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{{Infobox international football competition
| tourney_name    = CONCACAF Championship
| year            = 1973
| other_titles    = Coupe des nations de la CONCACAF 1973
| image           = 
| size            = 
| caption         = 1973 CONCACAF Championship official logo
| country         = Haiti
| country-flagvar = 1964
| dates           = 29 November – 18 December
| num_teams       = 6
| confederations  = 1
| venues          = 1
| cities          = 1
| champion_other  = {{fb|HAI|1964}}
| count           = 1
| second          = TRI
| third           = MEX
| fourth          = HON
| fourth-flagvar = 1949
| matches         = 15
| goals           = 43
| attendance      = 223442
| top_scorer      = {{flagicon|TRI}} [[Steve David]] (7 goals)
| player          = 
| prevseason      = [[1971 CONCACAF Championship| 1971]]
| nextseason      = [[1977 CONCACAF Championship|1977]]
}}
{{Qualification for men's championships (CONCACAF)|expanded=FIFA}}
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 [[1974 FIFA World Cup|West Germany '74]]. The North, Central American and Caribbean zone was allocated 1 place (out of 16) in the World Cup.

==Qualification==
{{Main|1973 CONCACAF Championship qualification}}
== Teams ==
*{{fb|Guatemala}}
*{{fb|Haiti|1964}} (Hosts)
*{{fb|Honduras|1949}}
*{{fb|Mexico}} (Defending Champions)
*{{fb|Netherlands Antilles|1959}}
*{{fb|Trinidad and Tobago}}

==Venues==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! rowspan="7" |{{Location map+|Haiti|float=center|width=300|caption=Location of the host city of the 1973 CONCACAF Championship.|places=
{{Location map~|Haiti|lat=18.536058|long=-72.342442|label=[[Port-au-Prince]]|position=bottom}}}}
! [[Port-au-Prince]]
|-
| [[Stade Sylvio Cator]]
|-
| Capacity: '''15,000'''
|-
| [[File:Stade Sylvio Cator after earthquake 2010.jpg|175x175px]]
|}

==Results==
{{#invoke:Sports table|main|style=WDL
|update = complete
|source =<ref>Stokkermans, Karel & Jarreta, Sergio Henrique. [https://www.rsssf.org/tables/74q.html "World Cup 1974 Qualifying"]. ''[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|RSSSF]]'', 22 October 1999. Retrieved 24 March 2013.</ref><ref>FIFA.com. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070921085406/http://fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=39/preliminaries/preliminary=34/index.html "1974 FIFA World Cup Germany Preliminaries: Results, North, Central American and Caribbean Zone"]. [[FIFA]]. Retrieved 24 March 2013.</ref>

|winpoints=2

<!--Update team positions here-->
|team1=HAI |team2=TRI |team3=MEX |team4=HON |team5=GUA |team6=ANT

<!--Update team qualifications here (defined below)-->
|result1=WC

<!--Update team results here and then (if needed) positions above. Dont forget to update the date above (update parameter)-->
|win_HAI=4 |draw_HAI=0 |loss_HAI=1 |gf_HAI=8 |ga_HAI=3 |status_HAI=C <!-- Team A -->
|win_TRI=3 |draw_TRI=0 |loss_TRI=2 |gf_TRI=11 |ga_TRI=4 |status_TRI= <!-- Team B -->
|win_MEX=2 |draw_MEX=2 |loss_MEX=1 |gf_MEX=10 |ga_MEX=5 |status_MEX= <!-- Team C -->
|win_HON=1 |draw_HON=3 |loss_HON=1 |gf_HON=6 |ga_HON=6 |status_HON= <!-- Team D -->
|win_GUA=0 |draw_GUA=3 |loss_GUA=2 |gf_GUA=4 |ga_GUA=6 |status_GUA= <!-- Team E -->
|win_ANT=0 |draw_ANT=2 |loss_ANT=3 |gf_ANT=4 |ga_ANT=19 |status_ANT= <!-- Team F -->

<!--Team definitions (wikilinks in table)-->
|name_HAI = {{fb|HAI|1964}}
|name_TRI = {{fb|TRI}}
|name_MEX = {{fb|MEX}}
|name_HON = {{fb|HON|1949}}
|name_GUA = {{fb|GUA}}
|name_ANT = {{fb|ANT|1959}}

<!--Table settings and rules-->
|show_limit = <!-- For league tables and other big tables use showlimit = 5 (standard per consensus to only show five teams on individual articles) -->
|class_rules = 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; <!-- Add the classification rules here -->

<!--Qualification and relegation column definitions, use green for top tournament, then blue followed by yellow, red is elimination. Different levels of same competitions should have different shades in color like green1, green2 and so on.-->
|res_col_header = Q <!-- All of these may not be needed, Promotion (P), Qualification (Q) and Relegation (R) -->
|col_WC = green1 |text_WC = [[1974 FIFA World Cup]]
}}

{{football box
|date = 29 November 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HON|1949}}
|score = 2–1
|team2 = {{fb|TRI}}
|goals1 = [[Rubén Guifarro|Guifarro]] {{goal|33}}<br /> [[Óscar Rolando Hernández|Hernández]] {{goal|51}}
|goals2 = [[Steve David|David]] {{goal|61}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 12,816
|referee = Davies ([[Canadian Soccer Association|Canada]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 30 November 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|MEX}}
|score = 0–0
|team2 = {{fb|GUA}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 12,816
|referee = Highet ([[Canadian Soccer Association|Canada]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 1 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HAI|1964}}
|score = 3–0
|team2 = {{fb|ANT|1959}}
|goals1 = [[Emmanuel Sanon|Sanon]] {{Goal|25||61}}<br /> [[Jean-Claude Désir|Désir]] {{Goal|29}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 12,816
|referee = Soto Paris ([[Federación Costarricense de Fútbol|Costa&nbsp;Rica]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 3 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HON|1949}}
|score = 1–1
|team2 = {{fb|MEX}}
|goals1 = [[Rubén Guifarro|Guifarro]] {{goal|54}}
|goals2 = [[Horacio López Salgado|H. López]] {{goal|73}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 12,816
|referee = [[Werner Winsemann|Winsemann]] ([[Canadian Soccer Association|Canada]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 4 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HAI|1964}}
|score = 2–1
|team2 = {{fb|TRI}}
|goals1 = [[Emmanuel Sanon|Sanon]] {{goal|9}}<br /> [[Roger Saint-Vil|R. Saint-Vil]] {{goal|88}}
|goals2 = [[Steve David|David]] {{goal|14}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 12,816
|referee = Henriquez ([[Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol|El&nbsp;Salvador]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 5 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|ANT|1959}}
|score = 2–2
|team2 = {{fb|GUA}}
|goals1 = [[Adelbert Toppenberg|Toppenberg]] {{goal|18}}<br /> [[Siegfried Schoop|Schoop]] {{goal|75}}
|goals2 = [[Jorge Roldán|Roldán]] {{goal|6}}<br /> [[René Morales|Morales]] {{goal|63}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 14,257
|referee = Kibritjian ([[United States Soccer Federation|United States]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 7 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HAI|1964}}
|score = 1–0
|team2 = {{fb|HON|1949}}
|goals1 = [[Guy Saint-Vil|G. Saint-Vil]] {{goal|59}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 14,257
|referee = [[Werner Winsemann|Winsemann]] ([[Canadian Soccer Association|Canada]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 8 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|MEX}}
|score = 8–0
|team2 = {{fb|ANT|1959}}
|goals1 = [[Horacio López Salgado|H. López]] {{goal|10||76}}<br /> [[Octavio Muciño|Muciño]] {{goal|32||45||46||82}}<br /> [[Héctor Pulido|Pulido]] {{goal|35}}<br /> [[Manuel Lapuente|Lapuente]] {{goal|78}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 14,257
|referee = [[Luis Paulino Siles|Luis Siles Calderón]] ([[Federación Costarricense de Fútbol|Costa&nbsp;Rica]])<ref>Reyes Padilla, Macario. [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesm/mex-intres7079.html "Mexico – International Results Details 1970–1979"]. ''[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|RSSSF]]'', 18 September 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2013.</ref>
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 10 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|TRI}}
|score = 1–0
|team2 = {{fb|GUA}}
|goals1 = [[Steve David|David]] {{goal|30}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 15,361
|referee = Soto Paris ([[Federación Costarricense de Fútbol|Costa&nbsp;Rica]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 12 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HON|1949}}
|score = 2–2
|team2 = {{fb|ANT|1959}}
|goals1 = [[Roberto Soza|Soza]] {{goal|33}}<br /> [[Rubén Guifarro|Guifarro]] {{goal|50}}
|goals2 = [[Rignald Alfonso Clemencia|Clemencia]] {{goal|62}}<br /> [[Erroll Maximino St. Jago|St. Jago]] {{goal|73}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 15,361
|referee = Chaplin ([[Jamaica Football Federation|Jamaica]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 13 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HAI|1964}}
|score = 2–1
|team2 = {{fb|GUA}}
|goals1 = [[Emmanuel Sanon|Sanon]] {{goal|28||72}}
|goals2 = [[Benjamín Monterroso|Monterroso]] {{goal|4}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 15,361
|referee = Davies ([[Canadian Soccer Association|Canada]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 14 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|TRI}}
|score = 4–0
|team2 = {{fb|MEX}}
|goals1 = [[Everald Cummings|Cummings]] {{goal|35||39}}<br /> [[Steve David|David]] {{goal|52}}<br /> [[Warren Archibald|Archibald]] {{goal|62}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 15,361
|referee = [[Werner Winsemann|Winsemann]] ([[Canadian Soccer Association|Canada]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 15 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HON|1949}}
|score = 1–1
|team2 = {{fb|GUA}}
|goals1 = [[Jorge Alberto Bran Guevara|Bran]] {{goal|15}}
|goals2 = [[Juan Banegas|Banegas]] {{goal|83}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 15,435
|referee = Schott ([[United States Soccer Federation|United States]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 17 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|TRI}}
|score = 4–0
|team2 = {{fb|ANT|1959}}
|goals1 = [[Steve David|David]] {{goal|16||51||62}}<br /> [[Siegfried Brunken|Brunken]] {{goal|33|o.g.}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 17,358
|referee = Ramirez ([[Puerto Rican Football Federation|Puerto&nbsp;Rico]])
}}
----
{{football box
|date = 18 December 1973
|team1 = {{fb-rt|HAI|1964}}
|score = 0–1
|team2 = {{fb|MEX}}
|goals2 = [[Enrique Borja|Borja]] {{goal|30}}
|stadium = [[Stade Sylvio Cator]], [[Port-au-Prince]]
|attendance = 22,354
|referee = Kibritjian ([[United States Soccer Federation|United States]])
}}

'''Haiti''' qualified for the [[1974 FIFA World Cup]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; margin: 0 auto;"
|-
!1973 CONCACAF Championship Winners
|-
|-
|align=center|[[Image:Flag of Haiti (1964-1986).svg|100px|Haiti]]<br>'''[[Haiti national football team|Haiti]]'''<br>'''First title'''
|}

==Goalscorers==
;7 goals
{{div col|colwidth=20em|small=yes}}
*{{flagicon|TRI}} [[Steve David]]
{{div col end}}

;5 goals
{{div col|colwidth=20em|small=yes}}
*{{flagicon|HAI|1964}} [[Emmanuel Sanon]]
{{div col end}}

;4 goals
{{div col|colwidth=20em|small=yes}}
*{{flagicon|MEX}} [[Octavio Muciño]]
{{div col end}}

;3 goals
{{div col|colwidth=20em|small=yes}}
*{{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Rubén Guifarro]]
*{{flagicon|MEX}} [[Horacio López Salgado]]
{{div col end}}

;2 goals
{{div col|colwidth=20em|small=yes}}
*{{flagicon|TRI}} [[Everald Cummings]]
{{div col end}}

;1 goal
{{div col|colwidth=20em|small=yes}}
*{{flagicon|GUA}} [[Juan Banegas]]
*{{flagicon|GUA}} [[Benjamín Monterroso]]
*{{flagicon|GUA}} [[René Morales]]
*{{flagicon|GUA}} [[Jorge Roldán]]
*{{flagicon|HAI|1964}} [[Jean-Claude Désir]]
*{{flagicon|HAI|1964}} [[Guy Saint-Vil]]
*{{flagicon|HAI|1964}} [[Roger Saint-Vil]]
*{{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Jorge Alberto Bran Guevara]]
*{{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Óscar Rolando Hernández]]
*{{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Roberto Soza]]
*{{flagicon|MEX}} [[Enrique Borja]]
*{{flagicon|MEX}} [[Manuel Lapuente]]
*{{flagicon|MEX}} [[Héctor Pulido]]
*{{flagicon|ANT|1959}} [[Rignald Alfonso Clemencia]]
*{{flagicon|ANT|1959}} [[Adelbert Toppenberg]]
*{{flagicon|ANT|1959}} [[Siegfried Schoop]]
*{{flagicon|ANT|1959}} [[Erroll Maximino St. Jago]]
*{{flagicon|TRI}} [[Warren Archibald]]
{{div col end}}

;1 own goal
{{div col|colwidth=20em|small=yes}}
*{{flagicon|ANT|1959}} [[Siegfried Brunken]] (playing against [[Trinidad and Tobago national football team|Trinidad and Tobago]])
{{div col end}}

==See also==
*[[1974 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
*[[1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)]]
*[[1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)]]
*[[1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC)]]
*[[1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)]]

==References==
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