Cuba at the CONCACAF Gold Cup
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The CONCACAF Gold Cup is North America's major tournament in senior men's football and determines the continental champion. Until 1989, the tournament was known as CONCACAF Championship. It is currently held every two years. From 1996 to 2005, nations from other confederations have regularly joined the tournament as invitees. In earlier editions, the continental championship was held in different countries, but since the inception of the Gold Cup in 1991, the United States are constant hosts or co-hosts.
From 1973 to 1989, the tournament doubled as the confederation's World Cup qualification. CONCACAF's representative team at the FIFA Confederations Cup was decided by a play-off between the winners of the last two tournament editions in 2015 via the CONCACAF Cup, but was then discontinued along with the Confederations Cup.
Since the inaugural tournament in 1963, the Gold Cup was held 28 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (13 titles).
Cuba have participated in the continental championship twelve times, but only won five out of their 40 matches, never more than one at a single tournament. Their best position was a fourth place in 1971. They rank 14th in the tournament's all-time table, but have the worst goal difference out of all 31 teams (−91).
Match overview
| CONCACAF Championship | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
 1963 | Did not enter | ||||||||
 1965 | Withdrew | ||||||||
 1967 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
 1969 | Did not enter | ||||||||
 1971 | Fourth place | 4th | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
 1973 | Did not enter | ||||||||
 1977 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 1981 | Final Round | 5th | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| 1985 | Did not enter | ||||||||
| 1989 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| CONCACAF Gold Cup | |||||||||
 1991 | Withdrew | ||||||||
| 1993 | Did not enter | ||||||||
| 1996 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 1998 | Group stage | 10th | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |
| 2000 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 2002 | Group stage | 11th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2003 | Quarter-finals | 8th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| 2005 | Group stage | 12th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
| 2007 | Group stage | 12th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
| 2009 | Withdrew | ||||||||
| 2011 | Group stage | 12th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 16 | |
| 2013 | Quarter-finals | 8th | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | |
 2015 | Quarter-finals | 8th | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | |
| 2017 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
 2019 | Group stage | 16th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | |
| 2021 | Withdrew | ||||||||
| 2023 | Group stage | 15th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
| 2025 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| Total | 12/28 | 14/33 | 40 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 30 | 121 | |
Record by opponent
| CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup matches (by team) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opponent | W | D | L | Pld | GF | GA |
 Belize | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Canada | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| Costa Rica | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 24 |
| El Salvador | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
 Guadeloupe | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
 Haiti | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
 Honduras | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
 Martinique | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mexico | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 25 |
 Panama | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
 South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 23 |