Concacaf introduced that gamers from Canada, United States and Mexico who obtain a pink card through the 2025 Gold Cup will serve a suspension through the workforce’s subsequent pleasant match, because the disciplinary motion doesn’t carry over into the 2026 World Cup.
“Following in depth discussions with FIFA, Concacaf is now able to substantiate that any 2025 Gold Cup pending suspension for Canada, Mexico, and the USA (co-hosts of subsequent 12 months’s World Cup) should be served throughout their subsequent worldwide pleasant match and never through the FIFA World Cup 2026,” a spokesperson from Concacaf mentioned to ESPN.
The query arose when Jacob Shaffelburg obtained a second yellow in Canada’s 1-1 (5-6) Gold Cup quarterfinal match loss to Guatemala, being ejected from the pitch because the workforce confronted elimination from the event. As a bunch of the upcoming World Cup, the Canadian males’s nationwide workforce is not going to compete within the upcoming Concacaf Qualifiers and due to this fact has no aggressive matches till the 2026 event.
Given the shortage of official tournaments within the schedule, Shaffelburg will likely be suspended for the workforce’s upcoming pleasant match however will stay accessible for choice below head coach Jesse Marsch for the Canadian males’s nationwide workforce 2026 World Cup opener.
The rule applies to all gamers of the 2026 World Cup host nation, below article 69.3 of FIFA’s disciplinary code.
“If a consultant workforce is internet hosting a last competitors and is consequently not required to take part in qualifying matches to achieve the ultimate competitors of this event and its subsequent official match is in that last competitors, any match suspension shall be carried over to the consultant workforce’s subsequent pleasant match,” states FIFA.
Any participant from Mexico or the USA who earns a pink card within the semifinal sport or last of the 2025 Gold Cup will likely be out for the following pleasant match scheduled earlier than the World Cup.
The USMNT beat Guatemala 2-1 within the Gold Cup’s first semifinal on Wednesday, whereas Mexico faces Honduras later for a ticket to the ultimate.