Concaf recently announced that it already has details to celebrate the raffle of the group stage of the Gold Cup 2025its largest selection tournament and that in 2025 it will be played from June 14 to July 6.
This will be the 18th edition of the Gold Cup and will be played in 14 stadiums distributed in 11 cities in the United States and Canada.
As the Concacaf has revealed, for this year the participants will be a total of 16 selections. Of the region are 15, while there will be the addition of Saudi Arabia as a guest nation.
This tournament will be one of the last great prior to the FIFA World Cup together with the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026, for which many of the nations competing in the Gold Cup 2025 also hope to repeat presence a year later in the World Cup.
Date and schedule of the Gold Cup 2025
At the moment they have already secured their place in the Gold Cup 2025 eight of the 16 teams, while the remaining seven will be determined after the preliminary round where the Guatemala selection is held.
The eight Teams already classified They are Canada, Curacao, El Salvador, the United States, Haiti, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic.
While in the preliminary round are Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, San Vicente and Las Grenadinas, Jamaica, Bermudas, Honduras, Surinam, Martinica, Guadalupe, Nicaragua, Guyana, Guatemala, Belize and Costa Rica.
Of these last only seven will advance to Draw of the Gold Cup Group Phase which already has date, on April 10, 2025.
This will be carried out at the Concacaf headquarters in 5.00 a.m. (Guatemala) in an event that It will be broadcast live on television.
How will the Gold Cup Draw 2025 work
According to Concacaf, the draw will use eight drums. Bombs 1 to 4 will contain the names of the participating selections and bombs 5 to 8 the A to the D.
The Concacaf ranking will then be used to divide the selections into the bombs from 1 to 4. The current champion and the three best classified teams will be in the 1, while the three worst classified in Bombo 4, where Saudi Arabia will also be.
- BY 1: Current champion and the three best classified national teams
- Bombo 2: Next four best classified national teams
- Bombo 3: Next four best classified national teams
- Bombo 4: The three worst classified national teams and Saudi Arabia
- 5: Positions of groups A, B, C and D
- BY BOME 6: Positions of groups A, B, C and D
- Bombo 7: Positions of groups A, B, C and D
- Bombo 8: Positions of groups A, B, C and D
It will begin taking the equipment of the bombing 1 and a group will be assigned (of the hype 5), the spheres will be removed until everyone is in a group.
Then the equipment 2 will be taken and another sphere will be taken from the 6 to see the groups. The process will be repeated with bombs 3 and 4 with bombs 7 and 8 respectively.