CONCACAF Gold Cup awards

At the end of each CONCACAF Gold Cup final tournament, several awards are presented to the players and teams which have distinguished themselves in various aspects of the game.

Awards

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  • There are currently five post-tournament awards from the Tournament Awards Committee:[1]
    • the Golden Ball for best player, first awarded in 1991;
    • the Golden Boot for top goalscorer, first awarded in 1991;
    • the Golden Glove for best goalkeeper, first awarded in 2002;
    • the Fair Play Trophy for the team with the best record of fair play, first awarded in 2002;
    • the Goal of the Tournament, for the best goal scored during the tournament, first awarded in 2021.

Best player

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Gold Cup Golden Ball
1991   Tony Meola
1993   Ramón Ramírez
1996   Raúl Lara
1998   Kasey Keller
2000   Craig Forrest
2002   Brian McBride
2003   Jesús Arellano
2005   Luis Tejada
2007   Julian de Guzman
2009   Giovani dos Santos
2011   Javier Hernández
2013   Landon Donovan
2015   Andrés Guardado
2017   Michael Bradley
2019   Raúl Jiménez
2021   Héctor Herrera
2023   Adalberto Carrasquilla

Top goalscorer

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Gold Cup Golden Boot Goals
1991   Benjamín Galindo 4
1993   Zague 11
1996   Eric Wynalda 4
1998   Luis Hernández 4
2000   Carlo Corazzin 4
2002   Brian McBride 4
2003   Walter Centeno
  Landon Donovan
4
2005   DaMarcus Beasley 3
2007   Carlos Pavón 5
2009   Miguel Sabah 4
2011   Javier Hernández 7
2013   Gabriel Torres
  Landon Donovan
  Chris Wondolowski
5
2015   Clint Dempsey 7
2017   Alphonso Davies 3
2019   Jonathan David 6
2021   Almoez Ali 4
2023   Jesús Ferreira 7

Best goalkeeper

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Gold Cup Golden Glove Clean sheets
2002   Lars Hirschfeld 2
2003   Oswaldo Sánchez 5
2005   Jaime Penedo 2
2007   Franck Grandel 0
2009   Keylor Navas 1
2011   Noel Valladares 1
2013   Jaime Penedo 2
2015   Brad Guzan 2
2017   Andre Blake 3
2019   Guillermo Ochoa 3
2021   Matt Turner 5
2023   Guillermo Ochoa 4

Best young player

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The Young Player Award ("Bright Future Award" 2015) was awarded for the first time at the 2015 Gold Cup in Canada–United States and given to Mexico's Jesús Corona.[2]

The winner of the award has only been part of the winning country one time. Jesús Corona in 2015.

Gold Cup Young Player Age
2015   Jesús Corona 22
2017   Alphonso Davies 16
2019   Christian Pulisic 20
2021   Tajon Buchanan 22

Team of the Tournament

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Year Host(s) Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards Ref.
1998   United States   Kasey Keller   Eddie Pope
  Claudio Suárez
  Zé Maria
  Ramón Ramírez
  Preki
  Paul Hall
  Cuauhtémoc Blanco
  Edmundo
  Romário
  Paulo Wanchope
2000   United States   Craig Forrest   Rafael Márquez
  Jason de Vos
  Ramón Ramírez
  Roberto Palacios
  Russell Latapy
  Cobi Jones
  Arnold Dwarika
  Carlo Corazzin
  Carlos Pavón
  Dwight Yorke
2002   United States   Odelin Molina   Luis Marin
  Jeff Agoos
  Jason de Vos
  Alfonso Sosa
  Mauricio Solis
  Landon Donovan
  Kim Nam-il
  Rónald Gómez
  Kevin McKenna
  Brian McBride
2003   United States
  Mexico
2005   United States

  Jaime Penedo

  Felipe Baloy
  Samuel Caballero
  Oguchi Onyewu

  DaMarcus Beasley
  Landon Donovan
  Jairo Patiño
  Luis Ernesto Pérez

  Tressor Moreno
  Luis Tejada
  Wilmer Velásquez

2007   United States   Franck Grandel

  Felipe Baloy
  Richard Hastings
  Frankie Hejduk
  Carlos Salcido

  Walter Centeno
  Julian de Guzman
  Pablo Mastroeni
  Pável Pardo

  Carlos Pavón
  Blas Pérez

[3]
2009   United States   Keylor Navas
  Guillermo Ochoa

  Mike Klukowski
  Freddy Fernández
  Fausto Pinto
  Luis Moreno
  Clarence Goodson
  Chad Marshall

  Julian de Guzman
  Celso Borges
  Stéphane Auvray
  Gerardo Torrado
  Giovani dos Santos
  Stuart Holden

  Álvaro Saborío
  Walter Martínez
  Miguel Sabah
  Kenny Cooper

[4]
2011   United States
2013   United States
2015   United States

  Canada

2017   United States   Andre Blake   Graham Zusi
  Omar Gonzalez
  Jermaine Taylor
  Kemar Lawrence
  Darlington Nagbe
  Jesús Dueñas
  Michael Bradley
  Alphonso Davies
  Jozy Altidore
  Jordan Morris
[5]
2019   United States
  Costa Rica
  Jamaica
  Guillermo Ochoa   Luis Rodríguez
  Carlos Salcedo
  Aaron Long
  Jesús Gallardo
  Michael Bradley
  Andrés Guardado
  Jonathan dos Santos
  Jonathan David
  Christian Pulisic
  Raúl Jiménez [6]
2021   United States   Matt Turner   Miles Robinson
  Edson Álvarez
  Shaq Moore
  Damion Lowe
  Héctor Herrera
  Celso Borges
  Tajon Buchanan
  Akram Afif
  Rogelio Funes Mori
  Almoez Ali
[7]
2023   United States
  Canada
  Guillermo Ochoa   Fidel Escobar
  Johan Vásquez
  Jorge Sánchez
  Luis Chávez
  Adalberto Carrasquilla
  Orbelín Pineda
  Yoel Bárcenas
  Demarai Gray
  Jesús Ferreira
  Ismael Díaz
[8]

Fair Play Trophy

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Gold Cup Fair Play Trophy Winners
2002   Costa Rica
2003   United States
2005   Honduras
2007   Honduras
2009   United States
2011   Mexico
2013   Panama
2015   Jamaica
2017   United States
2019   United States
2021   United States
2023   United States

Goal of the Tournament

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The Goal of the Tournament award was awarded for the first time at the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

  • Scores and results list the goal tally of the players' team first.
Gold Cup Player Scored against Score Minute Result Round Ref.
2021   Bobby Decordova-Reid   Suriname 2–0 26' 2–0 Group stage [9]
2023   Anthony Baron   Cuba 4–0 50' 4–0 Group stage [10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Awards". CONCACAF.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Mexico's Corona merits Bright Future award". CONCACAF.com. July 26, 2015. Archived from the original on August 20, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  3. ^ "All-Tournament Team Unveiled". Terra Networks. AP. 23 June 2007. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  4. ^ "2009 All-Tournament Team" (Press release). CONCACAF. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  5. ^ "TSG reveals Gold Cup Best XI". CONCACAF. 21 June 2017. Archived from the original on 25 October 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  6. ^ "2019 Concacaf Gold Cup - Best XI". CONCACAF. 7 July 2019. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Turner, Funes Mori named to Best XI". CONCACAF. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Pineda, Gray and Carrasquilla lead way in Gold Cup Best XI". CONCACAF. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Jamaica's Reid takes Gold Cup Goal of the Tournament". CONCACAF. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Guadeloupe's Baron wins Gold Cup Goal of the Tournament". CONCACAF. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2023.