Northern Zone
Canada Qualification (Nutrilite Canadian Championship):
May 27: Montréal Impact-Toronto FC 0-1
[Marco Vélez 72]
Jun 17: Montréal Impact-Vancouver Whitecaps 2-0
[Severino Jefferson 25, Joey Gjertsen 35]
Jun 25: Vancouver Whitecaps-Montréal Impact 0-2
[Roberto Brown 30, David Testo 66]
Jul 1: Toronto FC-Vancouver Whitecaps 0-1
[Martin Nash 37pen]
Jul 9: Vancouver Whitecaps-Toronto FC 2-2
[Eduardo Sebrango 43, 86; Maurice Edu 61, Rohan Ricketts 76]
Jul 22: Toronto FC-Montréal Impact 1-1
[Rohan Ricketts 15; Roberto Brown 25]
1.Montréal Impact 4 2 1 1 5- 2 7
2.Toronto FC 4 1 2 1 4- 4 5
3.Vancouver Whitecaps 4 1 1 2 3- 6 4
NB: Montréal Impact qualified
Mexico Qualification:
Atlante as Apertura 2007 champions
Santos as Clausura 2008 champions
Pumas as Apertura 2007 runners-up
Cruz Azul as Clausura 2008 runners-up
USA Qualification:
Houston Dynamo as MLS 2007 champions
DC United as MLS 2007 regular season winners
New England Revolution as MLS 2007 runners-up and US Open Cup 2007 winners
Chivas USA as MLS 2007 regular season runners-up (due to New England Revolution
having qualified on two counts)
Central American Zone
Belize Qualification:
Hankook Verdes United as 2007/08 champions
Costa Rica Qualification:
Deportivo Saprissa as winners of Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2008
Alajuelense as Clausura 2008 regular season winners
El Salvador Qualification:
Luis Ángel Firpo as winners of Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2008
Isidro Metapán as Clausura 2008 regular season runners-up (behind Firpo)
Guatemala Qualification:
Deportivo Jalapa as Apertura 2007 champions
Municipal as Clausura 2008 champions
Playoff for first place (and automatic qualification to group stage)
Jul 2: Jalapa-Municipal 1-1
[Juan Castillo 34; Freddy García 13]
Jul 6: Municipal-Jalapa 2-1
[Guillermo Ramírez 42, Freddy García 63; Israel da Silva 90pen]
Honduras Qualification:
Marathón as Apertura 2007 champions
Olimpia as Clausura 2008 champions
Playoff for first place (and automatic qualification to group stage)
Jul 8: Marathón-Olimpia 1-3
[Marvin Chávez 8; Wilmer Velásquez 28, 44, Néstor Silva 46]
NB: Marathón and Olimpia agreed to play the tie over one leg at the
Estadio Olímpico in San Pedro Sula (home for Marathón)
Nicaragua Qualification:
Real Estelí as 2007/08 champions
Panama Qualification:
San Francisco as winners Clausura 2007 and Apertura 2008
Tauro as Apertura 2008 regular season winners
Caribbean Zone
Harbour View (Jamaica) as CFU Club Championship 2007 winners
Joe Public (Trinidad and Tobago) as CFU Club Championship 2007 runners-up
third spot decided in playoff between the losing semifinalists of the
CFU Club Championship 2007, Puerto Rico Islands and San Juan Jabloteh
Caribbean Third Place Playoff (May 9 & 25)
Puerto Rico Islanders PRi San Juan Jabloteh Tri 1-0 0-0 1-0
[Fabrice Noel 9]
Preliminary Round (Aug 26 & Sep 2) Joe Public Tri New England Revolution USA 2-1 4-0 6-1 [Gregory Richardson 50, Jamal Gary 70; Mauricio Castro 76pen] [Gregory Richardson 17, 45, 51, Roen Nelson 81] Tauro Pan Chivas USA USA 2-0 1-1 3-1 [Edwin Aguilar 5 67] [Roberto Nurse 42; Luis Moreno 62] (Aug 26 & Sep 3) Cruz Azul Mex Hankook Verdes United Blz 6-0 6-0 12-0x [Gerardo Torrado 17, Edgar Andrade 19, 72, Javier Orozco 38, 67, 87] [Javier Orozco 17, 40, Miguel Sabah 37, César Villaluz 51, Nicolás Vigneri 70, 85] (Aug 27 & Sep 2) Montréal Impact Can Real Estelí Nic 1-0 0-0 1-0y [Joel Gjersten 42] (Aug 27 & Sep 3) Alajuelense CRi Puerto Rico Islanders PRi 1-1 1-2 2-3 [Argenis Fernández 29; Osei Telesford 63] [Kendall Jagdeosingh 87, Taiwo Atieno 89; Ariel Rodríguez 5] Isidro Metapán ElS Marathón Hon 2-2 1-2 3-4 [Mario Edgardo Aguilar 1, William Enrique Reyes 61; José Alvarado 13og, Mariano Elí Acevedo 50] [Juan Carlos García 25, Carlos Mejía 46; Gabriel Garcete 9] (Aug 28 & Sep 4) Jalapa Gua San Francisco Pan 1-0 0-5 1-5 [Juan José Castillo 15] [Alberto Zapata 8, 75, Temístocles Pérez 9, Juan Solís 17, 72] (Aug 29 & Sep 4) Harbour View Jam Pumas UNAM Mex n/p 0-3 0-3z [Juan Francisco Palencia 65,90+, Jehú Chiapas 88] x 2nd leg in Ciudad de Guatemala y 2nd leg in Comayagua, Honduras z 1st leg (originally scheduled for Aug 28, then rescheduled to Aug 29) cancelled due to tropical storm Gustav Group Phase Group A Sep 16: DC United-Deportivo Saprissa 0-2 [Walter Centeno 32, Jairo Arrieta 52] Sep 17: Marathón-Cruz Azul 2-0 [Carlos Mejía 33, Mario Beata 55] Sep 23: Cruz Azul-Deportivo Saprissa 4-0 [Miguel Sabah 23, Gerardo Torrado 54, Pablo Zeballos 60, Cristian Riveros 67] Sep 24: Marathón-DC United 2-0 [Milton Núñez 65, Erick Norales 82] Sep 30: Deportivo Saprissa-Marathón 2-1 [Celso Borges 68, Alejandro Alpizar 86; Milton Núñez 50pen] Oct 1: DC United-Cruz Azul 0-1 [Pablo Daniel Zeballos 56] Oct 7: Cruz Azul-Marathón 1-1 [Javier Orozco 14; Erick Norales 87] Oct 9: Deportivo Saprissa-DC United 2-2 [César Elizondo 82, 86; Francis Doe 6, Rodion Dyachenko 90+] Oct 21: Cruz Azul-DC United 2-0 [Nicolás Vigneri 36, Pablo Daniel Zeballos 88] Oct 29: DC United-Marathón 2-4 [Francis Doe 10, Greg Janicki 61; Saúl Martínez 31, Mario René Berrios 46, Milton Núñez 53, Marvin Chávez 68] Oct 29: Deportivo Saprissa-Cruz Azul 1-0 [Alejandro Alpizar 60] Nov 11: Marathón-Deportivo Saprissa 2-0 [Marvin Chávez 11, Milton Núñez 75] 1.Marathón 6 4 1 1 12- 5 13 2.Cruz Azul 6 3 1 2 8- 4 10 [2 1 0 1 4-1 3] 3.Deportivo Saprissa 6 3 1 2 7- 9 10 [2 1 0 1 1-4 3] 4.DC United 6 0 1 5 4-13 1 Group B Sep 16: San Francisco-Pumas UNAM 1-1 [Alberto Zapata 42; Fernando Espinoza 7] Sep 23: San Francisco-Houston Dynamo 0-0 Sep 24: Pumas UNAM-Luis Ángel Firpo 3-0 [David Cabrera 11, 37, Orlando Pineda 35] Sep 30: Pumas UNAM-Houston Dynamo 4-4 [Dante López 18, Efraín Juárez 26, Juan Francisco Palencia 41, Darío Verón 45; Craig Waibel 3, 50, Kei Kamara 16, 33pen] Oct 1: Luis Ángel Firpo-San Francisco 1-0 [Ramón Patricio Ávila 90+] Oct 7: Houston Dynamo-San Francisco 2-1 [Chris Wondolowski 13, Dwayne De Rosario 88; Temístocles Pérez 47] Oct 9: Luis Ángel Firpo-Pumas UNAM 1-1 [Mauricio Quintanilla 52; Martín Bravo 55] Oct 22: Houston Dynamo-Pumas UNAM 1-3 [Jonathan Jaqua 38; Juan Carlos Cacho 16pen, Fernando Espinoza 36, Marco Antonio Palacios 69] Oct 22: San Francisco-Luis Ángel Firpo 2-3 [Temístocles Pérez 88, Eduardo Jiménez 83; Dennis Jonathan Alas 44, Christian Alexander Sánchez 49, Patricio David Gómez 62] Oct 28: Luis Ángel Firpo-Houston Dynamo 1-1 [Edgar Fernando Leguizamón 87; Stuart Holden 16] Oct 29: Pumas UNAM-San Francisco 6-0 [Juan Francisco Palencia 29, 54, Martín Bravo 40, David Toledo 40, Javier Cortés 60, Fernando Santana 73] Nov 26: Houston Dynamo-Luis Ángel Firpo 1-0 [Brian Ching 13] 1.Pumas UNAM 6 3 3 0 18- 7 12 2.Houston Dynamo 6 2 3 1 9- 9 9 3.Luis Ángel Firpo 6 2 2 2 6- 8 8 4.San Francisco 6 0 2 4 4-13 2 Group C Sep 17: Montréal Impact-Joe Public 2-0 [Stefano Pesoli 14, Tony Donatelli 47] Sep 18: Atlante-Olimpia 1-0 [Arturo Muñoz 26] Sep 24: Joe Public-Olimpia 1-3 [Gregory Richardson 77; Washington Ramiro Bruschi 32, 76, Hendry Thomas 60] Sep 24: Montréal Impact-Atlante 0-0 Oct 1: Olimpia-Montréal Impact 1-2 [Elvis Danilo Turcios 32; Roberto Brown 3, 71pen] Oct 2: Atlante-Joe Public 0-1 [Roen Nelson 56] Oct 8: Joe Public-Montréal Impact 1-4 [Kerry Noray 9; Rocco Placentino 5, Tony Donatelli 13, 79, Peter Byers 49] Oct 8: Olimpia-Atlante 1-1 [Walter Joel Castro 83; Federico Vilar 38] Oct 21: Montréal Impact-Olimpia 1-1 [Roberto Brown 40; Washington Ramiro Bruschi 45+] Oct 21: Joe Public-Atlante 0-2 [Ismael Valadez 7, Gabriel Pereyra 56] Oct 28: Olimpia-Joe Public 4-0 [Allan Kardeck dos Santos 26, 38, Oscar Boniek García 72, Néstor Fabián Silva 85] Oct 28: Atlante-Montreal Impact 2-1 [Clemente Ovalle 13, Gabriel Pereyra 83; Joey Gjersten 4] 1.Atlante 6 3 2 1 6- 3 11 [2 1 1 0 2-1 4] 2.Montréal Impact 6 3 2 1 10- 5 11 [2 0 1 1 1-2 1] 3.Olimpia (Tegucigalpa) 6 2 2 2 10- 6 8 4.Joe Public 6 1 0 5 3-15 3 Group D Sep 16: Puerto Rico Islanders-Tauro 2-1 [Petter Villegas 11, Kendall Jagdeosingh 26; Edwin Aguilar 58] Sep 17: Santos Laguna-Municipal 3-2 [Gregorio Torres 10, Christian Benítez 32, Vicente Matías Vuoso 90; Guillermo Ramírez 47, Mario Giovanny 83] Sep 23: Puerto Rico Islanders-Santos Laguna 3-1 [Osei Telesford 14, Noah Delgado 38, Edwin Miranda 49; Agustín Herrera 71] Sep 25: Tauro-Municipal 2-1 [Brunette Hay 47, 90+; Guillermo Ramírez 45+] Oct 1: Municipal-Puerto Rico Islanders 2-2 [Carlos César Leguizamón 79, Juan Carlos Plata 90+; Fabrice Noel 9, Sandy Gbandi 90] Oct 2: Tauro-Santos Laguna 2-0 [Brunette Hay 42, Rolando Rojas 57] Oct 8: Municipal-Tauro 2-2 [Juan Carlos Plata 15, Mario Acevedo 90+; Luis Fernando Escobar 58, Edwin Aguilar 61] Oct 8: Santos Laguna-Puerto Rico Islanders 3-0 [Oribe Peralta 29, Andony Hernández 54, Agustín Herrera 59] Oct 22: Santos Laguna-Tauro 3-0 [Christian Benítez 10, 27, Gregorio Torres 53] Oct 23: Puerto Rico Islanders-Municipal 0-1 [Mario Giovany Acevedo 85] Oct 29: Tauro-Puerto Rico Islanders 2-2 [Brunette Hay 42pen, 77; Osei Telesford 16, Fabrice Noel 27] Oct 30: Municipal-Santos Laguna 4-4 [Agustín Herrera 10, 47pen, 57pen, Oribe Peralta 74; Guillermo Ramírez 38pen, 64pen, 90, Carlos César Leguizamón 71] 1.Santos Laguna 6 3 1 2 14-11 10 2.Puerto Rico Islanders 6 2 2 2 9-10 8 [2 1 1 0 4-3 4] 3.Tauro 6 2 2 2 9-10 8 [2 0 1 1 3-4 1] 4.Municipal (Cd. de Guatemala) 6 1 3 2 12-13 6 Quarterfinals (Feb 24 & Mar 3) Houston Dynamo USA Atlante Mex 1-1 0-3 1-4 [Robert Boswell 34; Gabriel Pereyra 82] [Fernando Navarro 23, Rafael Márquez Lugo 35, Giancarlo Maldonado 90] (Feb 25 & Mar 4) Cruz Azul Mex Pumas UNAM Mex 1-0 1-0 2-0 [Jaime Lozano 4] [Christian Riveros 86] (Feb 25 & Mar 5) Montréal Impact Can Santos Laguna Mex 2-0 2-5 4-5 [Eduardo Sebrango 5, 77] [Christian Benítez 16, Vicente Matías Vuoso 54, 74, Carlos Darwin Quintero 92, 94; Roberto Brown 24, Eduardo Sebrango 38] (Feb 26 & Mar 4) Puerto Rico Islanders PRi Marathón Hon 2-1 1-0 3-1 [Nicholas Addlery 73, Kendall Jagdeosingh 81; Jerry Nelson Palacios 41] [Nicholas Addlery 90+] Semifinals (Mar 17 & Apr 7) Puerto Rico Islanders PRi Cruz Azul Mex 2-0 1-3 3-3 2-4p [Sandy Gbandi 4, Nicholas Addlery 36] [Pablo Daniel Zeballos 44, Javier Orozco 84, César Villaluz 100; Sandy Gbandi 92] (Mar 18 & Apr 8) Santos Laguna Mex Atlante Mex 2-1 1-3 3-4 [Carlos Darwin Quintero 6, 73; Gabriel Pereyra 34] [Rafael Márquez Lugo 41, 90+pen, Giancarlo Maldonado 73; Vicente Matías Vuoso 67] Final (Apr 22 & May 12) Cruz Azul Mex Atlante Mex 0-2 0-0 0-2 [Fernando Navarro 16, Christian Bermúdez 24]overview | 2007/08 | 2009/10
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