# 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF third round

This page provides the summaries of the CONCACAF third round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

## Format

The third round saw the teams ranked 1–6 joined by the 6 group winners from the second round. These teams were drawn into three groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011.
The matches were played from 8 June to 16 October 2012. The top two teams from each group advanced to the fourth round.

## Seeding

The draw for the third round was held before the second round matches were played, so only the six teams with byes to the round were known at the time of the draw. Teams were seeded into three pots, with Pot 1 containing the top 3 seeds, Pot 2 seeds 4 to 6, and Pot 3 the 6 (unknown) group winners from the second round (designated Winner A to Winner F). Each third round group will contain one team from Pot 1, one team from Pot 2 and two teams from Pot 3.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 |
| United States  Mexico  Honduras | Jamaica  Costa Rica  Cuba | El Salvador (Group A)  Guyana (Group B)  Panama (Group C)  Canada (Group D)  Guatemala (Group E)  Antigua and Barbuda (Group F) |
Note: The identity of teams in Pot 3 (second round winners) were not known at the time of the draw.

## Groups
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | |
| 1 | United States | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 13 | Advance to fourth round | — | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 |
| 2 | Jamaica | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 10 | Advance to fourth round | 2–1 | — | 2–1 | 4–1 |
| 3 | Guatemala | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 10 | | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 3–1 |
| 4 | Antigua and Barbuda | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 1 | | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | |
| 1 | Mexico | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 | 18 | Advance to fourth round | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 |
| 2 | Costa Rica | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 10 | Advance to fourth round | 0–2 | — | 2–2 | 7–0 |
| 3 | El Salvador | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 5 | | 1–2 | 0–1 | — | 2–2 |
| 4 | Guyana | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 24 | −19 | 1 | | 0–5 | 0–4 | 2–3 | — |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | |
| 1 | Honduras | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 11 | Advance to fourth round | — | 0–2 | 8–1 | 1–0 |
| 2 | Panama | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 11 | Advance to fourth round | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Canada | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 10 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | — | 3–0 |
| 4 | Cuba | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 1 | | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — |

## Goalscorers

There were 100 goals scored in 36 matches, for an average of 2.78 goals per match.
6 goals
* Álvaro Saborío
5 goals
* Carlos Ruiz
* Jerry Bengtson
* Clint Dempsey
3 goals
* Osael Romero
* Carlo Costly
* Javier Hernández
* Blas Pérez
2 goals
* Peter Byers
* Randall Brenes
* Joel Campbell
* Isidro Gutiérrez
* Dwight Pezzarossi
* Trayon Bobb
* Mario Martínez
* Demar Phillips
* Dane Richards
* Luton Shelton
* Oribe Peralta
* Carlos Salcido
* Jesús Zavala
* Nelson Barahona
* Carlos Bocanegra
* Herculez Gomez
* Eddie Johnson
1 goal
* Dexter Blackstock
* Quinton Griffith
* Dwayne De Rosario
* David Edgar
* Iain Hume
* Will Johnson
* Olivier Occean
* Tosaint Ricketts
* Christian Bolaños
* Celso Borges
* José Miguel Cubero
* Cristian Gamboa
* Alberto Gómez
* Jaime Alas
* Rafael Burgos
* Alfredo Pacheco
* Carlos Figueroa
* Marco Pappa
* Chris Nurse
* Gregory Richardson
* Víctor Bernárdez
* Marvin Chávez
* Rodolph Austin
* Ryan Johnson
* Nyron Nosworthy
* Giovani dos Santos
* Andrés Guardado
* Héctor Moreno
* Ángel Reyna
* Rolando Blackburn
1 own goal
* Charles Pollard (against Mexico)
* J. P. Rodrigues (against Mexico)
* Héctor Moreno (against Guyana)