The Central American Games football tournament is a football competition organized by UNCAF and ORDECA. It is scheduled to be held every four years.

The men's tournament is only open to players who are aged 20 and below.

In 2001 a women's tournament was played for the first time. The women's event is contested by the senior national squads.

Results

Men's tournament results

Year	Host city	Gold Medal	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal
1973	Guatemala City	Panama	Nicaragua	El Salvador
1977	San Salvador	El Salvador	Panama	Nicaragua
1986	Guatemala City	Guatemala	Honduras	Nicaragua
1990	Tegucigalpa	Honduras	Costa Rica	Nicaragua
1994	San Salvador	Honduras	El Salvador	Costa Rica
1997	San Pedro Sula	Costa Rica	Panama	Honduras
2001	Guatemala City	Guatemala	Honduras	Costa Rica
2006	San Pedro Sula	Cancelled
2010	Panama City	Cancelled
2013	San José	Honduras	Costa Rica	El Salvador
2017	Managua	Honduras	Costa Rica	El Salvador
2022	Santa Tecla	Games Cancelled (No medalist)	Games Cancelled (No medalist)	Games Cancelled (No medalist)

Women's tournament results

Year	Host city	Gold Medal	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal
2001	Guatemala City	Costa Rica	Honduras	Guatemala
2013	San José	Costa Rica	Nicaragua	Guatemala
2017	Managua	Costa Rica	Nicaragua	Panama
2022	Santa Tecla	Games Cancelled (No medalist)	Games Cancelled (No medalist)	Games Cancelled (No medalist)

Medal count

Men's

Rank	Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Honduras	4	2	1
2	Guatemala	2	0	0
3	Costa Rica	1	3	2
3	Panama	1	2	0
5	El Salvador	1	1	3
6	Nicaragua	0	1	3
7	Belize	0	0	0

Women's

Rank	Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Costa Rica	3	0	0
2	Nicaragua	0	2	0
3	Honduras	0	1	0
4	Guatemala	0	0	2
5	Panama	0	0	1

All-time performance

Men's tournament, 1973–2017

Pos.	Team	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif.	Per.
1	Honduras	19	5	4	58	17	+41	0.768
2	Costa Rica	16	4	10	47	28	+19	0.600
3	Panama	11	5	8	36	20	+16	0.562
4	El Salvador	12	8	11	46	30	+16	0.516
5	Guatemala	12	5	12	41	29	+12	0.500
6	Nicaragua	5	5	21	22	87	–65	0.242
7	Belize	1	2	10	7	46	–40	0.154