page_title: Panama at the CONCACAF Gold Cup
section_title: Record Players
hierarchical_section_title: Panama at the CONCACAF Gold Cup / Record Players
caption_attribution_description: English: Panama national football team
context_page_description: 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 25 times and has been won by seven different nations, most often by Mexico.
  Although Panama was one of the nine teams which participated in the inaugural 1963 CONCACAF Championship, it took 30 years for them to make a second appearance on a continental tournament.
context_section_description: Panama's record cap holder Gabriel Gómez appeared in seven consecutive CONCACAF Gold Cups. After the 2018 FIFA World Cup however, he officially retired from international football.
  He and goalkeeper Jaime Penedo are the only players who were fielded in both of Panama's Gold Cup finals (2005 and 2013).
caption: Gabriel Gómez has appeared in 31 CONCACAF Gold Cup matches.