1994 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament

The 1994 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament was an association football tournament that took place in Honduras in August 1994. It determined the two CONCACAF teams that participated at the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.^[1]

1994 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament

Premundial CONCACAF Sub-20 1994 (in Spanish)
Tournament details
Host country	Honduras
Dates	(1994-08-17) (1994-08-28)17–28 August 1994 (11 days)
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Honduras (2nd title)
Runners-up	Costa Rica
Third place	Canada
Fourth place	El Salvador
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	111 (4.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	José Alvarado
← 1992 1996 → All statistics correct as of 28 August 1994.

Venues

Tegucigalpa San Pedro Sula Puerto Cortés	Tegucigalpa	San Pedro Sula	Puerto Cortés
	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino	Estadio Francisco Morazán	Estadio Excélsior
	Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 7,910

Qualification

As in 1992 a qualifying stage was organised for the Caribbean and for the first time as well for Central America. The format was smaller than for the previous tournament, with teams only having to play one or two opponents. 12 Caribbean teams entered, of which 4 qualified in two rounds. 6 Central American teams entered, of which 4 qualified as well, but in one round.

Caribbean

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Netherlands Antilles	2–4	Aruba	1–1	1–3
Barbados	0–5	Grenada	0–1	0–4
Martinique	6–0	Saint Lucia	5–0	1–0
Antigua and Barbuda	1–3	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1–1	0–2

Second round

Four winners from the first round participated here. The Cayman Islands, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago entered as well.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Martinique	8–1	Saint Kitts and Nevis	5–0	3–1
Trinidad and Tobago	3–0	Grenada	0–0	3–0
Guyana	6–0	Aruba	4–0	2–0
Cayman Islands	0–7	Jamaica	0–4	0–3

Central America

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
El Salvador	8–1	Nicaragua	6–0	2–1
Costa Rica	14–0	Panama	8–0	6–0
Belize	2–5	Guatemala	1–2	1–3

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Region	Qualification	Qualifiers
Caribbean (CFU)	1 or 2 play-off rounds	Guyana  Jamaica  Martinique  Trinidad and Tobago
Central America (UNCAF)	1 play-off round	Belize1  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Guatemala
	host	Honduras
North America (NAFU)	Automatically qualified	Canada  Mexico  United States

¹Belize qualified for Central America by achieving the smallest loss

Squads

Main article: 1994 CONCACAF U-20 Tournament squads

Group phase

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Honduras	3	3	0	0	11	3	+8	9	Qualified to the Final phase
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	13	3	+10	6
3	Martinique	3	1	0	2	6	10	−4	3
4	Belize	3	0	0	3	3	17	−14	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Belize	0–7	Canada
	report	Capasso 8', 59' Nash 15', 33' Xausa 28' Pizzolitto 40' Allegranza 68'

18 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 1

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Honduras	3–1	Martinique

18 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 1

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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Belize	3–5	Martinique

20 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 2

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Honduras	3–2	Canada
Medina 37' 45' (o.g.) Bailey 65'	report	Xausa 48' Nash 72'

20 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 2

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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Canada	4–0	Martinique
Xausa 7' Nash 64' Bosch 70' Brennan 85'	report

22 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 3

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Honduras	5–0	Belize
Cabrera Oseguera Umanzor

22 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 3

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	3	3	0	0	13	3	+10	9	Qualified to the Final phase
2	Mexico	3	2	0	1	8	6	+2	6
3	Jamaica	3	1	0	2	8	13	−5	3
4	Guatemala	3	0	0	3	6	13	−7	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Guatemala	0–2	Mexico

17 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 1

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Costa Rica	3–1	Jamaica

17 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 1

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

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Costa Rica	5–1	Guatemala

19 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 2

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Jamaica	1–5	Mexico

19 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 2

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

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Guatemala	5–6	Jamaica

21 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 3

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Costa Rica	5–1	Mexico

21 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 3

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	El Salvador	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	9	Qualified to the Final phase
2	United States	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
3	Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	0	2	2	6	−4	3
4	Guyana	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

El Salvador	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago

18 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 1

Estadio Excélsior, Puerto Cortés, Honduras

Guyana	1–4	United States

18 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 1

Estadio Excélsior, Puerto Cortés, Honduras

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Guyana	0–1	Trinidad and Tobago

20 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 2

Estadio Excélsior, Puerto Cortés, Honduras

El Salvador	3–1	United States

20 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 2

Estadio Excélsior, Puerto Cortés, Honduras

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El Salvador	5–0	Guyana

22 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 3

Estadio Excélsior, Puerto Cortés, Honduras

Trinidad and Tobago	0–4	United States

22 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 3

Estadio Excélsior, Puerto Cortés, Honduras

Final phase

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Honduras	3	3	0	0	7	3	+4	9	Qualified to the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship
2	Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	Canada	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3
4	El Salvador	3	0	1	2	4	7	−3	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Honduras	4–2	El Salvador
Cabrera 8' Guevara 47' 79' Oseguera 66'		Portillo 9' 73'

24 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 1

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Canada	2–4	Costa Rica
Thompson 7' Xausa 18'	report

24 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 1

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Honduras	2–1	Canada
	report	Xausa

26 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 2

Costa Rica	1–1	El Salvador
Wallace 43'		Portillo 9'

26 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 2

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Referee: René Parra (CAN)

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Honduras	1–0	Costa Rica

28 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 3

Canada	2–1	El Salvador
Pizzolitto 21' 31'		Alvarado 43'

28 August 1994

(UTC−06:00)

Day 3

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Referee: Obando (GUA)

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Honduras (H)	6	6	0	0	18	6	+12	18	Champions
2	Costa Rica	6	4	1	1	18	7	+11	13	Runners-up
3	Canada	6	3	0	3	18	10	+8	9	Third place
4	El Salvador	6	3	1	2	14	9	+5	10	Fourth Place
5	United States	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6	Eliminated in Group stage
6	Mexico	3	2	0	1	8	6	+2	6
7	Martinique	3	1	0	2	6	10	−4	3
8	Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	0	2	2	6	−4	3
9	Jamaica	3	1	0	2	8	13	−5	3
10	Guatemala	3	0	0	3	6	13	−7	0
11	Guyana	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0
12	Belize	3	0	0	3	3	17	−14	0

Source: rsssf.com
(H) Hosts

Note: Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.