The 1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 15th 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 language, Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CON ...

region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of

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region and was played from 20 May till 29 December 1979. 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. Salvadoran

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won the two-legged series final v Antillean team Jong Colombia (8–2 on aggregate), becoming CONCACAF champions for the first time in their history.FAS, a 35 años del campeonato
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North American Zone

---- *Tigres UANL advance to the CONCACAF Semifinal.

Central American Zone

*Comunicaciones and Alianza withdrew. *FAS and Cartaginés advance to the second round.

Second round

*FAS, won presumably by walkover and advance to the CONCACAF Semi-final.

Caribbean Zone

Preliminary round

*Santos won, presumably by walkover and advances to the First round.

First round

* Leo Victor
Robinhood
Defence Force
Tesoro Palo Seco
Reportedly these clubs entered the tournament; results from these matches are unknown. ---- ---- ---- *Jong Holland and Jong Colombia advance to the second round.

Second round

*Other fixtures (if any) not known. *Defence Force and Jong Colombia advance to the third round. ---- ---- ----

Third round

---- *Jong Colombia advances to the fourth round (Final Round In The Caribbean Section). ---- ---- *Robin Hood wins and advances to the fourth round (Final Round In The Caribbean Section).

Fourth round

*Jong Colombia is the Champions in the Caribbean Region and advances to the CONCACAF Champions Cup Final.

North American Zone

Central American Zone

Second round

Caribbean Zone

Preliminary round

First round

Second round

Third round

Fourth round

CONCACAF Final Series

Semi-final

First leg

Second leg

Final

Final

First leg

Second leg

Champion

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