CS Cartaginés hosts Olimpia for SF First Leg

Cartaginés and Olimpia Kick Off Central American Cup Semifinals

MIAMI – The 2026 Concacaf Central American Cup continues on Wednesday with CS Cartaginés hosting CD Olimpia for the First Leg of their Semifinals series at Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza in Cartago, Costa Rica.

CS Cartaginés and CD Olimpia will meet for the third time in the Concacaf Central American Cup, with the Honduran side having won both previous encounters.

CS Cartaginés 1-2 CD Olimpia (Marco Ureña, Michaell Chirinos, Jorge Benguché) – Quarterfinals First Leg, September 25, 2025, Cartago, Costa Rica.

CD Olimpia 3-1 CS Cartaginés (Jorge Benguché x2, Yustin Arboleda, Mauro Quiroga) – Quarterfinals Second Leg, October 2, 2025, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

CS Cartaginés is set for its Semifinals debut after knocking out fellow Costa Rican side Deportivo Saprissa on aggregate score of 5-4 in the Quarterfinals.

Olimpia returns to the decisive stage for a second consecutive edition after a 6-nil Quarterfinals final score on aggregate against Luis Angel Firpo.

Geancarlo Castro has been one of the key players for Cartaginés so far, becoming the team’s top scorer with four goals in four appearances.

CD Olimpia’s top scorer, Jorge Benguché´s, will start the Quarterfinals with three goals, while Edwin Rodríguez and José Raul García lead the team in assists with two assists each.

Pre-Match Stats: CS Cartaginés vs. CD Olimpia

• Club Olimpia's Edwin Rodríguez has been involved in seven attacking sequences that resulted in goals in the 2026 Concacaf Central American Cup, more than any other player in the competition.
• Club Olimpia (16) and CS Cartaginés (11) are two of the three teams with the most direct attacks in the 2026 Concacaf Central American Cup. Olimpia are the only side to have scored more than once from this type of attack.
• Club Olimpia's Edwin Rodríguez and CS Cartaginés' Geancarlo Castro are the only two players to have scored multiple goals following a ball carry in the 2026 Concacaf Central American Cup, with two goals each.
• CS Cartaginés and CD Olimpia enter this encounter as the two teams with the highest percentage of shots taken from inside the penalty area in the 2026 Concacaf Central American Cup. Cartaginés lead the competition with 71.6%, followed by Olimpia with 70.3%.
• CS Cartaginés' Geancarlo Castro has scored four goals in four appearances in the 2026 Concacaf Central American Cup. Including the previous edition, the forward has found the net in three of his last four matches at Estadio José Rafael "Fello" Meza, scoring four goals.