1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

The 1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 13th 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 17 April 1977 till 18 February 1978.

1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

Copa de Campeones Concacaf
Dates	17 April 1977 – 18 February 1978
Final positions
Champions	América
Runners-up	Robinhood

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.

Mexican club América beat Surinamese side Robinhood in the final, winning their first CONCACAF champion cup.

North American Zone

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
América	w/o	New York Inter-Giuliana

• New York Inter-Giuliana withdrew
• América advances to the CONCACAF Semi-Final.

Central American Zone

First Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Águila	1 - 3	Municipal	0 - 2	1 - 1
Diriangén	w/o	Barrio México
Saprissa	w/o	Real España

• Motagua on a Bye.
• Barrio México did not have match dates communicated to them by CONCACAF and forfeited.
• Real España withdrew.
• Águila, Diriangén, Saprissa advances to the second round.

Águila v Municipal

	Águila	0-2	Municipal
	Nil

Municipal v Águila

	Municipal	1-1 (1-3 agg.)	Águila
	Miguel Angel Coban		Alfredo Vasquez

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Municipal	16 - 2	Diriangén	13 - 1	3 - 1
Saprissa	w/o	Motagua

• Motagua withdrew.
• Municipal and Saprissa advance to the third round.

Municipal v Diriangén

	Municipal	13–1	Diriangén
	Julio César Anderson		Mauricio Cruz

Diriangén v Municipal

	Diriangén	1-3 (16-2 agg.)	Municipal	Guatemala City, Guatemala
	TBD		José Emilio Mitrovich Julio César Anderson

Third Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Municipal	1 - 3	Saprissa	1 - 2	0 - 1

• Saprissa advances to the CONCACAF Semi-Final.

Municipal v Saprissa

Municipal

1–2

Saprissa

Saprissa v Municipal

Saprissa

1-0 (3-1 agg.)

Municipal

Caribbean Zone

First Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Defence Force	0 - 4	Violette	0 - 2	0 - 2
Pele	3 - 4	Voorwaarts	2 - 0	1 - 4
Robinhood	6 - 0	YMCA	5 - 0	1 - 0
TECSA	w/o	Victory

• Victory withdrew.
• Violette and Robinhood advanced to the Second Round.
• Voorwaarts on a bye to the Third Round.
• TECSA on a bye to the Fourth Round.

Defence Force v Violette

	Defence Force	2–0	Violette
			Nil

Violette v Defence Force

	Violette	0-2 (2-3 agg.)	Defence Force
	Nil'

Pele v Voorwaarts

	Pele	2–0	Voorwaarts
			Nil

Voorwaarts v Pele

Voorwaarts

4-1 (4-3 agg.)

Pele

Robinhood v YMCA

	Robinhood	5–0	YMCA
			Nil

YMCA v Robinhood

	YMCA	0-1 (0-6 agg.)	Robinhood
	Nil

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Violette	0 - 1	Robinhood	0 - 0	0 - 1

• Robinhood advanced to the third round.

Violette v Robinhood

	Violette	0–0	Robinhood
	Nil		Nil

Robinhood v Violette

	Robinhood	1-0 (1-0 agg.)	Violette
			Nil

Third Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Voorwaarts	0 - 2	Robinhood	0 - 1	0 - 1

• Robinhood advanced to the fourth round.

Voorwaarts v Robinhood

	Voorwaarts	0-1	Robinhood
	Nil

TBD v Voorwaarts

	TBD	1-0 (2-0 agg.)	Voorwaarts
			Nil

Fourth Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
TECSA	2 - 4	Robinhood	1 - 1	1 - 3

• Robinhood advanced to the CONCACAF Champions'Cup Final.

TECSA v Robinhood

TECSA

1–1

Robinhood

Robinhood v TECSA

Robinhood

3-1 (4-2 agg.)

TECSA

CONCACAF Final Series

Semi-Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
América	w/o	Saprissa

• Saprissa withdrew.
• América advances to the CONCACAF Final.

Final

First leg

1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup Final

January 15, 1978

First leg

Robinhood	0–1	América
	Report	da Costa 49'

National Stadium, Paramaribo

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Second leg

January 17, 1978

Second leg

Robinhood	1–1	América
Emanuelson	Report (1) Report (2)	Kiesse 70'

National Stadium, Paramaribo

Attendance: 5,000

Team details
América Robinhood GK Pedro Soto DF Jesús Martínez DF Javier Sánchez G. DF Alfredo Tena DF Mario Pérez MF Narciso Ramírez MF Antonio de la Torre MF Hugo Kiese FW Carlos Reinoso  a' FW Ítalo Estupiñán FW Luisinho Substitutions: FW José Aceves  a' Manager: Raúl Cárdenas GK DF DF DF DF MF MF MF MF FW FW Manager:

• América won 2–1 on aggregate.

Champion

CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1977 Champions
América First title