The tournament was to be held in Nicaragua in January 1973, but was postponed due to an
earthquake there in December 1972. Bermuda (previously named as backup host) declined to
host the tournament due to short notice and the additional costs of hosting the associated
CONCACAF Congress.
February 18 to March 4, 1973 in Mexico.
NB: Matches of 80 minutes.
First Round
Group 1 (Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla)
18- 2 Mexico 7-0 Nicaragua
[Jesús Sotelo 12, José Luis Caballero 14pen, 72, 80+, Oscar Padilla 20, 43, Sigifredo Herrera 80og]
20- 2 Nicaragua 1-1 Canada
[Armando Cuadra 11; Jeff Sim 47]
22- 2 Mexico 2-1 Canada
[Jesús Sotelo 35, José Luis Caballero 50; Mark McQueen 77pen]
1.MEXICO 2 2 0 0 9- 1 4
2.CANADA 2 0 1 1 2- 3 1
3.Nicaragua 2 0 1 1 1- 8 1
Group 2 (Estadio León, León)
19- 2 Guatemala 4-1 Dutch Antilles
[Carlos Pérez McNish 6, Félix McDonald 34, 72, Jon Zimert 79; Kenneth Jonis 67]
21- 2 Dutch Antilles 0-1 Cuba
[Roberto Pereira 37]
23- 2 Guatemala 0-0 Cuba
1.GUATEMALA 2 1 1 0 4- 1 3
2.CUBA 2 1 1 0 1- 0 3
3.Dutch Antilles 2 0 0 2 1- 5 0
Semifinals (Estadio Toluca 70 (La Bombonera), Toluca)
25- 2 Guatemala 1-0 Canada
[Mario Mendoza 73]
Mexico 1-0 Cuba
[Sergio Meza 62]
NB: Match suspended at 63' due to ejection of 5 Cuban players.
Third Place Match (Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla)
28- 2 Cuba 2-0 Canada
[Regino Delgado 32, Roberto Naveira 49]
Final (Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla)
4- 3 Mexico 2-0 Guatemala
[José Luis Caballero 62, Víctor Rangel 75]
Thanks to Neil Morrison
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