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The 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from September 2014 to November 2015 to determine the 15 CONCACAF member men's national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Cuba in the 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup final tournament.

Schedule

Stage	Matchday	Dates
Qualifying group stage	Matchday 1	7–9 September 2014
	Matchday 2	9–11 October 2014
	Matchday 3	12–14 October 2014
	Matchday 4	14–16 November 2014
	Matchday 5	27–29 March 2015
	Matchday 6	12–14 June 2015
	Matchday 7	3–5 September 2015
	Matchday 8	6–8 September 2015
	Matchday 9	8–10 October 2015
	Matchday 10	11–13 October 2015
	Matchday 11	12–14 November 2015
	Matchday 12	15–18 November 2015
Play-offs	1st leg	29–31 January 2016
	2nd leg	5–7 February 2016

Qualifying group stage

There were seven pots for the seven groups. The draw was held in July 2014 and teams were ranked based on their ELO World Rankings for that month. The ELO Rankings were installed, because the FIFA Rankings exclude CONCACAF members that are not full FIFA members.

Pot 1 Team FIFA Rank United States 15 1 Costa Rica 16 2 Mexico 18 3 Panama 33 4 Honduras 40 5 Jamaica 83 6	Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank Trinidad and Tobago 84 7 Martinique 85 8 Haiti 113 9 Canada 118 10 El Salvador 121 11 Aruba 123 12	Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank Dominican Republic 125 13 French Guiana 130 14 Suriname 131 15 Guatemala 134 16 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 135 17 Saint Lucia 138 18
Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank Grenada 142 19 Guadeloupe 144 20 Antigua and Barbuda 149 21 Guyana 155 22 Puerto Rico 156 23 Saint Kitts and Nevis 158 24	Pot 5 Team Coeff Rank Belize 161 25 Montserrat 166 26 Dominica 167 27 Barbados 169 28 Bermuda 173 29 Nicaragua 175 30	Pot 6 Team Coeff Rank Turks and Caicos Islands 181 31 Curaçao 183 32 Sint Maarten 187 33 U.S. Virgin Islands 190 34 Bahamas 192 35 Bonaire 194 36 Pot 7 Team Coeff Rank Cayman Islands 196 37 Saint Martin 199 38 British Virgin Islands 200 39 Anguilla 207 40

Groups

Group A

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guatemala	10	7	1	2	21	10	+11	22	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	2–1	2–1	8–2	2–0
2	Guyana	10	7	0	3	21	9	+12	21			3–0	—	3–2	3–1	5–0	1–0
3	Jamaica	10	6	2	2	23	9	+14	20	Advance to play-offs		2–0	1–0	—	2–2	6–0	4–0
4	Aruba	10	3	1	6	16	19	−3	10			1–2	1–2	1–3	—	5–2	2–1
5	Bonaire	10	2	2	6	11	31	−20	8			0–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	—	2–3
6	Dominica	10	1	2	7	5	19	−14	5			0–4	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	—

Source: CONCACAF

Group B

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mexico	12	8	2	2	51	5	+46	26	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	5–0	3–0	4–0	9–0	12–0
2	Puerto Rico	12	7	3	2	19	11	+8	24			2–2	—	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	3–0
3	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12	6	4	2	23	18	+5	22	Advance to play-offs		0–0	2–1	—	1–1	4–3	3–2	4–1
4	El Salvador	12	6	3	3	21	13	+8	21			2–1	2–2	2–1	—	3–3	2–0	5–0
5	Nicaragua	12	3	4	5	16	18	−2	13			1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	—	1–1	3–0
6	British Virgin Islands	12	2	2	8	8	30	−22	8			0–6	0–1	1–4	0–2	1–0	—	2–0
7	Turks and Caicos Islands	12	0	2	10	5	50	−45	2			0–7	1–3	2–3	0–3	0–0	1–1	—

Source: CONCACAF

Group C

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	10	7	2	1	17	5	+12	23	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–0
2	Honduras	10	7	1	2	24	8	+16	22			1–0	—	3–1	3–0	4–0	5–0
3	Guadeloupe	10	4	2	4	17	12	+5	14	Advance to play-offs		2–2	2–3	—	3–0	4–0	2–0
4	Curaçao	10	3	4	3	11	16	−5	13			1–1	2–1	1–0	—	1–1	1–0
5	Saint Lucia	10	1	3	6	9	23	−14	6			0–2	1–3	1–1	2–2	—	2–1
6	Bermuda	10	1	2	7	8	22	−14	5			0–2	1–1	0–1	3–3	3–2	—

Source: CONCACAF

Group D

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	12	10	1	1	52	6	+46	31	Qualify for final tournament		—	4–0	2–0	6–1	4–0	8–0	10–0
2	Suriname	12	8	2	2	32	19	+13	26			1–1	—	3–2	4–2	3–2	5–1	6–1
3	Trinidad and Tobago	12	7	3	2	40	15	+25	24	Advance to play-offs		2–1	2–2	—	3–1	4–2	7–0	7–0
4	Saint Kitts and Nevis	12	5	2	5	20	23	−3	17			1–2	2–0	2–2	—	2–2	1–0	1–0
5	Belize	12	4	2	6	22	23	−1	14			0–3	2–3	1–1	2–0	—	3–0	4–1
6	Bahamas	12	3	0	9	10	36	−26	9			1–3	0–1	1–4	0–2	2–1	—	3–1
7	Saint-Martin	12	0	0	12	5	59	−54	0			0–8	0–4	0–6	2–5	0–3	0–2	—

Source: CONCACAF

Group E

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	12	11	1	0	44	6	+38	34	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–0	4–0	5–0	2–0	7–0	8–1
2	Martinique	12	7	2	3	26	13	+13	23			2–3	—	0–0	2–1	2–1	4–0	6–0
3	Barbados	12	3	8	1	13	9	+4	17	Advance to play-offs		1–1	1–1	—	1–1	0–0	3–0	3–0
4	Grenada	12	4	4	4	14	14	0	16			1–2	2–0	0–0	—	1–0	0–0	1–0
5	French Guiana	12	3	4	5	17	15	+2	13			0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	—	4–1	2–2
6	Sint Maarten	12	2	2	8	7	30	−23	8			0–5	0–2	1–1	3–2	1–2	—	2–1
7	Anguilla	12	1	1	10	5	39	−34	4			0–2	1–5	0–2	0–4	1–6	1–0	—

Source: CONCACAF

Group F

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Haiti	12	9	2	1	40	10	+30	29	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	2–0	4–2	6–0	4–0	7–0
2	Panama	12	8	2	2	45	11	+34	26			2–1	—	3–1	3–0	6–1	8–0	11–2
3	Dominican Republic	12	7	3	2	24	15	+9	24	Advance to play-offs		2–2	1–1	—	3–2	3–2	3–0	5–0
4	Antigua and Barbuda	12	7	2	3	29	17	+12	23			1–1	2–1	1–1	—	3–1	4–1	7–1
5	Cayman Islands	12	2	1	9	13	32	−19	7			2–3	1–4	1–3	0–1	—	2–0	2–1
6	U.S. Virgin Islands	12	1	2	9	3	35	−32	5			0–4	0–5	1–2	0–3	0–0	—	1–0
7	Montserrat	12	1	2	9	10	44	−34	5			1–5	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	—

Source: CONCACAF

Qualifying playoffs

Main article: 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying play-offs

The play-offs of the 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying tournament decided the final three teams which qualified for the 2016 CONCACAF Gold Cup final tournament. Six teams, each of which finished third in their qualifying group were paired and contested in three ties, with the winner of each pair qualifying for the final tournament. Each of the three ties were played over two home-and-away legs with the threed winners found according to the standard rules for the knockout phase in North American competitions.

Ranking of third-placed teams

Teams were seeded based on their ELO rankings in December 2015.

Pot 1 (seeded) Team Rank Jamaica 54 Trinidad and Tobago 99 Guadeloupe 132

Pot 2 (unseeded) Team Rank Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 143 Dominican Republic 170 Barbados 172

Summary

The schedule of the play-offs was published by CONCACAF within one hour of the draw. The eight matches were spread over the six days, with the first legs on 31 January 2016 and the second legs on 5 February 2016. The kickoff times were 18:00 or 20:00 EST (local times are in parentheses).

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jamaica	5–4	Dominican Republic	2–2	3–2
Guadeloupe	2–3	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1–0	1–3
Trinidad and Tobago	6–1	Barbados	3–1	3–0