1965 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

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The 1965 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 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.

The tournament was played by 12 teams of 12 nations: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Netherlands Antilles, Dutch Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago. The tournament was played from 3 October 1965 till 31 March 1966.

The teams were split in 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North and Central zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

No champion was crowned for the second consecutive year since the final of the tournament could not be held: the tournament was declared void.^[1]

North American Zone[edit]

The Zone was scratched because no club entered.

Central American Zone[edit]

First round[edit]

Águila v Aurora

3 October 1965 1st leg	Águila	4–1	Aurora	San Miguel, El Salvador
	Sergio Mendez Juan Francisco Barraza Walter Pearson		Carlos Herrera

Aurora v Águila

10 October 1965 2nd leg	Aurora	1–2 (2–6 agg.)	Águila	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	Corán		Sergio Mendez Walter Pearson

Santa Cecilia v Olimpia

3 October 1965 1st leg	Santa Cecilia	2–1	Olimpia	Managua, Nicaragua
	TBD TBD		TBD

Olimpia v Santa Cecilia

10 October 1965 2nd leg	Olimpia	3–0 (4–2 agg.)	Santa Cecilia	Tegucigalpa, Honduras
	TBD TBD TBD		Nil	Stadium: Estadio Nacional

Unión Española v Saprissa

17 October 1965 1st leg	Unión Española	1–1	Saprissa	Panama City, Panama
	TBD		TBD

Saprissa v Unión Española

5 November 1965 2nd leg	Saprissa	8–0 (9–1 agg.)	Unión Española	San José, Costa Rica
			Nil

Second round[edit]

Águila v Olimpia

25 October 1965 1st leg	Águila	4–2	Olimpia	San Miguel, El Salvador
	Sergio Mendez Walter Pearson		TBD

Olimpia v Águila

31 October 1965 2nd leg	Olimpia	1–0 (3–4 agg.)	Águila	Tegucigalpa, Honduras
	TBD		Nil	Stadium: Estadio Nacional

Third round[edit]

Águila v Saprissa

27 March 1966 1st leg	Águila	1–2	Saprissa	San Salvador, El Salvador
	Walter Pearson		Fernando Hernández Eduardo Umaña

Saprissa v Águila

31 March 1966 2nd leg	Saprissa	0–0 (2–1 agg.)	Águila	San José, Costa Rica
	Nil		Nil

Caribbean Zone[edit]

First round[edit]

Group A[edit]

All matches were scheduled to be held in Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles from 13 December to 17 December 1965, but were cancelled.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Railways	Cancelled	Industriales
Aigle Noir	Cancelled	Railways
Industriales	Cancelled	Aigle Noir

Group B[edit]

All matches were scheduled to be held in Oranjestad, Netherlands Antilles from 13 December to 17 December 1965, but were cancelled.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Paragon	Cancelled	Transvaal
Transvaal	Cancelled	RCA
RCA	Cancelled	Paragon

Second round[edit]

The match was scheduled to take place on December 19, 1965 in Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, but was cancelled.

Final[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Saprissa	w/o	Caribbean Zone Winner

Due to the Caribbean Zone tournament's cancellation and no club entering the North American Zone, the tournament was cancelled.

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