1985 CONCACAF Championship explained

Tourney Name:CONCACAF Championship
Year:1985
Dates:24 February – 14 September
Num Teams:9
Confederations:1
Champion:CAN
Count:1
Second:HON
Second-Flagvar:1949
Third:CRC
Matches:24
Goals:54
Top Scorer: José Roberto Figueroa (5 goals)
Prevseason:1981
Nextseason:1989

The 1985 CONCACAF Championship was the ninth edition of the CONCACAF Championship. It also served as the qualification for the 1986 World Cup. A total of 18 CONCACAF teams entered the competition. The North, Central American and Caribbean zone was allocated 2 places (out of 24) in the final tournament. Mexico, the World Cup host, qualified automatically, leaving 1 spot open for competition between 17 teams. Canada earned their first major title and clinched qualification on 14 September 1985 to participate in their first World Cup after beating Honduras 2–1 at King George V Park in St. John's, Newfoundland.[1]

Final tournament

First round

Group 1

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Group 2

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Group 3

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Final round

Canada qualified for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

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Qualified teams

The following team from CONCACAF qualified for the final tournament.

TeamQualified asQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
0 (debut)

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 6 July 2018 . That one time Canada made it to the World Cup . . 10 July 2018.