Toronto’s BMO Field named one of 15 host stadiums for CONCACAF Gold Cup
Toronto’s BMO Field has been named considered one of 15 host stadiums for this summer time’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, with the opposite 14 all south of the border.
It marks simply the second time that CONCACAF’s flagship males’s event has come to Canada, following 2015 when BMO Field hosted a group-stage doubleheader that noticed Canada tie Costa Rica 0-0 and Jamaica edge El Salvador 1-0 earlier than an introduced crowd of 16,674.
It’s anticipated that Forty seventh-ranked Canada will play once more at BMO Field the place the Canadian males haven’t misplaced since September 2010 after they have been crushed 2-0 by Peru. Canada has gone 15-0-6 on the lakefront stadium since, outscoring the opposition 54-6.
The seventeenth version of the Gold Cup is scheduled for June 24 by July 16, with 15 stadiums in 14 cities. It will likely be preceded by a 12-team qualifying competitors June 16-20.
The Gold Cup last will likely be held July 16 at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium with particulars on different venues to be introduced after Friday’s draw on the house of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and Chargers.
The Canadian males will participate within the CONCACAF Nations League last 4 June 15-18 in Las Vegas forward of the Gold Cup.
The Nations League winner will earn US$1 million in prize cash whereas the Gold Cup title comes with some US$1.9 million.
The different Gold Cup host stadiums are AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas; Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, N.C.; Soldier Field, Chicago; TQL Stadium, Cincinnati; DRV PNK Stadium, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.; Red Bull Arena, Harrison, N.J.; NRG Stadium, Houston; Shell Energy Stadium, Houston; Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas; Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego; Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif.; and CITYPARK Stadium, St. Louis.
“The host cities and venues we’ve got chosen all have sturdy monitor data of internet hosting elite soccer, and world-class occasions,” CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani, a Vancouver native, stated in a press release.
The three-tiered CONCACAF Nations League served as a Gold Cup qualifier, with the highest two groups in every of the 4 League A teams reserving their ticket to the 16-country event.
Canada certified as Group C winner, together with No. 80 Honduras, becoming a member of the Thirteenth-ranked U.S., No. 15 Mexico, No. 39 Costa Rica, No. 58 Panama and No. 63 Jamaica.
No. 87 Haiti, No. 116 Guatemala, No. 140 Nicaragua and No. 165 Cuba certified by profitable their swimming pools in League B.
World Cup host Qatar, ranked 61st on the earth, is an invitational workforce.
Twelve different CONCACAF sides — Curaçao, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago — will participate within the June 16-20 qualifying event that may fill the remaining three berths within the Gold Cup area.
Mexican has received the Gold Cup eight instances, in comparison with seven for the defending champion U.S.
Canada received in 2000, defeating Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago within the knockout rounds earlier than dispatching Colombia 2-0 within the last in Los Angeles’ Memorial Coliseum.
The Canadian males completed tied for third with Qatar on the 2021 event after dropping 2-1 to Mexico within the semifinal in Houston on a 99th-minute Hector Herrera objective.
CONCACAF covers North and Central America and the Caribbean.
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