CONCACAF Championship

The CONCACAF Championship was an association football tournament that took place between 1963 and 1989. The competition is sometimes referred to as CONCACAF Campeonato de Naciones or the NORCECA tournament, taking its name from the acronym of regions entering the tournament (North America, Central America and the Caribbean).

CONCACAF Championship
Founded18 September 1961[1]
Abolished1989
RegionNorth America, Central America and Caribbean
Last champions Costa Rica (3rd title)
Most successful team(s) Costa Rica
 Mexico
(3 titles each)
Websitehttp://www.concacaf.com

The first Championship took place in 1963 and was CONCACAF's first organized tournament for national teams. The competition retained its tournament format and was played on a biennial basis for a decade.

In 1973 the tournament became the qualifying tournament for the FIFA World Cup and was played on a quadrennial basis. The CONCACAF trophy was given to the team that ranked highest in the qualifying group. In 1985 and 1989, there was no host nation for the competition.

The competition was discontinued in 1991 in favor of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Tournament results


CONCACAF Championship
Edition Year Host Final Group Rank
Winner Runner-up 3rd Place 4th Place
1 1963  El Salvador
Costa Rica

El Salvador

Netherlands Antilles

Honduras
2 1965  Guatemala
Mexico

Guatemala

Costa Rica

El Salvador
3 1967  Honduras
Guatemala

Mexico

Honduras

Trinidad and Tobago
4 1969  Costa Rica
Costa Rica

Guatemala

Netherlands Antilles

Mexico
5 1971  Trinidad and Tobago
Mexico

Haiti

Costa Rica

Cuba
World Cup Qualifying Period
6 1973  Haiti
Haiti

Trinidad and Tobago

Mexico

Honduras
7 1977  Mexico
Mexico

Haiti

El Salvador

Canada
8 1981  Honduras
Honduras

El Salvador

Mexico

Canada
9 1985 CONCACAF (No Fixed Venue)
Canada

Honduras

Costa Rica

El Salvador
10 1989 CONCACAF (No Fixed Venue)
Costa Rica

United States

Trinidad and Tobago

Guatemala

Winners

Team Winners Runners-up Third Place Fourth Place
 Mexico 3 (1965, 1971, 1977) 1 (1967) 2 (1973, 1981) 1 (1969)
 Costa Rica 3 (1963, 1969, 1989) 3 (1965, 1971, 1985)
 Guatemala 1 (1967) 2 (1965, 1969) 1 (1989)
 Haiti 1 (1973) 2 (1971, 1977)
 Honduras 1 (1981) 1 (1985) 1 (1967) 2 (1963, 1973)
 Canada 1 (1985) 2 (1977, 1981)
 El Salvador 2 (1963, 1981) 1 (1977) 2 (1965, 1985)
 Trinidad and Tobago 1 (1973) 1 (1989) 1 (1967)
 United States 1 (1989)
 Netherlands Antilles 2 (1963, 1969)
 Cuba 1 (1971)

All-time table

Rank Team Part Pld W D L GF GA Dif Pts
1  Mexico838221067824+5476
2  Costa Rica637201166427+3771
3  Guatemala8391512125840+1857
4  Honduras6351212114241+148
5  El Salvador6321110114336+743
6  Haiti734107173350-1737
7  Trinidad and Tobago632107153750-1337
8  Netherlands Antilles42173112755-2824
9  Canada3145631716+121
10  United States212642106+414
11  Cuba210244915-610
12  Panama1412184+45
13  Suriname29018826-181
14  Nicaragua29018527-221
15  Jamaica28017426-221

Top goalscorers

Year Player Goals
1963 Eduardo "Volkswagen" Hernández 6
1965 Ernesto Cisneros 5
1967 Luis Estrada
Manuel Recinos
4
1969 Nelson Melgar
Marco Fión
Victor Manuel Ruiz
3
1971 Roy Sáenz
Roberto Rodríguez
Pierre Bayonne
3
1973 Steve David 7
1977 Víctor Rangel 6
1981 Hugo Sánchez 3
1985 Roberto Figueroa 5
1989 Raúl Chacón
Julio Rodas
Evaristo Coronado
Juan Arnoldo Cayasso
Leonidas Flores
Leonson Lewis
Kerry Jamerson
Philibert Jones
2

Winning managers

Year Manager Nation Source
1963 Mario Cordero  Costa Rica [1]
1965 Ignacio Trelles  Mexico
1967 Rubén Amorín  Guatemala
1969 Eduardo Viso Abella  Costa Rica
1971 Javier de la Torre  Mexico
1973 Antoine Tassy  Haiti
1977 José Antonio Roca  Mexico
1981 José de la Paz Herrera  Honduras
1985 Tony Waiters  Canada
1989 Marvin Rodríguez  Costa Rica

See also

References

  1. Castro, Rodrigo A. Calvo (6 April 2012). "Costa Rica wins 1963 NORCECA title". CONCACAF.com. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
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