Qualifying Rounds
Northern Zone
Qualified as MLS Champions 1999: DC United
Qualified as MLS Runners-Up 1999: LA Galaxy
Qualified as Mexico Invierno Champions 1999/2000: Pachuca
Qualified as Mexico Verano Champions 1999/2000: Toluca
*not* qualified as holders: Necaxa.
No qualifying matches.
Central Zone
First Phase
Group I
Feb 3: Alajuelense-Estelí 6-0
[Edson Valente 3, Luis Marin 39, Harold Miranda 60,
Alexander Castro 73, Alejandro Alpizar 80, Pablo Izaguirre 87]
Feb 13: Estelí-Alajuelense 1-2
[Carlos Alonso 83pen; Heriberto Quiros 18, 42]
Feb 27: Real España-Estelí 2-1
[Nelson Vera 28, Luis Ramirez 64; Selvin Alvarez 48]
Mar 2: Alajuelense-Real España 1-0
[Wilmer Lopez 15pen]
Mar 15: Real España-Alajuelense 1-1
[Carlos Oliva 33; Pablo Alejandro Izaguirre 71]
Mar 27: Estelí-Real España 0-8
[Edgar Delgado 4, David Cárcamo 8, Jose Maria Rolon 36, 78,
Ricardo Alcerro 47, Nelson Vera 50, 52, 83]
1.LD Alajuelense (Alajuela) 4 3 1 0 10- 2 10
2.Real España 4 2 1 1 11- 3 7
3.Real Estelí 4 0 0 4 2-18 0
Group II
Feb 10: Panama Viejo-Alianza 2-0
[Edmundo Gomez 2, Marco Aparicio 71]
Feb 12: Saprissa-Alianza 3-1
[Farlen Ilama 1, Johnny Murillo 52, Vicente Rosella 86;
Agnaldo De Oliveira 49]
Feb 17: Alianza-Panama Viejo 7-2
[Agnaldo De Oliveira 2, 63, 73, 88, Adonays Martinez 13, 82,
Roberto Da Silva 73; Victor Herrera Piggott 29pen,
Marco Aparicio 85]
Feb 19: Saprissa-Panama Viejo 3-0
[Adrian Mahia 35, Vicente Rosella 47, Farlen Ilama 84]
Feb 24: Alianza-Saprissa 1-2
[Cecilio Galeano 64; Gustavo Martinez 6pen, Steven Bryce 19]
Mar 2: Panama Viejo-Saprissa 1-0
[Ricardo Phillips 26]
1.Saprissa (San José) 4 3 0 1 8- 3 9
2.Panama Viejo (Panama City) 4 2 0 2 5-10 6
3.Alianza (San Salvador) 4 1 0 3 9- 9 3
Group III
Jan 15: Sagitún-Comunicaciones 1-1
[Oliver Hendricks 68; Ronald Gonzalez 18]
Feb 3: Comunicaciones-Sagitún 4-1
[Manuel Callen 28, Ricardo Arenas 31, Oscar Samayoa 55, 72;
Benedict López 17]
Feb 5: Árabe Unido-Sagitún 2-1
[Jairo Cadena 12, 42; Deris Benavides 77]
Mar 2: Árabe Unido-Comunicaciones 1-0
[Julio Medina 88]
Mar 9: Comunicaciones-Árabe Unido 1-0
[Jorge Perez 5pen]
Mar 12: Sagitún-Árabe Unido 2-2x
[Benedict Lopez 56, Bent Burgess 68pen; Jaime Cadena 14,
Alberto Cerezo 44]
x game ended in 89' following a mini-riot between Sagitún's players
and the police after their coach was ejected from the game
1.Comunicaciones (Cd. Guatemala) 4 2 1 1 6- 3 7
2.Árabe Unido (Colón) 4 2 1 1 5- 4 7
3.Sagitún (Mango Creek) 4 0 2 2 5- 9 2
Group IV
Jan 20: La Victoria-Municipal 0-1
[Rudy Ramirez 74]
Jan 27: Municipal-La Victoria 6-1
[Guillermo Ramirez 4, 87, Rolando Benitez 25, 52,
Rudy Ramirez 55pen, 86pen; Cesario Rosales 85]
Mar 13: La Victoria-Olimpia 0-3
[Wilmer Velásquez 6, Danilo Tosello 24, 45]
Mar 15: Olimpia-La Victoria w/o [La Victoria dns]
Mar 23: Olimpia-Municipal 2-3
[Danilo Tosello 14pen, Eduardo Arriola 78; Rudy Ramirez 20,
Carlos Gonzalez 30, Juan Carlos Plata 62]
Mar 30: Municipal-Olimpia - [cancelled]
1.Municipal (Ciudad de Guatemala) 3 3 0 0 10- 3 6
2.Olimpia (Tegucigalpa) 3 2 0 1 5- 3 6x
3.La Victoria (Corozal) 4 0 0 4 1-10 0x
x without any awarded goals
Second Phase
Group A (in Ciudad de Guatemala, Aug 2-6)
Aug 2: Municipal-Saprissa 1-1
[Selvin Ponciano 89; Gerald Drummond 85]
Aug 2: Olimpia-Panama Viejo 5-0
[Fabio Ulloa 17, Denilson Costa 48, Wilmer Velasquez 82, 87, Alex Pineda 89]
Aug 4: Municipal-Olimpia 0-0
Aug 4: Saprissa-Panama Viejo 0-1
[Anel Canales 78]
Aug 6: Saprissa-Olimpia 4-1
[Jervis Drummond 22, Victor Cordero 29, Randall Row 62pen, Walter Centeno 82;
Danilo Tosello 10pen]
Aug 6: Municipal-Panama Viejo 5-0
[Juan Carlos Plata 3, 46, Gonzalo Romero 13, Mario Acevedo 21, Rudy Ramirez 90]
1.Municipal (Ciudad de Guatemala) 3 1 2 0 6- 1 5
2.Olimpia (Tegucigalpa) 3 1 1 1 6- 4 4
3.Saprissa (San José) 3 1 1 1 5- 3 4
4.Panama Viejo (Panama City) 3 1 0 2 1-10 3
Group B (in Panama City, Aug 23-27)
Aug 23: Alajuelense-Comunicaciones 2-1
[Claudio Ciccia 69, Pablo Chinchilla 84; Rolando Fonseca 63]
Aug 23: Árabe Unido-Real España 1-2
[Jairo Cadena 85pen; Carlos Oliva 13, Luis Ramirez 78]
Aug 25: Árabe Unido-Alajuelense 2-3
[Jairo Cadena 19, Julio Medina 59; Claudio Ciccia 23, 31, Javier Delgado 48pen]
Aug 25: Real España-Comunicaciones 2-1
[Gustavo Gallegos 25, Walter Caprille 27, Claudio Rojas 87]
Aug 27: Alajuelense-Real España 1-0
[Javier Delgado 87pen]
Aug 27: Árabe Unido-Comunicaciones 4-3
[Jairo Cadena 30, Marcelo Saraiva 44og, Julio Medina 75, Alberto Cerezo 88;
Dwight Pezzarossi 3, 34, Julio Rodas 77]
1.LD Alajuelense (Alajuela) 3 3 0 0 6- 3 9
2.Real España 3 2 0 1 4- 3 6
3.Árabe Unido (Colón) 3 1 0 2 7- 8 3
4.Comunicaciones (Cd. Guatemala) 3 0 0 3 5- 8 0
Third Phase (in San Pedro, Sula, Honduras, Nov 1-5)
NB: UNCAF Club Championship 2000
Nov 1: Alajuelense-Real España 1-1
[Heriberto Quiros 14; Marlon Hernandez 33]
Nov 1: Olimpia-Municipal 0-0
Nov 3: Olimpia-Real España 2-0
[Luis Oseguera 49, Wilmer Velasquez 73]
Nov 3: Alajuelense-Municipal 1-0
[Luis Marin 55]
Nov 5: Olimpia-Alajuelense 0-0
Nov 5: Real España-Municipal 3-2
[Mario Orta 3, 30, 56; Juan Carlos Plata 35, 45]
1.Olimpia (Tegucigalpa) 3 1 2 0 2- 0 5
2.LD Alajuelense (Alajuela) 3 1 2 0 2- 1 5
3.Real España 3 1 1 1 4- 5 4
4.Municipal (Ciudad de Guatemala) 3 0 1 2 2- 4 1
Top three teams qualify for finals in U.S.
Caribbean Zone
Caribbean Club Championship 2000
Final Tournament (in California, USA)
January 16-21, 2001
Quarterfinals [Fullerton]
Jan 16: CD Toluca-CD Olimpia 0-1
[Robert Lima 86]
Jan 16: Pachuca CF-Joe Public FC 1-0
[Gabriel Caballero 72pen]
Jan 17: DC United-Alajuelense 2-1
[Carey Talley 15, Ben Olsen 90; Luis Diego Arnaez 74pen]
Jan 17: LA Galaxy-Real España 0-0 5-3pen
Semifinals [Los Angeles]
Jan 19: CD Olimpia-Pachuca CF 4-0
[Denilson Costa 35, 57, 77, Alex Pineda Chacon 49]
[Olimpia: Donaldo Gonzalez; Gerson Vasquez, Robert Lima, Samuel Caballero,
Nerlin Membreno; Alex Pineda Chacon, (Carlos Paes 74) Arnold Cruz,
Danilo Tosello, Jose Luis Pineda; Christian Santamaria (Elmer Marin 90),
Denilson Costa (Orvin Cabrera 87);
Pachuca: Miguel Calero, Alberto Rodriguez, Francisco Gabriel de Anda
(Francisco Ferreira 46), Manuel Vidrio, Andres Chitiva, Gabriel
Caballero, Octavio Valdez, Luis Alfonso Sosa, Cesareo Victorino;
Pablo Hernan Gomez (Omar Arellano 87), Pedro Pineda (Marco Antonio
Garces 63)]
Jan 19: LA Galaxy-DC United 1-1 4-2pen
[Greg Vanney 29pen; Marco Etcheverry 48pen; att: 7,475]
[scored in penalty shoot-out:
LA: Greg Vanney, Simon Elliott, Peter Vagenas, Mauricio Cienfuegos;
DC: Carey Talley, Jeff Agoos]
[LA Galaxy: Kevin Hartman, Ezra Hendrickson, Paul Caligiuri, Alexi Lalas,
Zak Ibsen (Brian Kelly 88), Greg Vanney, Peter Vagenas (Sasha
Victorine 62), Mauricio Cienfuegos, Simon Elliott, Cobi Jones,
Adam Frye;
DC United: Mark Simpson, Carlos Llamosa, Eddie Pope (Mark Watson 46),
Jeff Agoos, Carey Talley, Richie Williams, Bobby Convey, Marco
Etcheverry, Ben Olsen, A.J. Wood, Chris Albright]
Third Place Match [Los Angeles]
Jan 21: DC United-Pachuca CF 1-2
[Carey Talley 33; Pedro Pineda 14, Omar Arellano 38]
[DC United: Tom Presthus, Carey Talley, Mark Watson, Jeff Agoos,
Carlos Llamosa, Eric Denton, Chino Alegria, Richie Williams,
Bobby Convey, A.J.Woods, Greg Simmonds;
Pachuca: Jesús Salvador Alfaro Coronado, Gabriel A.Martinez,
Israel Velázquez, Manuel Vidrio Solis, Luis Alfonso Sosa Cisneros,
Octavio Valdez Martinez, Gabriel Esteban Caballero Schiker,
Cesareo Victorino, Omar Arellano, Francisco Ferreira, Pedro Pineda Deras]
Final [Los Angeles]
Jan 21: LA Galaxy-CD Olimpia 3-2
[Ezra Hendrickson 36, 78, Cobi Jones 39; Danilo Tosello 34pen,
Robert Lima 51]
[LA Galaxy: Kevin Hartman, Greg Vanney, Alexi Lalas, Paul Caliguiri,
Zak Ibsen, Ezra Hendrickson, Simon Elliot, Peter Vagenas,
Mauricio Cienfuegos (Brian Kelly 92), Cobi Jones, Adam Frye
(Sasha Victorine, 60)
Olimpia: Donaldo Gonzalez; Gerson Vasquez, Robert Lima, Samuel
Caballero, Nerlin Membreno; Alex Pineda Chacon (Arnold Cruz 82),
Danilo Tosello, Jose Luis Pineda (Reynaldo Tilgauth 88),
Christian Santamaria, Denilson Costa, Carlos Paes]
overview | 1999 | 2001
With thanks to Vincent Leon, José Ismael Ramos and Dirk Karsdorp for additional data
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