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2009 UNCAF Nations Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Honduras
Dates	January 22 - February 1
Teams	7 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Panama (1st title)
Runner-up	Costa Rica
Third place	Honduras
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	32 (2.29 per match)
Attendance	114,000 (8,143 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Andy Furtado (3 goals)
Best player	Keylor Navas

The UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 was the tenth edition of the UNCAF Nations Cup, the biennial football (soccer) tournament for the CONCACAF-affiliated national teams of Central America. The first five places qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.^[1] The event was going to take place in Panama City, Panama between January 22 and February 1, 2009^[2], but the Panamanian FA announced that is was relieving themselves of hosting the event due to not having an adequate stadium available for the time period of the tournament.^[3]^[4] The alternative hosts were Honduras and Guatemala.^[5] Honduras submitted an official replacement bid on November 12, and after some consideration it was moved to Honduras.^[3] All games were played in Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino in Tegucigalpa.^[3]^[6] The tournament was sponsored by Digicel.^[7] On the 1st of February 2009 Panama won the tournament, the first UNCAF Nations Cup win in the country's history.

[edit] Participating nations

All seven UNCAF members participated in the tournament:

[edit] Squads

Main article: UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 squads

[edit] Group stage

The group stage draw took place on December 9, 2008 in Guatemala City.^[1] The reigning champions, Costa Rica, and the hosts, Honduras, were automatically drawn as top seed in their respective groups.^[7] Costa Rica was paired with Panama and Guatemala, the first two runners-up from the UNCAF Nations Cup 2007.^[1] The remaining teams – El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Belize – were drawn into the same group as Honduras.^[1]

[edit] Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Honduras	3	3	0	0	8	2	6	9
El Salvador	3	1	1	1	5	4	1	4
Nicaragua	3	0	2	1	3	6	-3	2
Belize	3	0	1	2	3	7	-4	1

22 January 2009 17:00 (UTC-6)	El Salvador	1 – 1	Nicaragua	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
	Avilés 18' (o.g.)	Report	Medina 85'

22 January 2009 19:30 (UTC-6)	Honduras	2 – 1	Belize	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Roberto Moreno (Panama)
	Guevara 32' (pen.) W. Martínez 61'	Report	Castillo 86'

24 January 2009 15:00 (UTC-6)	Belize	1 – 4	El Salvador	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Walter Quesada (Costa Rica)
	James 73'	Report	Pacheco 11' (pen.), 30' (pen.) Sánchez 75' Ayala 88'

24 January 2009 17:30 (UTC-6)	Honduras	4 – 1	Nicaragua	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
	Rodríguez 16' Solorzano 65' (o.g.) S. Martínez 73' W. Martínez 79'	Report	Reyes 30'

26 January 2009 17:00 (UTC-6)	Nicaragua	1 – 1	Belize	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Oscar Moncada (Honduras)
	Barrera 75'	Report	Róchez 18'

26 January 2009 19:30 (UTC-6)	Honduras	2 – 0	El Salvador	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Oscar Moncada (Honduras)
	Pavón 34' (pen.) Chávez 73'	Report

[edit] Group 2

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Costa Rica	2	2	0	6	1	+5	6
Panama	2	1	1	1	3	-2	3
Guatemala	2	0	2	1	4	-3	0

23 January 2009 19:30 (UTC-6)	Costa Rica	3 – 0	Panama	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Courtney Campbell (Jamaica)
	Furtado 8', 15' Sunsing 55'	Report

25 January 2009 18:00 (UTC-6)	Guatemala	1 – 3	Costa Rica	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Marco Rodríguez (Mexico)
	López 51'	Report	Sánchez 34' Herrera 59' Segura 61'

27 January 2009 19:30 (UTC-6)	Panama	1 – 0	Guatemala	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)
	Zapata 31'	Report

[edit] Fifth place

The winner of the fifth place match qualifies for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup as the fifth and final entrant from Central America.

29 January 2009 19:30 (UTC-6)	Nicaragua	2 – 0	Guatemala	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 150 Referee: Oscar Moncada (Honduras)
	Wilson 39', 85'	Report

[edit] Semifinals

All four semifinalists qualify for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

30 January 2009 17:00 (UTC-6)	Costa Rica	1 – 0 (60 min)†	El Salvador	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Roberto Moreno (Panama)
	Furtado 19'	Report

30 January 2009 20:00 (UTC-6)	Honduras	0 – 1	Panama	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
		Report	Phillips 40'

† The game was called after sixty minutes of play when El Salvador was reduced to six players. Two El Salvador players, Alexander Escobar and Eliseo Quintanilla, were awarded red cards in the first half, and Deris Umanzor, Rodolfo Zelaya, and goalkeeper Juan José Gómez were injured and had to leave the game after El Salvador had already exhausted their three substitutions.^[8]^[9]^[10]

[edit] Third place

1 February 2009 15:30 (UTC-6)	El Salvador	0 – 1	Honduras	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 900 Referee: Walter Quesada (Costa Rica)
		Report	Espinoza 30'

[edit] Final

1 February 2009 18:00 (UTC-6)	Costa Rica	0 – 0 Pen: 3–5	Panama	Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 900 Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
		Report

		Penalties
	Furtado Núñez Jiménez Oviedo	3 – 5	Herrera Aguilar Phillips Jaramillo Henriquez

[edit] Results

2009 UNCAF Nations Cup Champions
Panama First title

Pos	Nation
1	Panama (Q)
2	Costa Rica (Q)
3	Honduras (Q)
4	El Salvador (Q)
5	Nicaragua (Q)
6	Guatemala
7	Belize

(Q)= Qualify to 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup

[edit] Scorers

3 goals

Andy Furtado

2 goals

1 goal

1 goal (Own Goal)

Silvio Avilés (for El Salvador)
David Solorzano (for Honduras)

[edit] See also

Association football portal

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Six-time champ Costa Rica drawn with Panama, Guatemala in Central American Nations Cup". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 9 December 2008. http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?id=4564. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
^ "Panamá organizará la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). Tanto Fútbol. 28 February 2008. http://www.tantofutbol.com/2008/02/28/panam-organizar-la-copa-de-naciones-de-la-uncaf-del-2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Central American Nations Cup moved from Panama to Honduras". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 17 November 2008. http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?ID=4527. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
^ "Panamá descarta organizar la Uncaf" (in Spanish). La Nación (Panama). 2 November 2008. http://nacion.com/ln_ee/2008/noviembre/02/deportes1759889.html.
^ Estrada, Campo Elías (22 February 2008). "Copa de Naciones está más allá que acá" (in Spanish). La Prensa. http://www.prensa.com/hoy/deportes/1540363.html. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
^ "Se confirma Honduras como sede de la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). UNCAF. 16 November 2008. http://uncaf.net/portal/modules/contenidoes/item.php?itemid=77/.
^ ^a ^b "Digicel, UNCAF launch 2009 Nations Cup". The Nassau Guardian. http://www.thenassauguardian.com/sports/340563042874912.php. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
^ "Costa Rica, Panama win to earn rematch for Central American Nations Cup title". Tegucigalpa, Honduras: CONCACAF. 31 January 2009. http://www.concacaf.com/competitions/goldcup/2009/viewArticle.aspx?id=4612. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
^ Goff, Steven (February 2, 2009). "Monday Kickaround". voices.washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post Company). http://voices.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2009/02/monday_kickaround_5.html. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
^ "FIFA's Head to Head Results - Continental Qualifiers". http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/headtohead/team1=crc/team2=slv/code=504/index.html. Retrieved 2 February 2009.

[edit] External links

2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup at CONCACAF.com

[draw-0] "Six-time champ Costa Rica drawn with Panama, Guatemala in Central American Nations Cup". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 9 December 2008. http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?id=4564. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[1] "Panamá organizará la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). Tanto Fútbol. 28 February 2008. http://www.tantofutbol.com/2008/02/28/panam-organizar-la-copa-de-naciones-de-la-uncaf-del-2009.

[movedtohonduras-2] "Central American Nations Cup moved from Panama to Honduras". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 17 November 2008. http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?ID=4527. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[3] "Panamá descarta organizar la Uncaf" (in Spanish). La Nación (Panama). 2 November 2008. http://nacion.com/ln_ee/2008/noviembre/02/deportes1759889.html.

[4] Estrada, Campo Elías (22 February 2008). "Copa de Naciones está más allá que acá" (in Spanish). La Prensa. http://www.prensa.com/hoy/deportes/1540363.html. Retrieved 26 February 2008.

[5] "Se confirma Honduras como sede de la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). UNCAF. 16 November 2008. http://uncaf.net/portal/modules/contenidoes/item.php?itemid=77/.

[digicel-6] "Digicel, UNCAF launch 2009 Nations Cup". The Nassau Guardian. http://www.thenassauguardian.com/sports/340563042874912.php. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[7] "Costa Rica, Panama win to earn rematch for Central American Nations Cup title". Tegucigalpa, Honduras: CONCACAF. 31 January 2009. http://www.concacaf.com/competitions/goldcup/2009/viewArticle.aspx?id=4612. Retrieved 2 February 2009.

[8] Goff, Steven (February 2, 2009). "Monday Kickaround". voices.washingtonpost.com (The Washington Post Company). http://voices.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2009/02/monday_kickaround_5.html. Retrieved 2 February 2009.

[9] "FIFA's Head to Head Results - Continental Qualifiers". http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/headtohead/team1=crc/team2=slv/code=504/index.html. Retrieved 2 February 2009.

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