1962 FIFA World Cup qualification (CCCF and NAFC) explained

Tourney Name:	FIFA World Cup qualification (CCCF and NAFC)
Year:	1962
Num Teams:	7
Matches:	16
Goals:	57
Prevseason:	1958
Nextseason:	1966

The North, Central American and Caribbean section of the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, for national teams which are members of the CCCF and NAFC. Seven teams participated in the tournament to compete for one place in the inter-confederation play-offs against a CONMEBOL team.

Format

The qualification structure was as follows:

First round: Seven teams were divided into three groups (one group of three teams and two groups of two teams) to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The winner of each group advanced to the second round.
Second round: Three teams which had advanced from the first round played home-and-away round-robin matches in one group. The group winner qualified for the CCCF/NAFC–CONMEBOL play-off.

Eight national teams from the region initially entered qualification, though Canada later withdrew.^[1]

Note: Bolded teams advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Zone	Entrants	Withdrew
North American Football Confederation (NAFC)	valign=top		valign=top
Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF)	valign=top		valign=top

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Costa Rica and Honduras finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the second round.

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The following team from CONCACAF qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup
	CCCF/NAFC–CONMEBOL play-off winners		4 (1930, 1950, 1954, 1958)

Web site: History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year) . 10 June 2010 . FIFA . 6 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100602004441/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mencompwc/51/97/75/fs-201_19a_fwc-prel-history.pdf . 2 June 2010.