1968 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1968 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

Dates	26 May 1968 – 1 December 1968
Final positions
Champions	Deportivo Toluca (1st title)

The 1968 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 4th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region.

The tournament was played by 10 teams of 10 nations: Netherlands Antilles, Bermuda, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname, Nicaragua, Costa Rica.

It was played from 26 May till 1 December 1968 under the home/away match system.

The tournament was split in 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the Central and Caribbean zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Northern champion in the final. The final was scratched and Toluca were declared champions after both semi-finalists, Aurora and Transvaal, were ejected from the competition due to crowd violence.

Club Deportivo Toluca (actually known as Deportivo Toluca FC) from Mexico won the final, and became for the first time in its history CONCACAF champion.

Caribbean zone

1st leg 22 April 1968	Scherpenheuvel	1 – 1	Transvaal

2nd leg 2 May 1968	Transvaal	3 – 1	Scherpenheuvel

• Transvaal won 4–2 on aggregate score.

Northern zone

First round

1st leg 26 May 1968	Somerset Cricket	2 – 1	NY Greek American

2nd leg 2 June 1968	NY Greek American	1 – 0	Somerset Cricket

Play-off	NY Greek American	2 – 1	Somerset Cricket	New York, New York

• NY Greek American won 4–3 on aggregate score.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Toluca	7 - 3	NY Greek American	4 - 1	3 - 2

Central American Zone

First Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Alajuelense	1 - 2	Aurora	0 - 2	1 - 0
Alianza	1 - 3	Olimpia	1 - 2	0 - 1

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Olimpia	1 - 5	Aurora	1 - 1	0 - 4

CONCACAF Semi-Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Transvaal	3 - 11	Aurora	1 - 1	2 - 0

¹ At the end of the 2nd leg, Transvaal fans invaded the pitch, but after Aurora fans did the same, a mass brawl broke out between the two sets of fans; both teams were ejected from the competition.

Final

The final was scratched and Toluca were declared champions after Aurora and Transvaal were ejected from the competition.

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1968 Champion
Toluca First Title

References

• RSSSF Site

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