CONCACAF Championship

CONCACAF Championship

Organizing body	CONCACAF
Founded	18 September 1961[1]
Abolished	1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Region	North America, Central America and Caribbean
Number of teams	5 (1989)
Related competitions	CONCACAF Gold Cup
Last champion(s)	Costa Rica (1989)
Most successful team(s)	Costa Rica  Mexico (3 titles each)

The CONCACAF Championship was an association football tournament that took place between 1963 and 1989. The competition was referred to as CONCACAF Campeonato de Naciones in Spanish.

The predecessor confederations organized their national team tournaments NAFC Championship and CCCF Championships until 1961 before the merged to form CONCACAF.

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.

Edition	Year	Hosts		Champion	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place		Number of 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	Canada  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Guatemala  Haiti  Honduras  United States		Canada	Honduras	Costa Rica	El Salvador		9
10	1989	Costa Rica  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  Trinidad and Tobago  United States		Costa Rica	United States	Trinidad and Tobago	Guatemala		5

A total of 15 teams participated in the championship:

Year	Debuting teams			Successor teams
	Teams	No.	CT
1963	Costa Rica,  El Salvador,  Guatemala,  Honduras,  Jamaica,  Mexico,  Nicaragua,  Netherlands Antilles,  Panama	9	9
1965	Haiti	1	10
1967	Trinidad and Tobago	1	11
1969	None	0	11
1971	Cuba	1	12
1973	None	0	12
1977	Canada,  Suriname	2	14
1981	None	0	14
1985	United States	1	15
1989	None	0	15

In this ranking 2 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	54
2	Costa Rica	6	37	20	11	6	64	27	+37	51
3	Guatemala	8	39	15	12	12	58	40	+18	42
4	Honduras	6	35	12	12	11	42	41	+1	36
5	El Salvador	6	32	11	10	11	43	40	+3	32
6	Trinidad and Tobago	6	32	10	7	15	36	50	-14	27
7	Haiti	7	34	10	7	17	33	51	-18	27
8	Canada	3	18	8	7	3	24	18	+6	23
9	United States	2	12	6	4	2	10	6	+4	16
10	Netherlands Antilles	4	21	5	5	11	27	55	-28	15
11	Cuba	2	10	2	4	4	9	15	-6	8
12	Panama	1	4	1	2	1	8	4	+4	4
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

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 entries)		10	10	10	30

Legend

• 1st – Champions
• 2nd – Runners-up
• 3rd – Third place
• 4th – Fourth place
• SF – Semi-finals
• QF – Quarter-finals
• GS – Group stage
• Q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
•  •  – Did not qualify
•  •×  – Disqualified
•  ×  – Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
•    – Hosts

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament are shown (in parentheses).

Team (15)	1963 (9)	1965 (6)	1967 (6)	1969 (6)	1971 (6)	1973 (6)	1977 (6)	1981 (6)	1985 (9)	1989 (5)	Times entered	Times qualified
Canada	×	×	×	×	×	•	4th	4th	1st	•	5	3
Costa Rica	1st	3rd	×	1st	3rd	•	•	•	3rd	1st	9	6
Cuba	×	×	•	×	4th	×	•	GS	×	•	5	2
El Salvador	2nd	4th	×	•×	×	•	3rd	2nd	4th	GS	7	6
Guatemala	GS	2nd	1st	2nd	•	GS	GS	•	GS	4th	10	8
Haiti	•	GS	GS	•×	2nd	1st	2nd	GS	GS	×	9	7
Honduras	4th	•	3rd	•×	GS	4th	•	1st	2nd	•	10	6
Jamaica	GS	×	•	GS	•	×	×	×	×	•	5	2
Mexico	GS	1st	2nd	4th	1st	3rd	1st	3rd	×	•×	8	8
Netherlands Antilles	3rd	GS	•	3rd	×	GS	•	•	•	•	8	4
Nicaragua	GS	•	GS	×	•	•	×	×	×	×	5	2
Panama	GS	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	•	•	7	1
Suriname	×	×	×	×	×	•	GS	•	GS	×	4	2
Trinidad and Tobago	×	×	4th	GS	GS	2nd	GS	•	•	3rd	8	6
United States	×	×	×	•	×	•	•	•	GS	2nd	6	2
Team (15)	9	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	9	5	Times entered	Times qualified

Year	Player	Goals
1963	Eduardo Hernández	6
1965	Ernesto Cisneros	5
1967	Manuel Recinos	4
1969	Victor Manuel Ruiz	4
1971	Roberto Rodríguez	4
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

CONCACAF Championship hat-tricks

Sequence	Player	Time of goals	For	Result	Against	Tournament	Round	Date
1.	Juan Gonzalez	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.	Víctor Ruiz	?', ?', ?'	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

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

Time(s)	Nation	Year(s)
2	Honduras	1967, 1981
1	Costa Rica	1969
1	El Salvador	1963
1	Guatemala	1965
1	Mexico	1977
1	Trinidad and Tobago	1971

Host nations [edit] Year Host nation(s) Finish 1963  El Salvador Runners-up 1965  Guatemala Runners-up 1967  Honduras Third place 1969  Costa Rica Champions 1971  Trinidad and Tobago Fifth place 1973  Haiti Champions 1977  Mexico Champions 1981  Honduras Champions

Defending champions [edit] Year Defending champions Finish 1965  Costa Rica Third place 1967  Mexico Runners-up 1969  Guatemala Runners-up 1971  Costa Rica Third place 1973  Mexico Third place 1977  Haiti Runners-up 1981  Mexico Third place 1985  Honduras Runners-up 1989  Canada Did not qualify

Year	Host(s)	Champions	Winning coach	Top scorer(s) (goals)
1963	El Salvador	Costa Rica (1)	Alfredo Piedra	Eduardo Hernández (6)
1965	Guatemala	Mexico (1)	Ignacio Trelles	Ernesto Cisneros (5)
1967	Honduras	Guatemala (1)	Rubén Amorín	Luis Estrada (4) Manuel Recinos (4)
1969	Costa Rica	Costa Rica (2)	Marvin Rodríguez	Nelson Melgar (3) Marco Fión (3) Víctor Ruiz (3)
1971	Trinidad and Tobago	Mexico (2)	Javier de la Torre	Unknown
1973	Haiti	Haiti (1)	Antoine Tassy	Steve David (7)
1977	Mexico	Mexico (3)	José Antonio Roca	Víctor Rangel (6)
1981	Honduras	Honduras (1)	Chelato Uclés	Hugo Sánchez (3)
1985	No Host	Canada (1)	Tony Waiters	Roberto Figueroa (5)
1989	No Host	Costa Rica (3)	Marvin Rodríguez	Eight players (2)

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