1967 CONCACAF Championship qualification

For the 1967 CONCACAF Championship, a total of 10 teams entered the competition. Honduras, as the hosts, and Mexico, as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 4 spots open for competition. The 8 teams were divided into 2 groups in which the top 2 in each group advanced to the final tournament.

Group 1

Played in Kingston, Jamaica.

The group was also referred to as the Red Stripe Trophy within Jamaica. The group was sponsored by Desnoes & Geddes, the brewery of Red Stripe beer.^[1]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Haiti	4	3	1	0	7	3	+4	7
2	Trinidad and Tobago	4	2	1	1	7	7	0	5
3	Jamaica	4	1	2	1	4	4	0	4
4	Cuba	4	0	2	2	5	7	−2	2
5	Netherlands Antilles	4	0	2	2	4	6	−2	2

Source: ^[2]

11 January 1967

Jamaica	1–1	Netherlands Antilles
Oxford 14'		Dirksz 55'

National Stadium, Kingston

12 January 1967

Cuba	1–1	Haiti
Verdecia 30'		Saint-Vil 40' (pen.)

National Stadium, Kingston

13 January 1967

Trinidad and Tobago	2–1	Netherlands Antilles
Small 75' Archibald 76'		Perez 87' (pen)

National Stadium, Kingston

14 January 1967

Jamaica	2–1	Cuba
Ar.Welch 20', 32'		Dos Santos 76'

National Stadium, Kingston

16 January 1967

Haiti	4–2	Trinidad and Tobago
Pierre 2', 75' Saint-Vil 52', 53'		Corneal 37' (pen.) Archibald 65'

National Stadium, Kingston

17 January 1967

Netherlands Antilles	2–2	Cuba
Dirksz 4' Perez 72'		Hernández 44' Micó 75'

National Stadium, Kingston

18 January 1967

Jamaica	1–1	Trinidad and Tobago
As.Welch 85'		Archibald 49'

National Stadium, Kingston

19 January 1967

Haiti	1–0	Netherlands Antilles
Métellus 87'

National Stadium, Kingston

20 January 1967

Trinidad and Tobago	2–1	Cuba
Archibald 11' DeLeon 15'		Hernández 13'

National Stadium, Kingston

21 January 1967

Jamaica	0–1	Haiti
		Saint-Vil 88'

National Stadium, Kingston

Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the final tournament.

Team of the Tournament

An ideal XI for the Caribbean qualifying group was selected by The Gleaner.

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Juby Richardson	Wilfrid Soray Juan Pablo Frank Brown	Sedley Joseph Edwin Dirksz Joseph Obas	Art Welch José Verdecia Guy Saint-Vil Warren Archibald

Group 2

Played in Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala.

El Salvador and Costa Rica withdrew after disagreements with the Guatemalan federation (organizer of the tournament) due to discrepancies with the economic amounts to be distributed. CONCACAF sanctioned both federations of Costa Rica and El Salvador with a fine and a one-year suspension.