1941 CCCF Championship

The Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (CCCF) was founded in 1938. Along with the North American Football Confederation (NAFC), it was a precursor organisation to the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF). Within three years of its founding, the CCCF organised a contest for its member associations.^[1][2]

The tournament was played as a single round-robin where each team would play all of the others once. The winner would be decided by the total number of points obtained across all matches played.^[3]

Two referees were used during the tournament:^[4]

• Jacobo de Foinquinos
• José Tapia

All matches were held at the Estadio Nacional in San José.^[3]

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The tournament began on 8 May 1941 when a Hans Nahar hat-trick looked to have sealed a win for Curaçao over Panama. However, a last-minute Antoine Neville penalty saw the match end 3–3. Two days later, a hat-trick from Jesús María Araya helped hosts Costa Rica to a 7–2 win against Nicaragua. The following day, El Salvador were held to a 2–2 by Curaçao who had been two goals down entering the last 20 minutes of the match. Costa Rica recorded their second win of the tournament, defeating Panama 7–0. Having played half their matches, Costa Rica sat top of the table with four points, two more than Curaçao and three ahead of El Salvador and Panama.^[3]

On 13 May, Costa Rica extended their lead at the top of the table after a Fello Meza hat-trick helped them to a 6–2 win over Curaçao. Antonio Toledo also scored a hat-trick as El Salvador recorded the biggest win of the tournament, defeating Nicaragua 8–0. Two days later, El Salvador maintained their challenge for the trophy as they narrowly defeated Panama 4–3. In their final game, Nahar scored four times as Curaçao equalled the biggest win of the competition, defeating Nicaragua 9–1, to assure themselves of third place. With one round of matches left to play, Costa Rica held a one-point lead over El Salvador with the two due to play in the final match.^[3]

Luis Carlos Rangel scored a hat-trick for Panama as they rounded off the competition with a 5–2 win against Nicaragua. In the final match, Jesús María Araya scored a brace as Costa Rica completed a clean sweep, winning all four of their matches, by defeating El Salvador 3–1.^[3]

There were 70 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 7 goals per match.

8 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal