1968 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification

The qualifying competition for the 1968 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament determined the four teams of the final tournament,[1] which decides the teams that would qualify for the 1968 Summer Olympics football finals tournament in Mexico.[2] The qualifying competition consisted of thirteen teams, with Bermuda, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and United States in the first round, while Costa Rica, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles gets a bye to the second round. The teams played home-and-away knockout matches. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the tournament after defeating Haiti 6–3, Cuba 5–1, Bermuda 2–1 on playoffs and Netherlands Antilles 7–0 on aggregate in the final round, respectively.

Summary

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
First round
Bermuda  2–1  United States 1–1 1–0
Cuba  3–2  Canada 1–1 2–1
Dominican Republic  0–14  Haiti 0–8 0–6
El Salvador  w/o  Honduras 1–0 —
Trinidad and Tobago  w/o  Suriname 1–0 2–5
Second round
Costa Rica  5–4  Haiti 3–1 2–3
El Salvador  5–1  Cuba 3–0 2–1
Guatemala  1–1  Bermuda 1–1 0–0
Trinidad and Tobago  4–3  Netherlands Antilles 0–3 4–0
Second round play-off
Bermuda  1–2  Guatemala

First round

Bermuda 1–1 United States
  • Daniels (?)
Referee: Harry Sadler (Canada)
United States 0–1 Bermuda
Referee: Harry Sadler (Canada)

Bermuda won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Cuba 1–1 Canada
Referee: Raúl Osorio Castillo (Mexico)
Canada 1–2 Cuba
  • Hansen 57'

Cuba won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Dominican Republic 0–8 Haiti
Haiti 6–0 Dominican Republic
  • Breton 10', 15'
  • Jacquot 26', 66'
  • Domingue 71', 73'
Referee: Karl Stewart (Jamaica)

Haiti won 14–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

El Salvador won on walkover and advanced to the second round.

Trinidad and Tobago 1–0 Suriname
  • Small 57'
Suriname 5–2 Trinidad and Tobago

Initially, Suriname won 5–3 on aggregate, but on June 19, 1967, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association protested to FIFA about two players in Suriname's lineup, Siegfried Haltman and Armand Monsanto, who had already played professionally in Brazil and the Netherlands respectively. On August 17, 1967, FIFA ruled that Haltman had indeed played professionally in Brazil, for which Suriname was disqualified and Trinidad and Tobago advanced to the second round.

Second round

Costa Rica 3–1 Haiti
  • Pierre 61'
Referee: Valentín Gazo (Nicaragua)


Haiti 3–2 Costa Rica
Referee: Karl Stewart (Jamaica)

Costa Rica won 5–4 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.

El Salvador 3–0 Cuba
Referee: Laurence Kingz (United States Soccer Federation)
Cuba 1–2 El Salvador
  • Dalmau 38'

El Salvador won 5–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.

Guatemala 1–1 Bermuda
  • Romaine 43'
Referee: Aristóteles Gómez (Honduras)
Bermuda 0–0 (a.e.t.) Guatemala
Referee: Audley Brandt (Jamaica)

Match abandoned at 107' due to lack of light.

Play-off

Bermuda 1–2 (a.e.t.) Guatemala
  • Romaine 25'
Referee: Abel Aguilar Elizalde (Mexico)

Guatemala won the play-off and qualified for the final tournament.

Netherlands Antilles 3–0 Trinidad and Tobago
  • Sillé 32'
  • Martina 50', 56'
Referee: Sergio Chechelef (Venezuelan Football Federation)
Trinidad and Tobago 4–0 Netherlands Antilles

Trinidad and Tobago won 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.

Goalscorers

There were 58 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 3.22 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

  • Netherlands Antilles Olympic football team Clemente Flores

References

  1. ↑ "CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying".
  2. ↑ "Games of the XVII. Olympiad – Football Qualifying Tournament – (Mexico City, Mexico, 1968)". RSSSF. 21 October 2021.
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