1989 CONCACAF Championship

1989 CONCACAF Championship
CONCACAF Championship
Tournament details
Dates	19 March – 19 November
Teams	5 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Costa Rica (3rd title)
Runners-up	United States
Third place	Trinidad and Tobago
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	29 (1.61 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Raúl Chacón Julio Rodas Evaristo Coronado Juan Arnoldo Cayasso Leonidas Flores Leonson Lewis Kerry Jamerson Philibert Jones (2 goals)

The 1989 CONCACAF Championship was the last edition of the CONCACAF Championship held under the format of serving as qualification to the 1990 FIFA World Cup and having no host nation for the final round.

Costa Rica narrowly emerged as champions on goal difference to win their third title and participate in their first World Cup ever. The United States finished runners-up by virtue of one goal, but qualified for their first World Cup in forty years after beating Trinidad and Tobago in 1–0, with a goal dubbed "The Shot Heard around the World".

A total of sixteen CONCACAF teams entered the competition. However, FIFA rejected the entry of Belize due to debts to FIFA. The North, Central American and Caribbean zone was allocated 2 places (out of 24) in the final tournament.

1 Qualification
2 Final round
3 Topscorers
4 References
5 External links

Qualification

Main article: 1989 CONCACAF Championship qualification

Five teams qualified from the two stage qualification process that ran from April to November 1988. Mexico were disqualified during this stage after having been found to have fielded over-aged players during the 1988 Olympic Games qualifiers which was a youth tournament. Their scheduled opponents Costa Rica therefore advanced to the Final Round unopposed.

Final round

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Costa Rica	8	5	1	2	10	6	+4	11
United States	8	4	3	1	6	3	+3	11
Trinidad and Tobago	8	3	3	2	7	5	+2	9
Guatemala	6	1	1	4	4	7	−3	3
El Salvador	6	0	2	4	2	8	−6	2


Costa Rica	–	1 – 0	2 – 1	1 – 0	1 – 0
El Salvador	2 – 4	–	X – X	0 – 0	0 – 1
Guatemala	1 – 0	X – X	–	0 – 1	0 – 0
Trinidad and Tobago	1 – 1	2 – 0	2 – 1	–	0 – 1
United States	1 – 0	0 – 0	2 – 1	1 – 1	–

Costa Rica won the 1989 CONCACAF Championship and, along with the United States, qualified for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

19 March 1989	Guatemala	1 – 0	Costa Rica	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Antonio Evangelista (Canada)
	Chacón 39' (pen.)			{{{stadium}}} Referee: Antonio Evangelista (Canada)

2 April 1989	Costa Rica	2 – 1	Guatemala	{{{stadium}}} Referee: John Meachin (Canada)
	Flores 42' Coronado 78'		Rodas 51'	{{{stadium}}} Referee: John Meachin (Canada)

16 April 1989	Costa Rica	1 – 0	United States	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 26,271 Referee: José Antonio Garza (Mexico)
	Rhoden 14'

30 April 1989	United States	1 – 0	Costa Rica	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Rodolfo Martínez (Honduras)
	Ramos 72'

13 May 1989	United States	1 – 1	Trinidad and Tobago	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)
	Trittschuh 48'		Charles 88'

28 May 1989	Trinidad and Tobago	1 – 1	Costa Rica	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Edgardo Codesal (Mexico)
	Jones		Coronado	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Edgardo Codesal (Mexico)

11 June 1989	Costa Rica	1 – 0	Trinidad and Tobago	{{{stadium}}} Referee: José Joaquín Torres (Colombia)
	Cayasso 2'			{{{stadium}}} Referee: José Joaquín Torres (Colombia)

17 June 1989	United States	2 – 1	Guatemala	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Gordon Arrowsmith (Canada)
	Murray 3' Eichmann 67'		Chacón 22'

25 June 1989	El Salvador	2 – 4	Costa Rica	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)
	Rodriguez 24' Rivas 63'		Cayasso 16' Hidalgo 46' Flóres 51', 75'

16 July 1989	Costa Rica	1 – 0	El Salvador	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Jorge Orellana Vimos (Ecuador)
	Fernandez 55'			{{{stadium}}} Referee: Jorge Orellana Vimos (Ecuador)

30 July 1989	Trinidad and Tobago	2 – 0	El Salvador	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Antonio Evangelista (Canada)
	Lewis 50', 61'			{{{stadium}}} Referee: Antonio Evangelista (Canada)

13 August 1989	El Salvador	0 – 0	Trinidad and Tobago	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 16,882 Referee: Gonzalo Tejada (Honduras)

20 August 1989	Guatemala	0 – 1	Trinidad and Tobago	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)
			Jamerson 57'	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)

3 September 1989	Trinidad and Tobago	2 – 1	Guatemala	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Horacio Cachay Díaz (Peru)
	Jones 10' Jamerson 88'		Rodas 6'	{{{stadium}}} Referee: Horacio Cachay Díaz (Peru)

17 September 1989	El Salvador	0 – 1	United States	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 3,700 Referee: Edgardo Codesal (Mexico)
			Perez 61'

8 October 1989	Guatemala	0 – 0	United States	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Elías Jácome (Ecuador)

5 November 1989	United States	0 – 0	El Salvador	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 8,500 Referee: John Meachin (Canada)

19 November 1989	Trinidad and Tobago	0 – 1	United States	{{{stadium}}} Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Juan Carlos Lostau (Venezuela)
			Caligiuri 30'

19 November 1989	El Salvador	Not Played^[1]	Guatemala	{{{stadium}}}
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21 November 1989	Guatemala	Not Played^[1]	El Salvador	{{{stadium}}}
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1989 CONCACAF Championship Winners
Costa Rica Third title

Topscorers

2 Goals

Raúl Chacón
Julio Rodas
Evaristo Coronado
Juan Arnoldo Cayasso
Leonidas Flores
Leonson Lewis
Kerry Jamerson
Philibert Jones

References

^ ^a ^b Both matches between El Salvador and Guatemala were originally scheduled to be played in Guatemala; later it was agreed that they would not be played, due to their lack of importance (neither team could have qualified for the World Cup by winning both matches).

External links

North, Central American and Caribbean zone at FIFA.com

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