1991 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1991 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Tournament details
Dates	8 September – 24 September
Teams	3 (from 3 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Puebla (1st title)
Runners-up	Police
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
Goals scored	7 (1.75 per match)
	← 1990 1992 →

The 1991 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 27th 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 7 April till 24 September 1991.

The teams were split in three zones (North, Central and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the Caribbean and Central zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Northern champion in the final. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

Mexican club Puebla beat Trinidarian Police 4–2 on aggregate.^[1] Therefore, Puebla won their first CONCACAF championship, which was also their first international title.^[2]^[3]

North American Zone

First round

13 April 1991

Dandy Town Hornets

3–1

Brooklyn Italians

27 April 1991

Brooklyn Italians

3–0
(4–3 agg.)

Dandy Town Hornets

27 April 1991	Pembroke Hamilton Zebras	2–0	Eagles
	Dill

5 May 1991	Eagles	1–2 (1–4 agg.)	Pembroke Hamilton Zebras
	Krzyskow		1' Ming Swan

Second round

Puebla

v

Brooklyn Italians

Universidad de Guadalajara

v

Pembroke Hamilton Zebras

Brooklyn Italians and Pembroke Hamilton Zebras withdrew. Puebla and Universidad de Guadalajara automatically advanced to third round.

Third round

8 September 1991	Puebla	2–0	Universidad de Guadalajara	Puebla, Mexico
	Chávez 30' Poblete 69'			Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc
Note: Played over one leg

Puebla advances to the CONCACAF Final Series.

Central American Zone

First round

Torneo Centroamericano de Concacaf 1991

7 April 1991	Tauro	5–0	América Managua	Panama City, Panama
	Edgar Samaniego Maldonado			Stadium: Estadio Rommel Fernández Referee: José Vargas (CRC)

21 April 1991	América Managua	0–0 (0–5 agg.)	Tauro	Managua, Nicaragua
				Stadium: Estadio Stanley Cayasso

10 April 1991	Saprissa	4–1	Real Estelí	San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica
	Victor Badilla Herra Picado		Vendana	Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá Referee: Francisco Amaya

28 April 1991	Real Estelí	1–4 (2–8 agg.)	Saprissa	Estelí, Nicaragua
	Arriola 15'		Orta Carabanca	Stadium: Estadio Independencia Referee: Armando Barrios (PAN)

16 April 1991	Alajuelense	4–1	Plaza Amador	Alajuela, Costa Rica
	Karoch Solano Brenes		Botello	Stadium: Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto Referee: Gonzalo Tejada (HON)

18 April 1991	Plaza Amador	0–7 (1–11 agg.)	Alajuelense	Alajuela, Costa Rica
	TBD		Jakubec Fernández Guillén (pen.) Arguedas	Stadium: Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto Referee: Víctor Chinchilla (GUA)
Note: Both legs in Alajuela

21 April 1991	Acros Duurly's	0–4	Luis Ángel Firpo	Belize City, Belize
			Fernando De Moura	Stadium: MCC Grounds

5 May 1991	Luis Ángel Firpo	4–0 (8–0 agg.)	Acros Duurly's	San Salvador, El Salvador
	Osmel Zapata			Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán

27 April 1991	Real España	5–0	Acros Verdes	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Anariba Aguirre González Castillo			Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

5 May 1991	Acros Verdes	0–1 (0–6 agg.)	Real España	Belize City, Belize
			González 74'	Stadium: MCC Grounds

1 May 1991	Motagua	1–1	Comunicaciones	Tegucigalpa, Honduras
	Ávila		Bordon 71'	Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino Attendance: 24,250 Referee: Ronald Gutiérrez (CRC)

5 May 1991	Comunicaciones	1–0 (2–1 agg.)	Motagua	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Di Luca			Stadium: Estadio Mateo Flores

3 May 1991	Municipal	2–5	Alianza	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Donis Ochoa		Eduardo Ramírez Raul Toro Hector López	Stadium: Estadio El Trébol Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Rodrigo Badilla (CRC)

8 May 1991	Alianza	1–1 (6–3 agg.)	Municipal	San Salvador, El Salvador
	Raul Toro		TBD	Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán

Second round

22 May 1991	Saprissa	3–1	Tauro	[[San Juan District, Tibás\| San Juan de Tibás]], Costa Rica
	Vladimir Quesada Evaristo Coronado Alexandre Guimarães (pen.)		Edgar Samaniego	Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá

9 June 1991	Tauro	0–2 (1–5 agg.)	Saprissa	Panama City, Panama
			Adonis Vieira Evaristo Coronado	Stadium: Estadio Rommel Fernández Referee: Rafael Martínez (SLV)

22 May 1991	Luis Ángel Firpo	2–0	Comunicaciones	San Salvador, El Salvador
	Fernando de Moura Luis Guelmo			Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Jorge Urías (HON)

15 June 1991	Comunicaciones	4–3 (4–5 agg.)	Luis Ángel Firpo	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Pereira Chacón Pérez Bauza		Fernando de Moura Marlon Menjívar Zapata	Stadium: Estadio Mateo Flores Referee: Rodolfo Martínez

5 June 1991	Alianza	0–1	Real España	San Salvador, El Salvador
			Luis Vallejo 45'	Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán Attendance: 4,200 Referee: José Burgos (CRC)

12 June 1991	Real España	1–1 (2–1 agg.)	Alianza	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Washington Hernández		William Chachagua	Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán Referee: Mario Escobar (GUA)

Alajuelense bye.

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real España	3–0	Alajuelense	2–0	1–0
Firpo	1–4	Saprissa	1–1	0–3

Real C.D. España and Deportivo Saprissa advance to the fourth round.

	Real España	2–0	Alajuelense	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Ciro Castillo José Luis Aguirre			Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán Attendance: 5,500

	Alajuelense	0-1 (0-3 agg.)	Real España	Alajuela, Costa Rica
			Camilo Bonilla 70	Stadium: Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto

	Firpo	1–1	Saprissa	San Salvador, El Salvador
	Raul Diaz Arce		Adonis Hilario Vieira	Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán

	Saprissa	3-0 (4-1 agg.)	Firpo	San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica
	Adonis Hilario Vieira Roland González Brenes Rolando Fonseca Jiménez			Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Saprissa	1–4	Real España	1–2	0–2

Real C.D. España advances to the CONCACAF Final Series.

	Saprissa	1–2	Real España	San Juan de Tibás, Costa Rica
	Adonis Hilario Vieira 15		Washington Hernández 71 Marco Antonio Anariba 76	Stadium: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá

	Real España	2–0 (4-1 agg.)	Saprissa	San Pedro Sula
	Marco Vinicio Ortega 32 José Luis Aguirre 90			Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

Caribbean Zone

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Solidarité Scolaire	1–3	Marinoise	0–2	1–1
Strikers	1–2	Racing Gonaïves	0–0	1–2
Capoise	4–3	Sithoc	3–0	1–3
Black Lions	1–2	Scholars International	1–1	0–1
SUBT	0–6	Transvaal	0–3	0–3
Olympique du Marin	3–2	Kouroucien	0–0	3–2
Police	4–4	Reno	2–1	2–3
Robinhood	2–3	Defence Force	1–0	1–3
L'Etoile	bye

	Solidarité Scolaire	0-2	Marinoise
	Nil

Marinoise

1-1
(3-1 agg.)

Solidarité Scolaire

	Strikers	0–0	Racing Gonaïves
	Nil		Nil

Racing Gonaïves

2–1
(2-1 agg.)

Strikers

	Capoise	3–0	Sithoc
			Nil

Sithoc

3-1
(3-4 agg.)

Capoise

Black Lions

1–1

Scholars International

	Scholars International	1-0 (2-1 agg.)	Black Lions
			Nil

	SUBT	0-3	Transvaal
	Nil

	Transvaal	3-0 (6-0 agg.)	SUBT
			Nil

	Olympique du Marin	0–0	Kouroucien
	Nil		Nil

Kouroucien

2-3
(2-3 agg.)

Olympique du Marin

Police

2-1

Reno

3–2
(4-4 agg.)

Police

	Robinhood	1–0	Defence Force
			Nil

Defence Force

3-1
(3-2 agg.)

Robinhood

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Racing Gonaïves	3–4	Marinoise	1–1	2–3
Capoise	1–4	L'Etoile	1–1	0–3
Police	4–0	Transvaal	2–0	2–0
Scholars International	0–7	Defence Force	0–6	0–1
Olympique du Marin	bye

Racing Gonaïves

1–1

Marinoise

3–2
(4-3 agg.)

Racing Gonaïves

Capoise

1–1

L'Etoile

	L'Etoile	3-0 (4-1 agg.)	Capoise
			Nil

	Police	2–0	Transvaal
			Nil

	Transvaal	0–2 (0-4 agg.)	Police
	Nil

	Scholars International	0-6	Defence Force
	Nil

	Defence Force	1-0 (7-0 agg.)	Scholars International
			Nil

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Olympique du Marin	8–0	L'Etoile	5–0	3–0
Defence Force	2–3	Police	1–0	1–3
Marinoise	Bye

	Olympique du Marin	5–0	L'Etoile
			Nil

	L'Etoile	0-3 (0-8 agg.)	Olympique du Marin
	Nil

	Defence Force	1–0	Police
			Nil

Police

3–1
(3-2 agg.)

Defence Force

Fourth round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Marinoise	4–5	Police	3–2	1–3
Olympique du Marin	bye

Marinoise

3-2

Police

3-1
(5-4 agg.)

Marinoise

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Olympique du Marin	4–5	Police	3–2	1–3

Olympique du Marin

3-2

Police

3-1
(5-4 agg.)

Olympique du Marin

Semifinal

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real España	0–1	Police	0–0	0–1

September 8, 1991	Real España	0–0	Police	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
				Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

September 15, 1991	Police	1–0 (1–0 agg.)	Real España	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
				Stadium: Hasely Crawford Stadium

Police advance to final

Puebla advance to final (bye)

Final

First leg

1991 CONCACAF Champions' Cup Final

18 September 1991

First leg

Puebla	3–1	Police
Ruiz 5' Gelinski 34' Paulo César 74'	Report	59' Alfred

Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla

Second leg

24 September 1991

Second leg

Police	1–1	Puebla
Boissoen 70'	Report	56' Porto

Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain

Team details

Police

Puebla


GK	Maurice
DF	Jones
DF	Denoon
DF	Olivierre
DF	John
MF	Wadne Alfred	a'
MF	Dennis
MF	Canadian Boisson
MF	Nelson
FW	Baptiste	b'
FW	Benjamin
Substitutions:
GK	Thomas	a'
DF	Jeffrey	b'
Manager:
?


GK	Pablo Larios
DF	Jorge Patiño	a'
DF	Aurelio Rivera
DF	Roberto Ruiz
DF	Julio C. Algarín
MF	Renato Porto
MF	Paulo César
MF	Paco Ramírez
MF	Carlos Poblete
FW	Juan Carlos Chávez	b'
FW	Salvador Reyes
Substitutions:
GK	Gutiérrez	a'
DF	Gerardo González	b'
Manager:
Manuel Lapuente

Puebla won 3–1 on points (4–2 on aggregate)

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1991 Winners
Puebla First title

References

^ Copa de Campeones 1991 on the RSSSF
^ Puebla Campeón Concacaf 1991-1992 by Carlos Moreno on Club Puebla blogsite, c. 2011
^ Conoce la vez que el Puebla quedó Campeón de la CONCACAF by Dereck Sanchez on Periódico Enfoque, 23 Dec 2020

[1] Copa de Campeones 1991 on the RSSSF

[2] Puebla Campeón Concacaf 1991-1992 by Carlos Moreno on Club Puebla blogsite, c. 2011

[3] Conoce la vez que el Puebla quedó Campeón de la CONCACAF by Dereck Sanchez on Periódico Enfoque, 23 Dec 2020

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