IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - GOLD CUP

• Jun 29, 2025
• IFFHS News

Picture : Alexis Vega, here against Ali Masjrashi, scored the first goal for Mexico.

Gold Cup statistics (Quarterfinals)

Panama vs Honduras 1-1, pen.4-5

*Panama haven’t lost any of their last 16 games against Central American teams (11 wins and 5 draws). 
This run is going on since Panama’s defeat to El Salvador in a friendly 3 years ago.

*Panama are the 3rd team that won 3 of 3 group stage matches and were eliminated in the Gold Cup quarterfinals, after Jamaica in 2011 (eliminated by the United States) and Costa Rica in 2021 (eliminated by Canada).

*Honduras became the first ever senior national team tournament (in any confederation) that reached the semifinals of a continental championship having lost their first match by 6+ goals (0-6 vs Canada).

*Panama had won 4 consecutive shootouts at Gold Cup (vs El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago and twice vs the United States) until past night's defeat. Their previous shootout loss was 20 years ago (against the United States in the 2005 Gold Cup final).  

*For Honduras, it was 4th successful of total 6 penalty shootouts they contested in official tournaments involving senior national teams. 

*Ismael Díaz equals Blas Pérez as the top Panamanian scorer in the Gold Cup (11 goals each).

*All last his 10 goals for the national team came in Gold Cup: 4 in the previous edition (2023) where he finished the 2nd top scorer and 6 in this edition where he leads sovereign in the goal-scorers’ contest.

*Ismael Díaz finished this tournament being just 1 goal shorter of the best Gold Cup’s invidividual scoring performance in a single edition in XXI century (see the ranking below).


Mexico vs Saudi Arabia 2-0

*Mexico have qualified for the Gold Cup semifinals for the 10th time in their last 10 appearances.

*Abdullah Madu's own goal made Mexico the first national team to reach 200 goals in the Gold Cup.