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1961 CCCF Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Costa Rica
Dates	1–19 March
Teams	9
Final positions
Champions	Costa Rica
Runners-up	El Salvador
Third place	Honduras
Fourth place	Haiti
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	90 (4.09 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Juan Ulloa (10 goals)
Fair play award	Nicaragua
← 1960

The 1961 CCCF Championship was the tenth and last edition of the CCCF Championship, the tournament took place from March 5 to 19, 1961 in the Costa Rican capital (San José).

This was the last edition of the tournament because in September of the same year, the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol would merge with the NAFC to create the new Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Football, Concacaf, which would later found the CONCACAF Championship that began in 1963. The champion was the host Costa Rica.

Venues

San José
Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica
Capacity: 25 000 spectators

Participating Teams

Nine teams participated on the final tournament

•  Costa Rica (Hosts)
•  Cuba
•  El Salvador
•  Guatemala
•  Haiti
•  Honduras
•  Netherlands Antilles
•  Nicaragua
•  Panama

First round

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Costa Rica	4	4	0	0	17	4	+13	8
2	Haiti	4	3	0	1	8	6	+2	6
3	Guatemala	4	2	0	2	7	7	0	4
4	Panama	4	1	0	3	3	11	−8	2
5	Cuba	4	0	0	4	2	9	−7	0

Guatemala	2–4	Costa Rica
López Contreras 29' García 37'		Ulloa 9' Monge 14' Rodríguez 43' Jiménez 76'

Cuba	1–2	Haiti
García 69'		Délices 25' Delpeche 79'

Costa Rica	4–1	Cuba
Rojas 3', 10' Córdoba 39' Ulloa 52'		García 75'

Guatemala	2–0	Panama
Peña 35' López Contreras 65'

Panama	1–3	Haiti
Lombardo 24'		Pierre 26', 61', 82'

Costa Rica	6–1	Panama
Rojas 33' Gobán 48' Ulloa 66' (pen.) Samuel 81' (o.g.)		Sánchez 35'

Cuba	0–2	Guatemala
		Ewing 46' Peña 77'

Haiti	0–3	Costa Rica
		Grant 15' Ulloa 18' Rojas 31'

Panama	1–0	Cuba
Rodríguez 77'

Haiti	3–1	Guatemala
Delices 5' Pierre 50', 83'		García 6'

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	El Salvador	3	2	1	0	11	2	+9	5
2	Honduras	3	2	0	1	10	3	+7	4
3	Netherlands Antilles	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	3
4	Nicaragua	3	0	0	3	3	18	−15	0

Netherlands Antilles	2–1	Nicaragua
Loran 18', 65'		Morales 55'

Netherlands Antilles	0–0	El Salvador

Honduras	4–2	Netherlands Antilles
Pablo 3' (o.g.) Suazo 69' Flores 81' Leaky 87'		Loran 11', 41'

El Salvador	10–2	Nicaragua
Ruano 5' (pen.) Barrazza 14', 15', 26', 80' Cubas 30' Monge 40', 52' E. Hernández 69', 74'		Tamáriz 27' Davila 60'

El Salvador	1–0	Honduras
Barraza 3'

Nicaragua	0–6	Honduras
		Enamorado 43', 60', 77' Leaky 49' Taylor 55' Flores 67'

Final round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Costa Rica	3	3	0	0	15	0	+15	6
2	El Salvador	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	4
3	Honduras	3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	2
4	Haiti	3	0	0	3	0	12	−12	0

Honduras	0–3	Costa Rica
		Ulloa 55' Monge 66' Gobán 89'

Haiti	0–2	El Salvador
		C. Hernández 2' Ruano 59'

Costa Rica	4–0	El Salvador
Rojas 6' Quesada 39' Ulloa 50' Gámez 52'

Honduras	2–0	Haiti
Suazo 2' Leaky 23'

Costa Rica	8–0	Haiti
Monge 10', 37', 58', 89' Ulloa 56' (pen.), 85' Pearson 20' Quesada 27'

El Salvador	5–1	Honduras
Merlos 30', 60' Ruanos 55' Monge 71', 85'		Rodríguez 25'

1961 CCCF Championship
Costa Rica 7th title

Team of the Tournament

Source:

Ideal XI by RSSSF

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Jorge Zavala	Alvaro Chavez Rodolfo Fuentes César Reynosa	Roland Crispin Jorge Roldán	Lucien Pierre Juan Ulloa Jorge Monge Rigoberto Rojas Juan Francisco Barraza

External links

• CCCF Championship on RSSSF Archive

References

1. "X CCCF Championship 1961 - Match Details". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 2023-10-11.

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