North American Football Championship
The North American Football Championship is a generic term for four football tournaments of national teams, which were held under different auspices in 1947 and 1949 as well as 1990 and 1991 in league format. Participants were the USA and Mexico as well as Cuba in the first two years and Canada in the 1990s. Mexico won three times, Canada in 1990.
In 1947 and 1949 the event was organized by the North American Football Confederation (NAFC). In 1947, the USA, which played their first internationals in a decade, were effectively represented by the then top club Ponta Delgada SC from Fall River , Massachusetts . Mexico, trained here by the Hungarian star György "Jorge" Orth , has not lost its 13 international matches since 1934. The 1949 tournament also served as qualification for the 1950 World Cup .
In 1990 and 1991, after the interim merger of NAFC and the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF) in 1962 to form CONCACAF , the North American Championship was briefly revived. The North American nations of CONCACAF, namely Canada, Mexico and the USA, took part. The USA contested the 1990 tournament with their B selection.
The tournaments at a glance
| year | host | Final stands | Games | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| winner | 2nd place | 3rd place | |||
| 1947 |
Cuba ( Havana ) |
 Mexico |
 Cuba |
 United States |
July 13, 1947: Mexico - USA 6: 0 July 13, 1947: Mexico - Cuba 2 : 0 July 20, 1947 : Cuba - USA 1: 1 |
| 1949 |
Mexico ( Mexico City ) |
Mexico |
United States |
Cuba |
04.09.1949: Mexico - USA 6: 0 11.09.1949: Mexico - Cuba 2: 0 14.09.1949: Cuba - USA 1: 1 18.09.1949: Mexico - USA 6: 2 21.09.1949: USA - Cuba 5: 2 25.09.1949: Mexico 3-0 Cuba |
| 1990 | Canada |
 Canada |
Mexico |
 USA (B) |
May 6, 1990: Canada - USA B 1: 0 May 10, 1990: Mexico - USA B 1: 0 May 13, 1990: Canada - Mexico 2: 1 |
| 1991 |
USA ( Los Angeles ) |
Mexico |
United States |
Canada |
March 12, 1991: USA - Mexico 2: 2 March 14, 1991: Mexico - Canada 3: 0 March 16, 1991 : USA - Canada 2: 0 |
Web links
- Karel Stokkermans: CCCF and Concacaf Championships , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , September 2, 2009.
See also
- CONCACAF Gold Cup , soccer championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Dunmore: The First XI: US Soccer Trips Overseas , XI - A North American Soccer Quarterly, December 7, 2012.
- ↑ David Litterer, The Year in American Soccer - 1947 , American Soccer History Archives, May 20, 2005
- ↑ Karel Stokkermans, Sergio Henrique Jarreta: World Cup 1950 Qualifying , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , June 12, 2009.