CONCACAF Championship

CONCACAF Championship

Founded	18 September 1961[1]
Abolished	1989
Region	North America, Central America and Caribbean
Last champions	Costa Rica
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 organised 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 the team that ranked highest in the qualifying group. In 1985 and 1989, there was no host nation for the competition.

The competition was renamed the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1991.

Tournament results

CONCACAF Championship
Year	Host		Final Group Rank
			Winner	Runner-up	3rd Place	4th Place
1963 Details	El Salvador		Costa Rica	El Salvador	Netherlands Antilles	Honduras
1965 Details	Guatemala		Mexico	Guatemala	Costa Rica	El Salvador
1967 Details	Honduras		Guatemala	Mexico	Honduras	Trinidad and Tobago
1969 Details	Costa Rica		Costa Rica	Guatemala	Netherlands Antilles	Mexico
1971 Details	Trinidad and Tobago		Mexico	Haiti	Costa Rica	Cuba
			World Cup Qualifying Period
1973 Details	Haiti	Haiti	Trinidad and Tobago	Mexico	Honduras
1977 Details	Mexico	Mexico	Haiti	El Salvador	Canada
1981 Details	Honduras	Honduras	El Salvador	Mexico	Canada
1985 Details	CONCACAF (No Fixed Venue)	Canada	Honduras	Costa Rica	---
1989 Details	CONCACAF (No Fixed Venue)	Costa Rica	United States	Trinidad and Tobago	Guatemala

Winners

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third Place	Fourth Place
Mexico	3 (1965, 1971, 1977)	1 (1967)	2 (1973, 1981)	1 (1969)
Costa Rica	3 (1963, 1969, 1989)	—	3 (1965, 1971, 1985)	—
Guatemala	1 (1967)	2 (1965, 1969)	—	1 (1989)
Haiti	1 (1973)	2 (1971, 1977)	—	—
Honduras	1 (1981)	1 (1985)	1 (1967)	2 (1963, 1973)
Canada	1 (1985)	—	—	2 (1977, 1981)
El Salvador	—	2 (1963, 1981)	1 (1977)	1 (1965)
Trinidad and Tobago	—	1 (1973)	1 (1989)	1 (1967)
United States	—	1 (1989)	—	—
Netherlands Antilles	—	—	2 (1963, 1969)	—
Cuba				1 (1971)

Tournament Appearances

Appearances	Nation
8	Mexico
8	Guatemala
7	Haiti
6	Costa Rica
6	Honduras
6	Trinidad and Tobago
6	El Salvador
4	Netherlands Antilles
3	Canada
2	United States
2	Jamaica
2	Cuba
2	Nicaragua
2	Suriname
1	Panama

Top goalscorers

Year	Player	Goals
1963	Eduardo "Volkswagen" Hernández	6
1965	Unknown
1967	Luis Estrada Manuel Recinos	4
1969	Nelson Melgar Marco Fión Victor Manuel Ruiz	3
1971	Unknown
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

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

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.

External links

• Official site