1998 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF fourth round

none August 2023 March 2025thumb|right|John Harkes playing for the United States in a qualifying match against Mexico on April 20, 1997 The fourth and final round (also known as Hexagonal or Hex) of CONCACAF's process of 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification was played throughout 1997, from 2 March to 16 November.1998 FIFA World Cup France - Qualifiers - North, Central America and Caribbean https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/preliminaries/nccamerica/index.html#1003 https://web.archive.org/web/20151011230239/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1998/matches/preliminaries/nccamerica/index.html#1003 dead October 11, 2015 FIFA.com 10 July 2019 en It was the first Hexagonal final round in CONCACAF's history. Mexico, the United States, and Jamaica qualified to the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Canada were eliminated. Format A total of six teams which had advanced from the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF third round (the three group winners and the three group runners-up) played against each other in a double round-robin format in a single group. The top three teams in the group qualified to the 1998 FIFA World Cup. This round, known as Hexagonal, is the first used by CONCACAF to determine its qualified teams to a FIFA World Cup and was used through the 2018 World Cup qualifying cycle. Qualified teams Group(3rd round)WinnersRunners-up1USA CRC2CAN SLV3JAM MEX Standings main WDL 130 y Qualification tiebreakers FIFA complete MEX USA JAM CRC SLV CAN 4 6 0 23 7 4 5 1 17 9 3 5 2 7 12 3 3 4 13 12 2 4 4 11 16 1 3 6 5 20 MEX MEX USA USA JAM JAM CRC CRC SLV SLV CAN CAN 0–0 6–0 3–3 5–0 4–0 2–2 1–1 1–0 4–2 3–0 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 3–2 3–1 0–0 3–1 0–1 1–1 2–1 2–2 4–1 2–2 0–3 0–0 1–0 0–0 Q WC WC WC green1 Qualification to 1998 FIFA World Cup Matches Mexico v Canada March 2, 1997 MEX 4–0 CAN Hermosillo 51 81Galindo 61 pen.Zague 88 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City 95,000 Argelio Sabillon (Honduras) Report Jamaica v United States March 2, 1997 JAM 0–0 USA Independence Park, Kingston 35,246 Jose Ramirez Suazo (Honduras) Report United States v Canada March 16, 1997 USA 3–0 CAN Wynalda 7 pen.Pope 14Stewart 89 Stanford Stadium, Stanford 28,896 Luis Oliveto (Argentina) Report Costa Rica v Mexico March 16, 1997 CRC 0–0 MEX Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá, San José 28,000 Alberto Tejada (Peru) Report Costa Rica v United States March 23, 1997 CRC 3–2 USA Medford 10Solís 32Gómez 76 Wynalda 25Lassiter 67 Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá, San José 22,000 Mario Escobar (Guatemala) Report Canada v El Salvador April 6, 1997 CAN 0–0 SLV Swangard Stadium, Burnaby 8,312 Fernando Sánchez (Chile) Report Mexico v Jamaica April 13, 1997 MEX 6–0 JAM Galindo 10 pen.Hermosillo 18 39 47del Olmo 52Hernándéz 85 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City 115,100 Antônio Pereira (Brazil) Report United States v Mexico April 20, 1997 USA 2–2 MEX Pope 35Ramírez 74 o.g. Hermosillo 1Hernández 54 Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough 57,877 Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay) Report Canada v Jamaica April 27, 1997 CAN 0–0 JAM Swangard Stadium, Burnaby 7,634 Ramesh Ramdhan (Trinidad and Tobago) Report El Salvador v Costa Rica May 4, 1997 SLV 2–1 CRC Díaz Arce 19Montes 57 Arnáez 58 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador 35,611 Óscar Ruiz (Colombia) Report Costa Rica v Jamaica May 11, 1997 CRC 3–1 JAM Wanchope 31 71Oviedo 89 Williams 61 Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá, San José 20,500 José de Rosa Varela (Uruguay) Report Jamaica v El Salvador May 18, 1997 JAM 1–0 SLV Williams 22 Independence Park, Kingston 12,000 Márcio Rezende de Freitas (Brazil) Report Canada v Costa Rica June 1, 1997 CAN 1–0 CRC Berdusco 68 Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton 10,150 Nelson Calix (Honduras) Report El Salvador v Mexico June 8, 1997 SLV 0–1 MEX García Postigo 64 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador 40,000 Hugo Cordero (Argentina) Report El Salvador v United States June 29, 1997 SLV 1–1 USA Díaz Arce 60 Lassiter 57 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador 29,000 René Ortubé (Bolivia) Report Costa Rica v El Salvador August 10, 1997 CRC 0–0 SLV Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá, San José 18,316 Nelson Cálix (Honduras) Report United States v Costa Rica September 7, 1997 USA 1–0 CRC Ramos 79 Portland Civic Stadium, Portland 27,396 Jorge Luis Nieves (Uruguay) Report Jamaica v Canada September 7, 1997 JAM 1–0 CAN Burton 55 Independence Park, Kingston 30,000 Óscar Ruiz (Colombia) Report Jamaica v Costa Rica September 14, 1997 JAM 1–0 CRC Burton 51 Independence Park, Kingston 30,000 Ramesh Ramdhan (Trinidad and Tobago) Report El Salvador v Canada September 14, 1997 SLV 4–1 CAN Nildeson 16Renderos 52 Cienfuegos 57Díaz Arce 88 Bunbury 25 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador 27,767 Mario Efraín López (Guatemala) Report United States v Jamaica October 3, 1997 21:10 (UTC-4) USA 1–1 JAM Wynalda 50 pen. Burton 51 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. 51,528 Mario Sánchez (Chile) Report Mexico v El Salvador October 5, 1997 17:10 (UTC-5) MEX 5–0 SLV Galindo 30 38 pen.García Aspe 35Zague 48García 82 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City 115,000 Eduardo Gamboa (Chile) Report Canada v Mexico October 12, 1997 CAN 2–2 MEX Corazzin 56Bunbury 62 Enrique Alfaro 8Hermosillo 87 Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton 11,806 Carlos Mendizabal Euceda (Guatemala) Report Mexico v United States November 2, 1997 MEX 0–0 USA Estadio Azteca, Mexico City 115,000 Javier Castrilli (Argentina) Report Canada v United States November 9, 1997 CAN 0–3 USA Reyna 5Wegerle 81 90+4 Swangard Stadium, Burnaby 8,420 John Toro Rendón (Colombia) Report El Salvador v Jamaica November 9, 1997 SLV 2–2 JAM Nildeson 47Guerra 87 Burton 52Hall 78 Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador 34,200 José García Aranda (Spain) Report Mexico v Costa Rica November 9, 1997 MEX 3–3 CRC Chávez 1Galindo 42Hermosillo 68 Medford 54Soto 71Wanchope 86 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City 60,000 Ali Bujsaim (United Arab Emirates) Report Costa Rica v Canada November 16, 1997 CRC 3–1 CAN Smith 7Ilama 16Marín 89 pen. Fletcher 47 Estadio Nacional, San José 4,200 Antônio Pereira (Brazil) Report United States v El Salvador November 16, 1997 USA 4–2 SLV McBride 22 28Henderson 49Preki 82 Nildeson 60Díaz Arce 62 pen. Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough 53,193 Pierluigi Collina (Italy) Report Jamaica v Mexico November 16, 1997 JAM 0–0 MEX Independence Park, Kingston 35,700 José Antonio Arana (Peru) Report Goalscorers main 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) fourthround References 4 Category:1997 in CONCACAF football Category:1996–97 in Mexican football Category:1997 in North American men's international football Category:1996–97 in Jamaican football Category:1996–97 in Costa Rican football Category:1997–98 in Costa Rican football Category:1996–97 in Salvadoran football Category:1997–98 in Salvadoran football Category:1997 in American soccer Category:1997 in Canadian soccer Q2 Q2 Q2