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. As Non-FIFA members, Martinique were not able to qualify for the Confederations Cup, even if they had won the tournament.
Since the inaugural tournament in 1963, the continental championship was held 27 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (12 titles).
The Martinican football federation has been an associate member of CONCACAF only since 1991, which enabled them to enter the qualification stage for the inaugural CONCACAF Gold Cup when the CONCACAF Championship was rebranded under that name. Since then, they have qualified for eight tournaments, which puts them among the more successful Caribbean teams in tournament history. They qualified for the knockout stage once, in 2002, after a 1–0 victory against Trinidad and Tobago.
In their first tournament match in 1993, Martinique was on the receiving end of a 9–0 defeat to Mexico, still the highest victory in tournament history. Seven of those goals were scored by striker Luís Roberto Alves, another unique record.
Overall record CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup recordQualification recordYearResultPositionSquad 1963Not a CONCACAF memberNot a CONCACAF member 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1977 1981 19851989 1991Did not qualify521285 1993Group stage8th3012314Squad7520156 1996Did not qualify311154 19986501195 200094051820 2002Quarter-finals6th311123Squad7512205 2003Group stage12th200203Squad63121610 2005Did not qualify522173 200795131112 20095311106 2011301213 2013Group stage10th310224Squad115513410 2015Did not qualify95311911 2017Group stage9th310246Squad6 5 1 0 17 2 201912th310257Squad4400102 202115th3003312Squad403145 202311th310279Squad6213610 2025Did not qualify612 34 7TotalQuarter-finals8/282352162658111572628224126
Match overview TournamentRoundOpponentScoreVenue 1993Group stage0–9Mexico City2–21–3 2002Group stage0–2Miami1–0Quarter-finals1–1 2003Group stage0–2Foxboro0–1 2013Group stage1–0Pasadena0–1Seattle1–3Denver 2017Group stage2–0Nashville2–3Tampa0–3Cleveland 2019Group stage0–4Pasadena3–0Denver2–3Charlotte 2021Group stage1–4Kansas City1–61–2Frisco 2023Group stage2–1Fort Lauderdale1–2Harrison4–6
Record players
RankPlayerMatchesGold Cups1Daniel Hérelle142013, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 20232Stéphane Abaul102013, 2017, 2019 and 20213Jean-Sylvain Babin92013, 2019 and 2021Sébastien Crétinoir92013, 2017, 2019 and 2021Kévin Parsemain92013, 2017 and 2019Kévin Fortuné92019, 2021 and 20237Jordy Delem72013, 2017 and 2019Christophe Jougon72017, 2019 and 2021Johnny Marajo72017, 2019 and 2021Karl Vitulin72017, 2019 and 2021
Top goalscorers Kévin Parsemain, who captained the Martinique national team in 2013 and 2017, is the top scoring Martiniquais player at CONCACAF Gold Cups, with five goals. In 2017, his three goals were enough to make him shared top-scorer of the tournament, although the Golden Boot award went to Canadian Alphonso Davies.
RankPlayerGoalsGold Cups1Kévin Parsemain52013 (1), 2017 (3) and 2019 (1)2Kévin Fortuné32019, 2021 and 2023Patrick Burner320234Emmanuel Rivière220215Twelve players1Various
External links CONCACAF official site Soccerway database
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