2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup final

The 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup final was a soccer 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 August 1, 2021, and was contested by hosts the United States and the defending champions Mexico.^[2]

2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup final

Allegiant Stadium in Paradise hosted the final.
Event	2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup
United States Mexico 1 0
After extra time
Date	August 1, 2021 (2021-08-01)
Venue	Allegiant Stadium, Paradise
Man of the Match	Matt Turner (United States)[1]
Referee	Said Martínez (Honduras)
Attendance	61,114
Weather	Partly cloudy 99 °F (37 °C) 23% humidity
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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, with the lone goal scored by Miles Robinson in extra time for their seventh Gold Cup title.^[3]

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 was the first major international tournament to be played at the venue, which was built for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League.^[4] It was also the first Gold Cup match to be played in the Las Vegas area.^[5] The match was played in front of a full-capacity crowd after the easing of COVID-19 restrictions; CONCACAF began sale of general seating tickets on June 11, 2021, and sold out their allotment within 90 minutes.^[6]

Referee

The referee in charge of the match was Said Martínez from Honduras. Martínez, who at the time was 29, was considered amongst the best confederation referees and was appointed along assistant referees, one fellow Honduran and a Nicaraguan as linesmen. Goal.com considered the match, the most important of his international career, which began in 2017.^[7]

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	3–0
Canada	1–0	Match 3	El Salvador	1–0
Group B winners Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1  United States (H) 3 9 2  Canada 3 6 3  Haiti 3 3 4  Martinique 3 0 Source: CONCACAF (H) Hosts		Final standings	Group A winners Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1  Mexico 3 7 2  El Salvador 3 6 3  Trinidad and Tobago 3 2 4  Guatemala 3 1 Source: CONCACAF
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
Jamaica	1–0	Quarter-finals	Honduras	3–0
Qatar	1–0	Semi-finals	Canada	2–1

Match

Details

United States	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Mexico
Robinson 117'	Report

August 1, 2021 (2021-08-01)

21:00 (18:00 UTC−7)

Allegiant Stadium, Paradise

Attendance: 61,114

Referee: Said Martínez (Honduras)

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' DF 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)[1] Assistant referees:[8] 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[9] 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.[note 1]

Notes

1. Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions during the game, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time (Regulations Article 6.5.).

References

1. CONCACAF [@GoldCup] (August 1, 2021). "Matt Turner was a WALL against Mexico, just like in the whole tournament as well. For this he was named Man of the Match. Congrats Matt!" (Tweet). Retrieved August 1, 2021 – via Twitter.
2. "Las Vegas Awarded 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup Final" (Press release). CONCACAF. April 13, 2021. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
3. "Miles Robinson's last-gasp header lifts USA over Mexico in Gold Cup final". Guardian. August 2, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
4. Akers, Mick (April 13, 2021). "Gold Cup soccer final set for Allegiant Stadium on Aug. 1". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
5. "Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium will host Gold Cup final". Jamaica Gleaner. April 13, 2021. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
6. "Concacaf Gold Cup Final on August 1 at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium sells out in 90 minutes". CONCACAF.com (Press release). CONCACAF. June 11, 2021. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
7. "¿Quién es Said Martínez? El árbitro de la final de la Copa Oro 2021". Goal.com (in Spanish). 2021. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
8. "Match officials appointed for 2021 Gold Cup Final". www.concacaf.com. CONCACAF. August 1, 2021. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
9. "2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup Regulations" (PDF). CONCACAF. September 18, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2021.