UNCAF Nations Cup 2007

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The 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup was the ninth version of the biennial football tournament for the CONCACAF national teams of Central America. The event took place in San Salvador, El Salvador from February 8 to February 18, 2007. It was the second time El Salvador hosted the competition. The tournament also served as a qualifying process for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Costa Rica won the tournament on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw with Panama in the final. It was Costa Rica's sixth title out of nine tournaments played. Panama reached the UNCAF final for the first time but also lost on penalty kicks in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2005.

1 Participating nations
2 Squads
3 Group stage
- 3.1 Group 1
- 3.2 Group 2
4 Fifth place
5 Semifinals
6 Third place
7 Final
8 Notes

[edit] Participating nations

For El Salvador 2007, UNCAF considered for the first time since the tournament's founding in 1991 to invite national teams from outside of Central America to participate. The organization was in negotiations with Mexico and Venezuela to participate.^[1] In the end, this did not happen, and the tournament (officially listed as the UNCAF Copa de Naciones Digicel) proceeded with only the seven UNCAF members.

Participating teams include the seven UNCAF members:

[edit] Squads

For a complete list of all participating squads see UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 squads

[edit] Group stage

[edit] Group 1

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
El Salvador	7	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2
Guatemala	7	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2
Nicaragua	3	3	1	0	2	5	5	0
Belize	0	3	0	0	3	3	7	-4

8 February 2007	Guatemala	1 - 0	Nicaragua	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Jose Pineda (Honduras)
	Carlos Quiñónez 29'

8 February 2007	El Salvador	2 - 1	Belize	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Walter Quesada (Costa Rica)
	Juan Díaz 25' Eliseo Quintanilla 55'		Deris Benavides 64'

10 February 2007	Belize	0 - 1	Guatemala	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Rolando Vidal (Panama)
			Gustavo Cabrera 8'

10 February 2007	El Salvador	2 - 1	Nicaragua	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: German Arredondo (Mexico)
	Eliseo Quintanilla 16', 65'		Samuel Wilson 53'

12 February 2007	Nicaragua	4 - 2	Belize	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Walter Quesada (Costa Rica)
	Emilio Palacios 12', 20', 68' Milton Busto 28'		Deon McCauley 25', 34'

12 February 2007	El Salvador	0 - 0	Guatemala	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)

[edit] Group 2

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Panama	4	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1
Costa Rica	3	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Honduras	1	2	0	1	1	2	4	-2

9 February 2007	Costa Rica	3 - 1	Honduras	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
	Rolando Fonseca 4', 70' Leonardo González 46'		Emil Martínez 58'

11 February 2007	Honduras	1 - 1	Panama	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)
	Ubaldo Guardia 26' (OG)		Carlos Rivera 80'

13 February 2007	Panama	1 - 0	Costa Rica	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
	Alberto Blanco 87'

[edit] Fifth place

15 February 2007	Nicaragua	1 - 9	Honduras	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: n/a Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)
	Samuel Wilson 31'		Jairo Martinez 3' Wilmer Velasquez 6', 27', 37', 39'(pen) Saul Martinez 68', 80', 84' Carlos Mejía 78'

Honduras qualifies for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup

[edit] Semifinals

16 February 2007	Panama	2 - 0	Guatemala	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: German Arredondo (Mexico)
	Ricardo Phillips 50' Felipe Baloy (pen) 90+2'

16 February 2007	El Salvador	0 - 2	Costa Rica	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
			Harold Wallace 11' Rolando Fonseca 13'

All semifinalists qualify for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup

[edit] Third place

18 February 2007	Guatemala	1 - 0	El Salvador	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Walter Quezada (CRC)
	Claudio Albizuris 82'

[edit] Final

18 February 2007	Panama	1 - 1	Costa Rica	Estadio Cuscatlan San Salvador, El Salvador Attendance: Referee: Carlos Batres (GUA)
	Luis Tejada 36'		Kurt Bernard 85'


	Penalties Felipe Baloy saved Victor Herrera saved Rolando Escobar scored	1–4	Penalties Walter Centeno scored Rolando Fonseca scored Carlos Hernández scored Michael Barrantes scored