1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates	1 May – 17 September 1978
Final positions
Champions	Comunicaciones Defence Force Leones Negros

The 1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 14th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 1 May until 17 September 1978 and all the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

The teams were split into 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North American and Central American zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final.

As the final part of the tournament was cancelled due to administrative problems, three teams, Comunicaciones (Guatemala) Defence Force (Trinidad and Tobago) and Leones Negros de Guadalajara (Mexico) were crowned champions by CONCACAF.^[1]

North American Zone

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UNAM	w/o1	Maccabi Los Angeles

¹ Maccabi Los Angeles withdrew.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UNAM	0 - 2	U de G	0 - 1	0 - 1

UNAM v U de G

	UNAM	0–1	U de G
	Nil		Belarmino de Almeida

U de G v UNAM

	U de G	1-0 (2-0 agg.)	UNAM
	Octavio de Jesús		Nil

Central American Zone

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Saprissa	11 - 0	Diriangén	6 - 0	5 - 0
Cartaginés	1 - 3	FAS	0 - 2	1 - 1
Municipal	8 - 1	CD UCA	5 - 1	3 - 0
Comunicaciones	5 - 2	Once Municipal	3 - 1	2 - 1

Saprissa v Diriangén

May 7, 1978	Saprissa	6–0	Diriangén	San Jose, Costa Rica
	Miguel Ángel Mansilla 30' 57' 64' 89' Gerardo Laterza Nelson Bastos 43'		Nil	Stadium: Ricardo Saprissa Stadium

Diriangén v Saprissa

May 9, 1978	Diriangén	0-5 (0-11 agg.)	Saprissa
	Nil		Guillermo Valenciano 13' 32' 86' Marco Valverde 55' Hernán Morales 65'

1978

Cartaginés	0-2	FAS
Nil		Jorge Gonzalez David Arnoldo Cabrera

May 29, 1978

FAS	1-1	Cartaginés
Eduardo Valdez		Oscar Manuel Caceres

Estadio Óscar Quiteño, Santa Ana, El Salvador

1978

Comunicaciones	3-1	Once Municipal
Guillermo Dubon Felix McDonald Byron Perez		TBD

1978

Second leg

Once Municipal	1-2	Comunicaciones
Juan Ramon Martinez		Ramon Zambrina

May 22, 1978

Municipal	5-1	CD UCA
Miguel Cruz TBD TBD TBD		TBD

May 29, 1978

Second leg

CD UCA	1-3	Comunicaciones
TBD		Julio César Anderson TBD

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Saprissa	2 - 1	FAS	0 - 0	2 - 1
Comunicaciones	2 - 0	Municipal	2 - 0	0 - 0

Saprissa v FAS

	Saprissa	0–0	FAS
	Nil		Nil

FAS v Saprissa

	FAS	1-2 (1-2 agg.)	Saprissa	Santa Ana, El Salvador
	TBD		Emilio Valle	Stadium: Óscar Quiteño Stadium.

Comunicaciones v Municipal

July 5, 1978	Comunicaciones	2–0	Municipal	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Oscar Sanchez		Nil

Municipal v Comunicaciones

	Municipal	0-0 (0-2 agg.)	Comunicaciones
	Nil		Nil

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Saprissa	0 - 3	Comunicaciones	0 - 1	0 - 2

Saprissa v Comunicaciones

	Saprissa	0–1	Comunicaciones
	Nil

Comunicaciones v Saprissa

	Comunicaciones	2-0 (3-0 agg.)	Saprissa
			Nil

Caribbean Zone

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jong Holland	2–4	Transvaal	0–0	2–4
Defence Force	4–2	Thomas United	1–0	3–2
Voorwaarts	3–2	TECSA	2–1	1–1
Pele	5–2	RCA	3–1	2–1

Jong Holland v Transvaal

	Jong Holland	0-0	Transvaal
	Nil		Nil

Transvaal v Jong Holland

Transvaal

4-2 (4-2 agg.)

Jong Holland

Defence Force v Thomas United

	Defence Force	1–0	Thomas United
			Nil

Thomas United v Defence Force

Thomas United

2-3 (2-4 agg.)

Defence Force

Voorwaarts v TECSA

Voorwaarts

2-1

TECSA

TECSA v Voorwaarts

	TECSA	1-1 (2-3 agg.)	Voorwaarts
			Nil

Pele v RCA

Pele

3-1

RCA

RCA v Pele

RCA

1-2

Pele

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Transvaal	2–4	Defence Force	1–1	1–3
Voorwaarts	5–2	Pele	5–1	0–1

Transvaal v Defence Force

Transvaal

1-1

Defence Force

Defence Force v Transvaal

	Defence Force	3-1 (4-2 agg.)	Transvaal
			Nil

Voorwaarts v Pele

Voorwaarts

5-1

Pele

Pele v Voorwaarts

	Pele	1-0 (2-5 agg.)	Voorwaarts
			Nil

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Voorwaarts	1–4	Defence Force	1–2	0–2

Voorwaarts v Defence Force

Voorwaarts

1-2

Defence Force

Defence Force v Voorwaarts

	Defence Force	2-0 (4-1 agg.)	Voorwaarts
			Nil

CONCACAF final series

The final series was scratched and the three qualifying teams declared joint champions due to administrative problems and disagreements over the dates for the matches.

Champions

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1978
Comunicaciones Defence Force Leones Negros

References