1966 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)

1966 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)

Tournament details
Dates	28 February 1965 - 22 May 1965
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	68 (2.83 per match)
Attendance	370,238 (15,427 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Isidoro Díaz (5 goals)
← 1962 1970 →

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

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Mexico	7	4	3	1	0	8	2	+6
2	United States	4	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1
3	Honduras	1	4	0	1	3	1	6	−5

28 February 1965

Honduras	0–1	Mexico
		Díaz 62'

San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Attendance: 7,514

Referee: Corado (Guatemala)

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4 March 1965

Mexico	3–0	Honduras
González 6' Aussín 14' Reyes 82'

Mexico City, Mexico

Attendance: 50,894

Referee: Méndez (Guatemala)

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7 March 1965

United States	2–2	Mexico
Schmotolocha 49' Bicek 59'		González 34' Reyes 65'

Los Angeles, United States

Attendance: 19,337

Referee: Morgan (Canada)

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12 March 1965

Mexico	2–0	United States
Díaz 9' Navarro 57'

Mexico City, Mexico

Attendance: 64,285

Referee: Gutierrez (Nicaragua)

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17 March 1965

Honduras	0–1	United States
		Murphy 70'

San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Attendance: 1,268

Referee: Moreno (Nicaragua)

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21 March 1965

United States	1–1	Honduras
Murphy 80'		Taylor 85'

Tegucigalpa, Honduras ^[1]

Attendance: 2,331

Referee: Vargas (Costa Rica)

Mexico advanced to the Final Round.

Group 2

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Jamaica	5	4	2	1	1	5	2	+3
2	Netherlands Antilles	4	4	1	2	1	2	3	−1
3	Cuba	3	4	1	1	2	3	5	−2

16 January 1965

Jamaica	2–0	Cuba
Black 11' Blair 51'

Kingston, Jamaica

Attendance: 10,100

Referee: Boniua (Costa Rica)

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20 January 1965

Netherlands Antilles	1–1	Cuba
Sille 50'		Piedra 73'

Kingston, Jamaica ^[2]

Attendance: 4,005

Referee: Gómez (Honduras)

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23 January 1965

Jamaica	2–0	Netherlands Antilles
Dunkley 11', 64'

Kingston, Jamaica

Attendance: 12,264

Referee: Gómez (Honduras)

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30 January 1965

Cuba	0–1	Netherlands Antilles
		Sille 27'

Havana, Cuba

Attendance: 3,040

Referee: Buergo (Mexico)

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3 February 1965

Netherlands Antilles	0–0	Jamaica

Havana, Cuba ^[2]

Attendance: 1,218

Referee: Buergo (Mexico)

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7 February 1965

Cuba	2–1	Jamaica
Santos 1' (pen.) Martínez 6'		Dunkley 14'

Havana, Cuba

Attendance: 1,176

Referee: Garcia (Mexico)

Jamaica advanced to the Final Round.

Group 3

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Costa Rica	8	4	4	0	0	9	1	+8
2	Suriname	2	4	1	0	3	8	9	−1
3	Trinidad and Tobago	2	4	1	0	3	5	12	−7

7 February 1965

Trinidad and Tobago	4–1	Suriname
Gellineau 2' Corneal 28' Aleong 38', 46'		Haltman 4'

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Attendance: 3,272

Referee: Koetsier (Netherlands Antilles)

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12 February 1965

Costa Rica	1–0	Suriname
Rodríguez 55'

San José, Costa Rica

Attendance: 12,868

Referee: McKeand (Jamaica)

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21 February 1965

Costa Rica	4–0	Trinidad and Tobago
Hernández 28' (pen.), 50' Daniels 80' Marín 84'

San José, Costa Rica

Attendance: 10,133

Referee: Valenzuela (Mexico)

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28 February 1965

Suriname	1–3	Costa Rica
Krenten 71'		Marín 10', 70' Soto 27'

Paramaribo, Suriname

Attendance: 7,704

Referee: Ortega (Venezuela)

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7 March 1965

Trinidad and Tobago	0–1	Costa Rica
		Hernández 29'

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Attendance: 3,293

Referee: Figaroa (Netherlands Antilles)

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14 March 1965

Suriname	6–1	Trinidad and Tobago
Haltman 9', 19' Waterval ?', ?' Kluivert 31' Krenten 44'		Sookram

Paramaribo, Suriname

Attendance: 3,417

Referee: Osorio Katzenstein (Venezuela)

Costa Rica advanced to the Final Round.

Final round

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Mexico	7	4	3	1	0	12	2	+10
2	Costa Rica	4	4	1	2	1	8	2	+6
3	Jamaica	1	4	0	1	3	3	19	−16

25 April 1965

Costa Rica	0–0	Mexico

San José, Costa Rica

Attendance: 20,654

Referee: Morgan (Canada)

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3 May 1965

Jamaica	2–3	Mexico
Asher Welch 11' Bartlett 36'		Padilla 13' Cisneros 71' Jáuregui 81'

Kingston, Jamaica

Attendance: 8,138

Referee: Montes de Oca (Guatemala)

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7 May 1965

Mexico	8–0	Jamaica
Cisneros 17', 89' Fragoso 20', 70' Díaz 32', 41', 90' Padilla 67'

Mexico City, Mexico

Attendance: 52,017

Referee: Navarro (Nicaragua)

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11 May 1965

Costa Rica	7–0	Jamaica
Jiménez 40' Daniels 54', 85' Quirós 63', 77', 88' Hernández 73'

San José, Costa Rica

Attendance: 4,003

Referee: Giebner (United States)

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16 May 1965

Mexico	1–0	Costa Rica
Cisneros 16'

Mexico City, Mexico

Attendance: 64,276

Referee: Morgan (Canada)

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22 May 1965

Jamaica	1–1	Costa Rica
Art Welch 70'		Daniels 6'

Kingston, Jamaica

Attendance: 3,031

Referee: Carcamo (Honduras)

Mexico qualified.

Qualified teams

The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup
Mexico	Final Round winners	22 May 1965	5 (1930, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962)

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Isidoro Díaz

4 goals

• Errol Daniels
• Leonel Hernández
• Ernesto Cisneros

3 goals

• Edgar Marín
• William Quirós
• Lascelles Dunkley
• Siegfried Haltman

2 goals

• José Luis González Dávila
• Javier Fragoso
• Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez
• Salvador Reyes Monteón
• Virgilio Sille
• Stanley Humbert Krenten
• Edmund Waterval
• Andy Aleong
• Ed Murphy

1 goal

• Fernando Jiménez
• Tarcisio Rodríguez Viquez
• Juan González Soto
• Nicolás Martínez
• Ángel Piedra
• Antonio dos Santos
• José Ricardo Taylor
• Syd Bartlett
• Oscar Black
• Patrick Blair
• Art Welch
• Asher Welch
• José Luis Aussin
• Ignacio Jáuregui
• Ramiro Navarro
• Kenneth Kluivert
• Alvin Corneal
• Jeff Gellineau
• Bobby Sookram
• Helmut Bicek
• Walt Schmotolocha

References

1. This match was played in Honduras instead of in the United States.
2. Netherlands Antilles' games were all played away.