2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Trinidad and Tobago
City	Bacolet and Macoya
Dates	6–15 March 2009
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Costa Rica (2nd title)
Runners-up	United States
Third place	Honduras
Fourth place	Trinidad and Tobago
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	33 (2.06 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Randy Edwini-Bonsu Josué Martínez Roger Rojas (3 goals)

The 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship was the biannual CONCACAF youth championship tournament for under-20 national teams. The 2009 edition was held in Trinidad and Tobago. All matches were played at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago and Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Trinidad. The CONCACAF U-20 Championship traditionally serves as the CONCACAF qualifier for the FIFA U-20 World Cup, and under the 2009 tournament format the four semifinalists qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was hosted by Egypt from 25 September to 16 October 2009.

Qualifying

Region	Qualification Tournament	Qualifiers
Caribbean (CFU)	Caribbean U-20 qualifying tournament	Jamaica  Trinidad and Tobago†
Central America (UNCAF)	Central American U-20 qualifying tournament	Costa Rica  El Salvador  Honduras‡
North America (NAFU)	Automatically qualified	Canada  Mexico United States

Notes

• † Trinidad and Tobago automatically qualified and did not participate in the qualification tournament due to their status as tournament hosts.
• ‡ The runner up from the Caribbean region, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the 3rd place finisher from the Central American region, Honduras, played a playoff to determine the 8th and final qualifier for the tournament proper.^[1][2] The match was a one-game playoff on 2 March, four days prior to the opening of the tournament, in Macoya.^[3] Honduras won the match 3–1.^[4]

Squads

Venues

Dwight Yorke Stadium Location:Bacolet, Tobago Capacity:7,500 Home club: Tobago United	Marvin Lee Stadium Location:Macoya, Trinidad Capacity:6,000 Home club: Joe Public F.C.

Group stage

The winner and runner-up from each group advanced to the semifinals.

Group 1

All matches in this group were played at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Trinidad.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	1	0	5	0	+5	7
Honduras	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4	5
Jamaica	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
El Salvador	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

Honduras  v  El Salvador

6 March 2009 17:00 ECT

Honduras	2 – 2	El Salvador
Rojas  65' Valladares  82'	Report	Blanco  77' Flores  90'

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 556 Referee: Roberto García (Mexico)

Jamaica  v United States

6 March 2009 19:00 ECT

Jamaica	0 – 3	United States
	Report	Marošević  8' Duka  78' Schuler  83'

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 556 Referee: Ricardo Cerdas (Costa Rica)

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El Salvador  v  Jamaica

8 March 2009 16:00 ECT

El Salvador	1 – 2	Jamaica
Sosa  11'	Report	Campbell  8' Adlam  56'

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 524 Referee: Paul Ward (Canada)

United States v  Honduras

8 March 2009 18:00 ECT

United States	0 – 0	Honduras
	Report

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 524 Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)

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Jamaica  v  Honduras

10 March 2009 17:00 ECT

Jamaica	0 – 4	Honduras
	Report	Leveron  44' Martínez  47' Rojas  62' Altimirano  72'

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 467 Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)

United States v  El Salvador

10 March 2009 19:00 ECT

United States	2 – 0	El Salvador
Shea  30' Taylor  41'	Report

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 467 Referee: Rene Guerrero (Nicaragua)

Group 2

All matches in this group were played at Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Tobago.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Costa Rica	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Canada	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

Mexico  v  Costa Rica

7 March 2009 16:00 ECT

Mexico	0 – 1	Costa Rica
	Report	Martínez  39'

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Walter López (Guatemala)

Trinidad and Tobago  v  Canada

7 March 2009 18:00 ECT

Trinidad and Tobago	1 – 0	Canada
De Silva  82'	Report

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Oscar Moncada (Honduras)

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Canada  v  Mexico

9 March 2009 17:00 ECT

Canada	2 – 0	Mexico
Edwini-Bonsu  75'  82'	Report

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Elmer Bonilla (El Salvador)

Trinidad and Tobago  v  Costa Rica

9 March 2009 19:00 ECT

Trinidad and Tobago	0 – 0	Costa Rica
	Report

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Ricardo Salazar (United States)

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Costa Rica  v  Canada

11 March 2009 17:00 ECT

Costa Rica	2 – 1	Canada
Castro  25' Ureña  72'	Report	Edwini-Bonsu  12'

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Kevin Thomas (Jamaica)

Trinidad and Tobago  v  Mexico

11 March 2009 19:00 ECT

Trinidad and Tobago	2 – 2	Mexico
Clarence  52' Bentick  60'	Report	Velasquez  8' Salazar  45'

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Oscar Moncada (Honduras)

Championship round

All four teams to qualify for the semifinals automatically qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup.^[2]

Semifinals

Costa Rica  v  Honduras

13 March 2009 17:00 ECT

Costa Rica	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Honduras
	Report
	Penalties
Estrada Guzmán Gamboa Castro	4 – 2	Leverón Mejía Mayorquin Fonseca

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Walter López (Guatemala)

United States v  Trinidad and Tobago

13 March 2009 20:00 ECT

United States	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Trinidad and Tobago
	Report
	Penalties
Jeffrey Duka Marošević Davies Wallace	4 – 3	Rochford Joseph Bentick Bateau Paul

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Roberto García (Mexico)

Third place

Honduras  v  Trinidad and Tobago

15 March 2009 16:00 ECT

Honduras	2 – 1	Trinidad and Tobago
Rojas  47' Mayorquin 89'	Report	Grosvenor  58'

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Elmer Bonilla (El Salvador)

Final

Costa Rica  v United States

15 March 2009 19:00 ECT

Costa Rica	3 – 0	United States
Estrada  40' Josué Martínez  68'  80'	Report

Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)

Goalscorers

3 goals

Randy Edwini-Bonsu

Josué Martínez

Roger Rojas

1 goal

Jorge Castro Diego Estrada Marco Ureña Léster Blanco Andrés Flores Herbert Sosa Cristhian Altimirano Johnny Leverón

Mario Martínez José Valladares Reinieri Mayorquin Alonso Adlam Romario Campbell Antonio Salazar Axel Velasquez Juma Clarence

Sean De Silva Qian Grosvenor Uriah Bentick Dilly Duka Perica Marošević Billy Schuler Brek Shea Tony Taylor

Final Ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Costa Rica	5	3	2	0	6	1	+5	11	Champions
2	United States	5	2	2	1	5	3	+2	8	Runners-up
3	Honduras	5	2	3	0	8	3	+5	9	Third place
4	Trinidad and Tobago (H)	5	1	3	1	4	4	0	6	Fourth Place
5	Canada	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3	Eliminated in Group stage
6	Jamaica	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
7	El Salvador	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
8	Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

Source: rsssf.com
(H) Host.

Note: Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.

See also

• CONCACAF Under-20 Championship
• 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup

References

1. Trinidad & Tobago to stage CONCACAF U-20 Championship in March, New York City: CONCACAF, 11 November 2008, retrieved 17 November 2008
2. Mexico, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Canada grouped for first round of CONCACAF U-20 Championship, New York City: CONCACAF, 15 January 2009, retrieved 21 January 2009.
3. Under-20 playoff between Honduras and St. Vincent set for 2 March in Trinidad, New York City: CONCACAF, 10 February 2009, retrieved 11 February 2009
4. Honduras claims last place in CONCACAF U-20 Championship, beats St. Vincent 3-1, Macoya, Trinidad: CONCACAF, 2 March 2009, retrieved 3 March 2009

External links

• Official CONCACAF U-20 homepage
• Official FIFA U-20 World Cup: Egypt 2009 homepage