The 1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 13th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the
CONCACAF Champions' Cup
The CONCACAF Champions League, known officially as the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons, is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONCACAF. The tournament is contested by clubs from North Ameri ...
. It determined that year's club champion of
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
in the
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
region and was played from 17 April 1977 till 18 February 1978.
The teams were split in 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North and Central zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.
Mexican club
América beat Surinamese side
Robinhood in the final, winning their first CONCACAF champion cup.
Campeonato de Concacaf 1977–78
on Club América
North American Zone
*New York Inter-Giuliana withdrew
*América advances to the CONCACAF Semi-Final.
Central American Zone
First Round
*Motagua: Bye
*Barrio México did not have match dates communicated to them by CONCACAF, and failed to appear for the first leg: CONCACAF awarded both legs to Diriangén 2-0.
*Real España withdrew.
*Águila, Diriangén and Saprissa advanced to the second round.
Second Round
*Motagua withdrew.
*Municipal and Saprissa advance to the third round.
Third Round
*Saprissa advances to the CONCACAF Semi-Final.
Caribbean Zone
First Round
*Victory withdrew.
*Violette and Robinhood advanced to the Second Round.
*Voorwaarts on a bye to the Third Round.
*TECSA on a bye to the Fourth Round.
Second Round
*Robinhood advanced to the third round.
Third Round
*Robinhood advanced to the fourth round.
Fourth Round
*Robinhood advanced to the CONCACAF Champions'Cup Final.
CONCACAF Final Series
Semi-Final
*Saprissa withdrew.
*América advances to the CONCACAF Final.
Final
First leg
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Second leg
*''América won 2–1 on aggregate''.
Champion
References
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