Curaçao 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.[1][2]
Since the inaugural tournament in 1963,[3] the Gold Cup was held 27 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (12 titles).
Curaçao have qualified for the continental championship six times. As the Netherlands Antilles, the team scored good results in the 1960s, including two third-place finishes. Since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010,[4][5] Curaçao have qualified twice. In 2017, they lost all three group matches. In 2019 however, they reached the knockout stage after earning a 1–0 victory over Honduras[6][7] and drawing 1–1 against Jamaica[8][9] with a stunning injury time equalizer by Juriën Gaari. They were eliminated 0–1 by the United States in the quarter-finals.[10]
Of the other CONCACAF members that used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire and Sint Maarten), none have qualified for a Gold Cup as of August 2024.
Overall record
[edit]| CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
as  Netherlands Antilles
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as Netherlands Antilles
| |||||||||||||||
 1963 |
Third place | 3rd | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 9 | Squad | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
 1965 |
Fifth place | 5th | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 16 | Squad | Qualified automatically | ||||||
 1967 |
Did not qualify | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||
 1969 |
Third place | 3rd | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 12 | Squad | Qualified automatically | ||||||
 1971 |
Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
 1973 |
Sixth place | 6th | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 19 | Squad | Qualified automatically | ||||||
 1977
|
Did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||
| 1981
|
4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 1985 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1989 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||||
 1991
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 1993
|
Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
| 1996
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Did not qualify | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 | |||||||||
| 1998
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 2000
|
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | ||||||||||
| 2002 |
Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 |
Did not qualify | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||||||||
| 2005 |
Withdrew | Withdrew | ||||||||||||||
| 2007
|
Did not qualify | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
| 2009
|
5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | ||||||||||
as  Curaçao
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as Curaçao
| |||||||||||||||
| 2011
|
Did not qualify | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | |||||||||
| 2013
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | ||||||||||
 2015
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9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | ||||||||||
| 2017 |
Group stage | 11th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | Squad | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 4 | |
 2019 |
Quarter-finals | 8th | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Squad | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 2 | |
| 2021
|
Qualified but withdrew | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| 2023
|
Did not qualify | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |||||||||
| Total | Third place | 6/27 | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 33 | 65 | — | 78 | 23 | 18 | 33 | 107 | 135 | |
Match overview
[edit]| Tournament | Round | Opponent | Score | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 |
First round | Mexico |
2–1 | Santa Ana |
| Costa Rica |
0–1 | |||
| Jamaica |
2–1 | |||
| Final round | Costa Rica |
0–1 | San Salvador | |
| El Salvador |
2–3 | |||
| Honduras |
4–1 | |||
| 1965 |
Final round | Haiti |
1–1 | Guatemala City |
| Mexico |
0–5 | |||
| Costa Rica |
0–6 | |||
| Guatemala |
2–3 | |||
| El Salvador |
1–1 | |||
| 1969 |
Final round | Costa Rica |
1–2 | San José |
| Guatemala |
1–6 | |||
| Trinidad and Tobago |
3–1 | |||
| Mexico |
2–2 | |||
| Jamaica |
2–1 | |||
| 1973 |
Final round | Haiti |
0–3 | Port-au-Prince |
| Guatemala |
2–2 | |||
| Mexico |
0–8 | |||
| Honduras |
2–2 | |||
| Trinidad and Tobago |
0–4 | |||
| 2017 |
Group stage | Jamaica |
0–2 | San Diego |
| El Salvador |
0–2 | Denver | ||
| Mexico |
0–2 | San Antonio | ||
| 2019 |
Group stage | El Salvador |
0–1 | Kingston |
| Honduras |
1–0 | Houston | ||
| Jamaica |
1–1 | Los Angeles | ||
| Quarter-finals | United States |
0–1 | Philadelphia |
References
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- ^ Bassam, Tom (2019-02-21). "Confederations Cup has been scrapped, says Cordeiro". SportsPro. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- ^ "60th Anniversary". Concacaf. 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- ^ Fletcher, Pascal (October 10, 2010). "Dutch Antilles dissolves as two new countries created". Reuters. Retrieved August 18, 2024.
- ^ "Status change means Dutch Antilles no longer exists". BBC News. 2010-10-10. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- ^ "Curacao 1-0 Honduras (22 jun., 2019) Wedstrijd analyses - ESPN (NL)". ESPN (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-08-18.
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- ^ mlssoccer. "Jamaica 1, Curacao 1 | 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup Match Recap | MLSSoccer.com". mlssoccer. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- ^ "Jamaica vs. Curaçao - 26 June 2019 - Soccerway". au.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- ^ "Gold Cup 2019: USA vs. Curaçao - Match Report, Stats, Standings & Bracket". www.ussoccer.com. Retrieved 2024-08-18.