1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

The 1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 13th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 17 April 1977 till 18 February 1978.

1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates17 April 1977 – 18 February 1978
Final positions
Champions América
Runners-up Robinhood

The teams were split in 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North and Central zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

Mexican club América beat Surinamese side Robinhood in the final,[1] winning their first CONCACAF champion cup.[2]

North American Zone
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
América w/o New York Inter-Giuliana
  • New York Inter-Giuliana withdrew
  • América advances to the CONCACAF Semi-Final.

Central American Zone

First Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Águila 1 - 3 Municipal 0 - 2 1 - 1
Diriangén w/o Barrio México
Saprissa w/o Real España
  • Motagua on a Bye.
  • Barrio México did not have match dates communicated to them by CONCACAF and forfeited.
  • Real España withdrew.
  • Águila, Diriangén, Saprissa advances to the second round.

Second Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Municipal 16 - 2 Diriangén 13 - 1 3 - 1
Saprissa w/o Motagua
  • Motagua withdrew.
  • Municipal and Saprissa advance to the third round.

Third Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Municipal 1 - 3 Saprissa 1 - 2 0 - 1
  • Saprissa advances to the CONCACAF Semi-Final.

Caribbean Zone

First Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Defence Force 0 - 4 Violette 0 - 2 0 - 2
Pele 3 - 4 Voorwaarts 2 - 0 1 - 4
Robinhood 6 - 0 YMCA 5 - 0 1 - 0
TECSA w/o Victory
  • Victory withdrew.
  • Violette and Robinhood advanced to the Second Round.
  • Voorwaarts on a bye to the Third Round.
  • TECSA on a bye to the Fourth Round.

Second Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Violette 0 - 1 Robinhood 0 - 0 0 - 1
  • Robinhood advanced to the third round.

Third Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Voorwaarts 0 - 2 Robinhood 0 - 1 0 - 1
  • Robinhood advanced to the fourth round.

Fourth Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
TECSA 2 - 4 Robinhood 1 - 1 1 - 3
  • Robinhood advanced to the CONCACAF Champions'Cup Final.

CONCACAF Final Series

Semi-Final
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
América w/o Saprissa
  • Saprissa withdrew.
  • América advances to the CONCACAF Final.

Final

First leg
1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup Final
First leg
Robinhood 0–1 América
Report da Costa  49'

Second leg
Second leg
Robinhood 1–1 América
Emanuelson Report (1)
Report (2)		 Kiesse  70'
Attendance: 5,000
  • América won 2–1 on aggregate.

Champion
CONCACAF Champions' Cup
1977 Champions

América
First title

References
  1. Copa de Campeones 1977 on the RSSSF
  2. Campeonato de Concacaf 1977–78 on Club América
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