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.
| Organizing body | CCCF |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1941 |
| Abolished | 1961 |
| Region | |
| Number of teams | 9 (1961) |
| Related competitions | CONCACAF Championship |
| Last champion(s) |  Costa Rica |
| Most successful club(s) | Costa Rica (7 titles) |
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.