CONCACAF

Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football
Founded	September 18, 1961
Association headquarters	Miami , USA
president	Victor Montagliani
Secretary General	Philippe Moggio
Members	41 national associations
Homepage	concacaf.com

The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football ( CONCACAF for short , German  North and Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation ) is one of the continental confederations of the world football association FIFA . The association was founded in 1961 with the merger of the CCCF and NAFC and is based in Miami , USA .

All independent states of North America and the Caribbean belong to it. In football, the states of Suriname and Guyana on the South American continent are also part of the Caribbean, as is the French department of French Guiana . In addition, some territories of European mother states or the USA are independent members and take part in the competitions of CONCACAF and FIFA as such. Examples include Montserrat (British), Guadeloupe (French), Puerto Rico (US), and Aruba (Dutch).

The association determines the continental champions in the CONCACAF Gold Cup and also organizes club competitions such as the CONCACAF Champions League .

Executive Committee

• President: Victor Montagliani ( Alfredo Hawit was arrested and suspended)
• Secretary General: Philippe Moggio
• North American Zone Vice President: Decio De Maria (Mexico)
• Caribbean Zone Vice President: Rodolfo Villalobos (Costa Rica)

Member associations

Previous logo until 2018

CONCACAF currently has 41 national football associations. Of these, 31 associations are combined as the Caribbean Football Union regional association and seven associations are also united in the regional sub-organization Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol . The three associations of the North American Zone (Canada, Mexico and USA) have so far not set up the North American Football Union as originally intended in the CONCACAF statutes .

Zone / country	Regional association
North America	NAFU (North American Football Union) (not yet founded)
Canada	Canadian Soccer Association
Mexico	Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación
United States	United States Soccer Federation
Central America	UNCAF (Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol)
Belize	Football Federation of Belize
Costa Rica	Federación Costarricense de Fútbol
El Salvador	Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol
Guatemala	Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala
Honduras	Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras
Nicaragua	Federación Nicaragüense de Fútbol
Panama	Federación Panameña de Fútbol
Caribbean	CFU (Caribbean Football Union)
American Virgin Islands	US Virgin Islands Soccer Federation
Anguilla	Anguilla Football Association
Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua and Barbuda Football Association
Aruba	Arubaanse Voetbal Bond
Bahamas	Bahamas Football Association
Barbados	Barbados Football Association
Bermuda	Bermuda Football Association
Bonaire 1	Federashon Futbòl Boneriano
British Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands Football Association
Curacao	Federashon Futbòl Kòrsou
Dominica	Dominica Football Association
Dominican Republic	Federación Dominicana de Fútbol
French Guiana 1 ´ 2	Ligue de Football de La Guyane Française
Grenada	Grenada Football Association
Guadeloupe 1	Ligue Guadeloupéenne de Football
Guyana 2	Guyana Football Federation
Haiti	Federation of Haïtienne de Football
Jamaica	Jamaica Football Federation
Cayman Islands	Cayman Islands Football Association
Cuba	Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba
Martinique 1	Ligue de football de la Martinique
Montserrat	Montserrat Football Association
Puerto Rico	Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol
Saint Martin 1	Football Committee of Saint-Martin
Sint Maarten 1	Sint Maarten Soccer Association
St. Kitts and Nevis	St. Kitts and Nevis Football Association
St. Lucia	St. Lucia Football Association
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	St. Vincent and The Grenadines Football Federation
Suriname 2	Surinamese Voetbal Bond
Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago Football Association
Turks and Caicos Islands	Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association

¹These associations are not members of FIFA , but are full members of CONCACAF.

²The territory of the member country is entirely in South America .

World Cup participant

Men

• 1930 : USA , Mexico
• 1934 : USA
• 1938 : Cuba
• 1950 : Mexico, USA
• 1954 : Mexico
• 1958 : Mexico
• 1962 : Mexico
• 1966 : Mexico
• 1970 : Mexico , El Salvador
• 1974 : Haiti
• 1978 : Mexico
• 1982 : El Salvador, Honduras
• 1986 : Canada , Mexico
• 1990 : USA, Costa Rica
• 1994 : USA , Mexico
• 1998 : USA, Mexico, Jamaica
• 2002 : USA, Mexico, Costa Rica
• 2006 : USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago
• 2010 : USA, Mexico, Honduras
• 2014 : USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras
• 2018 : Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama

Women

• 1991 : USA
• 1995 : USA, Canada
• 1999 : USA , Canada, Mexico
• 2003 : USA , Canada
• 2007 : USA, Canada
• 2011 : USA, Canada, Mexico
• 2015 : USA , Canada , Mexico, Costa Rica
• 2019 : USA , Canada, Jamaica

Note: bold = world champion, italic = host

Competitions

In addition to the qualifying rounds for World Championships and Olympic Games, the association organizes the following competitions:

For national teams

• CONCACAF Gold Cup , until 1989 CONCACAF championship
• CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup (since 1991)
• CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship (since 2005)
• CONCACAF U-20 Championship (since 1962)
• CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship (since 2004)
• CONCACAF U-17 Championship (since 1983)
• CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship (since 2008)
• Futsal Championship (since 1996)
• Football tournament as part of the Pan American Games
• Central American Football Championship (Copa Centroamericana)
• Football Caribbean Championship
• CONCACAF Nations League (since 2018, qualification)

Discontinued

• North American Football Championship (1947, 1949, 1990, 1991)
• CCCF Championship (1941–1961)

For club teams

• CONCACAF Champions League , until 2008 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
• CONCACAF League
• CFU Club Championship
• CONCACAF Futsal Club Championship

Discontinued

• FC Giants' Cup , one-time competition (2001)
• CONCACAF Cup Winners' Cup , discontinued in 1998 after being held seven times
• Copa Interclubes UNCAF , discontinued in 2007
• SuperLiga , dissolved in 2011

Web links

Wiktionary: CONCACAF  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Commons : CONCACAF  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of CONCACAF (English and Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/us-soccer-concacaf-webb-idUSBRE86B1G820120712
3. ↑ http://m.sport1.de/internationaler-fussball/2015/12/fifa-skandal-concacaf-nach-suspendierung-von-alfredo-hawit-weiter-fuehrungslos
4. ↑ CONCACAF Statutes ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 05/2014 (PDF, page 3). 
5. ↑ Congress takes key step in transparency. CONCACAF, April 19, 2013, archived from the original ; accessed on May 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Details revealed for the newly launched Scotiabank CONCACAF League. Retrieved August 2, 2017 (American English).