Haiti at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

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 25 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (11 titles). Haiti are the only one of those seven who are no longer in the Top 10 of the tournament's All-time Table.

Haiti have won the tournament once, as hosts in 1973. That the success was not due to the home advantage alone, but had shown good results at the previous and following editions (1971 and 1977), where they each ended up as runners-up on both occasions.

Record at the CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup
CONCACAF Championship
Year Result Position Pld W T L GF GA
1963Did Not Qualify
1965Final Round6th5014313
1967Final Round5th510459
1969Did Not Enter
1971Runners-up2nd523091
1973Champions1st540183
1977Runners-up2nd531166
1981Final Round6th502329
1985Group Stage9th400409
1989Did Not Enter
CONCACAF Gold Cup
1991Did Not Qualify
1993Did Not Enter
1996Did Not Qualify
1998Withdrew
2000Group Stage11th201114
2002Quarter-Finals7th310234
2003Did Not Qualify
2005
2007Group Stage10th302124
2009Quarter-Finals8th411247
2011Did Not Qualify
2013Group Stage9th310223
2015Quarter-Finals6th411223
2017Did Not Qualify
2019Semi-Finals3rd540195
Total14/2511/27581812285680

Match Overview
Tournament Round Opponent Score Venue
1965Final Round Netherlands Antilles1–1Guatemala City
 Guatemala0–3
 Mexico0–3
 El Salvador1–3
 Costa Rica1–3
1967Final Round Guatemala1–2Tegucigalpa
 Trinidad and Tobago2–3
 Nicaragua2–1
 Mexico0–1
 Honduras0–2
1971Final Round Mexico0–0Port of Spain
 Costa Rica0–0
 Trinidad and Tobago6–0
 Honduras3–1
 Cuba0–0
1973Final Round Netherlands Antilles3–0Port-au-Prince
 Trinidad and Tobago2–1
 Honduras1–0
 Guatemala2–1
 Mexico0–1
1977Final Round Mexico1–4Mexico City
 Guatemala2–1Monterrey
 El Salvador1–0Mexico City
 Canada1–1Monterrey
 Suriname1–0Mexico City
1981Final Round Honduras0–4Tegucigalpa
 Canada1–1
 Mexico1–1
 Cuba0–2
 El Salvador0–1
1985Group Stage Canada0–2Victoria, Canada
 Guatemala0–1Port-au-Prince, Haiti
 Canada0–2
 Guatemala0–4Guatemala City, Guatemala
2000Group Stage United States0–3Miami
 Peru1–1
2002Group Stage Canada0–2
 Ecuador2–0
Quarter-Finals Costa Rica1–2
2007Group Stage Guadeloupe1–1
 Costa Rica1–1
 Canada0–2
2009Group Stage Honduras0–1Seattle
 Grenada2–0Washington, D.C.
 United States2–2Foxboro
Quarter-Finals Mexico0–4Arlington
2013Group Stage Honduras0–2Harrison
 Trinidad and Tobago2–0Miami Gardens
 El Salvador0–1Houston
2015Group Stage Panama1–1Frisco
 United States0–1Foxboro
 Honduras1–0Kansas City
Quarter-Finals Jamaica0–1Baltimore
2019Group Stage Bermuda2–1San José, Costa Rica
 Nicaragua2–0Frisco
 Costa Rica2–1Harrison
Quarter-Finals Canada3–2Houston
Semi-Finals Mexico0–1Glendale

1973 CONCACAF Championship

1973 was the first of five times where the tournament was played as the final round of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers. It was also the first time this round was played as a "Hexagonal" – six times playing each other in a round-robin. This format has established itself in CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers since then.

The Haitian home tournament was held from November 29th to December 18th, 1973. The title holders and favorites from Mexico started off with two draws, against Guatemala and Honduras, and only won their third match against the Netherlands Antilles. Haiti on the other hand kept winning and after their fourth consecutive victory, a 2–1 over Guatemala with two goals by Emmanuel Sanon, the tournament standings were as follows:

Ranking as of 13 December 1973
Rank Team Pld GF GA Pts
1  Haiti 4828
2  Mexico 3914
3  Honduras 4554
4  Trinidad and Tobago 3342
5  Guatemala 4352
6  Netherlands Antilles 43142

With Mexico being a match and four points down, they would have had to win their next match, and then defeat Haiti in an all-or-nothing final on the last day. However, Mexico surprisingly lost 0–4 to Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico's highest defeat ever at a continental championship as of 2017, and Haiti was certain to win the tournament and qualify for the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Haiti lost their final match 0–1 to Mexico, with the end table as follows:

Final Ranking
Rank Team Pld GF GA Pts
1  Haiti 5838
2  Trinidad and Tobago 51146
3  Mexico 51056
4  Honduras 5665
5  Guatemala 5463
6  Netherlands Antilles 53182

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