The United States, Mexico and a lot of the different nations that may compete within the 16-team 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup within the U.S. and Canada this summer time realized their group stage opponents at Friday’s draw in Los Angeles. The remaining three entries within the biennial regional championship, which is able to run from June 24-July 16, can be decided by a preliminary spherical of video games simply earlier than the event correct kicks off.  Â
The co-host and defending champion U.S. was paired Friday with Jamaica, Nicaragua and a group to be decided later in Group A. Mexico, which gained the event in 2019 and has a document eight Gold Cup titles to the Americans seven, was joined by Haiti, Honduras and visitor nation Qatar in Group B — maybe the strongest of the 4 groups.
The competitors options 15 members of CONCACAF — the regional governing physique for North America, Central America and the Caribbean — plus Qatar, the 2022 FIFA World Cup host. Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and the U.S. had been the area’s 4 representatives on the 2022 World Cup. Only the Americans superior to the knockout stage. Â
Costa Rica is in Group C with El Salvador, Panama and a foe TBD. Panama just lately shocked Costa Rica in CONCACAF Nations League play, beating the Ticos to advance to the semifinals of that occasion with Canada, Mexico and the USMNT. With the Nations League remaining 4 slated for mid-June in Las Vegas, groups competing in each occasions are anticipated to rotate their rosters for the Gold Cup. They may even use nearly solely completely different squads, because the U.S. did in profitable each trophies two years in the past.
Qatar was additionally an invitee on the 2021 Gold Cup. The Qataris, who in November grew to become the one World Cup host to lose all three of its first-round video games, reached the semifinals of the 2021 Gold Cup earlier than being eradicated by the eventual champion U.S.
Co-host Canada is staging Gold Cup video games for second time ever and first since 2015. Les Rouges will play Cuba, Guatemala and one other aspect TBD in Group D this summer time. Twelve groups are vying for the three still-open spots, together with 2006 World Cup participant Trinidad and Tobago. The preliminary spherical is scheduled for June 16-20. Â
Jamaica famously eradicated the USMNT within the Gold Cup semifinals in 2015. Two years later, they knocked out Mexico however misplaced to the U.S. within the remaining. The Americans solely earlier assembly with Nicaragua additionally got here within the group stage of the Gold Cup, a 3-0 victory in 2017.Â
CONCACAF earlier within the week introduced the 14 venues that may stage video games on the 2023 Gold Cup. Thirteen stadiums are within the U.S., with Toronto’s BMO Field the lone Canadian rep. The remaining can be performed at 70,000-seat SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the location of Friday’s draw. Â
The full group stage schedule can be introduced within the days forward.
 Doug McIntyre is a soccer author for FOX Sports. Before becoming a member of FOX Sports in 2021, he was a workers author with ESPN and Yahoo Sports and he has lined United States males’s and girls’s nationwide groups at a number of FIFA World Cups. Follow him on Twitter @ByDougMcIntyre.
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