1968 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification

North American football tournament The qualifying competition for the 1968 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament determined the four teams of the final tournament,https://issuu.com/concacaf2013/docs/concacaf-olympic-qualifying-men-201 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying which decides the teams that would qualify for the 1968 Summer Olympics football finals tournament in Mexico.https://rsssf.org/tableso/ol1968q.html Games of the XVII. Olympiad – Football Qualifying Tournament – (Mexico City, Mexico, 1968) RSSSF 21 October 2021 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 |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:whitesmoke;" | First round BER 1910 2–1 USA 1–1 1–0 CUB 3–2 CAN 1–1 2–1 DOM 0–14 HAI 1964 0–8 0–6 SLV w/o HON 1949 1–0 — TRI w/o NGY 1–0 2–5 |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:whitesmoke;" | Second round CRC 5–4 HAI 1964 3–1 2–3 SLV 5–1 CUB 3–0 2–1 GUA 1–1 BER 1910 1–1 0–0 TRI 4–3 ANT 1959 0–3 4–0 |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:whitesmoke;" | Second round play-off BER 1910 1–2 GUA |} First round 1967 5 21 y BER 1910 USA 1–1 Daniels ? Benedek ? Prospect Stadium Hamilton Harry Sadler (Canada) 1967 5 27 y USA BER 1910 0–1 Soldier Field, Chicago Harry Sadler (Canada) Bermuda won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round. 1967 6 21 y CUB CAN 1–1 Verdecia 30 Hansen 75(pen.) Clarke Stadium, Edmonton Raúl Osorio Castillo (Mexico) 1967 6 24 y CAN CUB 1–2 Hansen 57 Fariñas 82 87 Clarke Stadium, Edmonton Cuba won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round. 1967 4 1 y DOM HAI 1964 0–8 Santo Domingo 1967 4 22 y HAI 1964 DOM 6–0 Breton 10 15 Jacquot 26 66 Domingue 71 73 Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince Karl Stewart (Jamaica) Haiti won 14–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round. 1967 4 22 y SLV HON 1949 1–0 Estadio Nacional (Flor Blanca), San Salvador, El Salvador HON 1949 SLV w/o El Salvador won on walkover and advanced to the second round. 1967 5 21 y TRI NGY 1–0 Small 57 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain 1967 6 12 y NGY TRI 5–2 André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo 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 1967 10 8 y CRC HAI 1964 3–1 Alfaro 30 Hernández 33 36 Pierre 61 Estadio Nacional de la Sabana, San José Valentín Gazo (Nicaragua) 1967 12 9 y HAI 1964 CRC 3–2 Désir 46 Saint-Vil 57(pen.) 72(pen.) Sáenz 53 Hernández 62 Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince Karl Stewart (Jamaica) Costa Rica won 5–4 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament. 1967 11 26 y SLV CUB 3–0 Flores 15 Díaz 30 Méndez 75 Estadio Nacional (Flor Blanca), San Salvador Laurence Kingz (United States Soccer Federation) 1967 12 2 y CUB SLV 1–2 Dalmau 38 Flores 42 Barraza 68 Estadio Pedro Marrero, Havana El Salvador won 5–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament. 1967 12 3 y GUA BER 1910 1–1 Chacón 52 Romaine 43 Estadio Mateo Flores, Ciudad de Guatemala Aristóteles Gómez (Honduras) 1967 12 10 y BER 1910 GUA 0–0 (a.e.t.) Prospect Stadium, Hamilton, Bermuda Audley Brandt (Jamaica) Match abandoned at 107' due to lack of light. Play-off 1968 3 3 y BER 1910 GUA 1–2 (a.e.t.) Romaine 25 Alemán 90 Roldán 105 Estadio Nacional (Flor Blanca), San Salvador Abel Aguilar Elizalde (Mexico) Guatemala won the play-off and qualified for the final tournament. 1967 11 3 y ANT 1959 TRI 3–0 Sillé 32 Martina 50 56 Ergilio Hato Stadium, Willemstad Sergio Chechelef (Venezuelan Football Federation) 1967 11 12 y TRI ANT 1959 4–0 Corneal 6 Small 19 89 Flores 69(o.g.) Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago won 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament. Goalscorers 58 18 main pxxl fbo CRC Francisco Hernández main pxxl fbo TRI Patrick Small main pxxl fbo CAN Harold Hansen main pxxl fbo CUB Francisco Fariñas main pxxl fbo HAI 1964 Edner Breton main pxxl fbo HAI 1964 Jean Jacquot main pxxl fbo HAI 1964 Leintz Domingue main pxxl fbo HAI 1964 Guy Saint-Vil main pxxl fbo SLV Mario Flores main pxxl fbo BER 1910 Irving Romaine main pxxl fbo ANT 1959 Antonio Martina main pxxl fbo BER 1910 Gladwin Daniels main pxxl fbo USA Jim Benedek main pxxl fbo CUB José Verdecia main pxxl fbo CRC Edgar Núñez Alfaro main pxxl fbo HAI 1964 Joseph Pierre main pxxl fbo HAI 1964 Jean-Claude Désir main pxxl fbo CRC Roy Sáenz main pxxl fbo SLV Ricardo Díaz main pxxl fbo SLV Sergio Méndez main pxxl fbo CUB Marcos Dalmau main pxxl fbo SLV Juan Francisco Barraza main pxxl fbo GUA Edgar Chacón main pxxl fbo GUA Reginaldo Alemán main pxxl fbo GUA Jorge Roldán main pxxl fbo ANT 1959 George Sillé main pxxl fbo TRI Alvin Corneal main pxxl fbo ANT 1959 Clemente Flores External links Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying, CONCACAF.com References Category:CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament Oly Category:Football qualification for the 1968 Summer Olympics Category:El Salvador at the 1968 Olympic football tournament Category:Guatemala at the 1968 Olympic football tournament