NAFC Championship

The North American football championship is a generic term for four soccer tournaments between national teams, each of which was held under various auspices in 1947 and 1949, and in 1990 and 1991 in the league format. Participants were the United States and Mexico, as well as in the first two years and Cuba in the 1990s, Canada. Mexico won three times, Canada 1990.

1947 and 1949 the event by the North American Football Confederation ( NAFC ) was organized. In 1947, the United States, which fought out their first international match in a decade, effectively represented by its term peak club Ponta Delgada SC of Fall River in Massachusetts. Mexico, here trained by the Hungarian György Star " Jorge " Orth, remained in his 13 internationals without defeat since 1934. The tournament of 1949 served as a qualifier for the World Cup 1950.

1990 and 1991, following the merger between time of NAFC and the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol ( CCCF ) 1962 CONCACAF, the North American Championship was revived briefly. It took the North American nations of CONCACAF, namely Canada, Mexico and the United States, in part. The United States contested the tournament in 1990 with the B- selection.

The tournaments at a glance

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