The 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup will be the 14th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the biennial international men's football championship of the North, Central American and Caribbean region organized by CONCACAF. According to the FIFA International Match Calendar, the tournament is scheduled to be played between July 7-26, 2017. It will be hosted by the United States.
The winner of this tournament will play against the winner of the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the 2019 CONCACAF Cup, a one-match play-off to determine CONCACAF's qualifier for the 2021 FIFA Confederations Cup. If the same team wins both the 2017 and 2019 Gold Cups, it automatically qualifies for the Confederations Cup.
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Qualified teams
A total of 12 teams will qualify for the tournament. Three berths are allocated to North America, four to Central America, four to the Caribbean, and one to the winner of the play-off between the two fifth-placed teams of the Caribbean zone and the Central American zone.
Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.
1. This is Curaçao's first appearance since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, as its direct successor (with regards to membership in football associations), inheriting the former nation's FIFA membership and competitive record.
2. French Guiana and Martinique are not FIFA members, and so do not have a FIFA Ranking.
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Venues
The venues were announced on December 19, 2016. Levi's Stadium was announced as the venue of the final on February 1, 2017.
2. On the map, the cities with the red markers indicate cities hosting group stage matches. The cities with the orange markers indicate ones that are hosting quarter-final matches. The cities with the silver markers indicate the cities hosting the semi-final matches, and Santa Clara has a gold marker, which indicates it is hosting the final match.
Draw
Mexico and United States were announced as the seeded teams of Groups B and C respectively on December 19, 2016. Honduras, the winners of the 2017 Copa Centroamericana title were announced as being the seeded team in Group A on February 14, 2017.
The groups and match schedule were revealed on March 7, 2017, 10:00 PST (UTC-8), at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. At the time of the announcement, 11 of the 12 qualified teams were known, with the identity of the CFU-UNCAF play-off winner not yet known.
Squads
The 12 national teams involved in the tournament will be required to register a squad of 23 players; only players in these squads will be eligible to take part in the tournament.
A provisional list of 40 players per national team will be submitted to CONCACAF by June 2, 2017. The final list of 23 players per national team will be submitted to CONCACAF by June 27, 2017. Three players per national team must be goalkeepers.
National teams that reach the quarter-final stage are able to swap up to six players in the final squad with six players from the provisional list within 24 hours of their final group stage game.
Group stage
The top two teams from each group and the two best third-placed teams qualify for the quarter-finals.
All match times listed are in EDT (UTC-4); local times, if different, are also shown.
Tiebreakers
The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows:
- Greatest number of points obtained in group matches
- Goal difference in all group matches
- Greatest number of goals scored in all group matches
- Greatest number of points obtained in group matches between the teams concerned;
- Drawing of lots by the Gold Cup Committee
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage
o In the quarter-finals, teams from the same group cannot play each other. o In the quarter-finals and semi-final, if tied after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time are played. If still tied after extra time, a o.
Note: CONCACAF reserves the right to change the order of the matches.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Sponsors
- Allstate
- Cerveza Modelo de México
- Nike, Inc.
- Post Consumer Holdings
- Scotiabank
- Sprint Corporation
Broadcasting rights
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