Haiti 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 26 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (11 titles). Haiti are the only one of those seven who are no longer in the Top 10 of the tournament's All-time Table.

Haiti have won the tournament once, as hosts in 1973. That the success was not due to the home advantage alone, but had shown good results at the previous and following editions (1971 and 1977), where they each ended up as runners-up on both occasions.

Overall record[]

CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1963	Did not qualify
1965	Sixth place	6th	5	0	1	4	3	13
1967	Fifth place	5th	5	1	0	4	5	9
1969	Disqualified *
1971	Runners-up	2nd	5	2	3	0	9	1
1973	Champions	1st	5	4	0	1	8	3
1977	Runners-up	2nd	5	3	1	1	6	6
1981	Sixth place	6th	5	0	2	3	2	9
1985	Group stage	9th	4	0	0	4	0	9
1989	Did not enter
1991	Did not qualify
1993	Did not enter
1996	Did not qualify
1998	Withdrew
2000	Group stage	11th	2	0	1	1	1	4
2002	Quarter-finals	7th	3	1	0	2	3	4
2003	Did not qualify
2005
2007	Group stage	10th	3	0	2	1	2	4
2009	Quarter-finals	8th	4	1	1	2	4	7
2011	Did not qualify
2013	Group stage	9th	3	1	0	2	2	3
2015	Quarter-finals	6th	4	1	1	2	2	3
2017	Did not qualify
2019	Semi-finals	3rd	5	4	0	1	9	5
2021	Group stage	11th	3	1	0	2	3	6
Total	1 Title	15/26	61	19	12	30	59	86

^* Federation failed to register its intention to compete before the deadline and were excluded.

Match overview[]

Tournament	Round	Opponent	Score	Venue
1965	Final round	Netherlands Antilles	1–1	Guatemala City
		Guatemala	0–3
		Mexico	0–3
		El Salvador	1–3
		Costa Rica	1–3
1967	Final round	Guatemala	1–2	Tegucigalpa
		Trinidad and Tobago	2–3
		Nicaragua	2–1
		Mexico	0–1
		Honduras	0–2
1971	Final round	Mexico	0–0	Port of Spain
		Costa Rica	0–0
		Trinidad and Tobago	6–0
		Honduras	3–1
		Cuba	0–0
1973	Final round	Netherlands Antilles	3–0	Port-au-Prince
		Trinidad and Tobago	2–1
		Honduras	1–0
		Guatemala	2–1
		Mexico	0–1
1977	Final round	Mexico	1–4	Mexico City
		Guatemala	2–1	Monterrey
		El Salvador	1–0	Mexico City
		Canada	1–1	Monterrey
		Suriname	1–0	Mexico City
1981	Final round	Honduras	0–4	Tegucigalpa
		Canada	1–1
		Mexico	1–1
		Cuba	0–2
		El Salvador	0–1
1985	Group stage	Canada	0–2	Victoria, Canada
		Guatemala	0–1	Port-au-Prince, Haiti
		Canada	0–2
		Guatemala	0–4	Guatemala City, Guatemala
2000	Group stage	United States	0–3	Miami
		Peru	1–1
2002	Group stage	Canada	0–2
		Ecuador	2–0
	Quarter-finals	Costa Rica	1–2
2007	Group stage	Guadeloupe	1–1
		Costa Rica	1–1
		Canada	0–2
2009	Group stage	Honduras	0–1	Seattle
		Grenada	2–0	Washington, D.C.
		United States	2–2	Foxboro
	Quarter-finals	Mexico	0–4	Arlington
2013	Group stage	Honduras	0–2	Harrison
		Trinidad and Tobago	2–0	Miami Gardens
		El Salvador	0–1	Houston
2015	Group stage	Panama	1–1	Frisco
		United States	0–1	Foxboro
		Honduras	1–0	Kansas City
	Quarter-finals	Jamaica	0–1	Baltimore
2019	Group stage	Bermuda	2–1	San José, Costa Rica
		Nicaragua	2–0	Frisco
		Costa Rica	2–1	Harrison
	Quarter-finals	Canada	3–2	Houston
	Semi-finals	Mexico	0–1	Glendale
2021	Group stage	United States	0–1	Kansas City
		Canada	1–4	Kansas City
		Martinique	2–1	Frisco

1973 CONCACAF Championship[]

1973 was the first of five times where the tournament was played as the final round of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers. It was also the first time this round was played as a "Hexagonal" – six times playing each other in a round-robin. This format has established itself in CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers since then.

The Haitian home tournament was held from November 29th to December 18th, 1973. The title holders and favorites from Mexico started off with two draws, against Guatemala and Honduras, and only won their third match against the Netherlands Antilles. Haiti on the other hand kept winning and after their fourth consecutive victory, a 2–1 over Guatemala with two goals by Emmanuel Sanon, the tournament standings were as follows:

Ranking as of 13 December 1973
Rank	Team	Pld	GF	GA	Pts
1	Haiti	4	8	2	8
2	Mexico	3	9	1	4
3	Honduras	4	5	5	4
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	3	4	2
5	Guatemala	4	3	5	2
6	Netherlands Antilles	4	3	14	2

With Mexico being a match and four points down, they would have had to win their next match, and then defeat Haiti in an all-or-nothing final on the last day. However, Mexico surprisingly lost 0–4 to Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico's highest defeat ever at a continental championship as of 2017, and Haiti was certain to win the tournament and qualify for the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Haiti lost their final match 0–1 to Mexico, with the end table as follows:

Final Ranking
Rank	Team	Pld	GF	GA	Pts
1	Haiti	5	8	3	8
2	Trinidad and Tobago	5	11	4	6
3	Mexico	5	10	5	6
4	Honduras	5	6	6	5
5	Guatemala	5	4	6	3
6	Netherlands Antilles	5	3	18	2

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