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Wikipedia / 1973 CONCACAF Championship

The 1973 CONCACAF Championship, the sixth edition of the CONCACAF Championship, was held in Haiti from 29 November to 18 December. All matches were played at Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince. This is the first edition to double as qualification for the World Cup. Haiti became winners for the first time in the CONCACAF region and qualified for West Germany '74. The North, Central American and Caribbean zone was allocated 1 place (out of 16) in the World Cup.

Controversy

In quite a controversial match, Haiti defeated Trinidad and Tobago 2–1, with the referee disallowing four Trinidad and Tobago goals. As a result, referee Jose Roberto Henriquez and linesman James Higuet received lifetime bans from FIFA for their actions during the match.

There has been speculation that there might have been some collusion in favour of Haiti, due to the tournament taking place there during the military dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier in a pivotal tournament that would send the winner to the 1974 FIFA World Cup. However, at the time, this was just the team’s second match of a round-robin tournament, having already won its first at the score of 3–0 against the Netherlands Antilles with no such known controversy as well as the matches that followed.

Qualification

Teams

  • (Hosts)

  • (Defending Champions)

Squads

Venues

Results

Haiti qualified for the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Goalscorers

  1. 7 goals

  2. Steve David

  3. 5 goals

  4. Emmanuel Sanon

  5. 4 goals

  6. Octavio Muciño

  7. 3 goals

  8. Rubén Guifarro

  9. Horacio López Salgado

  10. 2 goals

  11. Everald Cummings

  12. 1 goal

  13. Juan Banegas

  14. Benjamín Monterroso

  15. René Morales

  16. Jorge Roldán

  17. Jean-Claude Désir

  18. Guy Saint-Vil

  19. Roger Saint-Vil

  20. Jorge Alberto Bran Guevara

  21. Óscar Rolando Hernández

  22. Roberto Soza

  23. Enrique Borja

  24. Manuel Lapuente

  25. Héctor Pulido

  26. Rignald Alfonso Clemencia

  27. Adelbert Toppenberg

  28. Siegfried Schoop

  29. Erroll Maximino St. Jago

  30. Warren Archibald

  31. 1 own goal

  32. Siegfried Brunken (playing against Trinidad and Tobago)

See also

References