1969 CONCACAF Championship

1969 CONCACAF Championship
Campeonato de Naciones de CONCACAF 1969
Tournament details
Host country Costa Rica
Dates 23 November – 7 December
Teams 6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Costa Rica (2nd title)
Runners-up  Guatemala
Third place  Netherlands Antilles
Fourth place  Mexico
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 43 (2.87 per match)
Top scorer(s) Guatemala Marco Fión
Guatemala Nelson Melgar
Costa Rica Víctor Ruiz
(3 goals each)

The 1969 CONCACAF Championship was the fourth edition of the CONCACAF Championship, the football championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). The tournament was held between 23 November to 8 December. Six teams participated in the tournament.

The event was hosted by Costa Rica in the city of San José. Seven team qualified, but Haiti's disqualification[1] left six teams to play in the round-robin format to determine the winner. The tournament was won by the host nation, for the second time after 1963, by tying defending champions Guatemala 1–1 in the deciding final match.

Qualifying Tournament

Venue

San José
Estadio Nacional (1926)
Capacity: 25,000

Final tournament

Rank Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1  Costa Rica 9541013211
2  Guatemala 853201028
3  Netherlands Antilles 55212912-3
4  Mexico 4512245-1
5  Trinidad and Tobago 35113412-8
6  Jamaica 15014310-7
Costa Rica  3–0  Jamaica
Álvaro Cascante
Roy Sáenz
Edward Dawkins  o.g.'
Attendance: 7,389

Guatemala  2–0  Trinidad and Tobago
Tomás Gamboa
Marco Fión

Mexico  2–0  Jamaica
Francisco Mancilla
Alfonso Sabater

Costa Rica  2–1  Netherlands Antilles
Jaime Grant
Álvaro Cascante
Croes

Guatemala  6–1  Netherlands Antilles
Nelson Melgar
Daniel Salamanca
Rolando Valdez
Meulens
Regales

Trinidad and Tobago  3–2  Jamaica
Everald Cummings
Keith Douglas
Ulrich Haynes
Delroy Scott
Joshua Hamilton

Costa Rica  2–0  Mexico
Jaime Grant
Roy Sáenz
Attendance: 20,460

Netherlands Antilles  3–1  Trinidad and Tobago
Loefstok
Martijn
Ulrich Haynes

Guatemala  1–0  Mexico
Marco Fión

Netherlands Antilles  2–2  Mexico
Adelbert Toppenberg José Crespo
Leopoldo Barba

Guatemala  0–0  Jamaica


Netherlands Antilles  2–1  Jamaica
Regales
Martijn
Largie

Mexico  0–0  Trinidad and Tobago

Costa Rica  1–1  Guatemala
Wally Vaughns Marco Antonio Fión

Awards

1969 CONCACAF
Championship winners

Costa Rica
Second title

Scorers

References

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