2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup
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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | United States |
| Dates | 7–28 July |
| Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 13 (in 13 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 United States (5th title)
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| Runners-up |  Panama |
| Third place |  Mexico |
| Fourth place |  Honduras |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 25 |
| Goals scored | 67 (2.68 per match) |
| Attendance | 907,208 (36,288 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
Landon Donovan Gabriel Torres Chris Wondolowski (5 goals each) |
| Best player |
Landon Donovan
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| Best goalkeeper |
Jaime Penedo
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| Fair play award | Panama |
The 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 12th CONCACAF Gold Cup competition and the 22nd CONCACAF regional championship overall in CONCACAF's fifty years of existence. The United States was the host nation.
The competition began on 7 July 2013 at the Rose Bowl, and ended with the final on 28 July 2013 at Soldier Field, with the United States defeating Panama 1–0. In this edition of the Gold Cup, Mexico was missing more than half of their usual starters due to them playing in the 2013 Confederations Cup prior to the Gold Cup. Despite not playing with their full squad, they successfully reached the semifinals where they lost to eventual runner up Panama with a score of 1–2.
United States won the tournament, in which qualified them for a play-off match against the champion of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, to decide which team will represent CONCACAF in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. The playoff would be played as a single game in 2015 at a venue to be determined.
Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.
Thirty venues across the United States participated in the start of the stadium selection process with Soccer United Marketing, the event partner for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
CONCACAF announced the 13 host cities and venues for the tournament on 23 January 2013. Each venue will host two matches, with the final being held at Chicago's Soldier Field:
Each CONCACAF federation submitted a list of match officials to the CONCACAF Referee's Commission for the 2013 Gold Cup Tournament.
Each team can register a squad of 23 players; 3 of them must be goalkeepers. Any team that qualifies for the knockout stage may replace up to four players in the squad after completion of the group stage, where the new players must come from a provisional list of 35 players chosen before the tournament.
CONCACAF announced the groups, where the twelve teams were divided into three groups of four teams, and the match schedule for the 2013 Gold Cup on 13 March 2013.
In the group stage, if two or more teams are equal on points (including among third-placed teams in different groups), the ranking of teams will be determined as follows:
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