Caribbean qualification
First Round
10-12-95 Aruba 1-0 Dutch Antilles
17-12-95 Dutch Antilles 4-0 Aruba
Second Round
9- 3-96 Dutch Antilles 4-1 Dominican Rep.
16- 3-96 Dominican Rep. 0-0 Dutch Antilles
x Puerto Rico - Martinique
Martinique - Puerto Rico
x No dates and results available.
Other results not available
Central American qualification
Following the withdrawal of Panama and Belize, and UNCAF having five spots in the final round,
no matches were required.
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua qualified automatically.
Final Tournament
In Mexico, April 14-25, 1996.
Venues:
[1] Estadio 3 de Marzo, Zapopan
[2] Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey
[3] Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza
[4] Estadio Olímpico de la Ciudad Deportiva Francisco I. Madero, Saltillo
Group 1
14- 4-96 Mexico 4-0 Dutch Antilles [1]
[Juan Pablo Rodríguez 21, 86, Eduardo Lillingston 34, Néstor Gutiérrez 65]
14- 4-96 El Salvador 2-3 Guatemala [2]
[Jaime Reyna 32, Fredy Santos 36; López 5, Christian Flores 42pen, 70]
16- 4-96 Dutch Antilles 1-1 El Salvador [2]
[José Antonio Urbina 11pen; Criston Brunkard 56]
16- 4-96 Mexico 1-0 Guatemala [2]
[Juan Pablo Rodríguez 32]
18- 4-96 Guatemala 0-0 Dutch Antilles [4]
18- 4-96 Mexico 2-0 El Salvador [4]
[Joel de León 27, Rafael Márquez 58]
1.MEXICO 3 3 0 0 7- 0 9
2.Guatemala 3 1 1 1 3- 3 4
3.Dutch Antilles 3 0 2 1 1- 5 2
4.El Salvador 3 0 1 2 3- 6 1
Group 2
15- 4-96 Honduras 3-0 Martinique [3]
[Sergio Salinas 37, Mario Chirinos 42, Carlos Oliva 59]
15- 4-96 USA 4-1 Jamaica [3]
[Jorge Flores 53pen, Ben Olsen 57, Sasha Victorine 83, 87; Markeino Gillings 51]
17- 4-96 Jamaica 1-0 Honduras [2]
[Steve Green 77]
17- 4-96 Martinique 0-2 USA [3]
[Eric Quill 32, Ben Olsen 84]
19- 4-96 Martinique 0-3 Jamaica [2]
[David Dixon 15, 56, Ainsworth Kerr 89]
19- 4-96 USA 0-0 Honduras [2]
1.USA 3 2 1 0 6- 1 7
2.Jamaica 3 2 0 1 5- 4 6
3.Honduras 3 1 1 1 3- 1 4
4.Martinique 3 0 0 3 0- 8 0
Group 3
15- 4-96 Costa Rica 3-0 Nicaragua [4]
[Froylán Ledezma 31, Douglas Sequeira 73pen, Nelson Fonseca 88]
15- 4-96 Trinidad/Tobago 0-1 Canada [4]
[Eric Muñoz 40]
17- 4-96 Nicaragua 0-3 Canada [4]
[Dwayne De Rosario 57, 85, Jason Jordan 67]
17- 4-96 Costa Rica 5-0 Trinidad/Tobago [4]
[Froylán Ledezma 6, 87, Douglas Sequeira 40, Alvin Villavicencio 57, Jorge Solis 86]
19- 4-96 Trinidad/Tobago 6-1 Nicaragua [4]
[Chesley Walters 5, 83, Leslie Fitzpatrick 13, 88, Travis Mulraine 21, 87; Miguel Cruz 38]
19- 4-96 Canada 2-0 Costa Rica [4]
[Steve Kindel 72, 76]
1.CANADA 3 3 0 0 6- 0 9
2.Costa Rica 3 2 0 1 8- 2 6
3.Trinidad/Tobago 3 1 0 2 6- 7 3
4.Nicaragua 3 0 0 3 1-12 0
Final Round
21- 4-96 Mexico 2-2 Canada [4]
[Néstor Gutiérrez 55, Eduardo Lillingston 75; Dwayne De Rosario 58, Steve Kindel 80]
23- 4-96 USA 0-2 Canada [4]
[Dwayne De Rosario 81, Jason Jordan 83]
25- 4-96 Mexico 2-1 USA [4]
[Eduardo Lillingston 5, Néstor Gutiérrez 38; Ubusuku Abukusumo 87]
1.CANADA 2 1 1 0 4- 2 4
2.Mexico 2 1 1 0 4- 3 4
3.USA 2 0 0 2 1- 4 0
Qualifying Round
21- 4-96 Guatemala 1-2 Costa Rica [4]
[Marco Antonio Castillo 16; Nelson Fonseca 56, Douglas Sequeira 67pen]
23- 4-96 Jamaica 1-2 Costa Rica [4]
[Ainsworth Kerr 66; Nelson Fonseca 15, Jorge Solis 27]
25- 4-96 Guatemala 0-0 Jamaica [4]
1.Costa Rica 2 2 0 0 4- 2 6
2.Guatemala 2 0 1 1 1- 2 1
Jamaica 2 0 1 1 1- 2 1
First four teams qualified to the 1997 U-20 World Cup in Malaysia.
Thanks to Mark Sensen, Erik Francisco Lugo and Eduardo Mendoza for additional information
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