Canadian men to open Gold Cup in Vancouver with coach suspended from sideline

Neil Davidson · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 11, 2025 5:39 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Canada volition statesman CONCACAF Gold Cup play against Honduras successful Vancouver earlier shifting to Houston for its remaining 2 Group B games.

The 30th-ranked Canadian men volition instrumentality connected No. 75 Honduras connected June 17 astatine B.C. Place Stadium. They past caput to Texas to look No. 90 Curacao and No. 81 El Salvador astatine Shell Energy Stadium connected June 21 and June 24, respectively.

Canada volition beryllium without manager Jesse Marsch connected the sidelines for the Vancouver game. Marsch was sent disconnected successful the CONCACAF Nations League third-place crippled successful March and has to service a one-game ban.

The 2025 variation of the Gold Cup features 15 teams from CONCACAF, which covers North and Central America and the Caribbean, positive a impermanent broadside successful No. 58 Saudi Arabia.

The tourney is coming to Canada for a 3rd clip with Toronto's BMO Field having staged games successful 2015 and 2023.

The 18th variation of the CONCACAF title runs June 14 to July 6, spanning 14 stadiums crossed 11 metropolitan areas successful the U.S. and Canada.

After round-robin play June 14-24, the 4 radical winners and 4 runners-up determination connected to the knockout stage, with quarterfinals scheduled for June 28-29, followed by the semifinals July 2 and last July 6 astatine Houston's NRG Stadium.

Mexico heads Group A

Group A consists of No. 17 Mexico, No. 54 Costa Rica, No. 137 Suriname and No. 139 Dominican Republic portion Group C is made up of No. 33 Panama, No. 63 Jamaica, No. 106 Guatemala and unranked Guadeloupe. Group D features the 16th-ranked U.S., No. 83 Haiti, No. 100 Trinidad and Tobago and Saudi Arabia.

Should Canada triumph its group, it would look the runner-up successful Group C successful the quarterfinals portion the second-place squad successful B faces the C winner.

The quarterfinals volition instrumentality spot astatine State Farm Stadium successful Glendale, Ariz., and U.S. Bank Stadium successful Minneapolis.

The Canadian men are 9-13-7 all-time against Honduras, winning 4-1 the past clip they met successful March 2023 astatine BMO Field. They are 10-5-4 against El Salvador, winning 3-0 and 2-0 erstwhile they met successful September 2021 and February 2022.

Canada has won each 3 meetings with Curacao, including a 2-0 determination the past clip they met successful CONCACAF Nations League play successful March 2023. That crippled was Canada's archetypal aft the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar.

Mexico is the existent Gold Cup champion, having defeated Panama 1-0 successful the 2023 last for its grounds ninth Gold Cup title. The U.S. has lifted the trophy 7 times and Canada once, successful 2000.

The Canadian men mislaid to the U.S. successful a quarterfinal punishment shootout past clip out, astatine the 2023 tournament.

Canada finished 3rd successful 2002 and was a losing semifinalist successful 2007 and 2021, beaten by the U.S., and Mexico, respectively.

Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Panama, El Salvador, Haiti, Curacao and the Dominican Republic qualified for this year's tourney via the 2024-25 CONCACAF Nations League.

Costa Rica, Jamaica, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Suriname and Guadeloupe booked their tickets by winning two-legged qualifying playoffs.