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.
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

Winners

TeamWinnersRunners-upThird PlaceFourth Place
3 1 2 1
3 3
1 2 1
1 2
1 1 1 2
1 2
2 1 2
1 1 1
1
2
1

All-time table

RankTeamPartPldWDLGFGADifPts
1838221067824+5476
2637201166427+3771
38391512125840+1857
46351212114241+148
56321110114336+743
6734107173350-1737
7632107153750-1337
842173112755-2824
93145631716+121
10212642106+414
11210244915-610
121412184+45
1329018826-181
1429018527-221
1528017426-221

Top goalscorers

YearPlayerGoals
1963 Eduardo "Volkswagen" Hernández6
1965 Ernesto Cisneros5
1967 Luis Estrada
Manuel Recinos
4
1969 Nelson Melgar
Marco Fión
Victor Manuel Ruiz
3
1971 Roy Sáenz
Roberto Rodríguez
Pierre Bayonne
3
1973 Steve David7
1977 Víctor Rangel6
1981 Hugo Sánchez3
1985 Roberto Figueroa5
1989 Raúl Chacón
Julio Rodas
Evaristo Coronado
Juan Arnoldo Cayasso
Leonidas Flores
Leonson Lewis
Kerry Jamerson
Philibert Jones
2

Winning managers

YearManagerNationSource
1963 Mario Cordero
1965 Ignacio Trelles
1967 Rubén Amorín
1969 Eduardo Viso Abella
1971 Javier de la Torre
1973 Antoine Tassy
1977 José Antonio Roca
1981 José de la Paz Herrera
1985 Tony Waiters
1989 Marvin Rodríguez