CONCACAF Championship

CONCACAF Championship

Founded	18 September 1961[1]
Abolished	1989
Region	North America, Central America and Caribbean
Related competitions	CONCACAF Gold Cup
Last champions	Costa Rica (3rd title)
Most successful team(s)	Costa Rica  Mexico (3 titles each)
Website	http://www.concacaf.com

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).

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[]

Ed.	Year	Host country	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Num. teams
1	1963	El Salvador	Costa Rica	El Salvador	Netherlands Antilles	Honduras	9
2	1965	Guatemala	Mexico	Guatemala	Costa Rica	El Salvador	6
3	1967	Honduras	Guatemala	Mexico	Honduras	Trinidad and Tobago	6
4	1969	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Guatemala	Netherlands Antilles	Mexico	6
5	1971	Trinidad and Tobago	Mexico	Haiti	Costa Rica	Cuba	6
6	1973	Haiti	Haiti	Trinidad and Tobago	Mexico	Honduras	6
7	1977	Mexico	Mexico	Haiti	El Salvador	Canada	6
8	1981	Honduras	Honduras	El Salvador	Mexico	Canada	6
9	1985	(Various) [note 1]	Canada	Honduras	Costa Rica	El Salvador	9
10	1989	(Various) [note 1]	Costa Rica	United States	Trinidad and Tobago	Guatemala	5

Notes

Overall team records[]

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts
1	Mexico	8	38	22	10	6	78	24	+54	76
2	Costa Rica	6	37	20	11	6	64	27	+37	71
3	Guatemala	8	39	15	12	12	58	40	+18	57
4	Honduras	6	35	12	12	11	42	41	+1	48
5	El Salvador	6	32	11	10	11	43	36	+7	43
6	Haiti	7	34	10	7	17	33	50	-17	37
7	Trinidad and Tobago	6	32	10	7	15	37	50	-13	37
8	Netherlands Antilles	4	21	7	3	11	27	55	-28	24
9	Canada	3	14	5	6	3	17	16	+1	21
10	United States	2	12	6	4	2	10	6	+4	14
11	Cuba	2	10	2	4	4	9	15	-6	10
12	Panama	1	4	1	2	1	8	4	+4	5
13	Suriname	2	9	0	1	8	8	26	-18	1
14	Nicaragua	2	9	0	1	8	5	27	-22	1
15	Jamaica	2	8	0	1	7	4	26	-22	1

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Mexico	3	1	2	6
2	Costa Rica	3	0	3	6
3	Guatemala	1	2	0	3
	Haiti	1	2	0	3
5	Honduras	1	1	1	3
6	Canada	1	0	0	1
7	El Salvador	0	2	1	3
8	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
9	United States	0	1	0	1
10	Netherlands Antilles	0	0	2	2
Totals (10 nations)		10	10	10	30

Top goalscorers[]

Octavio Muciño of Mexico is one of the two players to score a hat-trick of four goals in CONCACAF Championship (1973)

Year	Player	Goals
1963	Eduardo "Volkswagen" Hernández	6
1965	Ernesto Cisneros	5
1967		4
1969		4
1971		4
1973	Steve David	7
1977	Víctor Rangel	6
1981	Hugo Sánchez	3
1985	Roberto Figueroa	5
1989	Julio Rodas Evaristo Coronado Juan Arnoldo Cayasso Leonidas Flores Leonson Lewis Philibert Jones	2

Hat-tricks[]

CONCACAF Championship hat-tricks

Sequence	Player	Time of goals	For	Result	Against	Tournament	Round	Date
1.		17', 22', 72'	Costa Rica	4–1	El Salvador	1963	Final round	3 April 1963
2.	Javier Fragoso	57', 71', 85'	Mexico	5–0	Netherlands Antilles	1965	Final tournament	1 April 1965
3.	Raúl Arellano Gallo	36', 53', 85'	Mexico	4–0	Nicaragua	1967	Final tournament	6 March 1967
4.		?', ?', ?'	Costa Rica	5–0	Trinidad and Tobago	1969	Final tournament	4 December 1969
5.	Emmanuel Sanon	?', ?', ?',?'	Haiti	6–1	Trinidad and Tobago	1971	Final tournament	28 November 1971
6.	Octavio Muciño	32', 45', 46', 82'	Mexico	8–0	Netherlands Antilles	1973	Final round	8 December 1973
7.	Steve David	15', 51', 62'	Trinidad and Tobago	4–0	Netherlands Antilles	1973	Final round	17 December 1973
8.	Hugo Sánchez	46', 70', 82'	Mexico	4–1	Haiti	1977	Final round	9 September 1977

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[]

• CONCACAF Gold Cup
• CONCACAF Women's Championship
• Football continental championships

References[]

External links[]

• Official site