V. CONCACAF NATIONS CUP 1971

Qualifying Stage


Caribbean Zone

First Round

15- 9 Suriname            4-1 Guyana
21- 9 Guyana              2-3 Suriname


 1-10 Jamaica             0-1 Cuba
        [Jorge Masso 51]
 3-10 Cuba                0-0 Jamaica

      Haiti                -  Netherlands Antilles
      Netherlands Antilles withdrew

Second Round

NB: Cuba and Suriname refused to face Haiti in the final triangular; CONCACAF decided to award the two Caribbean spots 
    to Cuba and Haiti.

 
Central American Zone

First Round

 5- 9 Honduras            1-0 Guatemala
        [Oscar Hernández 57]
12- 9 Guatemala           1-1 Honduras
        [Edgar González 45; Jorge Urquía 88]

 9- 9 Nicaragua           2-3 El Salvador
        [Bayardo Barrera 31, 65pen; Rafael Bucaro 26, 53, Abraham Coreas 35]
15- 9 El Salvador         1-0 Nicaragua
        [Baltazar Ramírez Zapata 67]

Second Round

      El Salvador             Honduras
      El Salvador witdrew due to "football war".

Honduras qualified.


North American Zone 

 3-10 Bermuda             0-2 Mexico
        [Enrique Borja 44, José Alfredo Jiménez 49]
13-10 Mexico              4-0 Bermuda
        [Enrique Borja 8, Mario Velarde 40, 62, Horacio López Salgado 77]

Mexico qualified


FINAL TOURNAMENT

(Trinidad and Tobago (Nov. 20 - Dec. 5)

Trinidad and Tobago (hosts) and Costa Rica (holder) qualified automatically.

20-11 Cuba                0-3 Costa Rica          [Port of Spain]
        [Roy Sáenz 42, 44, Alfonso Estupiñán 55]
21-11 Mexico              0-0 Haiti               [San Fernando]
      Honduras            1-1 Trinidad and Tobago [San Fernando]
        [Miguel Ángel Matamoros 36pen; Anthony Douglas 25]

23-11 Cuba                3-1 Honduras            [Port of Spain]
        [Francisco Piedra 10, Andrés Roldán 26, José Verdecia 49; Jorge Brand 59]
24-11 Costa Rica          0-0 Haiti               [Port of Spain]
26-11 Mexico              2-0 Trinidad and Tobago [Port of Spain]
        [José Alfredo Jiménez 46, Roberto Rodríguez 85pen]

27-11 Costa Rica          2-1 Honduras            [Port of Spain]
        [Hernán Morales 10, Roy Sáenz 38; Oscar Hernandez 45]
28-11 Cuba                0-1 Mexico              [San Fernando]
        [Roberto Rodríguez 15pen]
      Trinidad and Tobago 1-6 Haiti               [Arima]               
        [Wilfred Cave 7; Pierre Bayonne 40, 81, Emmanuel Sanon 43, Leintz Domingue 44, Ramon Moraldo 51og, 
         Claude Barthelemy 57]

30-11 Trinidad and Tobago 2-2 Cuba                [Port of Spain]
        [Wilfred Cave 16, Clibert Lennard 70; José Luis Elejalde 77, Dagoberto Lara 89]
 1-12 Honduras            1-3 Haiti               [Port of Spain]
        [Arnulfo Echeverría 1; Pierre Bayonne 28, Emmanuel Sanon 41, Jean-Claude Desir 44]
 2-12 Mexico              1-0 Costa Rica          [Port of Spain]
        [Roberto Rodríguez 73]

 4-12 Mexico              2-1 Honduras            [Port of Spain]
        [Octavio Muciño 42, 83;  Rigoberto Gómez 69]
      Cuba                0-0 Haiti               [San Fernando]
 5-12 Costa Rica          1-3 Trinidad and Tobago [Port of Spain]
        [Emilio Valle 24; Aubert Philips 30, Steve David 58, Anthony Douglas 69]           

FINAL TABLE

MEXICO			5  4  1  0  6  1  9
Haiti			5  2  3  0  9  2  7
Costa Rica		5  2  1  2  6  5  5
Cuba			5  1  2  2  5  7  4
Trinidad and Tobago	5  1  2  2  7 12  4
Honduras		5  0  1  4  5 11  1

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1969

1971 - match details


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