Tourney Name: | CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament |
Year: | 1968 |
Num Teams: | 4 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Matches: | 4 |
Prevseason: | 1964 |
Nextseason: | 1972 |
The 1968 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament was the second edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international football tournament organised by the CONCACAF to determine which national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.[1]
Mexico, as host nation, qualified directly for the 1968 Summer Olympics together with final round winners, El Salvador and Guatemala as CONCACAF representatives.[2]
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Zone | Country | Method of qualification | Appearance1 | Last appearance | Previous best performance | width=10% | Previous Olympic appearances (last) |
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Central America | Second round winners | 1st | 0 (debut) | Debutant | 0 | ||
Second round winners | 1st | 0 (debut) | Debutant | 0 | |||
Second round winners | 1st | 0 (debut) | Debutant | 0 | |||
Caribbean | Second round winners | 1st | 0 (debut) | Debutant | 0 |
1 Only final tournament.
|}El Salvador won 4–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 1968 Summer Olympics.----Guatemala advance via a drawing of lots after a 3–3 aggregate and qualified for the 1968 Summer Olympics.
The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 1968 Summer Olympics, including Mexico which qualified as hosts.
Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in Summer Olympics2 |
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(1928, 1948, 1964) | |||
(debut) | |||
(debut) |
2 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.