2009 UNCAF Nations Cup

2009 UNCAF Nations Cup
Copa Naciones de UNCAF; Copa Naciones DIGICEL
Tournament details
Host country	Honduras
Dates	January 22 - February 1
Teams	7 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Panama (1st title)
Runners-up	Costa Rica
Third place	Honduras
Fourth place	El Salvador
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	32 (2.29 per match)
Attendance	114,000 (8,143 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Andy Furtado ; (3 goals)
Best player(s)	Keylor Navas
	← 2007 2011 →

Last updated February 23, 2025

The UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 was the tenth edition of the UNCAF Nations Cup, the biennial football (soccer) tournament for the CONCACAF-affiliated national teams of Central America. The first five places qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.^[1] The event was going to take place in Panama City, Panama between January 22 and February 1, 2009,^[2] but the Panamanian FA announced that they would not host the event due to not having an adequate stadium available for the time period of the tournament.^[3]^[4] The alternative hosts were Honduras and Guatemala.^[5] Honduras submitted an official replacement bid on November 12, and after some consideration it was moved to Honduras.^[3] All games were played in Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino in Tegucigalpa.^[3]^[6] The tournament was sponsored by Digicel.^[7] On 1 February 2009 Panama won the tournament, the first UNCAF Nations Cup win in the country's history.

Participating nations

All seven UNCAF members participated in the tournament:

Squads

Stadium

Tegucigalpa	Tegucigalpa
	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino
	Capacity: 35,000

First round

The group stage draw took place on December 9, 2008 in Guatemala City.^[1] The reigning champions, Costa Rica, and the hosts, Honduras, were automatically drawn as top seed in their respective groups.^[7] Costa Rica was paired with Panama and Guatemala, the first two runners-up from the 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup.^[1] The remaining teams – El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Belize – were drawn into the same group as Honduras.^[1]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Honduras	3	3	0	0	8	2	+6	9	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	El Salvador	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4	Qualified to the Semifinals
3	Nicaragua	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2	Qualified to the Fifth place playoff
4	Belize	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

22 January 2009

17:00 (UTC−06)

El Salvador	1–1	Nicaragua
Avilés 18' (o.g.)	Report	Medina 85'

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 1,200

Referee: Carlos Batres (GUA)

22 January 2009

19:30 (UTC−06)

Honduras	2–1	Belize
Guevara 32' Martínez 61'	Report	Castillo 86'

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Roberto Moreno (PAN)

24 January 2009

15:00 (UTC−06)

Belize	1–4	El Salvador
James 73'	Report	Pacheco 11' (pen.), 30' (pen.) Sánchez 75' Ayala 88'

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 900

Referee: Wálter Quesada (CRC)

24 January 2009

17:30 (UTC−06)

Honduras	4–1	Nicaragua
Rodríguez 16' Solórzano 65' (o.g.) S. Martínez 73' W. Martínez 79'	Report	Reyes 30'

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Carlos Batres (GUA)

26 January 2009

17:00 (UTC−06)

Nicaragua	1–1	Belize
Barrera 66'	Report	Usher 27'

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Óscar Moncada (HON)

26 January 2009

19:30 (UTC−06)

Honduras	2–0	El Salvador
Pavón 34' (pen.) Chávez 73'	Report

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 29,600

Referee: Wálter Quesada (CRC)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	2	2	0	6	1	+5	6	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Panama	2	1	1	1	3	−2	3	Qualified to the Semifinals
3	Guatemala	2	0	2	1	4	−3	0	Qualified to the Fifth place playoff

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

23 January 2009

19:30 (UTC−06)

Costa Rica	3–0	Panama
Furtado 10', 16' Sánchez 55'	Report

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Courtney Campbell (JAM)

25 January 2009

18:00 (UTC−06)

Guatemala	1–3	Costa Rica
López 51'	Report	Sánchez 34' Herrera 59' Segura 61'

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Marco Rodríguez (MEX)

27 January 2009

19:30 (UTC−06)

Panama	1–0	Guatemala
Zapata 31'	Report

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Joel Aguilar (SLV)

Final round

Fifth place

The winner of the fifth place match qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup as the fifth and final entrant from Central America.

29 January 2009

19:30 (UTC−06)

Nicaragua	2–0	Guatemala
Wilson 39', 85'	Report

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 150

Referee: Óscar Moncada (HON)

Semifinals

All four semifinalists qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

30 January 2009

17:00 (UTC−06)

Semifinal

Costa Rica	3–0 Awarded	El Salvador
Furtado 18'	Report

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino , Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Attendance: 2,500

Referee: Roberto Moreno (PAN)

The game was called after sixty minutes of play when El Salvador was reduced to six players. Two El Salvador players, Alexander Escobar and Eliseo Quintanilla, were awarded red cards in the first half, and Deris Umanzor, Rodolfo Zelaya, and goalkeeper Juan José Gómez were injured and had to leave the game after El Salvador had already exhausted their three substitutions. The game was awarded 3–0 to Costa Rica^[8]

30 January 2009

20:00 (UTC−06)

Semifinal

Honduras	0–1	Panama
	Report	Phillips 40'

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino , Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Carlos Batres (GUA)

Third place

1 February 2009

15:30 (UTC−06)

Honduras	1–0	El Salvador
Espinoza 30'	Report

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 900

Referee: Wálter Quesada (CRC)

Final

1 February 2009

18:00 (UTC−06)

Final

Panama	0–0	Costa Rica
	Report
Penalties
Herrera Aguilar Phillips Jaramillo Henríquez	5–3	Furtado Núñez Jiménez Oviedo

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 900

Referee: Carlos Batres (GUA)

Panama

Costa Rica


PANAMA:
GK	1	Jaime Penedo
DF	2	Carlos Rivera
DF	4	José Torres (C)
DF	6	Amílcar Henríquez
DF	13	Adolfo Machado
DF	14	Armando Gun
MF	5	Manuel Torres	81'
MF	10	Nelson Barahona		81'
MF	15	Ricardo Phillips
FW	8	Gabriel Torres	63'	69'
FW	9	Orlando Rodríguez		62'
Substitutions:
FW	7	Edwin Aguilar		62'
MF	11	Víctor Herrera		69'
MF	20	Luis Jaramillo		81'
Manager:
Gary Stempel


COSTA RICA:
GK	23	Ricardo González
DF	3	Freddy Fernández (C)
DF	4	Michael Umaña
DF	12	Leonardo González	37'
DF	17	Pablo Herrera		72'
DF	19	Carlos Johnson
MF	5	Cristian Oviedo	75'
MF	15	Jorge Davis
MF	22	Álvaro Sánchez		46'
FW	7	Alejandro Alpízar	6'
FW	11	Andy Furtado
Substitutions:
FW	21	Víctor Núñez		46'
MF	16	Pablo Brenes		58'
MF	14	Paolo Jiménez		72'
Manager:
Rodrigo Kenton

Results

2009 UNCAF Nations Cup champions
Panama First title

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final status
1	Panama	4	2	1	1	2	3	−1	7	Champions
2	Costa Rica	4	3	1	0	9	1	+8	10	Runner-up
3	Honduras	5	4	0	1	9	3	+6	12	Third place winner
4	El Salvador	5	1	1	3	5	8	−3	4	Third place loser
5	Nicaragua	4	1	2	1	5	6	−1	5	Fifth place winner
6	Guatemala	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0	Fifth place loser
7	Belize	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1	Eliminated in Group stage

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Top 5 qualified to the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Scorers

3 goals

Andy Furtado

2 goals

1 goal

1 goal (Own Goal)

Silvio Avilés (for El Salvador)
David Solorzano (for Honduras)

References

1 2 3 4 "Six-time champ Costa Rica drawn with Panama, Guatemala in Central American Nations Cup". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 9 December 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
↑ "Panamá organizará la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). Tanto Fútbol. 28 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-01-17. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
1 2 3 "Central American Nations Cup moved from Panama to Honduras". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 17 November 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
↑ "Panamá descarta organizar la Uncaf". La Nación (in Spanish). Panama. 2 November 2008. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
↑ Estrada, Campo Elías (22 February 2008). "Copa de Naciones está más allá que acá". La Prensa (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 February 2008.^{[ dead link ‍]}
↑ "Se confirma Honduras como sede de la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). UNCAF. 16 November 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
1 2 "Digicel, UNCAF launch 2009 Nations Cup". The Nassau Guardian . Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
↑ WASHINGTONPOST.com – Monday Kickaround – 2 February 2009

External links

2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup at CONCACAF.com

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[draw-1] 1 2 3 4 "Six-time champ Costa Rica drawn with Panama, Guatemala in Central American Nations Cup". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 9 December 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[2] "Panamá organizará la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). Tanto Fútbol. 28 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-01-17. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[movedtohonduras-3] 1 2 3 "Central American Nations Cup moved from Panama to Honduras". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 17 November 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}

[4] "Panamá descarta organizar la Uncaf". La Nación (in Spanish). Panama. 2 November 2008. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2008.

[5] Estrada, Campo Elías (22 February 2008). "Copa de Naciones está más allá que acá". La Prensa (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 February 2008.^{[ dead link ‍]}

[6] "Se confirma Honduras como sede de la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). UNCAF. 16 November 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 21 November 2008.

[digicel-7] 1 2 "Digicel, UNCAF launch 2009 Nations Cup". The Nassau Guardian . Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[8] WASHINGTONPOST.com – Monday Kickaround – 2 February 2009

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Stages	Group stage Knockout stage Final
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2009 UNCAF Nations Cup

Contents

Participating nations

Squads

Stadium

First round

Group A

Group B

Final round

Fifth place

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Results

Scorers

See also

References

External links