Host country Costa Rica Runners-up Guatemala Start date 1969 Goals scored 43 Venues 1 | Champions Costa Rica (2nd title) Fourth place Mexico Teams 6 Matches played 15 | |
Dates 23 November – 7 December Top scorer(s) Marco Fión
Nelson Melgar
Víctor Ruiz
(3 goals each) Champion Costa Rica national football team Third place Netherlands Antilles national football team |
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 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.
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1969 CONCACAF Championship Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA