An overwhelming statistic leads Argentina over Concacaf teams. With the consummated victory against Canada, they reached 51 wins in 72 games, with 15 draws and only 6 losses. But the most extraordinary thing is that he has not lost for 20 years with teams from that confederation, with a streak of 38 games, 34 wins (18 consecutively) and 5 draws. The last loss occurred in the Copa América in Peru, on July 10, 2004, against Mexico by 1 to 0.
In history, the National Team He faced 13 Concacaf teams. The first was the United States at the Amsterdam Olympic Games in 1928, and it still remains one of the biggest wins of the competition and of the Argentine team: 11 to 2. The second, against Mexico, in the group stage of the World Cup. 1930: 6-3. In that same tournament, in the semifinals, they beat the United States 6-1.
These two teams are the ones Argentina faced the most and the only ones that ever managed to beat them. The United States won 2 of the 10 matches, one in the Copa América in Uruguay in 1995, 3 to 0 in the group stage when Daniel Passarella decided on substitutes, and the other a friendly in 1999 in Washington.
Argentina faced the Mexicans 31 times and only lost four times against 16 wins and 11 draws. La Tri won three friendlies: 2-1 in 1967, 2-0 in 1973, both in Mexico City, and 2-0 in 1990 in Los Angeles. The fourth, the happy one, the 1-0 victory in the Copa América in Peru in 2004. After Mexico and the United States, Costa Rica has the greatest record of the rest of the Central American teams: of seven games, Argentina won 5 and tied 2.
With the other 10 selected, The National Team played 23 games and always won: 4 to Jamaica (5-0 in 1998, 2-1 in 2010, 1-0 in 2015 and 3-0 in 2022), 3 to El Salvador (2-0 in 1982, 2-0 in 2015 and 3-0 in 2004), 3 to Guatemala (4-0 in 2013, 3-0 in 2018 and 4-1 in 2024), 3 to Panama (3-1 in 2009, 5-0 in 2016 and 2-0 in 2023), 3 to Haiti (4-1 in 1974, 4-0 in 2010 and 4-0 in 2018), 3 to Honduras (3-1 in 2013, 1-0 in 2016 and 3-0 in 2022), 2 to Canada with the today (5-0 in 2010 the previous one), and one to Trinidad and Tobago (3-0 in 2014), to Nicaragua (5-1 in 2019) and Curacao (7-0 in 2023).
Of the 72 games, 10 were for the Copa América, with 8 wins, one draw and two losses. With Mexico he played in Ecuador 93 (1-1 and 2-1 in the final), then in Peru 2004 (0-1) and Venezuela 2007 (3-0). To the United States three times: in Uruguay 95 (0-3), Venezuela 2007 (4-1) and United States 2016 (4-0). He beat Costa Rica 3-0 in 2011 in Córdoba, Jamaica 1-0 in Chile 2015 and Panama 5-0 in the United States).
Another eight matches were for the World Cup, with eight wins; six in the Pan American Games of 1956 and 60, with four victories and two draws; one in the Olympic Games (11-2 to the United States); and a match against Mexico was for the 2005 Confederations Cup, in Germany, prior to the World Cup. They tied 1-1 and in the semifinal definition in the penalty shootout Argentina won 6 to 5. The rest, all friendlies: 45 matches, with 30 wins, 11 draws and 4 losses.
