1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

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1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates1 May – 17 September 1978
Final positions
ChampionsGuatemala Comunicaciones
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Mexico Leones Negros
← 1977
1979 →

The 1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 14th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the

association football in the CONCACAF
region and was played from 1 May until 17 September 1978 and all the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

The teams were split into 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North American and Central American zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final.

As the final part of the tournament was cancelled due to administrative problems, three teams, Comunicaciones (Guatemala) Defence Force (Trinidad and Tobago) and Leones Negros de Guadalajara (Mexico) were crowned champions by CONCACAF.[1]

North American Zone

First round

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
UNAM Mexico w/o1
Maccabi Los Angeles

1

Maccabi Los Angeles
withdrew.

Second round

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
UNAM Mexico 0 - 2
U de G
 0 - 1 0 - 1
U de G
Nil Belarmino de Almeida
U de G Mexico
1-0
(2-0 agg.)		 Mexico UNAM
Octavio de Jesús Nil

Central American Zone

First round

Torneo Centroamericano de Concacaf 1978

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Saprissa Costa Rica 11 - 0 Nicaragua Diriangén 6 - 0 5 - 0
Cartaginés Costa Rica
 1 - 3
FAS
 0 - 2 1 - 1
Municipal Guatemala
 8 - 1 Nicaragua CD UCA 5 - 1 3 - 0
Comunicaciones Guatemala
 5 - 2
Once Municipal
 3 - 1 2 - 1
Saprissa Costa Rica v Nicaragua Diriangén
May 7, 1978 Saprissa Costa Rica 6–0 Nicaragua Diriangén San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica
Miguel Ángel Mansilla 30' 57' 64' 89'
Gerardo Laterza
Nelson Bastos 43'		 Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
May 9, 1978 Diriangén Nicaragua 0-5
(0-11 agg.)		 Costa Rica Saprissa San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica
Guillermo Valenciano 13' 32' 86'
Marco Valverde 55'
Hernán Morales 65'		 Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
Cartaginés Costa Rica
0-2El Salvador FAS
Jorge Gonzalez
David Arnoldo Cabrera
Cartaginés
Eduardo Valdez Oscar Manuel Caceres
Once Municipal
Guillermo Dubon
Felix McDonald
Byron Perez
Second leg
Comunicaciones
Juan Ramon Martinez Ramon Zambrina
Municipal Guatemala
5-1Nicaragua CD UCA
Miguel Cruz
TBD
TBD
TBD 		TBD
Second leg
Comunicaciones
TBD Julio César Anderson
TBD
Estadio Stanley Cayasso, Managua, Nicaragua

Second round

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Saprissa Costa Rica 2 - 1
FAS
 0 - 0 2 - 1
Comunicaciones Guatemala
 2 - 0
Municipal
 2 - 0 0 - 0
FAS
San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica
Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
FAS El Salvador
1-2
(1-2 agg.)		 Costa Rica Saprissa Santa Ana, El Salvador
TBD Emilio Valle Stadium: Estadio Óscar Quiteño
July 5, 1978
Municipal
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Oscar Sanchez Stadium: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores
Comunicaciones
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Stadium: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores

Third round

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Saprissa Costa Rica 0 - 3
Comunicaciones
 0 - 1 0 - 2
Comunicaciones
San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica
Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
Comunicaciones Guatemala v Costa Rica Saprissa
Comunicaciones Guatemala
2-0
(3-0 agg.)		 Costa Rica Saprissa Guatemala City, Guatemala
Stadium: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores

Caribbean Zone

First round

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Jong Holland Netherlands Antilles 2–4
Transvaal
 0–0 2–4
Defence Force Trinidad and Tobago 4–2 Guyana Thomas United 1–0 3–2
Voorwaarts Suriname
 3–2 Trinidad and Tobago TECSA 2–1 1–1
Pele Guyana 5–2 Netherlands Antilles RCA 3–1 2–1


Transvaal
Nil Nil
Transvaal Guadeloupe v Netherlands Antilles Jong Holland
Transvaal Guadeloupe
4-2
(4-2 agg.)		 Netherlands Antilles Jong Holland
Defence Force Trinidad and Tobago v Guyana Thomas United
Defence Force Trinidad and Tobago 1–0 Guyana Thomas United
Nil
Thomas United Guyana 2-3
(2-4 agg.)		 Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Voorwaarts Suriname
2-1 Guadeloupe TECSA
Voorwaarts
Nil
Pele Guyana v Netherlands Antilles RCA
Pele Guyana 3-1 Netherlands Antilles RCA
RCA Netherlands Antilles 1-2 Guyana Pele

Second round

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Transvaal Suriname
 2–4 Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force 1–1 1–3
Voorwaarts Suriname
 5–2 Guyana Pele 5–1 0–1
Transvaal Suriname
1-1 Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Transvaal
Nil
Voorwaarts Suriname v Guyana Pele
Voorwaarts Suriname
5-1 Guyana Pele
Voorwaarts
Nil

Third round

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score 		Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Voorwaarts Suriname
 1–4 Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force 1–2 0–2
Voorwaarts Suriname v Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Voorwaarts Suriname
1-2 Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Voorwaarts
Nil

CONCACAF final series

The final series was scratched and the three qualifying teams declared joint champions due to administrative problems and disagreements over the dates for the matches.

Champions

 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
1978 
Guatemala Comunicaciones
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Mexico Leones Negros

References

  1. ^ Copa de Campeones 1978 on the RSSSF
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