CCCF Championship

CCCF Championship
Organizing body	CCCF
Founded	1941
Abolished	1961; 63 years ago
Region	Central America; Caribbean;
Number of teams	9 (1961)
Related competitions	CONCACAF Championship
Last champion(s)	Costa Rica
Most successful club(s)	Costa Rica (7 titles)

The CCCF Championship was an association football (soccer) tournament made for teams in the area of Central America and the Caribbean between the years of 1941 and 1961. It was founded in 1938 and the precursor of the CONCACAF, that was formed when the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF) merged with the North American Football Confederation (NAFC) in 1961.

The North American Football Confederation also organized the NAFC Championship in 1947 and 1949, which was revived in 1990 and 1991, after 41 years of absence, before the introduction of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

The CCCF Championship was succeeded by the CONCACAF Championship in 1963, following the merger.

Tournament results[edit]

List of the final four.^[1]

Year	Host country	Final Group Rank
Year	Host country	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	4th Place
1941	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	El Salvador	Curaçao	Panama
1943	El Salvador	El Salvador	Guatemala	Costa Rica	Nicaragua
1946	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Guatemala	El Salvador	Honduras
1948	Guatemala	Costa Rica	Guatemala	Panama	Curaçao
1951	Panama	Panama	Costa Rica	Nicaragua	(none) ^{[nb 1]}
1953	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Honduras	Guatemala	Curaçao
1955	Honduras	Costa Rica	Curaçao	Honduras	El Salvador
1957	Netherlands Antilles	Haiti	Curaçao^{[nb 2]}	Honduras	Panama
1960	Cuba	Costa Rica	Netherlands Antilles	Honduras	Suriname
1961	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	El Salvador	Honduras	Haiti

^ Only three teams competed.
^ The Territory of Curaçao officially became the Netherlands Antilles on 15 December 1954 although the national football team played under the name of Curaçao until 1958.

Titles by team[edit]

Wins	Nation	Year(s)
7	Costa Rica	1941, 1946, 1948, 1953, 1955, 1960, 1961
1	El Salvador	1943
1	Panama	1951
1	Haiti	1957

Competitive history[edit]

Team	1941	1943	1946	1948	1951	1953	1955	1957	1960	1961	Years
Aruba							5				1
Costa Rica	1st	3rd	1st	1st	2nd	1st	1st		1st	1st	9
Cuba							7	5	5	GS	4
Curaçao	3rd			4		4	2nd	2nd			5
Netherlands Antilles									2nd	GS	2
El Salvador	2nd	1st	3rd	5		5	4			2nd	7
Guatemala		2nd	2nd	2nd		3rd	6			GS	6
Haiti								1st		4	2
Honduras			4			2nd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	6
Nicaragua	5	4	6		3rd	6				GS	6
Panama	4		5	3rd	1st	7		4		GS	7
Suriname									4		1
Total	5	4	6	5	3	7	7	5	5	9

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
QF – Quarter Finals
GS – Group stage
q – Qualified
— Hosts

Winning managers[edit]

Year	Manager	Nation
1941	Alejandro Morera Soto	Costa Rica
1943	Américo González	El Salvador
1946	Hernán Bolaños	Costa Rica
1948	Hernán Bolaños	Costa Rica
1951	Óscar Rendoll Gómez	Panama
1953	Otto Bumbel	Costa Rica
1955	Alfredo Piedra	Costa Rica
1957	Dan Georgiadis	Haiti
1960	Ruben Amorín	Costa Rica
1961	Eduardo Toba Muino	Costa Rica

References[edit]

^ "CCCF and Concacaf Championships". RSSSF. Retrieved 8 April 2012.

[2] Only three teams competed.

[3] The Territory of Curaçao officially became the Netherlands Antilles on 15 December 1954 although the national football team played under the name of Curaçao until 1958.

[1] "CCCF and Concacaf Championships". RSSSF. Retrieved 8 April 2012.

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