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North/Central Zone
Group 1
Round 1
(Mar 9 & 31)
Alajuelense CRi Deportivo FAS ElS 4-2 1-2 5-4
[Ronald Gómez (2), Mauricio Montero, Luis Marin; Jorge Rodríguez,
Mario Meza Mayén]
[Leonel Bolsonello 6; Nahamán González 56, Jozef Miso 89]
(Mar 15 & 17)
Árabe Unido Pan Real Estelí Nic 1-1 1-0 2-1x
[Rogelio Clarke 58; Oliva 35pen]
[Abdul Chiari 74]
(Mar 17 & Apr 14)
Corozal Blz Victoria Hon 1-3 2-4 3-7
[Ralph Flores; Álvaro Izquierdo (2; 1pen), José de Ribamar]
[Carlos Wanchope 9, Álvaro Izquierdo 16 52, Percibal Piggott 46; Ralph Flores 3, 32]
Cruz Azul Mex bye
x both legs in Panama
Round 2 (Jun 16 & 19)
Victoria Hon Árabe Unido Pan 1-0 2-2 3-2x asdet
[Percival Piggott 75]
[Carlos Brown 30, Abdul Chiari 60; Renán Aguilera 75pen, 90+3]
Alajuelense CRi bye
Cruz Azul Mex bye
x first match in Ciudad de Panamá; second one in Colón.
Round 3 (Oct 23 & Nov 5)
Victoria Hon Cruz Azul Mex 1-0 0-2 1-2
[Renán Aguilera 32]
[Luis Carlos de Oliveira 45, Julio Zamora 87]
Alajuelense CRi bye
Round 4 (Jan 4 & 8, 1997)
Alajuelense CRi Cruz Azul Mex 0-2 2-3 2-5
[Carlos Hermosillo 5, Juan Reynoso 75]
[Carlos Hermosillo 42, 58, Sergio Verdirame 54; Froylan Ledesma 66, 73]
Group 2
Round 1 (Mar 17 & May 12)
Saprissa CRi Olimpia Hon 4-0 0-3 4-3
[David Johnson 8, Daniel Quezada 19, Michael Myers 79, Javier Wanchope 85]
[Wilmer Peralta 30, Eduardo Arriola 35, Adonis Hilario 90+2]
Necaxa Mex bye
Round 2 (Sep 15 & Jan 7, 1997)
Saprissa CRi Necaxa Mex 2-2 1-2 3-4x
[Ronald González 6, 79; Alex Aguinaga 10pen, Sergio Zárate 16]
[Sergio Zárate 48, Ricardo Peláez 84; Gerald Drummond 17]
x 2nd leg in Querétaro
Group 3
Round 1
(Mar 10 & 13)
Comunicaciones Gua Cosmos Pan 4-0 2-0 6-0y
[Erick Miranda 13pen, García 25]
(Mar 31 & Apr 4)
Sacachispas Gua Juventus Nic 3-1 2-2 5-3
[Molina 11, López 29, Benzano 63; Prado 78]
Juventus Blz bye
y both legs in Ciudad de Guatemala
Round 2 (Jun 9 & 16)
Comunicaciones Gua Sacachispas Gua 2-1 3-0 5-1
Juventus Blz bye
Round 3 (Aug 18 & 25)
Juventus Blz Comunicaciones Gua 1-1 0-7 1-8x
x other sources list 2nd leg as 0-8
Caribbean Zone
Round 1
SV Transvaal Sur Red Star(Pointe-à-Pitre) Gdl w/o x
(Jun 9 & 23)
US Sinnamary FrG SV Prekash Sur 0-0 w/o y
x Red Star withdrew before 1st leg
y US Sinnamary withdrew after 1st leg
Round 2 (Sep 25 & Oct 8)
SV Transvaal Sur SV Prekash Sur 0-0 1-0 1-0
Playoff (Jun 17, 1997)
Seattle Sounders USA Transvaal Sur 10-0 x
x played in one leg on artificial turf in Seattle
Final Tournament (in Ciudad de Guatemala, 1997)
Jul 15: Comunicaciones-Seattle Sounders 2-0
[Nicolas Suazo 44, Jose Fernandez 83]
Comunicaciones: Estrada, Acevedo, Guthrie, Miranda, Herrera, Jorge Rodas
(Pérez 77), Gómez, Valencia (Calderón 56), Núñez, Suazo, Julio Rodas
(Fernández 70).
Seattle: Burpo, Jenkins, Hattrup, McNiel, Fry, Gelvezon, Adair, Barton,
Stoddard (Cowmey 74), Kinoshita (Daligcon 46), Morrill.
Jul 15: Necaxa-Cruz Azul 1-1
[Carlos Pavón 14; Carlos Hermosillo 48]
Necaxa: Orvañanos; Almaguer, Montes, Del Olmo, Blanco; Bwalya, Alvarado
(Cabrera), Esquivel (De la Torre); Becerril, Vásquez, Pavón.
Cruz Azul: Navarro; Díaz, González (Valdéz), Sixtos, Castañeda; Moreno,
Galindo, Adomaitis; Barra, Palencia, Hermosillo.
Jul 18: Seattle Sounders-Necaxa 1-4
[Peter Hattrup 91pen; Sergio Almaguer 32, Cuauhtémoc Blanco 47, 89,
Sergio Vásquez 75; 2nd goal Necaxa also listed for Carlos Pavón]
Seattle: Hudock; Barton, McNiel, Jenkins, Morrill; Cowmey (Stoddard 62),
Daligcon (Kinoshita 41), Gelvezon, Hattrup; Fry (Storkson 59), Adair.
Necaxa: Guadarama; Esquivel (de la Torre 57), Becerril, Montes; Almager,
Kalusha, Del Olmo, Blanco; Ordiales (Alvarado 46, Cabrera 70), Pavon,
Vazquez.
Jul 18: Comunicaciones-Cruz Azul 1-2
[Miltón Núñez 90; Hector Adomaitis 33, 37]
Comunicaciones: Estrada; Fernández, Acevedo, Miranda, Herrera;
Jorge Rodas, Guthrie, Gómez (Valencia 76), Julio Rodas (Calderón 70);
Suazo, Núñez.
Cruz Azul: Pérez: Castañeda, Reynoso, Sixtos, Díaz Leal (Rodríguez 61);
Adomaitis, Barra, Galindo, Moreno (Morales 74); Hermosillo, Palencia
(Yegros 63).
Jul 20: Comunicaciones-Necaxa 3-3
[Julio Rodas 24, 48, Miltón Núñez 32; Pedro Pineda 47pen,
Carlos Pavón 60, José Luis Montes de Oca 70]
Comunicaciones: Estrada; Guthrie, Acevedo, Miranda, Calderón (Valencia);
Gómez, Jorge Rodas, Fernández; Suazo, Núñez, Julio Rodas (Westphal)
Necaxa: Guadarrama; Almaguer, Becerril, Esquivel (De la Torre), Cabrera;
Montes, Del Olmo, Bwalya; Pavon (Luis Hernández), Blanco, Pineda.
Jul 20: Seattle Sounders-Cruz Azul 0-11
[Francisco Palencia 3, Carlos Hermosillo 13, 32, 49,
Julio César Yegros 15, 53, 62, Hector Adomaitis 34,
Benjamin Galindo 35, Kieran Barton 72og, Francisco Ramírez 74pen]
Seattle: Burpo, Barton, McNiel, Jenkins, Morrill, Cowmey (Stoddard),
Kinoshita, Gelvezon, Hattrup, Fry, Adair (Storkson).
Cruz Azul: Perez, Omar Rodriguez, Sixtos (Johan Rodriguez), Reynoso, Rios,
Morales, Galindo, Adomaitis (Ramirez), Palencia (Marco Garcis), Yegros,
Hermosillo.
1.Cruz Azul (Cd. de México) 3 2 1 0 14- 2 7
2.Necaxa (Cd. de México) 3 1 2 0 8- 5 5
3.Comunicaciones (Cd. Guatemala) 3 1 1 1 6- 5 4
4.Seattle Sounders 3 0 0 3 1-17 0
Cruz Azul 1996 winners of the Copa de Campeones y Subcampeones of CONCACAF.
Cruz Azul qualify for the 1997 tournament as holders.
Northern Zone
Richmond Kickers qualified for interzonal playoff
Caribbean Zone
NB: the original schedule had United Petrotrin playing Siroco in the
first round in September and the winners meeting Robin Hood in
the second round in October/November, but the ties were apparently
changed afterwards
Round 1 (Nov 17 & Dec 1)
United Petrotrin Tri Robin Hood Sur 4-1 2-0 6-1
Round 2 (Dec 8 & 18)
United Petrotrin Tri Siroco (Les Abymes) Gdl 0-1 0-1 0-2
Siroco qualified for interzonal playoff
Central Zone
Round 1
Juventus (Orange Walk) Blz San Marcos Carazo Nic w/o x
x San Marcos Carazo withdrew
Round 2
(May 31 & Jun 2)
Árabe Unido Pan Olimpia (Tegucigalpa) Hon 0-1 0-1 0-2x
[Eugenio Dolmo Flores 28]
[Nahun Espinoza 50]
(May 27 & Jun 16)
Juventus (Orange Walk) Blz Municipal (Cd.Guatemala) Gua 3-4 0-1 3-5
x Both matches in Colón, Panama
NB: Olimpia and Municipal of Guatemala qualified for the Cuadrangular Final;
the tournament was abandoned and both teams obtained byes to the second
round of the Recopa 1997.
Interzonal Playoff
Richmond Kickers USA Siroco (Les Abymes) Gdl n/p
NB: matches not played; neither club progressed to the Recopa 1997.;
instead Necaxa were added to the Recopa 1997. tournament, supposedly because
of being the only team left at the time of the abandonment of the 1996
edition (notwithstanding their participation in the Champions' Cup)
and obtained a bye to the final round of the Recopa 1997. (which was
not finished either).
Tournament abandoned.
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