Martinique at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

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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 26 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (11 titles).

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 six 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.

In their first tournament match in 1993, Martinique was on the receiving end of a 9–0 win for Mexico, still the highest victory in tournament history. Seven of those goals were scored by striker Zague, another unique record.

Overall record[]

CONCACAF Gold Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1991	Did not qualify
1993	Group stage	8th	3	0	1	2	3	14
1996	Did not qualify
1998
2000
2002	Quarter-finals	6th	3	1	1	1	2	3
2003	Group stage	12th	2	0	0	2	0	3
2005	Did not qualify
2007
2009
2011
2013	Group stage	10th	3	1	0	2	2	4
2015	Did not qualify
2017	Group stage	9th	3	1	0	2	4	6
2019	Group stage	12th	3	1	0	2	5	7
2021	Group stage	15th	3	0	0	3	3	12
Total	Quarter-finals	7/16	20	4	2	14	19	49

Match overview[]

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	Kansas City
		Haiti	1–2	Frisco

Record players[]

Top goalscorers[]

Kévin Parsemain, who captained the Martinique national team in 2013 and 2017, is the only Martiniquais player to score more than one goal at CONCACAF Gold Cups. 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.

External links[]

• CONCACAF official site
• Soccerway database

References[]