1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Dates May 20 - December 29, 1979
Teams 14
Champions El Salvador CD FAS
Runners-up Netherlands Antilles CRKSV Jong Colombia

The 1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 15th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 20 May till 29 December 1979.

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

Club Deportivo FAS from El Salvador won the final, and became CONCACAF champion for the first time in their history.

North American Zone

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
UANL Tigres Mexico 3 - 0 United States Soccer Universidad A.C. 2 - 0 1 - 0

Central American Zone

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
CD FAS El Salvador w/o Guatemala CSD Comunicaciones
CS Cartaginés Costa Rica w/o El Salvador Alianza FC

Second Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
CD FAS El Salvador w/o Costa Rica CS Cartaginés

Caribbean Zone

Preliminary Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Santos Kingston FC Jamaica w/o Dominican Republic Don Bosco Jarabacoa FC

First Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
CRKSV Jong Holland Netherlands Antilles 3 - 0 Jamaica Arnett Gardens FC 1 - 0 2 - 0
Santos Kingston FC Jamaica 0 - 4 Netherlands Antilles CRKSV Jong Colombia 0 - 2 0 - 2

Second Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
CRKSV Jong Holland Netherlands Antilles 0 - 2 Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force F.C. 0 - 0 0 - 2
SV Leo Victor Suriname 2 - 3 Netherlands Antilles CRKSV Jong Colombia 2 - 1 0 - 2

Third Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Defence Force Trinidad and Tobago 2 - 3 Netherlands Antilles Jong Colombia 2 - 0 0 - 3
SV Robinhood Suriname 3 - 0 Trinidad and Tobago Tesoro Palo Seco 2 - 0 1 - 0

Fourth Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
SV Robinhood Suriname 0 - 1 Netherlands Antilles Jong Colombia 0 - 0 0 - 1

CONCACAF Final Series

Semi-Final

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
UANL Tigres Mexico 0 - 1 El Salvador CD FAS 0 - 0 0 - 1

Final

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
CRKSV Jong Colombia Netherlands Antilles 2 - 8 El Salvador CD FAS 1 - 1 1 - 7

Final

First leg

Second leg

1979-12-29
C.D. FAS El Salvador 7 1 Netherlands Antilles CRKSV Jong Colombia
Roberto Raul Casadei  12',  43'
Jorge González  56',  81'
David Arnoldo Cabrera  64',  87'
Alfredo Erazo  63'
(Report) Edwin Bernardina  90'
Estadio Cuscatlan
San Salvador, El Salvador

Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Guatemala Jorge Mario Ramirez

C.D. FAS wins 1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup 8-2 on aggregate,
advance to Confederation title.

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup
1979 Champions
El Salvador
CD FAS
First Title

References

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