Martinique 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. Currently, CONCACAF's representative team at the FIFA Confederations Cup is decided by a play-off between the winners of the last two tournament editions. As Non-FIFA members, Martinique would not be able to qualify for the Confederations Cup, even if they were to win the tournament.

Since the inaugural tournament in 1963, the continental championship was held 24 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (10 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 five 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 & Tobago.

In their first tournament match in 1993, Martinique was on the receiving end of a 9-0 win for Mexico, still the highest victory in tournament history. Seven of those goals were scored by striker Zague, another unique record.

Record at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	T	L	GF	GA
CONCACAF Gold Cup
1991	Did Not Qualify
1993	Group Stage	8th	3	0	1	2	3	14
1996	Did Not Qualify
1998
2000
2002	Quarter-Final	6th	3	1	1	1	2	3
2003	Group Stage	12th	2	0	0	2	0	3
2005	Did Not Qualify
2007
2009
2011
2013	Group Stage	10th	3	1	0	2	2	4
2015	Did Not Qualify
2017	Group Stage	9th	3	1	0	2	4	6
2019	To Be Determined
Total	5/24	17/27	14	3	2	9	11	30

Match Overview

Tournament	Round	Opponent	Score	Venue
1993	Group Stage	Mexico	0-9	Mexico City
		Canada	2-2
		Costa Rica	1-3
2002	Group Stage	Costa Rica	0-2	Miami
		Trinidad and Tobago	1-0
	Quarter-Final	Canada	1-1 5-6 pen
2003	Group Stage	United States	0-2	Foxboro
		El Salvador	0-1
2013	Group Stage	Canada	1-0	Pasadena
		Panama	0-1	Seattle
		Mexico	1-3	Denver
2017	Group Stage	Nicaragua	2-0	Nashville
		United States	2-3	Tampa
		Panama	0-3	Cleveland

Record Players

Top Goalscorers

Kévin Parsemain, who captained the Martinique national team in 2013 and 2017, is the only Martinican player to score more than one goal at CONCACAF Gold Cups. 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.

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