The 1963 CONCACAF Championship was the first edition of the CONCACAF Championship, the football championship of North and Central America (CONCACAF). The tournament was held between March 23 to April 7. Eight teams participated in the inaugural event.

The tournament was hosted by El Salvador in the cities of San Salvador and Santa Ana. The eight teams were broken up into two groups of four; the top two teams of each group would advance to a final group stage, playing in round-robin format to determine the winner. The tournament was won by Costa Rica, who defeated the hosts El Salvador 1-4 in the deciding match of the four-team final group.

[edit] Venues

San Salvador	Santa Ana
Estadio Cuscatlán	Estadio Oscar Quiteño
Capacity: 39,000	Capacity: 15,000

[edit] Tournament

[edit] First Round

[edit] Group A

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Honduras	7	4	3	1	0	6	3	3
2	El Salvador	5	4	1	3	0	10	5	5
3	Panama	4	4	1	2	1	8	4	4
4	Guatemala	4	4	1	2	1	7	6	1
5	Nicaragua	0	4	0	0	4	2	15	-13

Results

March 23, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - El Salvador 1 - 1 Panama

March 23, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Honduras 2 - 1 Guatemala

March 25, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - El Salvador 6 - 1 Nicaragua

March 25, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Panama 2 - 2 Guatemala

March 27, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Guatemala 3 - 1 Nicaragua

March 27, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Honduras 1 - 0 Panama

March 29, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - El Salvador 1 - 1 Guatemala

March 29, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Honduras 1 - 0 Nicaragua

March 31, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - El Salvador 2 - 2 Honduras

March 31, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Panama 5 - 0 Nicaragua

[edit] Group B

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Costa Rica	5	3	2	1	0	7	0	7
2	Netherlands Antilles	4	3	2	0	1	4	3	1
3	Mexico	3	3	1	1	1	9	2	7
4	Jamaica	0	3	0	0	3	1	16	-15

Results

March 24, 1963, Santa Ana, El Salvador - Costa Rica 6 - 0 Jamaica

March 24, 1963, Santa Ana, El Salvador - Netherlands Antilles 2 - 1 Mexico

March 28, 1963, Santa Ana, El Salvador - Costa Rica 1 - 0 Netherlands Antilles

March 28, 1963, Santa Ana, El Salvador - Mexico 8 - 0 Jamaica

March 30, 1963, Santa Ana, El Salvador - Costa Rica 0 - 0 Mexico

March 30, 1963, Santa Ana, El Salvador - Netherlands Antilles 2 - 1 Jamaica

[edit] Final Round

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Costa Rica	6	3	3	0	7	2	5
2	El Salvador	4	3	2	1	7	6	1
3	Netherlands Antilles	2	3	1	2	6	5	1
4	Honduras	0	3	0	3	2	9	-7

April 3, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Costa Rica 1 - 0 Netherlands Antilles

April 3, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - El Salvador 3 - 0 Honduras

April 5, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Costa Rica 2 - 1 Honduras

April 5, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - El Salvador 3 - 2 Netherlands Antilles

April 7, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - El Salvador 1 - 4 Costa Rica

April 7, 1963, San Salvador, El Salvador - Netherlands Antilles 4 - 1 Honduras

1963 CONCACAF Championship Winners
Costa Rica First Title

[edit] External links

1963 CONCACAF Championship
Campeonato de Naciones de CONCACAF 1963
Tournament details
Host country	El Salvador
Dates	March 23 – April 7
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Costa Rica (1st title)
Runner-up	El Salvador
Third place	Netherlands Antilles
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	76 (3.45 per match)

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