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1989 CONCACAF Championship
CONCACAF Championship
Tournament details
Dates19 March – 19 November
Teams5 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions Costa Rica (3rd title)
Runners-up United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played18
Goals scored29 (1.61 per match)
Top scorer(s)Guatemala Raúl Chacón
Guatemala Julio Rodas
Costa Rica Evaristo Coronado
Costa Rica Juan Arnoldo Cayasso
Costa Rica Leonidas Flores
Trinidad and Tobago Leonson Lewis
Trinidad and Tobago Kerry Jamerson
Trinidad and Tobago Philibert Jones
(2 goals)
← 1985
1991 →

The 1989 CONCACAF Championship was the tenth and 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. The tournament would be succeeded by the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1991.

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.

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 El Salvador Guatemala Trinidad and Tobago United States
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.

Guatemala 1 – 0 Costa Rica
Chacón 39' (pen.)
Costa Rica 2 – 1 Guatemala
Flores 42'
Coronado 78'		 Rodas 51'
Referee: John Meachin (Canada)
Costa Rica 1 – 0 United States
Rhoden 14'
Attendance: 26,271
United States 1 – 0 Costa Rica
Ramos 72'
Attendance: 8,500
United States 1 – 1 Trinidad and Tobago
Trittschuh 48' Charles 88'
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)
Trinidad and Tobago 1 – 1 Costa Rica
Jones Coronado
Costa Rica 1 – 0 Trinidad and Tobago
Cayasso 2'
United States 2 – 1 Guatemala
Murray 3'
Eichmann 67'		 Chacón 22'
Attendance: 10,500
El Salvador 2 – 4 Costa Rica
Rodriguez 24'
Rivas 63'		 Cayasso 16'
Hidalgo 46'
Flóres 51', 75'
Attendance: 40,000
Costa Rica 1 – 0 El Salvador
Fernandez 55'
Trinidad and Tobago 2 – 0 El Salvador
Lewis 50', 61'
Referee: Tony Evangelista (Canada)
El Salvador 0 – 0 Trinidad and Tobago
Attendance: 16,882
Referee: Gonzalo Tejada (Honduras)
Guatemala 0 – 1 Trinidad and Tobago
Jamerson 57'
Trinidad and Tobago 2 – 1 Guatemala
Jones 10'
Jamerson 88'		 Rodas 6'
El Salvador 0 – 1 United States
Perez 61'
Attendance: 3,700
Guatemala 0 – 0 United States
Attendance: 8,000
United States 0 – 0 El Salvador
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: John Meachin (Canada)
Trinidad and Tobago 0 – 1 United States
Caligiuri 30'
Attendance: 35,000
El Salvador Not Played[3] Guatemala
Guatemala Not Played[3] El Salvador


 1989 CONCACAF Championship Winners 

Costa Rica
Third title

Goalscorers

2 goals
1 goal

References

  1. ^ The El Salvador–Trinidad and Tobago match was played on neutral ground in Honduras instead of in El Salvador.
  2. ^ The El Salvador–United States match was played on neutral ground in Honduras instead of in El Salvador.
  3. ^ 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).

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