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.

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).

Curaçao have qualified for the continental championship six times. As the Netherlands Antilles, the team scored good results in the 1960s, including two third-place finishes. Since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, Curaçao have qualified twice. In 2017, they lost all three group matches. In 2019 however, they reached the knockout stage after earning a 1–0 victory over Honduras and drawing 1–1 against Jamaica with a stunning injury time equalizer by Juriën Gaari. They were eliminated 0–1 by the United States in the quarter-finals.

Of the other CONCACAF members that used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire and Sint Maarten), none have qualified for a Gold Cup as of 2023.

Overall record

CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup record											Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Squad		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
as  Netherlands Antilles											as  Netherlands Antilles
1963	Third place	3rd	8	5	0	3	14	9	Squad		2	2	0	0	4	1
1965	Fifth place	5th	5	0	2	3	4	16	Squad		Qualified automatically
1967	Did not qualify										4	0	2	2	4	6
1969	Third place	3rd	5	2	1	2	9	12	Squad		Qualified automatically
1971	Did not enter										Did not enter
1973	Sixth place	6th	5	0	2	3	4	19	Squad		Qualified automatically
1977	Did not qualify										2	0	0	2	1	9
1981											4	0	3	1	1	2
1985											2	0	1	1	0	4
1989											4	2	0	2	4	7
1991											2	0	0	2	0	5
1993	Did not enter										Did not enter
1996	Did not qualify										5	3	1	1	11	11
1998											1	0	0	1	1	2
2000											6	2	1	3	8	13
2002	Did not enter										Did not enter
2003	Did not qualify										4	1	1	2	3	6
2005	Withdrew										Withdrew
2007	Did not qualify										3	0	1	2	1	7
2009											5	1	1	3	5	11
as  Curaçao											as  Curaçao
2011	Did not qualify										3	0	1	2	5	7
2013											3	0	0	3	2	11
2015											9	2	3	4	11	15
2017	Group stage	11th	3	0	0	3	0	6	Squad		6	5	0	1	18	4
2019	Quarter-finals	8th	4	1	1	2	2	3	Squad		4	3	0	1	22	2
2021	Qualified but withdrew										4	1	2	1	3	3
2023	Did not qualify										5	1	1	3	3	9
Total	Third place	6/27	30	8	6	16	33	65	—		78	23	18	33	107	135

Match overview

Tournament	Round	Opponent	Score	Venue
1963	First round	Mexico	2–1	Santa Ana
		Costa Rica	0–1
		Jamaica	2–1
	Final round	Costa Rica	0–1	San Salvador
		El Salvador	2–3
		Honduras	4–1
1965	Final round	Haiti	1–1	Guatemala City
		Mexico	0–5
		Costa Rica	0–6
		Guatemala	2–3
		El Salvador	1–1
1969	Final round	Costa Rica	1–2	San José
		Guatemala	1–6
		Trinidad and Tobago	3–1
		Mexico	2–2
		Jamaica	2–1
1973	Final round	Haiti	0–3	Port-au-Prince
		Guatemala	2–2
		Mexico	0–8
		Honduras	2–2
		Trinidad and Tobago	0–4
2017	Group stage	Jamaica	0–2	San Diego
		El Salvador	0–2	Denver
		Mexico	0–2	San Antonio
2019	Group stage	El Salvador	0–1	Kingston
		Honduras	1–0	Houston
		Jamaica	1–1	Los Angeles
	Quarter-finals	United States	0–1	Philadelphia

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