Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol | |
Abbreviation | UNCAF |
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Formation | 1990 [1] |
Type | Sports organization |
Membership | 7 national associations |
Rafael Tinoco | |
Website | uncafut.com (archived) |
The Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol (Central American Football Union), more commonly known by the acronym UNCAF, represents the national football teams of Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its member associations are part of CONCACAF.
Code | Association |
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BLZ | Belize |
CRC | Costa Rica |
SLV | El Salvador |
GUA | Guatemala |
HON | Honduras |
NCA | Nicaragua |
PAN | Panama |
The UNCAF organize various competitions. The Copa Centroamericana was played every two years from 1991 until 2017, and usually featured the seven national teams. Costa Rica is the most successful team, winning the tournament eight times. Honduras won the tournament four times while Guatemala and Panama won once each. This tournament usually ran as a qualification round for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The UNCAF also ran the Copa Interclubes UNCAF, a competition for the champions and runners-up of the domestic leagues of the UNCAF members; C.D. Motagua ( Honduras) was the last champion ( 2007). Similarly to the Copa Centroamericana, this competition qualified three teams to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. As it expanded into the CONCACAF Champions League in 2008, all of the Central American nations have at least one team and the Copa Interclubes UNCAF was disbanded.
UNCAF runs several competitions which cover men's, women's, youth and futsal.
National team | World Cup | Women's World Cup | Gold Cup | Women's Championship | Concacaf W Gold Cup |
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Costa Rica | 5 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
Honduras | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
El Salvador | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
Guatemala | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
Panama | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Belize | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |