The 1969 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 5th 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 football club champion in the CONCACAF region.
The tournament was played by 10 teams of 9 nations: Netherlands Antilles, Bermuda, El Salvador, Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. It was played from 25 April to 30 September 1969 under the home/away match system and for the first time, the teams were not split into zones, playing in a straight round system.Copa Concacaf 1969 by Jim Goloboy and Karel Stokkermans on the RSSSF on Footbase
Cruz Azul from Mexico won the final after beating Guatemalan club Comunicaciones 1–0 in the second leg,Comunicaciones en la Concacaf becoming CONCACAF champion for the first time in its history."Cruz Azul Campeón de la Concacaf 1969" on Reino Azul (blogsite), 7 Mar 2014
First round
Saprissa won 5–1 on aggregate score.
Comunicaciones won 4–1 on aggregate score.
Águila won 5–3 on aggregate score.
Somerset Cricket won 6–1 on aggregate score.
Second round
Toluca won 1–0 on aggregate score. Toluca were disqualified for the undue alignment of three players; Cruz Azul advanced.
Comunicaciones won 7–4 on aggregate score.
Saprissa won 7–0 on aggregate score.
Semifinal
Cruz Azul won 4–3 on aggregate score. Comunicaciones received a bye to the final.
Final First leg
Second leg
Cruz Azul won 1–0 on aggregate score.
GK Roberto Alatorre DF Juan Alejándrez DF Gustavo Peña DF Javier Guzmán DF Javier Sánchez MF Jesús Prado MF Antonio Munguía FW Héctor Pulido FW Fernando Bustos FW Lupe Flores FW Rafael HernándezSubstitutions: FW Cesáreo Victorino MF Marco Arévalo Manager: Raúl Cárdenas
GK Julio Rodolfo García DF Henry Stokes DF Luis Contini DF Erwin Torres DF Luis Villavicencio MF Hugo Torres MF Jorge L. López FW Nelson Melgar FW Héctor Tambasco FW Hernán Godoy FW Enrique MendozaSubstitutions: FW Lugo Manager: Enrique Wellam
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