The 1962 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 1st edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF

CONCACAF

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...

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

Football (soccer)

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 in the CONCACAF

CONCACAF

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...

 region.

The tournament was played by 8 teams of 7 nations: Netherlands Antilles

Netherlands Antilles

The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...

, Costa Rica

Costa Rica

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, El Salvador

El Salvador

El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

, Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

, Haiti

Haiti

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, Honduras

Honduras

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 and México

Mexico

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The tournament was played from 25 March 1962 till 21 August 1962.

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 groups played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Northern group champion in the final. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

C.D. Guadalajara

C.D. Guadalajara

Club Deportivo Guadalajara , is a Mexican professional football club based in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Guadalajara plays in the Primera División de México and is the most successful club in Mexican football, having won 11 First Division titles, 7 Campeón de Campeones and 2 Copa México...

 won that final, and became the first CONCACAF club champion.

First round

• Comunicaciones won 2–1 on aggregate.

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• Alajuelense won 2–1 on aggregate.

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• Etoile Haïtienne won 4–3 on aggregate.

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• Guadalajara won 5–0 on aggregate.

Second round

• Comunicaciones won 5–4 on aggregate.

First Leg

Second Leg

• Guadalajara on a bye.
• Comunicaciones won 3–1 on aggregate.
• Both matches played in Guatemala City.

First Leg

Second Leg

• Guadalajara won 6–0 on aggregate.

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1962 Winners
C.D. Guadalajara C.D. Guadalajara Club Deportivo Guadalajara , is a Mexican professional football club based in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Guadalajara plays in the Primera División de México and is the most successful club in Mexican football, having won 11 First Division titles, 7 Campeón de Campeones and 2 Copa México... First Title