CONCACAF Retro

After achieving success at the 2012 CONCACAF Futsal Championship by qualifying for its first FIFA Futsal World Cup, it was back in 2004 when Panama made its international debut in the five-a-side sport. READ MORE >

Club Deportivo Futbolistas Asociados Santanecos (FAS) became the third team from El Salvador to capture the CONCACAF Champion's Cup after defeating CRKSV Jong Colombia of the Netherlands Antilles (now Curacao) in the 1979 home-and-away series final. READ MORE >

Four years after finishing second at the FIFA Futsal World Cup, the United States claimed its first-ever crown by winning the inaugural CONCACAF Futsal Championship in 1996. READ MORE >

After not conceding a goal, but finishing only in third-place at the inaugural CONCACAF Under-16 Tournament two years earlier, Mexico clearly had unfinished business when it hosted the second edition of the championship in the country's capital of Mexico City in May 1985. READ MORE >

Cuba continued its success on the football pitch at the start of the 1970s, earning its first-ever Pan American Games bronze medal during the 1971 edition of the competition in Cali, Colombia. READ MORE >

After missing out on a semifinal berth four years earlier, Costa Rica captured its first CONCACAF futsal championship by going a perfect 5-0-0 and winning the 2000 event held at home in Heredia's Palacio de los Deportes (July 20-29, 2000). READ MORE >

Mexico won its first North American Football Confederation Championship title by defeating the United States and host Cuba in a three-team tournament held at Havana's Estadio La Tropical played July 13-20, 1947. READ MORE >

Few events, if any, have defined the sporting history of Costa Rica more than its legendary Aztecazo against Mexico. READ MORE >

Host Guatemala claimed its first CONCACAF Futsal Championship title by defeating Cuba 5-3 on penalties after a 3-3 draw in the 2008 final at the Domo Polideportivo in Guatemala City (June 8, 2008). READ MORE >

For the first and only time in soccer history, a qualifying match took place three days before the start of a FIFA World Cup, when Aldo Donelli scored four times to lift the United States to a 4-2 victory over Mexico on May 24, 1934, in Rome, Italy. READ MORE >