MI­A­MI, Flori­da, – Con­ca­caf has of­fi­cial­ly re­vealed the 2025 Gold Cup pre­lims sched­ule, which will oc­cur dur­ing the FI­FA Match Win­dow in March 2025.

The home-and-away se­ries will fea­ture 14 men’s na­tion­al teams bat­tling for the fi­nal sev­en spots in the 2025 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup Group Stage. The matchups were de­ter­mined based on the Con­ca­caf Rank­ings fol­low­ing the FI­FA Match Win­dow in No­vem­ber 2024.

The pre­lims will see the high­est-ranked team face the low­est-ranked team, with the win­ners of each se­ries se­cur­ing their place in the pres­ti­gious Gold Cup.

The matchups are as fol­lows. Cos­ta Ri­ca (1) vs Be­lize (14), Ja­maica (2) vs Saint Vin­cent and the Grenadines (13), Hon­duras (3) vs Bermu­da (12), Guatemala (4) vs Guyana (11), Trinidad and To­ba­go (5) vs Cu­ba (10), Mar­tinique (6) vs Suri­name (9), Nicaragua (7) vs Guade­loupe (8).

The first legs of the pre­lims will be played on Fri­day, March 21, 2025, with the re­turn legs sched­uled for Tues­day, March 25, 2025. The win­ners of each se­ries will join the nine teams that have al­ready qual­i­fied for the 2025 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup, in­clud­ing pow­er­hous­es like the Unit­ed States, Mex­i­co, and Cana­da, as well as guest team Sau­di Ara­bia.

The 18th edi­tion of the Con­ca­caf Gold Cup will kick off on June 14, 2025, and con­clude on Ju­ly 6, 2025, with match­es host­ed across 14 sta­di­ums in 11 met­ro­pol­i­tan ar­eas in the Unit­ed States and Cana­da.

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