1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates	6 June 1976 – 13 February 1977
Final positions
Champions	Águila
Runners-up	Robinhood
← 1975 1977 →

The 1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 12th 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 6 June 1976 till 13 February 1977.

The teams were split in three 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.

Salvadorean club Águila beat Surinamese Robinhood in the final^[1] to became CONCACAF champion for the first time in their history, and the second Salvadoran team to win the trophy.^[2][3]

North American Zone[]

First Round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Toronto Italia	5 - 3	New York Inter-Giuliana	3 - 2	2 - 1

• León on a bye.
• Toluca on a bye.
• Serbian White Eagles on a bye.
• Toronto Italia advances to the second round.

Second Round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
León	w/o	Serbian White Eagles
Toronto Italia	w/o	Toluca

• Serbian White Eagles withdrew.
• Originally scheduled for July 16 & August 31, Toluca ask to reschedule the series to September 5 & 8. The matches were not played and Toluca was disqualified on Sep. 8
• León and Toronto Italia advances to the third round.

Third Round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
León	w/o	Toronto Italia

• Toronto Italia withdrew.
• León advances to the CONCACAF Final.

Central American Zone[]

First Round[]

Group A

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Águila	2 – 1	Aurora
Alianza	1 – 1	Aurora
Águila	1 – 0	Alianza

• Águila advances to the third round.

Group B

Real España v Olimpia

15 September 1976	Real España	1–0 (1–0 agg.)	Olimpia	showSan Pedro Sula, Honduras
				Stadium: Estadio General Francisco Morazán
Note: C.D. Olimpia advances to the second round.

Round 2[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Diriangén	w/o	Real España

• Águila on a Bye to the third round
• Real España withdrew
• Diriangén advances to the third round.

Round 3[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Diriangén	2 - 11	Águila	1 - 6	1 - 5

• Águila advances to the CONCACAF Final.

Caribbean Zone[]

First Round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Robinhood	4 - 2	Jong Colombia	3 - 1	1 - 1
	1 - 20	Voorwaarts	1 - 8	0 - 12
	1 - 6		0 - 2	1 - 4

• on a Bye
• Robinhood, Voorwaarts and advance to the second round.

Second Round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Robinhood	2 - 0		0 - 0	2 - 0
	1 - 6	Voorwaarts	0 - 4	1 - 2

• Robinhood and Voorwaarts advance to the third round

Third Round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Robinhood	3 - 0	Voorwaarts	3 - 0	0 - 0

• Robinhood advances to the CONCACAF Final.

Semi-Final[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Águila	3 - 1	León	1 - 1	2 - 0*

• León abandoned the 2nd leg while leading 2-1 following a fight. Águila was awarded a win 2 - 0.*

Final[]

First leg[]

1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup Final

13 February 1977

(UTC−06:00)

First leg

Águila	5–1	Robinhood
Zepeda  20' Vargas  26'  89' Pineda  40',  79' (pen.)	Report	68' Emanuelson

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Second leg[]

15 February 1977

(UTC−06:00)

Second leg

Robinhood	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Águila
Nathoe  56' Olmberg  95'	Report	93' Zepeda  112' Díaz  117' Ramírez

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Aguila won the series 4–2 on points (8–3 on aggregate).

Champion[]

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1976 Champion
Águila First title

References[]