1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

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1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates1 May until 17 September 1978
Final positions
ChampionsGuatemala Comunicaciones
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Mexico Leones Negros U. de G.
1977
1979

The 1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 14th 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 and was played from 1 May until 17 September 1978 and all the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

The teams were split into 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North American and Central American zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final.

North American Zone

First Round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
UNAM Mexico w/o1 United States Maccabi Los Angeles

1 Maccabi Los Angeles withdrew.

Second Round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
UNAM Mexico 0 - 2 Mexico U de G 0 - 1 0 - 1

Central American Zone

First Round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Saprissa Costa Rica 11 - 0 Nicaragua Diriangén 6 - 0 5 - 0
Cartaginés Costa Rica 1 - 3 El Salvador FAS 0 - 2 1 - 1
Municipal Guatemala 8 - 1 Nicaragua CD UCA 5 - 1 3 - 0
Comunicaciones Guatemala 5 - 2 El Salvador Once Municipal 3 - 1 2 - 1

Second Round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Saprissa Costa Rica 2 - 1 El Salvador FAS 0 - 0 2 - 1
Comunicaciones Guatemala 2 - 0 Guatemala Municipal 2 - 0 0 - 0

Third Round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Saprissa Costa Rica 0 - 3 Guatemala Comunicaciones 0 - 1 0 - 2

Caribbean Zone

First Round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Jong Holland Netherlands Antilles 2 - 4 Suriname Transvaal 0 - 0 2 - 4
Defence Force Trinidad and Tobago 4 - 2 Guyana Thomas United 1 - 0 3 - 2
Voorwaarts Suriname 3 - 2 Trinidad and Tobago TECSA 2 - 1 1 - 1
Pele Guyana 5 - 2 Aruba Racing Club Aruba 3 - 1 2 - 1

Second Round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Transvaal Suriname 2 - 4 Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force 1 - 1 1 - 3
Voorwaarts Suriname 5 - 2 Guyana Pele 5 - 1 0 - 1

Third Round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Voorwaarts Suriname 1 - 4 Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force 1 - 2 0 - 2

CONCACAF final series

The final round was not played due to administrative problems and disagreements of dates for the matches; So the three teams in this final phase were declared CONCACAF champions.

Champions

 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
1978 
Guatemala Comunicaciones
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Mexico U de G

References