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
Related competitionsCONCACAF Gold Cup
Last champions Costa Rica (3rd title)
Most successful team(s) Costa Rica
 Mexico
(3 titles each)
Websitehttp://www.concacaf.com
Tournaments

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
51971 Trinidad and Tobago Mexico Haiti Costa Rica Cuba
6
61973 Haiti Haiti Trinidad and Tobago Mexico Honduras
6
71977 Mexico Mexico Haiti El Salvador Canada
6
81981 Honduras Honduras El Salvador Mexico Canada
6
91985(Various) [note 1] Canada Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador
9
101989(Various) [note 1] Costa Rica United States Trinidad and Tobago Guatemala
5
Notes
  1. No fixed venue

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  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

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Mexico3126
2 Costa Rica3036
3 Guatemala1203
 Haiti1203
5 Honduras1113
6 Canada1001
7 El Salvador0213
8 Trinidad and Tobago0112
9 United States0101
10 Netherlands Antilles0022
Totals (10 nations)10101030

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 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

Hat-tricks
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 Salvador1963 Final round3 April 1963
2. Javier Fragoso 57', 71', 85' Mexico 5–0 Netherlands Antilles1965 Final tournament1 April 1965
3. Raúl Arellano Gallo 36', 53', 85' Mexico 4–0 Nicaragua1967 Final tournament6 March 1967
4. Víctor Ruiz ?', ?', ?' Costa Rica 5–0 Trinidad and Tobago1969 Final tournament4 December 1969
5. Emmanuel Sanon ?', ?', ?',?' Haiti 6–1 Trinidad and Tobago1971 Final tournament28 November 1971
6. Octavio Muciño 32', 45', 46', 82' Mexico 8–0 Netherlands Antilles1973 Final round8 December 1973
7. Steve David 15', 51', 62' Trinidad and Tobago 4–0 Netherlands Antilles1973 Final round17 December 1973
8. Hugo Sánchez 46', 70', 82' Mexico 4–1 Haiti1977 Final round9 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

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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