Surprisingly, Concacaf is revealing the venues for the 2019 Gold Cup tournament more than a year in advance. This is most definitely to get USA fans excited about the next competitive matches our team will be playing, but nevertheless, proactivity from Concacaf is a plus. Here are the venues as announced on the Gold Cup twitter account. Univ. of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz., 63,400 Banc of California Stadium, Los Angeles, 22,000 (opened 2018) Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, 69,176 Bank of American Stadium, Charlotte, 75,525 Allianz Field, Saint Paul, Minn., 19,400 (opening 2019) Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas, 20,500 First Energy Stadium, Cleveland, 67,895 Children's Mercy Park, Kansas City, Kan., 18,467 Reportedly, there will be 15 venues in 13 cities for the 16-team tournament next summer, beginning June 18, 2019. So far, eight venues have been announced, four MLS stadiums and four NFL stadiums.
Sports Authority Field, Denver (76,125) and Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tenn. (69,143) have been added to the venue list.
Complete list: Univ. of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz., 63,400 Banc of California Stadium, Los Angeles, 22,000 (opened 2018) Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, 69,176 Bank of American Stadium, Charlotte, 75,525 Allianz Field, Saint Paul, Minn., 19,400 (opening 2019) Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas, 20,500 First Energy Stadium, Cleveland, 67,895 Children's Mercy Park, Kansas City, Kan., 18,467 Sports Authority Field, Denver, 76,125 Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tenn., 69,143 NRG Stadium, Houston, 71,795 BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, 22,039 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif., 90,888 Soldier Field, Chicago, 61,500 Red Bull Arena, Harrison, N.J., 25,000 Interesting that Atlanta and the entire state of Florida will not host matches in this Gold Cup. Also somewhat surprised Audi Field in D.C. won't see a match either. What venues/locations shocked you?
What's with Central America and Caribbean? Will they get that one funny double-header to host? What Caribbean city is favorite to get it (as I assume San Jose as Central American host is safest bet ever)?
That is all gone now that concacaf has adopted the nations cup model. That will be used as the gold cup qualifier with the top 10 finishers joining the last set of hex participants. (Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, USA, T&T)
My question was about those countries hosting GC matches. "Will they get that one funny double-header to host?"
I think he answered that way because the question doesn't make much sense. The only Gold Cup matches during the actual tournament held outside the U.S. have been in Canada and Mexico. And there have been very few of those. 2017 - none outside the U.S. 2015 - Toronto had one double-header 2013 - none 2011 - none 2009 - none 2007 - none 2005 - none 2003- three group games and three knockout games in Mexico including the final 2002 - none 2000 - none 1998 - none 1996 - none 1993 - about half the tournament including the final were in Mexico 1991 - none
I interpreted dinamo_zagreb's post to mean that there was speculation that Central America or the Caribbean would get a doubleheader for the first time in 2019.
Maybe. Calling it "that one funny double-header" made me think he was talking about some recurring thing. Especially since the group stage is almost always all double-headers.
This was probably never going to happen. It never has and probably won't ever happen, to be honest. This is the list of venues for 2019.
And there was talk CA and Caribbean will get some this time. Here's a link to article from just 10 days ago: http://www.insideworldfootball.com/...led-well-expansion-central-america-caribbean/ I hoped that, during all those new stuff from CONCACAF, they could get one group to share, to see two cities (lets say San Jose and Port of Spain) get three games each.
So Chicago will be hosting the Final... Which reminds me to ask: if a team other than the U.S. wins it, would Concacaf bother scheduling a Concacaf Cup matchup for a berth in a Confederations Cup that may not/probably will not even happen? And if they do it, when? The CNL kicks off in the fall of 2019, although Concacaf could fix the schedule to give both Concacaf Cup participants a bye on the same day and have them play off them.
So, two cities outside of the US (one in Central America, one in Caribbean) will host one doubleheader in group B (Costa Rica seeded team) and one in group C (Honduras seeded team). Both are scheduled for first matchdays on June 16 and 17.
Is it already confirmed that it will be one in CentAm and one in the Caribbean? If so, then unless Concacaf is reckless enough to wait until March to confirm Jamaica and/or the DR's participation, I'm almost certain that we would be looking at Costa Rica hosting their group's matchday at their Estadio Nacional, and Trinidad and Tobago (as the only guaranteed Caribbean participant) automatically getting placed in Honduras's group and hosting at the Hasely Crawford. Worth noting that Panama's Rommel Fernández apparently failed to meet Concacaf's requirements for consideration.
That article said the Gold Cup seeds were done using the FIFA Rankings. It should have specified that only the six Hexagonal teams were eligible for seeds. Jamaica is ahead of Honduras in the FIFA Rankings, but Honduras was seeded because Jamaica hasn't qualified yet.
No, but they talked about it when they were talking about expanded GC in media for the first time. They did a lot for Caribbean lately and it is a safe to say they will head one matchday there.
And tbh Concacaf would much rather host a matchday in Trinibago or Jamaica than in Honduras right now.
Especially after what happened when hosting the girls u-17 tournament in Nicaragua earlier this year.
Bringing @GoldCup to Jamaica is a watershed moment for football in our Confederation, for football in the Caribbean and in this country. #ThisIsOurs pic.twitter.com/T0A3RLv3S6— Victor Montagliani (@VicMontagliani) April 2, 2019
https://www.goldcup.org/en/article/concacaf-announces-jamaica-as-a-host-venue-for-the-2019-gold-cup is titled "Concacaf Announces Jamaica as a Host Venue for the 2019 Gold Cup." It says: "The 2019 Gold Cup will be the biggest-ever edition of the event, with more participating nations (16 up from 12 in 2017), more host countries (three, including first-time matches in Costa Rica and a yet-to-be-named Caribbean nation), and more stadiums (17 up from 14 in 2017, eight of which are in contention to become a 2026 FIFA World Cup venue)." I'm assuming the part I underlined was copied from previous articles.
Still pissed off the Florida did not get a single goddamn game. But happy that Jamaica is hosting games. Remember watching the Shell Caribbean cup in the early 90s and seeing St. Vincent and the Grennadines play in Montego Bay. Long time ago but it was such a proud moment when we hosted back then. this takes me back!