1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup


The 1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 15th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region, the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 20 May till 29 December 1979.
The teams were split in 3 zones, 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 Club Deportivo FAS won the two-legged series final v Antillean team Jong Colombia, becoming CONCACAF champions for the first time in their history.

North American Zone

  • Tigres UANL advance to the CONCACAF Semifinal.

Central American Zone

Torneo Centroamericano de Concacaf 1979
  • 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

Jong Holland win 3-0 on aggregate
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Jong Colombia win 4-0 on aggregate
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Reportedly these clubs entered the tournament; results from these matches are unknown.

Second round

Defence Force win 2-0 on aggregate
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Jong Colombia win 3-2 on aggregate
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Third round

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  • Jong Colombia advances to the fourth round.
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  • Robin Hood wins and advances to the fourth round.

Fourth round

CONCACAF Final Series

Semi-final

First leg

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Second leg

FAS won the series 1–0 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

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Second leg

FAS won the series 8–2 on aggregate.