2006 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

2006 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

Tournament details
Host country	United States
Dates	19–27 November 2006
Teams	34 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	United States (6th title)
Runners-up	Canada
Third place	Mexico
Fourth place	Jamaica
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Maribel Domínguez Mónica Ocampo Christine Sinclair Abby Wambach (2 goals)
Best player	Kristine Lilly
Best goalkeeper	Erin McLeod[1]

The 2006 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup was the third edition of the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup, and also acted as a qualifier tournament for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. The tournament finals took place in the United States of America between 19 November and 27 November 2006.^[2] The USA and Canada received byes into the tournament after contesting the final of the 2002 Gold Cup, while four other spots were determined through regional qualification.

The United States won the competition with Canada the runner-up. Both squads automatically qualified for the 2007 Women's World Cup, while third place Mexico lost to AFC fourth-place finisher Japan in a playoff for a spot.

Teams

Pre-qualified  United States  Canada	North and Central America Qualifying  Mexico  Panama	Caribbean Qualifying  Jamaica  Trinidad and Tobago

Qualification

UNCAF/NAFU Qualifying

The group winners qualified for the Gold Cup finals.

Group A

Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Mexico	2	2	0	0	17	0	6
Nicaragua	2	1	0	1	2	10	3
El Salvador	2	0	0	2	1	10	0
Belize	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group B

Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Panama	2	2	0	0	5	0	6
Guatemala	2	1	0	1	2	4	3
Costa Rica	2	0	0	2	1	4	0
Honduras	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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CFU Qualifying

Also known as the Women's Caribbean Cup,^[3] there were two spots available for the 22 teams taking part.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barbados	0–1	Antigua and Barbuda	0–1	0–0
Cayman Islands	1–3	Netherlands Antilles	1–2	1–0
British Virgin Islands	1–8	U.S. Virgin Islands	1–3	0–5
Turks and Caicos Islands	w.o.[1]	Bahamas
Grenada	w.o.[1]	Guyana
Saint Kitts and Nevis	w.o.[1]	Montserrat

• ^{^^^} Bahamas, Guyana and Montserrat withdrew.

Antigua and Barbuda won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Netherlands Antilles won 3–1 on aggregate.

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US Virgin Islands won 8–1 on aggregate.

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First round

The group winners, in bold, qualified for the final round.  Haiti were unable to participate in group B, as they were denied entry to the hosting country Aruba, and thus a play-off between the winners of group B, Suriname, and Haiti was arranged. Haiti won the play-off, but Suriname qualified as best runners-up owing to goal difference, along with Bermuda.

Group A[3][4] Country Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD  Dominican Republic 9 3 3 0 0 11 2 +11  Bermuda 6 3 2 0 1 9 4 +5  U.S. Virgin Islands 3 3 1 0 2 4 7 −3  Turks and Caicos Islands 0 3 0 0 3 0 11 −11	Group B[5] Country Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD  Haiti were denied entry, but were allowed play-off with group winners  Suriname  Suriname 6 2 2 0 0 10 1 +9 Netherlands Antilles 3 2 1 0 1 3 8 −5  Aruba 0 2 0 0 2 1 5 −4
Group C[3][6] Country Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD  Jamaica 9 3 3 0 0 27 0 +27  Saint Lucia 6 3 2 0 1 5 8 −3  Saint Kitts and Nevis 3 3 1 0 2 5 16 −11  Antigua and Barbuda 0 3 0 0 3 3 16 −13	Group D[7] Country Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD  Trinidad and Tobago 9 3 3 0 0 20 1 +19  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6 3 2 0 1 8 4 +4  Dominica 1 3 0 1 2 2 10 −8  Grenada 1 3 0 1 2 2 17 −15

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Group A

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Group B

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Playoff

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Group C

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Group D

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Final round

Trinidad & Tobago hosted the final round, consisting of two groups of three teams, between 6 September and 10 September.^[5] The winner of each group, in bold, have qualified for the Gold Cup finals.

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Trinidad and Tobago	6	2	2	0	0	12	1	+11
Dominican Republic	3	2	1	0	1	2	7	−5
Suriname	0	2	0	0	2	1	7	−6

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Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Jamaica	6	2	2	0	0	10	0	+10
Haiti	3	2	1	0	1	5	3	+2
Bermuda	0	2	0	0	2	0	12	−12

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Final tournament

First round

Semifinals

Third place play-off

Final

Awards

2006 Women's Gold Cup Winners
United States Sixth title

References and notes

1. ↑ "CONCACAF Women's Championship award". canadasoccer.com. 
2. ↑ Women's Gold Cup, from RSSSF, retrieved 29 May 2006
3. 1 2 3 Women's Caribbean Cup 2006 Archived March 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., from RSSSF, retrieved 29 May 2006
4. ↑ Bermuda girls go down in extra time, by Colin Thompson, published by The Royal Gazette on 8 May 2006. The final match of the group, between Bermuda and Dominican Republic, went to extra time after the score was 1–1 after 90 minutes. The table includes the extra time score.
5. 1 2 2006 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup / Copa Oro Femenina – Caribbean Qualification, from CONCACAF, retrieved 29 May 2006.
6. ↑ Girlz rout St Kitts & Nevis 11–0, from Jamaica Observer, retrieved 29 May 2006
7. ↑ Soca Princesses slam Dominica 6–0, from Trinidad Guardian, retrieved 29 May 2006