Host country El Salvador Runners-up El Salvador Start date 1963 Goals scored 76 Venues 2 | Champions Costa Rica (1st title) Fourth place Honduras Teams 9 Matches played 22 | |
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Dates 23 March – 7 April 1963 Champion Costa Rica national football team Third place Netherlands Antilles national football team | ||
The 1963 CONCACAF Championship was the first edition of the CONCACAF Championship, the football championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). The tournament was held between 23 March to 7 April. Nine teams participated in the inaugural event.
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The tournament was hosted by El Salvador in the cities of San Salvador and Santa Ana. The nine teams were broken up into one group of five and one group of four; the top two teams of each group would advance to a final group stage, playing in round-robin format to determine the winner. The tournament was won by Costa Rica, who defeated the hosts El Salvador 1-4 in the deciding match of the four-team final group.
Group A
Results
Group B
Results
References
1963 CONCACAF Championship Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA