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1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

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1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates6 June 1976 – 13 February 1977
Final positions
ChampionsEl Salvador Águila
Runners-upSuriname Robinhood
1975
1977

The 1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 12th 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 6 June 1976 till 13 February 1977.

The teams were split in three zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North and Central zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

Salvadorean club Águila beat Surinamese Robinhood in the final[1] to became CONCACAF champion for the first time in their history, and the second Salvadoran team to win the trophy.[2][3]

North American Zone

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First round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Toronto Italia Canada 5–3 United States New York Inter-Giuliana 3–2 2–1

  • Toronto Italia advances to the second round.

Second round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
León Mexico w/o Canada Serbian White Eagles
Toronto Italia Canada w/o Mexico Toluca
  • Serbian White Eagles withdrew.
  • The Toronto Italia v Toluca matches were originally scheduled for July 16 and August 31, but Toluca asked to reschedule the series to September 5 and 8. After the matches were not played by September 8, CONCACAF disqualified Toluca.


Third round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
León Mexico w/o Canada Toronto Italia

Central American Zone

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First round

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Torneo Centroamericano de Concacaf 1976

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Águila 2 2 0 0 3 1 +2 4 Advances to third round
2 Aurora 2 0 1 1 2 3 −1 1
3 Alianza 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1
Source: [citation needed]
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Águila El Salvador 2–1 Guatemala Aurora
Alianza El Salvador 1–1 Guatemala Aurora
Águila El Salvador 1–0 El Salvador Alianza
  • Águila advances to the third round.
20 June 1976 Águila 2–1 Aurora San Salvador, El Salvador
Félix "Garrobita" Pineda
Luis Baltazar Ramírez "Pelé" Zapata
René Morales Stadium: Estadio Flor Blanca
27 June 1976 Alianza 1–1 Aurora San Salvador, El Salvador
Óscar Gustavo "Lotario" Guerrero René Morales Stadium: Estadio Flor Blanca
5 July 1976 Águila 1–0 Alianza San Salvador, El Salvador
Ismael "Cisco" Díaz Stadium: Estadio Flor Blanca

Group B
15 September 1976 Real España 1–0
(1–0 agg.)
Olimpia San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Ferreira Stadium: Estadio General Francisco Morazán
Note: C.D. Olimpia advances to the second round.

Round 2

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Diriangén Nicaragua w/o Honduras Real España {{{6}}} {{{7}}}

Round 3

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Diriangén Nicaragua 2–11 El Salvador Águila 1–6 1–5
  • Águila advances to the CONCACAF Final.

Águila El Salvador5–1Nicaragua Diriangén
Ismael Díaz
Félix Pineda
Sergio Méndez
Luis Ramírez Zapata
TBD

Caribbean Zone

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First round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Robinhood Suriname 4–2 Netherlands Antilles Jong Colombia 3–1 1–1
Christianburg Guyana 1–20 Suriname Voorwaarts 1–8 0–12
Thomas United Guyana 1–6 Trinidad and Tobago Tesoro Palo Seco 0–2 1–4
  • Malvern United on a Bye



Second round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Robinhood Suriname 2–0 Trinidad and Tobago Malvern United 0–0 2–0
Tesoro Palo Seco Trinidad and Tobago 1–6 Suriname Voorwaarts 0–4 1–2

Third round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Robinhood Suriname 3–0 Suriname Voorwaarts 3–0 0–0
Robinhood Suriname 3–0 Suriname Voorwaarts
TBD
TBD
TBD
Nil
Voorwaarts Suriname 0–0
(0–3 agg.)
Suriname Robinhood
Nil Nil

Semi-final

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Águila El Salvador 3–1 Mexico León 1–1 2–0*
  • Due to several players being sent off after a brawl, León forfeited the 2nd leg while leading 2–1: Águila was awarded a 2–0 win.

Final

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First leg

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1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup Final
First leg
Águila El Salvador5–1Suriname Robinhood
Zepeda 20'
Vargas 26' 89'
Pineda 40', 79' (pen.)
Report 68' Emanuelson

Second leg

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Second leg
Robinhood Suriname2–3 (a.e.t.)El Salvador Águila
Nathoe 56'
Olmberg 95'
Report 93' Zepeda
112' Díaz
117' Ramírez

Aguila won the series 4–2 on points (8–3 on aggregate).

Champion

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CONCACAF Champions' Cup
1976 Champion
El Salvador
Águila
First title

References

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  1. ^ Copa de Campeones 1976 on the RSSSF
  2. ^ "Copa de Campeones Concacaf 1976 Águila Campeón" on Historicas Coperas blogsite, 30 Jan 2015
  3. ^ Hace 40 años el Aguila fue el rey by Cristian López on El Gráfico, 16 Feb 2017