The 1997 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 33rd 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)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 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 teams were split into 3 zones (North, Central and Caribbean). The North American zone qualified 3 teams direct into the quarterfinals and 2 teams played a play-off to get a 4th spot in the quarterfinals. The Central American zone played a regional tournament to get 3 spots in the quarterfinal. The winner of the Caribbean zone got a place in the quarterfinals.

1997 was the first year that teams from the United States' premier league, Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...

, took part in the Champions' Cup. The competitors in the MLS Cup

MLS Cup

The MLS Cup is the championship match of Major League Soccer, the highest tier of professional soccer in the United States and Canada. As the final match of the MLS Cup playoffs, the winner is crowned the season champion in the same manner as other North American sports leagues...

, both winner and runner-up, were each given berths in the tournament.

All but two of the eight games played in the final tournament were played in Washington, D.C.. The final was won by Cruz Azul, who captured their fifth Champions' Cup title with a 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy

Los Angeles Galaxy

The Los Angeles Galaxy are an American professional soccer team, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, and the league's second...

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North American Zone

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• Los Angeles Galaxy advance to the quarterfinal.

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Preliminary Round

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First Round

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Second Round

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• Comunicaciones, Luis Ángel Firpo and Cartaginés advance to the quarterfinal.

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Group 1

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Group 2

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Qualifying playoff

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• United Petrotrin advance to the quarterfinal.

North American zone

• Major League Soccer:
    D.C. United
  D.C. United
  D.C. United is an American professional soccer club based in Washington, D.C. which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, having competed in the league since its inception, in 1996.Over the...
  
   - 1996 MLS Cup winner
    Los Angeles Galaxy
  Los Angeles Galaxy
  The Los Angeles Galaxy are an American professional soccer team, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, and the league's second...
  
   - 1996 MLS Cup Runner Up

• Primera División de México:
    Guadalajara - 1997 Verano winner
    Cruz Azul
  Club Deportivo Cruz Azul
  Club Deportivo, Social, y Cultural Cruz Azul, known simply as Cruz Azul, is a Mexican professional Association football club based in Mexico City, Mexico; after which initially was based in Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz Azul in the Mexican state of Hidalgo...
  
   - 1997 Invierno winner

Central American zone

• Central American Qualifiers:
    C.S. Cartaginés
  C.S. Cartaginés
  Club Sport Cartaginés Deportiva S.A. is a Costa Rican football club, that currently plays in the Costa Rican Primera División. The club plays in Estadio Jose Rafael Fello Meza, in Barrio Asis de Cartago, Costa Rica.-History:...
  
   - Second Round Series winner
    C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo
  C.D. Luis Angel Firpo
  Club Deportivo Luis Ángel Firpo is an football club based in Usulután, El Salvador that plays in the Primera División de Fútbol Profesional. It has been one of the most successful clubs in El Salvador, having won 9 titles, firstly in 1989. Only FAS and Águila hold more league titles than Firpo,...
  
   - Second Round Series winner
    CSD Comunicaciones - Second Round Series winner

Caribbean zone

• Caribbean Football Union (CFU):
    United Petrotrin
  United Petrotrin
  United Petrotrin is a football club from Trinidad and Tobago, which currently plays in the Professional Football League of Trinidad.-History:...
  
   - 1997 CFU Club Championship winner

Bracket

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

Third Place Match

• Third place was shared.

Final

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1997 Winners
Deportivo Cruz Azul Club Deportivo Cruz Azul Club Deportivo, Social, y Cultural Cruz Azul, known simply as Cruz Azul, is a Mexican professional Association football club based in Mexico City, Mexico; after which initially was based in Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz Azul in the Mexican state of Hidalgo... Fifth Title