28 May 2010	8 (1936, 1940, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1996, 2008, 2012)
Guatemala	Group A winner	10 September 2015	11 (1924, 1936, 1956, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2008)
Guyana	Group A runner-up	13 October 2015	12 (1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1948, 1960, 1968, 1984, 2008)
Haiti	Group F winner	6 September 2015	13 (1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1956, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1982, 1990, 1996, 2004, 2012)
Honduras	Group C runner-up	10 September 2015	12 (1956, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Jamaica	Play-off winner	6 February 2016	7 (1964, 1968, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012)
Martinique	Group E runner-up	10 September 2015	5 (1988, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2012)
Mexico	Group B winner	3 September 2015	22 (1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Panama	Group F runner-up	14 November 2015	6 (1952, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Puerto Rico	Group B runner-up	13 October 2015	0 (debut)
Suriname	Group D runner-up	13 October 2015	9 (1936, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1996)
Trinidad and Tobago	Play-off winner	6 February 2016	12 (1952, 1964, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012)
United States	Group D winner	3 September 2015	18 (1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Play-off winner	6 February 2016	0 (debut)

Final draw

The draw for the finals took place at the Palais des Congrès de la Porte Maillot in Paris on 12 December 2015, 18:00 CET. The 24 qualified teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts France being automatically placed in position A1. The remaining teams were seeded into four pots of five (Pot 1) or six teams (Pots 2, 3 and 4). As the title holders, Spain were seeded in Pot 1, while the other 22 teams were seeded according to the UEFA National team coefficients updated after the completion of the qualifying group stage (excluding the play-offs), which were released by UEFA on 14 October 2015.

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank Spain 37,962 2 Germany 40,236 1 England 35,963 3 Portugal 35,138 4 Belgium 34,442 5

Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank Italy 34,345 6 Russia 31,345 9 Switzerland 31,254 10 Austria 30,932 11 Croatia 30,642 12 Ukraine 30,313 14

Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank Czech Republic 29,403 15 Sweden 29,028 16 Poland 28,306 17 Romania 28,038 18 Slovakia 27,171 19 Hungary 27,142 20

Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank Turkey 27,033 22 Republic of Ireland 26,902 23 Iceland 25,388 27 Wales 24,531 28 Albania 23,216 31 Northern Ireland 22,961 33

The Pot 1 teams were assigned to the first positions of their groups, while the positions of all other teams were drawn separately (for the purposes of determining the match schedules in each group).

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A Pos Team A1 France A2 Romania A3 Albania A4 Switzerland

Group B Pos Team B1 England B2 Russia B3 Wales B4 Slovakia

Group C Pos Team C1 Germany C2 Ukraine C3 Poland C4 Northern Ireland

Group D Pos Team D1 Spain D2 Czech Republic D3 Turkey D4 Croatia

Group E Pos Team E1 Belgium E2 Italy E3 Republic of Ireland E4 Sweden

Group F Pos Team F1 Portugal F2 Iceland F3 Austria F4 Hungary