2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final

2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final

United States Mexico 1 0
Event	2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Date	August 1, 2021 (2021-08-01)
Venue	Allegiant Stadium, Paradise
Player of the Match	Matt Turner (United States)
Referee	Said Martínez (Honduras)
Attendance	61,114
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The 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final was a football match to determine the winners of 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The match was the sixteenth final of the Gold Cup, a biennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF and one invited team to decide the champion of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The match was held at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, United States, on 1 August 2021, and was contested by hosts the United States and the defending champions Mexico.

It was the seventh Gold Cup final to be contested by Mexico and the United States, and the second consecutive. From the previous six finals, Mexico won five times – in 1993, 1998, 2009, 2011, and 2019. The United States only won in 2007 prior to this match.

The United States won the final 1–0, the lone goal scored by Miles Robinson in extra time, the latest goal the U.S. has ever scored against Mexico in any setting, for their seventh Gold Cup title.

Fielding the youngest squad ever in the Gold Cup final with an average age of 24 years old, many pundits have lauded this as the greatest Gold Cup win ever for the United States, and one of the biggest upsets in tournament history.

Venue

Main article: Allegiant Stadium

The final was held at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, United States, located in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. It will be the first major international tournament to played at the venue, which was built for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League. It will also the first Gold Cup match to be played in the Las Vegas area. The match will be played in front of a full-capacity crowd after the easing of restrictions; CONCACAF began sale of general seating tickets on June 11 and sold out their allotment within 90 minutes.

Route to the final

Further information: 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup

United States		Round	Mexico
Opponent	Result	Group stage	Opponent	Result
Haiti	1–0	Match 1	Trinidad and Tobago	0–0
Martinique	6–1	Match 2	Guatemala	2–1
Canada	1–0	Match 3	El Salvador	1–0
Group B winners Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Notes United States 3 3 0 0 8 1 +7 9 Advance to knockout stage Canada 3 2 0 1 8 3 +5 6 Haiti 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3 Martinique 3 0 0 3 3 12 −9 0		Final standings	Group A winners Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Notes Mexico 3 2 1 0 4 0 +4 7 Advance to knockout stage El Salvador 3 2 0 1 4 1 +3 6 Trinidad and Tobago 3 0 2 1 1 3 −2 2 Guatemala 3 0 1 2 1 6 −5 1
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
Jamaica	1–0	Quarter-finals	Honduras	3–0
Qatar	1–0	Semi-finals	Canada	2–1

Match

Details

August 1, 2021 (2021-08-01) 20:30 (17:30 UTC−7)	United States	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Mexico	Allegiant Stadium, Paradise Attendance: 61,114 Referee: Said Martínez (Honduras)
	Robinson  117'	Report

United States

Mexico

GK 1 Matt Turner RB 2 Reggie Cannon 65' CB 16 James Sands CB 12 Miles Robinson LB 21 George Bello 65' CM 19 Eryk Williamson 87' CM 23 Kellyn Acosta 113' CM 17 Sebastian Lletget 66' RF 7 Paul Arriola (c) 87' CF 9 Gyasi Zardes LF 13 Matthew Hoppe 120+1' Substitutions: DF 20 Shaq Moore 65' DF 3 Sam Vines 65' MF 10 Cristian Roldan 66' MF 6 Gianluca Busio 87' FW 8 Nicholas Gioacchini 87' DF 24 Henry Kessler 120+1' Head coach: Gregg Berhalter

GK 1 Alfredo Talavera RB 21 Luis Rodríguez CB 2 Néstor Araujo CB 15 Héctor Moreno (c) 44' LB 23 Jesús Gallardo 114' CM 6 Jonathan dos Santos 76' CM 4 Edson Álvarez 117' CM 16 Héctor Herrera 72' RF 17 Jesús Manuel Corona 91' CF 11 Rogelio Funes Mori 106' LF 10 Orbelín Pineda 76' Substitutions: DF 3 Carlos Salcedo 44' 106' MF 14 Érick Gutiérrez 76' FW 24 Rodolfo Pizarro 76' FW 5 Osvaldo Rodríguez 91' FW 9 Alan Pulido 106' DF 19 Gilberto Sepúlveda 106' Head coach: Gerardo Martino

Man of the Match: Matt Turner (United States) Assistant referees: Walter López (Honduras) Henri Pupiro (Nicaragua) Fourth official: Mario Escobar (Guatemala) Reserve assistant referee: Christian Ramírez (Honduras) Video assistant referee: Drew Fischer (Canada) Assistant video assistant referee: Tatiana Guzmán (Nicaragua)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of twelve named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.