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Belize 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.

Since the inaugural tournament in 1963, the Gold Cup was held 27 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (12 titles).

It took Belize fourteen years from their independence in 1981 to their debut in international football in 1995. Since then, they have entered the tournament continuously, but only qualified once in 2003. Losing all three matches, they placed last in the tournament and are ranked 29th out of 31 nations in the all-time table.

Record at the CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup

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CONCACAF Championship & CONCACAF Gold Cup record Qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA Squad Pld W D L GF GA
El Salvador 1963 Part of  United Kingdom Part of  United Kingdom
Guatemala 1965
Honduras 1967
Costa Rica 1969
Trinidad and Tobago 1971
Haiti 1973
Mexico 1977
Honduras 1981
1985 Not a CONCACAF member Not a CONCACAF member
1989 Did not enter Did not enter
United States 1991
Mexico United States 1993
United States 1996 Did not qualify 2 0 0 2 1 5
United States 1998 2 0 1 1 1 2
United States 2000 2 0 0 2 1 12
United States 2002 2 0 1 1 3 7
Mexico United States 2003 Did not enter Did not enter
United States 2005 Did not qualify 3 0 0 3 0 7
United States 2007 3 0 0 3 3 7
United States 2009 3 0 1 2 3 7
United States 2011 3 0 1 2 3 8
United States 2013 Group stage 12th 3 0 0 3 1 11 Squad 5 1 1 3 2 4
Canada United States 2015 Did not qualify 3 0 0 3 1 6
United States 2017 5 0 1 4 2 10
Costa Rica Jamaica United States 2019 4 2 0 2 6 3
United States 2021 6 2 0 4 6 12
Canada United States 2023 6 0 1 5 2 10
Total Group stage 1/27 3 0 0 3 1 11 49 5 5 39 34 100

Group stage

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United States 3 3 0 0 11 2 +9 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Costa Rica 3 2 0 1 4 1 +3 6
3  Cuba 3 1 0 2 5 7 −2 3
4  Belize 3 0 0 3 1 11 −10 0
Source: [citation needed]
Belize 1–6 United States
Gaynair 40' Report Wondolowski 12', 37', 41'
Holden 58'
Orozco 72'
Donovan 76' (pen.)
Attendance: 18,724
Referee: Héctor Rodríguez (Honduras)
Costa Rica 1–0 Belize
Eiley 49' (o.g.) Report
Attendance: 17,597
Cuba 4–0 Belize
Martínez 38', 62', 84'
Márquez 90+3'
Report

Record players

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Nine players have been fielded in all three matches at Belize's only Gold Cup appearance.

Rank Player Matches
1 Dalton Eiley 3
Ian Gaynair 3
Trevor Lennan 3
Evan Mariano 3
Deon McCaulay 3
Tyrone Pandy 3
Michael Salazar 3
Elroy Smith 3
Evral Trapp 3

Top goalscorers

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During their 1–6 defeat against the United States, Ian Gaynair scored the only Belizean goal in Gold Cup history.

Rank Player Goals
1 Ian Gaynair 1

References

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