1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

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.

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

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

First round
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 Canada 3-2 United States New York Inter-Giuliana
New York Inter-Giuliana United States 1-2
(3-5 agg.)		 Canada Toronto Italia

Second round
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.
  • León and Toronto Italia advanced to the third round.

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

Central American Zone

First round
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:
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: Flor Blanca Stadium
5 July 1976 Águila 1–0 Alianza San Salvador, El Salvador
Ismael "Cisco" Díaz Nil Stadium: Estadio Flor Blanca
Group B
5 September 1976 Olimpia 0–0 Real España Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Nil Nil Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino
15 September 1976 Real España 1–0
(1–0 agg.)		 Olimpia San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Ferreira Nil Stadium: Estadio General Francisco Morazán
Note: C.D. Olimpia advances to the second round.

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

Round 3
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.
Diriangén Nicaragua1–6 (a.e.t.)El Salvador Águila
TBD Luis Ramírez Zapata
TBD
TBD
Águila El Salvador5–1Nicaragua Diriangén
Ismael Díaz
Félix Pineda
Sergio Méndez
Luis Ramírez Zapata 		TBD

Caribbean Zone

First round
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
  • Robinhood, Voorwaarts and Tesoro Palo Seco advance to the second round.
Robinhood Suriname 3-1 Netherlands Antilles Jong Colombia
TBD
TBD
TBD 		TBD
Jong Colombia Netherlands Antilles 1-1
(2-4 agg.)		 Suriname Robinhood
TBD TBD
Christianburg Guyana 1–0 Voorwaarts
TBD Nil
Voorwaarts Suriname 12–0
(12-0 agg.)		 Guyana Christianburg
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD 		Nil
Thomas United Guyana 0-2 Trinidad and Tobago Tesoro Palo Seco
Nil TBD
TBD
Tesoro Palo Seco Trinidad and Tobago 4-1
(6-1 agg.)		 Thomas United
TBD
TBD
TBD 		TBD

Second round
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
Robinhood Suriname 0–0 Trinidad and Tobago Malvern United
Nil Nil
Malvern United Trinidad and Tobago 0-2
(0-2 agg.)		 Suriname Robinhood
Nil TBD
TBD
Tesoro Palo Seco Trinidad and Tobago 0-4 Suriname Voorwaarts
Nil TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Voorwaarts Suriname 2–1
(6-1 agg.)		 Trinidad and Tobago Tesoro Palo Seco
TBD
TBD 		TBD

Third round
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
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.
Águila El Salvador1–1 (a.e.t.)Mexico León
Félix Pineda Walter Mantegazza
Estadio Cuscatlan
San Salvador - El Salvador
León Mexico2–1El Salvador Águila
TBD

Final

First leg
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
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
CONCACAF Champions' Cup
1976 Champion
El Salvador
Águila
First title

References
  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
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