Central American Football Championship
Central American Football Championship | |
abbreviation | Copa Centroamericana |
Association | UNCAF |
First edition | 1991 |
Teams | 7th |
Game mode |
Round tournament (2 groups) / knockout system from HF or league format |
Title holder | Honduras |
Record winner | Costa Rica (8 wins) |
Website | Copa CA on uncaf.net |
Qualification for | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
The Central American Football Championship ( Spanish Copa Centroamericana , English Central American Cup ) is a football competition for the national teams of Central America that was held for the first time in 1991 and takes place every two years. Until 2009 the tournament was called the UNCAF Nations Cup.
The seven members of the Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol (UNCAF), a sub-organization of CONCACAF, are entitled to start . The tournament regularly serves to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The competition is played in tournament form in two groups of three and four teams in each country. The first two of the group are qualified for the CONCACAF Gold Cup and then play in the knockout system for the title of Central American champion. The two thirds in the group contest a play-off for fifth place on the grid for Central America at the Gold Cup.
The most successful team so far is Costa Rica with eight tournament wins.
First time participant
Below are all national teams that have taken part in this tournament so far.
- Fett the written team became Central American champions when they first participated.
year | First time participant | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Costa Rica | El Salvador | Guatemala | Honduras |
1993 | Nicaragua | Panama | ||
1995 | Belize | |||
1997-running | no first-time participants |
The tournaments at a glance
Ranking list
rank | country | title | Year (s) | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | 4th pl. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Costa Rica | 8th | 1991, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2014 | 4th | / | 2 |
2 | Honduras | 4th | 1993, 1995, 2011, 2017 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
3 | Guatemala | 1 | 2001 | 5 | 3 | / |
4th | Panama | 1 | 2009 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
5 | El Salvador | / | 6th | 7th | ||
6th | Belize | / | / | 1 |