CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

The CONCACAF Women 's Gold Cup is the Central and North American championship for women's national soccer teams. Currently, he is officially known as the CONCACAF Women's World Cup qualifying, as it is mainly used to determine the participants in the FIFA Women's World Cup. There, the region is entitled to two fixed places. The third place contest a play-off against a representative of another continent ( Europe last ) for one additional launch site.

The first tournament took place in 1991 in Haiti instead. Until 1998, the competition was called CONCACAF Women's Championship. Record winner is the United States with six titles that were won the tournament again in 2006. All titles went so far either to the U.S. or to Canada, who won in 1998 when the United States did not participate because they were already qualified as hosts for the 1999 World Cup.

In 1993 New Zealand, and in 2000 Brazil and China respectively as a guest team in part.

Mode

At the final eight teams to take part. Canada, Mexico and the U.S. are automatically qualified. These two nations from Central America qualifier and three nations come from the Caribbean qualifiers.

The eight teams are split into two groups of four teams each. Within the group, each team plays once against each other. The group winners and runners reach the semifinals. The semi-final winners reach the finals, the semi-final losers play for third place.

The tournaments at a glance

Ranking

* Italic: visiting teams