1981 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

1981 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Dates	26 April 1981 – 2 February 1982
Final positions
Champions	Suriname Transvaal
Runners-up	El Salvador Atlético Marte
	← 1980 1982 →

The 1981 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 17th 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 26 April 1981 to 2 February 1982.

The teams were split in two zones, North/Central American and Caribbean, each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.

Surinamean team Transvaal won the two-legged series against Salvadorean Atlético Marte (2–1 on aggregate), becoming CONCACAF champions for the second time in their history.^[1]

North/Central American Zone

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Marte El Salvador	5–3	Guatemala Juventud Retalteca	2–2	3–1
Marathón Honduras	5–1	El Salvador Santiagueño	4–0	1–1
Xelajú Guatemala	2–4	Mexico Tigres UANL	0–0	2–4
Real España Honduras	2–4	Mexico Cruz Azul	2–1	0–3

Atlético Marte, Marathón, UANL Tigres AND Cruz Azul advance to the second round.

26 April 1981 1st leg	Atletico Marte El Salvador	2-2	Guatemala Juventud Retalteca	San Salvador, El Salvador
15:00	Norberto Huezo		Paulo Damasco Dubón	Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán Referee: Rolando Paz Escoto

3 May 1981 2nd leg	Juventud Retalteca Guatemala	1-3 (5-3 agg.)	El Salvador Atletico Marte	Retalhuleu, Guatemala
	Ramon Fagoga own goal		Carlos Recinos José María "Mandingo" Rivas	Stadium: Estadio Dr. Óscar Monterroso Izaguirre

1981 1st leg	Marathón Honduras	4-0	El Salvador Santiagueño	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
				Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

May 18, 1981 2nd leg	Santiagueño El Salvador	1-1 (1-5 agg.)	Honduras Marathón	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Eraldo Correia		Jose Angel Pena	Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

1981 1st leg	Xelajú Guatemala	0-0	Mexico Tigres UANL	Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
				Stadium: Estadio Mario Camposeco

1981 2nd leg	Tigres UANL Mexico	4-2 (4-2 agg.)	Guatemala Xelajú	San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico
				Stadium: Estadio Universitario (UANL)

June 24, 1981 1st leg	Real España Honduras	2-1	Mexico Cruz Azul	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Junior Costly Hernán Juvini Carreño			Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

1981 2nd leg	Cruz Azul Mexico	3-0 (4-2 agg.)	Honduras Real España	Jasso, Mexico
				Stadium: Estadio 10 de Diciembre

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tigres UANL Mexico	1 - 2	El Salvador Atlético Marte	1 - 1	0 - 1
Marathón Honduras	4 - 2	Mexico Cruz Azul	1 - 1	3 - 1

Atlético Marte and Marathón advance to the third round.

July 7, 1981 1st leg	Tigres UANL Mexico	1–1	El Salvador Atletico Marte	San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico
	Tomás Boy 22'		Jorge Gonzalez pen 62'	Stadium: Estadio Universitario (UANL)

30 September 1981 2nd leg	Atletico Marte El Salvador	1-0* (2–1 agg.)	Mexico Tigres UANL	San Salvador, El Salvador
				Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán

2nd leg not played, U.A.N.L. refused to travel to El Salvador due to political unrest; CONCACAF list the result as 1-0, probably having awarded the return to Atlético Marte

22 September 1981 1st leg	Cruz Azul Mexico	1–3	Honduras Marathón	Jasso, Mexico
	Mario Díaz Pérez 22'		Celso Güity 3' 86' Enrique Mendoza 31'	Stadium: Estadio 10 de Diciembre

30 September 1981 2nd leg	Marathón Honduras	1-1 (4-2 agg.)	Mexico Cruz Azul	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Robert Bailey 83'		Carlos Jara Saguier 75'	Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Marte El Salvador	2-1	Honduras Marathón	0-1	2-0

Atlético Marte advances to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup Final.

December 3, 1981 1st leg	Marathón Honduras	1–0	El Salvador Atletico Marte	San Pedro Sula, Honduras
	Celso Güity 16pen 16'			Stadium: Estadio Francisco Morazán

6 December 1981 2nd leg	Atletico Marte El Salvador	2-0 (2–1 agg.)	Honduras Marathón	San Salvador, El Salvador
	Antonio Infantozzi 7' Herber Machón 8'			Stadium: Estadio Cuscatlán

*Marathón withdrew

Caribbean Zone

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kentucky Memphis Trinidad and Tobago	0 - 2	Netherlands Antilles SUBT	0 - 0	0 - 2
Sithoc Netherlands Antilles	1 - 5	Suriname Robinhood	1 - 0	0 - 5
Transvaal Suriname	3 - 2	Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force	1 - 0	x
Yama Sun Oil Cayman Islands		Jamaica Saint Thomas College

SUBT, Robinhood, Transvaal and Yama Sun Oil advance to the second round.

Kentucky Memphis Trinidad and Tobago

0-0

Netherlands Antilles SUBT

SUBT Netherlands Antilles

2–0
(2-0 agg.)

Trinidad and Tobago Kentucky Memphis

Sithoc Netherlands Antilles

1–0

Suriname Robinhood

Robinhood Suriname

5-0
(5-1 agg.)

File:Flag placeholder.svg Sithoc

Transvaal Suriname

1–0

Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force

Defence Force Trinidad and Tobago

v

Suriname Transvaal

result 2nd leg not known, Transvaal qualified.

other fixtures not known but apparently Yama Sun Oil eliminated Saint Thomas College (home country unclear)

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
SUBT Netherlands Antilles	7 - 1	Cayman Islands Yama Sun Oil	5 - 0	2 - 1
Robinhood Suriname	0 - 0 (3-4 pen)	Suriname Transvaal	0 - 0	0 - 0

SUBT and Transvaal advance to the third round.

SUBT Netherlands Antilles

5–0

Cayman Islands Yama Sun Oil

Yama Sun Oil Cayman Islands

1-2
(2-7 agg.)

Netherlands Antilles SUBT

Robinhood Suriname

0–0

Suriname Transvaal

Transvaal Suriname

0-0
(0-0 (Pen 4-3) agg.)

Suriname Robinhood

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
SUBT Netherlands Antilles	0 - 3	Suriname Transvaal	0 - 1	0 - 2

Transvaal advances to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup Final.

SUBT Netherlands Antilles

0-1

Suriname Transvaal

Transvaal Suriname

2–0
(3-0 agg.)

Netherlands Antilles SUBT

Final

x both matches in Paramaribo

First leg

1981 CONCACAF Champions' Cup Final

January 30, 1982

First leg

Transvaal Suriname	1–0	El Salvador Atlético Marte
Leisberger 84'	Report

André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo, Suriname

Second leg

February 2, 1982

Second leg

Atlético Marte El Salvador	1–1	Suriname Transvaal
Wilfredo Huezo	Report	Wensley Bundel

André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo, Suriname

Team details

Transvaal

At. Marte


GK		Suriname Barron
DF		Suriname Hagadeau
DF		Suriname Schaul
DF		Suriname Brammerlo
DF		Suriname Oehlers
MF		Suriname Wannenburg
MF		Suriname Leisberger
MF		Suriname Bundel
MF		Suriname Mortan
FW		Suriname Corte
FW		Suriname Theo Klein
Manager:
?


GK		El Salvador Carlos Cañadas
DF		El Salvador Milton Campos
DF		El Salvador Alfredo Rivera
DF		El Salvador José Castillo
DF		El Salvador Jorge Peña
MF		El Salvador Manuel Ramos
MF		El Salvador Danilo Blanco
FW		El Salvador Ramón Fagoaga
MF		El Salvador Norberto Huezo
FW		El Salvador Jorge Salomón
FW		El Salvador Miguel González
Manager:
?

Transvaal won 2–1 on aggregate.

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1981 Champions
Suriname Transvaal Second title

References

^ Copa de Campeones 1981 on the RSSSF

[1] Copa de Campeones 1981 on the RSSSF

[1]

1981 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

Contents

North/Central American Zone

First round

Second round

Third round

Caribbean Zone

First round

Second round

Third round

Final

First leg

Second leg

Champion

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