1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Tournament details
Dates	1 June 1973 – 10 January 1974
Teams	16 (from 9 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Transvaal
	← 1972 1974 →

The 1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 9th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the

CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football

in the CONCACAF region. The tournament was originally scheduled to be played by 16 teams of 9 countries from 1 June to 3 August 1973 with the matches in the tournament played under the home/away match, but a final series was set up for 8 and 10 January 1974, after no team from either of the other two sections participated.

The teams were split into zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to participate in the final tournament. As no clubs entered in the North American section, the winner of the two remaining zones gained the qualification to the final, but both Central American teams withdrew; therefore the final was scratched and the Caribbean winner,

Transvaal from Suriname, won the tournament, becoming CONCACAF champion for the first time.^[1]

North American Zone

The zone was cancelled as no clubs entered.

Central American Zone

First round

Torneo Centroamericano de Concacaf 1973

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vida	0–3	Saprissa	0–2	0–1
Municipal	1–0¹	Olimpia	0–0	1–0
Alajuelense	4–0	Águila	3–0	1–0²
Comunicaciones	1–0	Juventud Olímpica	0–0	1–0

Saprissa, Alajuelense and Comunicaciones advanced to the Central American Zone second round.
¹ CSD Municipal later withdrew.
² The match was abandoned in the 68th minute with

Alajuelense

leading 1–0 due to torrential rain which flooded the pitch; the result was allowed to stand.

Vida

v

Saprissa

1 June 1973	Vida	0–2	Saprissa	San Pedro Sula
			Carlos Solano Gerardo Solano	Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

24 June 1973	Vida	San Juan de Tibás
	Gerardo Solano			Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá

18 July 1973	Olimpia	Guatemala City
				Stadium: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores

25 July 1973	Municipal	Tegucigalpa
			Leonardo McNish	Stadium: Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés

Alajuelense

v

Águila

24 June 1973	Alajuelense	3–0	Águila	Alajuela
	Roy Saénz Walter Elizondo			Stadium: Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto

29 June 1973	Alajuelense	San Salvador
			Walter Elizondo	Stadium: Estadio Jorge "Mágico" González

11 June 1973	Juventud Olímpica	Guatemala City
				Stadium: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores

3 August 1973	Comunicaciones	San Salvador
			Erwin Torres	Stadium: Estadio Jorge "Mágico" González

Second round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Deportivo Santa Cecilia¹	1–8	Alajuelense	0–5	1–3
Comunicaciones	1–4	Saprissa	1–0	0–4

¹Deportivo Santa Cecilia replaced Municipal, who withdrew.
Saprissa and Alajuelense advance to the Central American Zone third round.

Alajuelense

v

Deportivo Santa Cecilia

3 August 1973	Alajuelense	5–0	Deportivo Santa Cecilia	Alajuela, Costa Rica
	Richard González Alfredo Piedra Roy Sáenz Javier Jimenez			Stadium: Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto

10 September 1973	Alajuelense	Diriamba, Nicaragua
	Gerardo Barrios		Alfonso Obregón Javier Jimenez	Stadium: Estadio La Salle

Comunicaciones

v

Saprissa

8 October 1973	Comunicaciones	1–0	Saprissa	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Félix McDonald			Stadium: Estadio Mateo Flores

15 October 1973	Comunicaciones	San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica
	Wilberth Barquero Hernán Morales Gerardo Solano Carlos Solano			Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá Attendance: 5,586

Third round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Alajuelense	0–2	Saprissa	0–1	0–1

Saprissa won the series, but later withdrew.

21 November 1973	Alajuelense	San Juan de Tibás
				Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá

Alajuelense

v

Saprissa

5 December 1973	Alajuelense	0–1 (0–2 agg.)	Saprissa	San José, Costa Rica
				Stadium: Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica

Caribbean Zone

First round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Robinhood	2–4	Jong Colombia	2–3	0–1
Transvaal	14–0	Universidad Católica	8–0	6–0
Devonshire Colts	6–5	North Village CC	3–1	3–4

Bye: S.V. SUBT

Robinhood

v

Jong Colombia

29 June 1973	Robinhood	2–3	Jong Colombia

15 July 1973	Robinhood
	Nil

Transvaal

v

Universidad Católica

24 June 1973	Transvaal	8–0	Universidad Católica	Paramaribo’s National Stadion
	Edwin Schal Theo Klein Musanto Corte Nortan Own goal		Nil

28 June 1973	Transvaal	Paramaribo’s National Stadion
	Nil		Edwin Schal Klein Hedley Del Prado

Devonshire Colts

v

North Village CC

1 June 1973	Devonshire Colts	3–1	North Village CC

24 June 1973	Devonshire Colts

Second round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
SUBT	3–9	Transvaal	2–5	1–4
Jong Colombia	w/o¹	Devonshire Colts

¹ Devonshire Colts withdrew.

Transvaal and Jong Colombia
advance to the third round.

12 July 1973	Transvaal	Willemstad
			Wiene Schal Humphrey Castillion Theo Klein Wesley Bundel

	SUBT
	Wiene Schal Humphrey Castillion Theo Klein Vanenburg

Third round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Transvaal	4–2	Jong Colombia	2–1	2–1

Transvaal

v

Jong Colombia

	Transvaal	2–1	Jong Colombia
	TBD TBD		TBD

4 August 1973	Transvaal
	TBD		George Headley Edwin Schal

Fourth round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Transvaal	7–3	Devonshire Colts	4–2	3–1

¹ Devonshire Colts were reinstated as all other clubs from the Central Zone withdrew, since the Northern Zone had been cancelled due to no clubs having entered.

8 January 1974	Devonshire Colts
	Wiene Schal Wensley Bundel Theo Klein Humphrey Castillion		Lambert Darrel

10 January 1974	Devonshire Colts
	Theo Klein Wiene Schal Roy Vanenburg		Lambert

CONCACAF final round

The final was scratched and

Transvaal

. winners of the Caribbean Zone, were declared CONCACAF Champions in that Central American finalist Saprissa had withdrawn after 15 December 1973.

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1973 champions
Transvaal First title

References

^ Copa de Campeones 1973 on the RSSSF

[1] Copa de Campeones 1973 on the RSSSF

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