CONCACAF Gold Cup runs on the summer of every two odd years. The last was in 2023 crowning Mexico as the champion.
Lately, CONCACAF held the entire Gold Cup competition in the United States.
But this summer of 2025, a year precluding the 2026 World Cup, FIFA is launching a new version of the Club World Cup with 32 top clubs from all of the six international confederations: AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA.
The Club World Cup competition is held also every four years and in the year prior to the World Cup. It takes place in the same World Cup
hosting country.
2026 World Cup is unique in several aspects including hosting. It’ s a tri-hosting affair done by United States, Mexico and Canada. United States will house a majority of the 2026 World Cup games, therefore, is chosen to be the solo host of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup.
And that’ s why we’ ll have these two major competitions almost simultaneously:
CONCACAF Gold Cup 2025: Between June 14 and July 7
2025 FIFA Club World Cup: Between June 15 and July 13
The Concacaf Gold Cup, held every two years, is the
The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup will begin region’ s premier men’ s national team tournament, uniting with a 16-team Group Stage – four groups of four the 16-best teams from North America, Central America, teams each. After round-robin play, between June and the Caribbean.
14-24, the four group winners and four runners-up
The 18th edition of the competition will be played this( eight teams in total) will advance to the Knockout 2025 summer, between June 14 and July 6, across 14 stadiums in the United States and Canada
Stage.
Group Stage: June 14-24, 2025
The Knockout Stage will commence with the Quarterfinals
Quarterfinals: June 28 and 29, 2025 on June 28 and 29, followed by the Semifinals on July 2, and the Final, Semifinals: July 2, 2025 where Concacaf’ s new champion will be crowned, on Sunday, July 6.
Final: July 6, 2025
CONCACAF will conduct the official draw for the 2025 Gold Cup on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Further details on the draw will be confirmed at a later date.
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