The 1968 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 4th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the

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

region. The tournament was played by 10 teams of 10 nations: Netherlands Antilles,

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, El Salvador,

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, Guatemala,

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, Honduras, Suriname,

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, Costa Rica. It was played from 26 May till 1 December 1968 under the home/away match system. The tournament was split in 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the Central and Caribbean zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Northern champion in the final. The final was scratched and Toluca were declared champions after both semi-finalists, Aurora and Transvaal, were ejected from the competition due to crowd violence. Club Deportivo Toluca (actually known as Deportivo Toluca FC) from

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Caribbean zone

* ''Transvaal won 4–2 on aggregate score.''

Northern zone

First round

* ''NY Greek Americans won 4–3 on aggregate score.''

Second round

* ''Toluca won 7–3 on aggregate score.''

Central American Zone

First round

* ''Aurora won 2–1 on aggregate score.'' * ''Olimpia won 3–1 on aggregate score.''

Second round

* ''Aurora won 5–1 on aggregate score.''

Semifinals

* ''At the end of the 2nd leg, Transvaal fans invaded the pitch, but after Aurora fans did the same, a mass brawl broke out between the two sets of fans; both teams were ejected from the competition.''

Final

After

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and

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were both ejected from the competition, the final was scratched and

Toluca Toluca , officially Toluca de Lerdo , is the state capital of the State of Mexico as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca. With a population of 910,608 as of the 2020 census, Toluca is the fifth most populous city in Mexico. The city f ...

were declared champions.

Champion

References

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