Costa Rica 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).

Costa Rica have won the inaugural CONCACAF Championship in 1963 and two more in 1969 and 1989. They are the third-most successful team behind CONCACAF's "big two", Mexico and the United States, both in terms of number of titles and ranking in the All-time Table. Since 2000, they have reached the knockout stage eleven times in a row. Since the inception of the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1991, Costa Rica only reached the final once, but were beaten 2–0 by the United States in 2002.

Record at the CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup
CONCACAF Championship
Year Result Position Pld W T L GF GA
1963Champions1st6510142
1965Third Place3rd5221114
1967Did Not Enter
1969Champions1st5410132
1971Third Place3rd521265
1973Did Not Qualify
1977
1981
1985Final Round3rd8251108
1989Champions1st8512106
CONCACAF Gold Cup
1991Fourth Place4th510459
1993Third Place3rd513165
1996Did Not Qualify
1998Group Stage5th210184
2000Quarter-Final8th302156
2002Runners-up2nd531185
2003Fourth Place4th5203108
2005Quarter-Final5th421164
2007Quarter-Final7th411234
2009Semi-Final4th5221106
2011Quarter-Final6th412186
2013Quarter-Final5th420242
2015Quarter-Final7th403134
2017Semi-Final4th531163
2019 Quarter-Final 5th 4 2 1 1 8 4
2021 Qualified
Total20/253/279541292615495

Winning Tournaments

Squad

[1]Head coach: Alfredo Piedra

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
1GK Asdrúbal Meneses CS Cartaginés
1GK Mario Pérez Deportivo Saprissa
1GK Emilio Sagot (1942-02-26)26 February 1942 (aged 21) Orión F.C.
2DF Mario Cordero (1930-04-07)7 April 1930 (aged 32) Deportivo Saprissa
2DF Guillermo Hernández Deportivo Saprissa
2DF Álvaro McDonald (1939-01-01)1 January 1939 (aged 24) CS Herediano
2DF Rodolfo Madriz CS Cartaginés
2DF Giovanni Rodríguez Deportivo Saprissa
2DF Alex Sánchez (1930-07-20)20 July 1930 (aged 32) LD Alajuelense
2DF Édgar Zúñiga LD Alajuelense
3MF Juan José Gámez (1939-07-08)8 July 1939 (aged 23) LD Alajuelense
3MF Carlos Marín CS Herediano
3MF Édgar Quesada (1931-08-16)16 August 1931 (aged 31) CS Herediano
3MF Wílliam Quirós Deportivo Saprissa
4FW Enrique Córdoba CS Cartaginés
4FW Héctor Coto CS Cartaginés
4FW Guillermo Elizondo CS Uruguay de Coronado
4FW Juan González LD Alajuelense
4FW Leonel Hernández (1943-10-03)3 October 1943 (aged 19) CS Cartaginés
4FW Rubén Jiménez Deportivo Saprissa
4FW Edgar Marín (1943-05-22)22 May 1943 (aged 19) Deportivo Saprissa
4FW Wálter Pearson LD Alajuelense
4FW Víctor Luis Vásquez Deportivo Saprissa

First Round
Rank Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1  Costa Rica 53210707
2  Netherlands Antilles 43201431
3  Mexico 33111927
4  Jamaica 03003116−15

Results

Costa Rica 6–0 Jamaica
Costa Rica 1–0 Netherlands Antilles
Costa Rica 0–0 Mexico

Final round
Rank Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1  Costa Rica 63300725
2  El Salvador 43201761
3  Netherlands Antilles 23102651
4  Honduras 0300329−7
Costa Rica 1–0 Netherlands Antilles
Pearson
Costa Rica 2–1 Honduras
Córdoba
Jiménez 		Guerra
El Salvador 1–4 Costa Rica

Costa Rica 1969

In 1969, Costa Rica hosted the continental championship for their first and only time. The six qualified teams played each other once in a single group. Costa Rica won their first four matches, but were only one point ahead of Guatemala, which they faced directly in the last match. A 1–1 draw secured them the tournament victory in front of the home crowd.

Final Round
Rank Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1  Costa Rica 9541013211
2  Guatemala 853201028
3  Netherlands Antilles 55212912−3
4  Mexico 4512245−1
5  Trinidad and Tobago 35113412−8
6  Jamaica 15014310−7
Costa Rica 3–0 Jamaica
Álvaro Cascante
Roy Sáenz
Edward Dawkins  o.g.'
Attendance: 7,389
Costa Rica 2–1 Netherlands Antilles
Jaime Grant
Álvaro Cascante 		Croes
Costa Rica 2–0 Mexico
Jaime Grant
Roy Sáenz
Attendance: 20,460
Costa Rica 5–0 Trinidad and Tobago
Víctor Ruiz
Wálter Elizondo [2]
Costa Rica 1–1 Guatemala
Wally Vaughns Marco Antonio Fión

1989 CONCACAF Championship

In the qualification for the tournament, Costa Rica were about to face the favored team from Mexico. However, before the matches were played, Mexico was disqualified and Costa Rica given a bye to the tournament stage.

In a group of five teams, home and away matches were played against each opponent. When Costa Rica were done with their eight matches in July, the United States still had four matches ahead of them, and were only trailing behind leaders Costa Rica by six points and three goals. However, the US team ended up drawing twice and only won the other two matches by one goal each. With that, Costa Rica won the tournament on account of better goal difference, four months after their own last match.

Final round
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Costa Rica 8512106+411
 United States 843163+311
 Trinidad and Tobago 833275+29
 Guatemala 611447−33
 El Salvador 602428−62
 
Costa Rica  – 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–0
El Salvador  2–4 – X–X 0–0 0–1
Guatemala  1–0 X–X – 0–1 0–0
Trinidad and Tobago  1–1 2–0 2–1 – 0–1
United States  1–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 –
Guatemala 1–0 Costa Rica
Chacón  39' (pen.)
Costa Rica 2–1 Guatemala
Flores  42'
Coronado  78'		 Rodas  51'
Referee: John Meachin (Canada)
Costa Rica 1–0 United States
Rhoden  14'
Attendance: 26,271
Referee: José Antonio Garza (Mexico)
United States 1–0 Costa Rica
Ramos  72'
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Rodolfo Méndez (Honduras)
El Salvador 2–4 Costa Rica
Rodriguez  24'
Rivas  63'		 Cayasso  16'
Hidalgo  46'
Flóres  51', 75'
Attendance: 40,000
Costa Rica 1–0 El Salvador
Fernández  55'
Referee: Jorge Orellana Vimos (Ecuador)

References
  1. "Costa Rica wins 1963 NORCECA title". Archived from the original on June 21, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  2. La Tricolor en los Norcecas 63 y 69 – Nación (in Spanish)
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