1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

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.

1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates6 June 1976 – 13 February 1977
Final positions
Champions Águila
Runners-up Robinhood

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

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

Central American Zone

First Round

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Águila 2 2 0 0 3 1 +2 4 Advances to third round
2 Aurora 2 0 1 1 2 3 −1 1
3 Alianza 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1
Source:
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

5 September 1976 Olimpia 0–0 Real España Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino
15 September 1976 Real España 1–0
(1–0 agg.)		 Olimpia San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Ferreira 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

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.
Diriangén 1-6 (a.e.t.) Águila
Luis Ramirez Zapata
TBD
TBD
Águila5-1Diriangén
Ismael Diaz
Felix Pineda
Sergio Mendez
Luis Ramirez Zapata 		TBD

Caribbean Zone

First Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Robinhood 4 - 2 Jong Colombia 3 - 1 1 - 1
Christianburg 1 - 20 Voorwaarts 1 - 8 0 - 12
Thomas United 1 - 6 Tesoro Palo Seco 0 - 2 1 - 4
  • Malvern United on a Bye
  • Robinhood, Voorwaarts and Tesoro Palo Seco advance to the second round.

Second Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Robinhood 2 - 0 Malvern United 0 - 0 2 - 0
Tesoro Palo Seco 1 - 6 Voorwaarts 0 - 4 1 - 2

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

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

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

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

Champion
CONCACAF Champions' Cup
1976 Champion

Águila
First title

References
  1. Copa de Campeones 1976 on the RSSSF
  2. "Copa de Campeones Concacaf 1976 Águila Campeón" on Historicas Coperas blogsite, 30 Jan 2015
  3. Hace 40 años el Aguila fue el rey by Cristian López on El Gráfico, 16 Feb 2017
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