FIFA rejected the entry of
Guatemala.
Format
There would be two rounds of play:
* First Round: The remaining 9 teams were divided into 3 groups of 3 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
* Final Round: The 3 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would qualify.
First round
Group 1
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Mexico advanced to the Final Round.
Group 2
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Jamaica advanced to the Final Round.
Group 3
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Costa Rica advanced to the Final Round.
Final round
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Mexico qualified.
Qualified teams
The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the final tournament.
Goalscorers
;5 goals
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Isidoro Díaz
;4 goals
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Errol Daniels
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Leonel Hernández
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Ernesto Cisneros
Ernesto Cisneros Salcedo (born 26 October 1940) is a Mexican former football midfielder who played for Mexico in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Club Atlas and he competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Club ...
;3 goals
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Edgar Marín
Edgar Ceferino Marín Leví (born 22 May 1943) is a Costa Rican retired footballer.
Club career
Born in Pueblo Nuevo, Puntarenas, Marín made his league debut in 1962 for Deportivo Saprissa against Uruguay de Coronado
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William Quirós
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Lascelles Dunkley
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Siegfried Haltman
;2 goals
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José Luis González Dávila
José Luis González "La Calaca" Dávila (September 14, 1942 – September 8, 1995) was a Mexican professional footballer who played as a forward and was a two time Olympian.
Career
At club level, Gonzalez captained Pumas and Deportivo T ...
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Javier Fragoso
Javier Gonzalo Fragoso Rodríguez (19 April 1942 – 28 December 2014) was a Mexican football player and manager.
Club career
Born in Mexico City in 1942, he was a forward for Club América, for whom he made his debut in 1962.
International ...
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Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez
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Salvador Reyes Monteón
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Virgilio Sille
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Stanley Humbert Krenten
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Edmund Waterval
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Andy Aleong
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Ed Murphy
;1 goal
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Fernando Jiménez
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Tarcisio Rodríguez Viquez
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Juan González Soto
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Nicolás Martínez
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Ángel Piedra
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Antonio dos Santos
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José Ricardo Taylor
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Syd Bartlett
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Oscar Black
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Patrick Blair
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Art Welch
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Asher Welch
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José Luis Aussin
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Ignacio Jáuregui
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Ramiro Navarro
Ramiro Navarro de Anda (born 25 May 1943) is a Mexican former football forward who played for Mexico in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
Career
Born in Tepatitlán
Tepatitlán de Morelos is a city and municipality founded in 1530, in the centr ...
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Kenneth Kluivert
Kenneth Ramon Kluivert (born 26 August 1941) is a Surinamese former footballer who played as a left winger for S.V. Robinhood in the SVB Hoofdklasse, and for the Suriname national football team.
He is the father of former Dutch International f ...
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Alvin Corneal
Alvin Ainsley Corneal (born 13 October 1937, San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidad and Tobago former footballer. Corneal also played three unofficial matches with Barbados in 1962 when the latter was not yet a FIFA member. He also played ...
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Jeff Gellineau
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Bobby Sookram
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Helmut Bicek
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Walt Schmotolocha
References
{{1966 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers
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 ...
FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)
1966 in CONCACAF football
qualification
Qualification is either the process of qualifying for an achievement, or a credential attesting to that achievement, and may refer to:
* Professional qualification, attributes developed by obtaining academic degrees or through professional exper ...