CONCACAF Championship

CONCACAF Championship
Organizing body	CONCACAF
Founded	1961; 64 years ago
Abolished	1989; 36 years ago
Region	North America; Central America; Caribbean
Number of teams	9 (1963 and 1985); 6 (1965–1983); 5 (1989)
Related competitions	CONCACAF Gold Cup
Last champion(s)	Costa Rica; (3rd title)
Most successful team(s)	Costa Rica; Mexico; (3 titles each)

The CONCACAF Championship, also known as CONCACAF Nations Championship, was an association football competition organized by CONCACAF as its top continental tournament for men's senior national teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The tournament was held from 1963 to 1989, it is the direct predecessor of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

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Prior to the founding of CONCACAF in 1961, the predecessor confederations (NAFC and CCCF) organized their top senior national team tournaments, NAFC Championship for North America (1947 and 1949), and CCCF Championship for Central America and the Caribbean (1941–1961) before the merged to form CONCACAF.

The inaugural edition was held in 1963 and was CONCACAF's first 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.

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Year	Hosts	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Teams
1963	El Salvador	Costa Rica	El Salvador	Netherlands Antilles	Honduras	9
1965	Guatemala	Mexico	Guatemala	Costa Rica	El Salvador	6
1967	Honduras	Guatemala	Mexico	Honduras	Trinidad and Tobago	6
1969	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Guatemala	Netherlands Antilles	Mexico	6
1971	Trinidad and Tobago	Mexico	Haiti	Costa Rica	Cuba	6
1973	Haiti	Haiti	Trinidad and Tobago	Mexico	Honduras	6
1977	Mexico	Mexico	Haiti	El Salvador	Canada	6
1981	Honduras	Honduras	El Salvador	Mexico	Canada	6
1985	North America	Canada	Honduras	Costa Rica	El Salvador	9
1989	North America	Costa Rica	United States	Trinidad and Tobago	Guatemala	5

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total
Mexico	3 (1965, 1971, 1977)	1 (1967)	2 (1973, 1981)	1 (1969)	7
Costa Rica	3 (1963, 1969, 1989)	–	3 (1965, 1971, 1985)	–	6
Guatemala	1 (1967)	2 (1965, 1969)	–	1 (1989)	4
Haiti	1 (1973)	2 (1971, 1977)	–	–	3
Honduras	1 (1981)	1 (1985)	1 (1967)	2 (1963, 1973)	5
Canada	1 (1985)	–	–	2 (1977, 1981)	3
El Salvador	–	2 (1963, 1981)	1 (1977)	2 (1965, 1985)	5
Trinidad and Tobago	–	1 (1973)	1 (1989)	1 (1967)	3
United States	–	1 (1989)	–	–	1
Netherlands Antilles	–	–	2 (1963, 1969)	–	2
Cuba	–	–	–	1 (1971)	1

Edition	Debuting teams	No.	Total
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	–	0	11
1971	Cuba	1	12
1973	–	0	12
1977	Canada, Suriname	2	14
1981	–	0	14
1985	United States	1	15
1989	–	0	15

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

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

CONCACAF Championship

Results

Performances

Debut of teams

Records and statistics

Overall statistics by team

Competitive records

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Winning managers

Hosts and defending champions

Hosts

Host results

Defending champions

See also

References

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Edition	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