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2009 UNCAF Nations Cup

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Host country
  
Honduras

Champions
  
Panama (1st title)

Third place
  
Honduras

Dates
  
22 Jan 2009 – 1 Feb 2009

Best player
  
Keylor Navas

Attendance
  
114,000

Venue(s)
  
1 (in 1 host city)

Runners-up
  
Costa Rica

Fourth place
  
El Salvador

Top scorer
  
Andy Furtado

Teams
  
7

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Champion
  
Panama national football team

Similar
  
2011 Copa Centroamericana, 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2014 Copa Centroamericana, 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2013 Copa Centroamericana

The UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 was the tenth edition of the UNCAF Nations Cup, the biennial football (soccer) tournament for the CONCACAF-affiliated national teams of Central America. The first five places qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The event was going to take place in Panama City, Panama between January 22 and February 1, 2009, but the Panamanian FA announced that they would not host the event due to not having an adequate stadium available for the time period of the tournament. The alternative hosts were Honduras and Guatemala. Honduras submitted an official replacement bid on November 12, and after some consideration it was moved to Honduras. All games were played in Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino in Tegucigalpa. The tournament was sponsored by Digicel. On 1 February 2009 Panama won the tournament, the first UNCAF Nations Cup win in the country's history.

Contents

Participating nations

All seven UNCAF members participated in the tournament:

  •  Belize
  •  Costa Rica
  •  El Salvador
  •  Guatemala
  •  Honduras
  •  Nicaragua
  •  Panama

    • First round

    The group stage draw took place on December 9, 2008 in Guatemala City. The reigning champions, Costa Rica, and the hosts, Honduras, were automatically drawn as top seed in their respective groups. Costa Rica was paired with Panama and Guatemala, the first two runners-up from the UNCAF Nations Cup 2007. The remaining teams – El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Belize – were drawn into the same group as Honduras.

    Fifth place

    The winner of the fifth place match qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup as the fifth and final entrant from Central America.

    Semifinals

    All four semifinalists qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

  • The game was called after sixty minutes of play when El Salvador was reduced to six players. Two El Salvador players, Alexander Escobar and Eliseo Quintanilla, were awarded red cards in the first half, and Deris Umanzor, Rodolfo Zelaya, and goalkeeper Juan José Gómez were injured and had to leave the game after El Salvador had already exhausted their three substitutions. The game was awarded 3–0 to Costa Rica

    • Results

  • Top 5 qualified to the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

    • References

    2009 UNCAF Nations Cup Wikipedia
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