2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
Tournament details

Host country	Trinidad and Tobago
City	Bacolet and Macoya
Dates	6–15 March 2009
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Costa Rica (2nd title)
Runners-up	United States
Third place	Honduras
Fourth place	Trinidad and Tobago
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	33 (2.06 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Randy Edwini-Bonsu Josué Martinez Roger Rojas (3 goals)
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The 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship is the biannual CONCACAF youth championship tournament for under-20 national teams. The 2009 edition was held in Trinidad and Tobago. All matches were played at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago and Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Trinidad. The CONCACAF U-20 Championship traditionally serves as the CONCACAF qualifier for the FIFA U-20 World Cup, and under this year's tournament format the four semifinalists will qualify for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was hosted by Egypt from 25 September to 16 October 2009.

1 Qualifying
2 Squads
3 Venues
4 Group stage
- 4.1 Group 1
- 4.2 Group 2
5 Championship round
6 Final results
- 6.1 Goal scorers
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Qualifying

Main article: 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying

Region	Qualification Tournament	Qualifiers
Caribbean (CFU)	Caribbean U-20 qualifying tournament	Jamaica Trinidad and Tobago†
Central America (UNCAF)	Central American U-20 qualifying tournament	Costa Rica El Salvador Honduras‡
North America (NAFU)	Automatically qualified	Canada Mexico United States

Notes

† Trinidad and Tobago automatically qualified and did not participate in the qualification tournament due to their status as tournament hosts.
‡ The runner up from the Caribbean region, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the 3rd place finisher from the Central American region, Honduras, played a playoff to determine the 8th and final qualifier for the tournament proper.^[1]^[2] The match was a one-game playoff on 2 March, four days prior to the opening of the tournament, in Macoya.^[3] Honduras won the match 3–1.^[4]

Squads

Main article: 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship squads

Venues



Dwight Yorke Stadium Location:Bacolet, Tobago Capacity:7,500 Home club: Tobago United	Marvin Lee Stadium Location:Macoya, Trinidad Capacity:6,000 Home club: Joe Public F.C.

Group stage

The winner and runner-up from each group advanced to the semifinals.

Group 1

All matches in this group were played at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Trinidad.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	1	0	5	0	+5	7
Honduras	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4	5
Jamaica	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
El Salvador	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

6 March 2009 17:00 ECT	Honduras	2 – 2	El Salvador	Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 556 Referee: Roberto García (Mexico)
	Rojas 65' Valladares 82'	Report	Blanco 77' Flores 90'

6 March 2009 19:00 ECT	Jamaica	0 – 3	United States	Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 556 Referee: Ricardo Cerdas (Costa Rica)
		Report	Marošević 8' Duka 78' Schuler 83'

8 March 2009 16:00 ECT	El Salvador	1 – 2	Jamaica	Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 524 Referee: Paul Ward (Canada)
	Sosa 11'	Report	Campbell 8' Adlam 56'

8 March 2009 18:00 ECT	United States	0 – 0	Honduras	Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 524 Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)
		Report

10 March 2009 17:00 ECT	Jamaica	0 – 4	Honduras	Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 467 Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)
		Report	Leveron 44' Martinez 47' Rojas 62' Altimirano 72'

10 March 2009 19:00 ECT	United States	2 – 0	El Salvador	Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet Attendance: 467 Referee: Rene Guerrero (Nicaragua)
	Shea 30' Taylor 41'	Report

Group 2

All matches in this group were played at Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Tobago.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Costa Rica	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Canada	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

7 March 2009 16:00 ECT	Mexico	0 – 1	Costa Rica	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Walter López (Guatemala)
		Report	Martínez 39'

7 March 2009 18:00 ECT	Trinidad and Tobago	1 – 0	Canada	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Oscar Moncada (Honduras)
	De Silva 82'	Report

9 March 2009 17:00 ECT	Canada	2 – 0	Mexico	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Elmer Bonilla (El Salvador)
	Edwini-Bonsu 75' 82'	Report

9 March 2009 19:00 ECT	Trinidad and Tobago	0 – 0	Costa Rica	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Ricardo Salazar (United States)
		Report

11 March 2009 17:00 ECT	Costa Rica	2 – 1	Canada	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Kevin Thomas (Jamaica)
	Castro 25' Ureña 72'	Report	Edwini-Bonsu 12'

11 March 2009 19:00 ECT	Trinidad and Tobago	2 – 2	Mexico	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Oscar Moncada (Honduras)
	Clarence 52' Bentick 60'	Report	Velasquez 8' Salazar 45'

Championship round

All four teams to qualify for the semifinals automatically qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup.^[2]

Semifinals

13 March 2009 17:00 ECT	Costa Rica	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Honduras	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Walter López (Guatemala)
		Report
		Penalties
	Estrada Guzman Gamboa Castro	4 – 2	Leverón Mejia Mayorquin Fonseca

13 March 2009 20:00 ECT	United States	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Trinidad and Tobago	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Roberto García (Mexico)
		Report
		Penalties
	Jeffrey Duka Marošević Davies Wallace	4 – 3	Rochford Joseph Bentick Bateau Paul

Third place

15 March 2009 16:00 ECT	Honduras	2 – 1	Trinidad and Tobago	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Elmer Bonilla (El Salvador)
	Rojas 47' Mayorquin 89'	Report	Grosvenor 58'

Final

15 March 2009 19:00 ECT	Costa Rica	3 – 0	United States	Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)
	Estrada 40' Martínez 68' 80'	Report

Final results

2009 CONCACAF U-20 Champions
Costa Rica Second title

Goal scorers

3 goals

Randy Edwini-Bonsu

Josué Martinez

Roger Rojas

1 goal

Jorge Castro
Diego Estrada
Marcos Danilo Ureña
Léster Blanco
Andrés Flores
Herbert Sosa
Cristhian Altimirano
Johnny Leverón

Mario Martinez
José Valladares
Reinieri Mayorquin
Alonso Adlam
Romario Campbell
Antonio Salazar
Axel Velasquez
Juma Clarence

Sean De Silva
Qian Grosvenor
Uriah Bentick
Dilly Duka
Perica Marošević
Billy Schuler
Brek Shea
Alejandro Taylor

References

^ Trinidad & Tobago to stage CONCACAF U-20 Championship in March, New York City: CONCACAF, 11 November 2008, http://www.concacaf.com/competitions/U20/viewArticle.aspx?id=4521, retrieved 17 November 2008
^ ^a ^b Mexico, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Canada grouped for first round of CONCACAF U-20 Championship, New York City: CONCACAF, 15 January 2009, http://www.concacaf.com/competitions/U20/viewArticle.aspx?id=4593, retrieved 21 January 2009 .
^ Under-20 playoff between Honduras and St. Vincent set for 2 March in Trinidad, New York City: CONCACAF, 10 February 2009, http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?id=4623, retrieved 11 February 2009
^ Honduras claims last place in CONCACAF U-20 Championship, beats St. Vincent 3-1, Macoya, Trinidad: CONCACAF, 2 March 2009, http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?id=4647, retrieved 3 March 2009

External links

CONCACAF Under-20 Championship

Seasons

CONCACAF Youth Tournaments	Panama 1962 · Guatemala 1964 · Cuba 1970 · Mexico 1973 · Canada 1974 · Puerto Rico 1976 · Honduras 1978 · United States 1980 · Guatemala 1982 · Trinidad and Tobago 1984 · Trinidad and Tobago 1986 · Guatemala 1988 · Guatemala 1990 · Canada 1993 · Honduras 1995 · Mexico 1997

FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifying tournament	Guatemala/Trinidad and Tobago 1998 · Canada/Trinidad and Tobago 2001 · Panama/United States 2003 · Honduras/United States 2005 · Panama/Mexico 2007

CONCACAF U-20 Championship	Trinidad and Tobago 2009 · Guatemala 2011

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2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

Contents

Qualifying

Squads

Venues

Group stage

Group 1

Group 2

Championship round

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Final results

Goal scorers

See also

References

External links