Ecuador at the CONCACAF Gold Cup

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.

Former Colombian international Hernán Darío Gómez was Ecuador's head coach at the time of the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

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 27 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico (12 titles).

Ecuador have participated as invitees once, in 2002. After one victory and one defeat in the group stage, Ecuador was sent home with a stroke of bad luck; all three teams were equal on both points and goals, and lots were drawn to determine the teams' positions. Haiti and Canada were drawn into first and second place and advanced to the quarter-finals, while Ecuador were eliminated.

Record at the CONCACAF Championship/Gold Cup

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Record

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CONCACAF Gold Cup
Year Result Position Pld W D L GF GA
  2002 Group stage 9th 2 1 0 1 2 2
Total 1/27 24/31 2 1 0 1 2 2

Match overview

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Year Round Opponent Result Ecuador scorers Venue
  2002 Group stage   Haiti 0–2 Miami
  Canada 2–0 A. Aguinaga (2)

2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup

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Group stage

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Haiti 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
  Canada 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
  Ecuador 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
Ecuador  0–2  Haiti
Report Méndez   6' (o.g.)
Alerte   44'
Attendance: 12,253
Referee: Carlos Batres  

Canada  0–2  Ecuador
Report Aguinaga   88', 90'
Attendance: 3,827
Referee: Brian Hall  

Record players

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Álex Aguinaga (here as club coach in 2015) played both matches and scored both goals at Ecuador's only Gold Cup participation.

The following ten players have been fielded in both Gold Cup matches for Ecuador:

Rank Player Matches Gold Cups
1 Álex Aguinaga 2 2002
Nicolás Asencio 2 2002
José Francisco Cevallos 2 2002
Cléber Chalá 2 2002
Ángel Fernández 2 2002
Luis Gómez 2 2002
Carlos Ramón Hidalgo 2 2002
Iván Hurtado 2 2002
Alfonso Obregón 2 2002
Edwin Tenorio 2 2002

Goalscorers

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Both Ecuadorian goals were scored by Álex Aguinaga, late in the match against Canada, one of them per penalty.

See also

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References

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