The best performances in the Concacaf Tournament

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April 11, 2025April 11, 2025By Mario Vásquez
The best performances in the Concacaf Tournament

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The Guatemala selection will participate in what will be its 13th appearance in the Concacaf Gold Cup. In the 2025 edition he will be in Group C with Panama, Jamaica and Guadalupe.

Carlos Mejía and Darwin Lom celebrate a goal from the Guatemala selection in the Gold Cup 2023.

Carlos Mejía and Darwin Lom celebrate a goal from the Guatemala selection in the Gold Cup 2023. (PHOTO FREE PRESS: AFP)

After a long journey and after overcoming Guyana in a double game tie, the Guatemala selection He already knows his rivals in the Gold Cup 2025.

The next edition of the most important Tournament of Concacaf Selections will be played between June 14 and July 6 in 14 stadiums distributed throughout 11 headquarters in the United States and Canada, and one of the teams that will participate in the championship will be the national squad that the Mexican coach directs Luis Fernando Tena.

This will be the second Gold Cup that the Bicolor will play under the technical direction of the Mexican, after having participated in the 2023 edition when it reached the quarterfinals.

Before that, Guatemala had had problems even moving from the group stage, since in its two previous participations he went with balance of zero victories, two draws and four losses.

Guatemala’s history in the 12 appearances in the Gold Cup

The Gold Cup is a tournament created and organized in its current format by Concacaf since 1991but previously was known as the Concacaf Nations Championship or Concacaf Championship.

From 1991 to date 17 different editions have been played, so that of 2025 will be the occasion 18 in which the tournament takes place.

In the previous format the selection of Guatemala came to shine with a title in 1967 (Unique to date), in addition to obtaining runner -ups in 1965 and 1969.

However, under the current Bicolor regulations it has cost more to excel and record how Better performance a fourth place In obtained in 1996 (3-0 fell to the US.)

  • In the editions of 1991, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2015 and 2021 stayed in the group stage.
  • In 1996 it was fourth.
  • In 1993, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2019 he did not participate for not speaking classified or being suspended.
  • In 2007, 2011 and 2023 reached the quarterfinals.

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