1994 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1994 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Tournament details
Host country	United States
City	San Jose, California
Dates	3 February – 5 February
Teams	4 (from 4 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Cartaginés (1st title)
Runners-up	Atlante
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
Goals scored	8 (2 per match)
	← 1993 1995 →

The 1994 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 30th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 12 December 1993 till 5 February 1994.

The teams were split in 2 zones (North/Central and Caribbean). The North/Central zone was split in 3 groups, qualifying the best team of each to the final stage. The winner of the Caribbean zone got the qualification too. All qualifying matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system, while the final tournament was played in San Jose, California, U.S..

Costa Rican club Cartaginés beat Mexican team Atlante in the final,^[1] becoming CONCACAF champion for the first time in their history.^[2]^[3]

North and Central American Zone

The winner of each group advanced to the Final Round.

Group 1

Preliminary Round

12 December 1993

Real Verdes

1–3

Comunicaciones

22 December 1993

Comunicaciones

2–1
(5–2 agg.)

Real Verdes

Comunicaciones advanced to First Round.

First Round

1 December 1993	Petrotela	4–1	Monterrey	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Alberto García Saavedra 9' 44' Luis Enrique Cálix 46' Alexis Duarte 80'		Mario Jáuregui 39'	Stadium: Estadio General Francisco Morazán

7 December 1993	Monterrey	3–2 (4–6 agg.)	Petrotela	Monterrey, Mexico
	Luis Hernández 18' José Nieves Castro 21' Mario Jáuregui 42'		Alexis Duarte 27' Luis Salas 41'	Stadium: Estadio Tecnológico

26 January 1994	Comunicaciones	2–0	Cartaginés	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Jose Mendez Carlos Vasquez			Stadium: Estadio Cementos Progreso

2 February 1994	Cartaginés	4–0 (4–2 agg.)	Comunicaciones	Cartago, Costa Rica
	Acuna Mullins			Stadium: Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza Ivankovich

Petrotela and Cartaginés advanced to Second Round.

Second Round

16 March 1994	Cartaginés	1–0	Petrotela	Cartago, Costa Rica
	Cristian Mena 16'			Stadium: Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza Ivankovich

23 March 1994	Petrotela	2–1 (2–2 agg.) (2–3 p)	Cartaginés	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Alexis Duarte 27' Alex Bahr 68'		Cristian Mena 21'	Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

Cartaginés advanced to CONCACAF Final Tournament.

Group 2

Preliminary Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aurora	5 - 3	La Victoria	2 - 2	3 - 1

Aurora advance to the First round.

	Aurora	2–2	La Victoria	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Washington Castagnero (pk) Edwin Westphal		Edmund Pandy Norman Pipersburg	Stadium: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores

	La Victoria	1–3 (3–6 agg.)	Aurora	Belize City, Belize
	Edmund Pandy		Washington Castagnero Martin Machon Mynor Jimenez	Stadium: MCC Grounds

First Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aurora	9–0	Juventus Managua	4–0	5–0
Alianza	3–2	Los Angeles Salsa	1–0	2–2

Aurora and Alianza advance to the Second round.

	Juventus Managua	0–5	Aurora	Managua, Nicaragua
			Martin Machon Rony Archila Minor Jiménez	Stadium: Estadio Stanley Cayasso

	Aurora	4–0 (9–0 agg.)	Juventus Managua	Guatemala City, Guatemala
				Stadium: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores

31 January 1994	Alianza	1–0	Los Angeles Salsa	San Salvador, El Salvador
	Milton Melendez 47'			Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán Attendance: 4,000^[4]

6 February 1994	Los Angeles Salsa	2–2 (2–3 agg.)	Alianza	Fullerton, United States
	Paulinho 10', unknown'		Joaquin Escobar 22' Oscar Ulloa 77'	Stadium: Titan Stadium Attendance: 5,285^[5]

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aurora	2–3	Alianza	1–1	1–2

Alianza F.C. advances to the CONCACAF Final tournament.

	Aurora	1–1	Alianza	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Rony Archilla 55'		Oscar Ulloa 78'	Stadium: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores

	Alianza	2–1 (3–2 agg.)	Aurora	San Salvador, El Salvador
	Oscar Ulloa 56' Sergio Bufarini 119'		Edwin Westphal 30'	Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán

Group 3

Preliminary Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Diriangén	2 - 9	Herediano	0 - 5	2 - 4

Herediano advance to the First round.

December 9, 1993	Diriangén	0-5	Herediano	Diriamba, Nicaragua
	Nil		Roger Gomez German Chavarria Rodinei Martins	Stadium: Estadio Cacique Diriangén

	Herediano	4–2 (9-2 agg.)	Diriangén	Heredia, Costa Rica
	Alberto Castillo Róger Gómez Nahamán González		Jairo Aguirre	Stadium: Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero

First Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Firpo	2 - 6	Atlante	1 - 4	1 - 2
Olimpia	0 - 2	Herediano	0 - 0	0 - 2

Atlante and Herediano advance to the Second round.

	Firpo	1–4	Atlante	Usulután, El Salvador
	Raul Toro		Luis M. Salvador 15' 71' Gastón Obledo 44' Roberto Andrade 82'	Stadium: Estadio Sergio Torres

	Atlante	2–1 (6-2 agg.)	Firpo	Hermosillo, Mexico
	Miguel Herrera 14' René Isidoro García 50'		Miguel Herrera own goal 35'	Stadium: Estadio Héroe de Nacozari

	Olimpia	0–0	Herediano	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
				Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

	Herediano	2–0 (2-3 agg.)	Olimpia	Heredia, Costa Rica
	Roger Gómez Marvin Obando			Stadium: Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Herediano	4 - 6	Atlante	3 - 3	1 - 3

Atlante advances to the CONCACAF Final tournament.

	Herediano	3-3	Atlante	Heredia, Costa Rica
	Juan Carlos Chávez 15' Roger Gómez 21' Carlos Javier Angulo 89'		Luis Miguel Salvador 10' 33' 34'	Stadium: Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero

	Atlante	3-1 (6-4 agg.)	Herediano	Mexico City, Mexico
	Luis Miguel Salvador 25' Gastón Obledo 59' René Isidoro García 73'		Rodinei Martins 78'	Stadium: Estadio de la Ciudad de los Deportes

Caribbean Zone

Preliminary Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RCA	2 - 8	SV Robinhood	2 - 1	0 - 7
River Plate	0 - 2	SV Leo Victor	0 - 0	0 - 2

SV Robinhood and SV Leo Victor advance to the First round.

RCA

2-1

SV Robinhood

7-0
(8-2 agg.)

RCA

River Plate

1–0

SV Leo Victor

2–0
(2-0 agg.)

River Plate

First Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Club Franciscain	6 - 2	Red Star (Pointe-á-Pitre)	4 - 1	2 - 1
RKVFC Sithoc	4 - 3	Solidarité Scolaire (Baie-Mahault)	4 - 2	0 - 1
Villa Lions	1- 2	Newtown United FC	0 - 0	1 - 2
FC AK Regina	w/o*	Racing Gonaïves
CRKSV Jong Colombia	2 - 1	Violette AC	2 - 0	0 - 1
J&J Construction Parham	0 - 1**	Union Sportive Sinnamary	0 - 1
SV Robinhood	3 - 4	SV Leo Victor	1 - 0	2 - 4
Union Sportive Robert	bye

Racing Gonaïves withdrew before 1st leg.*
Parham withdrew before 2nd leg, awarded 0–2 against them**

Club Franciscain

4-1

Red Star (Pointe-á-Pitre)

1–2
(2-6 agg.)

Club Franciscain

RKVFC Sithoc

4-2

Solidarité Scolaire (Baie-Mahault)

	Solidarité Scolaire (Baie-Mahault)	1-0 (3-4 agg.)	RKVFC Sithoc
	Dario Donavin

CRKSV Jong Colombia

2–0

Violette AC

1-0
(1-2 agg.)

CRKSV Jong Colombia

J&J Construction Parham

0-1

Union Sportive Sinnamary

2–0 * (Parham withdrew)
(3-0 agg.)

J&J Construction Parham

	SV Robinhood	1–0	SV Leo Victor	Paramaribo, Suriname
	Gerson Klinker

SV Leo Victor

2-4
(4-2 agg.)

SV Robinhood

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RKVFC Sithoc	0 - 3	Newtown United FC	0 - 2	0 - 1
Club Franciscain	5 - 2	Union Sportive Sinnamary	5 - 0	0 - 2
CRKSV Jong Colombia	1 - 1 5-4 (p)	SV Leo Victor	1 - 0	0 - 1
FC AK Regina	2 - 4	Union Sportive Robert	1 - 1	1 - 3

RKVFC Sithoc

0-2

Newtown United FC

1-0
(3-0 agg.)

RKVFC Sithoc

Club Franciscain

5–0

Union Sportive Sinnamary

2–0
(2-5 agg.)

Club Franciscain

CRKSV Jong Colombia

1–0

SV Leo Victor

1-0
(1-1 (pen 4-5) agg.)

CRKSV Jong Colombia

FC AK Regina

1–1

Union Sportive Robert

3-1
(4-2 agg.)

FC AK Regina

Third Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Club Franciscain	2 - 3	CRKSV Jong Colombia	2 - 1	0 - 2
Union Sportive Robert	4 - 0	Newtown United FC	4 - 0	0 - 0

Club Franciscain

2-1

CRKSV Jong Colombia

2–0
(3-2 agg.)

Club Franciscain

Union Sportive Robert

4–0

Newtown United FC

0-0
(0-4 agg.)

Union Sportive Robert

Fourth Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Union Sportive Robert	3 - 2	CRKSV Jong Colombia	3 - 0	0 - 2

Union Sportive Robert

3–0

CRKSV Jong Colombia

2–0
(2-3 agg.)

Union Sportive Robert

Final round bracket

Semi-finals		Final

3 February - San Jose

Cartaginés (p)	0 (5)
		5 February - San Jose
Robert	0 (4)
		Cartaginés	3
3 February - San Jose
		Atlante	2
Atlante	2

Alianza	1
		Third place

		5 February - San Jose

		Robert	0 (2)

		Alianza (p)	0 (4)

Semifinals

February 3, 1995

Cartaginés	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Robert

Penalties
	5–4

Spartan Stadium
San Jose, California - United States

February 3, 1995

Atlante	2–1	Alianza
Salvador 15' Romano 43'		Durán 47'

Spartan Stadium
San Jose, California - United States

Third Place Match

February 5, 1995

Alianza	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Robert

Penalties
	4–2

Spartan Stadium, San Jose, California

Final

February 5, 1995

Cartaginés	3–2	Atlante
Quiros 20', 32' Hidalgo 69' (p)	Report	García 51' Obledo 56'

Spartan Stadium, San Jose, California

Attendance: 6,270

Referee: Brian Hall (USA)

Team details

Cartaginés

Atlante


GK	Marvin Solórzano
DF	Humberto Brenes
DF	Martín Estrada
DF	Dager Villalobos
DF	Juan Alvarado
MF	Alexander Madrigal
MF	Luiz dos Santos
MF	Marco Hidalgo
MF	Heriberto Quirós
FW	Bernal Mullins	76'
FW	Ciro Castillo	61'
Substitutions:
	Norman Gómez	61'
	Alejandro Loria	76'
Manager:
Flavio Ortega


GK	Félix Fernández
DF	Miguel Herrera
DF	Wilson Graniolatti
DF	José G. Cruz	77'
DF	José E. García
MF	Roberto Andrade
MF	Rubén Romano
MF	Mario García
MF	Gastón Obledo
FW	Luis Salvador
FW	Hugo Sánchez	46'
Substitutions:
	Jorge Salas	46'
	Carlos Elizalde	77'
Manager:
Ricardo Lavolpe

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1994 winners
Cartaginés First title

References

^ Copa de Campeones 1994 on the RSSSF
^ Cartaginés se consagró rey de la Concacaf by Rodrigo Calvo, 5 Feb 2021
^ Hace 24 años Cartago gritó campeón by Luis E. Bolaños, 5 Feb 2019
^ "Alianza Beats Salsa With Penalty Kick". Los Angeles Times. January 30, 1994. p. C18. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
^ Dauber, Bill (February 7, 1994). "Salsa players too hot for their own good". The Orange County Register. p. C9. Retrieved December 23, 2022 – via NewsBank.

[1] Copa de Campeones 1994 on the RSSSF

[2] Cartaginés se consagró rey de la Concacaf by Rodrigo Calvo, 5 Feb 2021

[3] Hace 24 años Cartago gritó campeón by Luis E. Bolaños, 5 Feb 2019

[4] "Alianza Beats Salsa With Penalty Kick". Los Angeles Times. January 30, 1994. p. C18. Retrieved December 23, 2022.

[5] Dauber, Bill (February 7, 1994). "Salsa players too hot for their own good". The Orange County Register. p. C9. Retrieved December 23, 2022 – via NewsBank.

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