2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Third Round

This page provides the summaries of the CONCACAF Third Round matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. The 12 winners from the Second Round contested this round. The draw took place on 25 November 2007 in Durban, South Africa.

Format

In this round, the winners from the Second Round were placed into three groups of four teams, determined by the draw. Here, they played a double round robin home and away schedule. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Fourth Round.

Group 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  United States 6 5 0 1 14 3 +11 15  Trinidad and Tobago 6 3 2 1 9 6 +3 11  Guatemala 6 1 2 3 6 7 −1 5  Cuba 6 1 0 5 5 18 −13 3

Cuba  – 2 – 1 1 – 3 0 – 1 Guatemala  4 – 1 – 0 – 0 0 – 1 Trinidad and Tobago  3 – 0 1 – 1 – 2 – 1 United States  6 – 1 2 – 0 3 – 0 –

20 August 2008 20:00 UTC-4	Cuba	1 – 3	Trinidad and Tobago	Estadio Pedro Marrero, Havana Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
	Márquez  85'	Report	Daniel  27', 61' Glen  66'

20 August 2008 20:10 UTC-6	Guatemala	0 – 1	United States	Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores, Guatemala City Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Enrico Wijngaarde (Suriname)
		Report	Bocanegra  69'

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6 September 2008 17:30 UTC-4	Trinidad and Tobago	1 – 1	Guatemala	Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain Attendance: 9,500 Referee: Roberto Moreno (Panama)
	Daniel  84'	Report	Gallardo  90'

6 September 2008 20:10 UTC-4	Cuba	0 – 1	United States	Estadio Pedro Marrero, Havana Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)
		Report	Dempsey  40'

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10 September 2008 19:10 UTC-5	United States	3 – 0	Trinidad and Tobago	Toyota Park, Bridgeview Attendance: 11,452 Referee: Courtney Campbell (Jamaica)
	Bradley  10' Dempsey  18' Ching  57'	Report

10 September 2008 20:00 UTC-6	Guatemala	4 – 1	Cuba	Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores, Guatemala City Attendance: 19,750 Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (México)
	Ruíz  38', 55' Rodríguez  85' Contreras  90+1'	Report	Linares  25'

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11 October 2008 19:10 UTC-4	United States	6 – 1	Cuba	Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington Attendance: 20,249 Referee: Roberto Moreno (Panama)
	Beasley  11', 31' Donovan  48' Ching  63' Altidore  87' Onyewu  90'	Report	Muñoz  32'

11 October 2008 20:00 UTC-6	Guatemala	0 – 0	Trinidad and Tobago	Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores, Guatemala City Attendance: 29,000 Referee: Silviu Petrescu (Canada)
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15 October 2008 20:00 UTC-4	Cuba	2 – 1	Guatemala	Estadio Pedro Marrero, Havana Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Courtney Campbell (Jamaica)
	Colomé  45' (pen.) Urgelles  90'	Report	Pappa  80'

15 October 2008 20:10 UTC-4	Trinidad and Tobago	2 – 1	United States	Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Wálter Quesada (Costa Rica)
	Latapy  60' Yorke  79' (pen.)	Report	Davies  74'

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19 November 2008 21:10 UTC-4	Trinidad and Tobago	3 – 0	Cuba	Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Enrico Wijngaarde (Suriname)
	Jones  67' Yorke  69' Daniel  89'	Report

19 November 2008 18:10 UTC-7	United States	2 – 0	Guatemala	Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City Attendance: 9,303 Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
	Cooper  53' Adu  68'	Report

Group 2

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Honduras 6 4 0 2 9 5 +4 12  Mexico 6 3 1 2 9 6 +3 10  Jamaica 6 3 1 2 6 6 0 10  Canada 6 0 2 4 6 13 −7 2

Canada  – 1 – 2 1 – 1 2 – 2 Honduras  3 – 1 – 2 – 0 1 – 0 Jamaica  3 – 0 1 – 0 – 1 – 0 Mexico  2 – 1 2 – 1 3 – 0 –

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20 August 2008 19:30 UTC-4	Canada	1 – 1	Jamaica	BMO Field, Toronto Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
	de Guzmán  47'	Report	Williams  52'

20 August 2008 20:00 UTC-5	Mexico	2 – 1	Honduras	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 81,100 Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)
	Pardo  73', 75'	Report	de León  36'

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6 September 2008 17:00 UTC-5 [note 1]	Mexico	3 – 0	Jamaica	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Attendance: 96,000 Referee: Baldomero Toledo (USA)
	Guardado  3' Arce  33' Magallón  63'	Report

6 September 2008 20:00 UTC-4	Canada	1 – 2	Honduras	Saputo Stadium, Montreal Attendance: 13,032 Referee: Wálter Quesada (Costa Rica)
	Serioux  4'	Report	R. Núñez  47', 56'

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10 September 2008 20:00 UTC-5	Mexico	2 – 1	Canada	Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna, Tuxtla Gutiérrez Attendance: 26,900 Referee: Neal Brizan (Trinidad and Tobago)
	Bravo  59' Márquez  73'	Report	Gerba  78'

10 September 2008 19:30 UTC-6	Honduras	2 – 0	Jamaica	Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula Attendance: 39,000 Referee: Roberto Moreno (Panama)
	R. Núñez  65' Guevara  73' (pen.)	Report

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11 October 2008 19:00 UTC-5 [note 1]	Jamaica	1 – 0	Mexico	Independence Park, Kingston Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Wálter Quesada (Costa Rica)
	Fuller  34'	Report

11 October 2008 19:30 UTC-6	Honduras	3 – 1	Canada	Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Jair Marrufo (USA)
	W. Martínez  9' Costly  65' Thomas  90'	Report	Hainault  54'

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15 October 2008 19:00 UTC-5	Jamaica	1 – 0	Honduras	Independence Park, Kingston Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Neal Brizan (Trinidad and Tobago)
	Shelton  16'	Report

15 October 2008 19:00 UTC-6	Canada	2 – 2	Mexico	Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton Attendance: 14,145 Referee: Enrico Wijngaarde (Suriname)
	Gerba  13' Radzinski  50'	Report	Salcido  35' Vuoso  64'

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19 November 2008 19:00 UTC-6	Honduras	1 – 0	Mexico	Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
	Osorio  52' (o.g.)	Report

19 November 2008 20:00 UTC-5	Jamaica	3 – 0	Canada	Independence Park, Kingston Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)
	Shelton  28' King  58' (pen.) Cummings  85'	Report

Group 3

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Costa Rica 6 6 0 0 20 3 +17 18  El Salvador 6 3 1 2 11 4 +7 10  Haiti 6 0 3 3 4 13 −9 3  Suriname 6 0 2 4 4 19 −15 2

Costa Rica  – 1 – 0 2 – 0 7 – 0 El Salvador  1 – 3 – 5 – 0 3 – 0 Haiti  1 – 3 0 – 0 – 2 – 2 Suriname  1 – 4 0 – 2 1 – 1 –

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20 August 2008 17:00 UTC-5	Haiti	2 – 2	Suriname	Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince Attendance: 7,800 Referee: Mauricio Navarro (Canada)
	Bertin  90' Brunel  90+5'	Report	Christoph  31', 46'

20 August 2008 20:00 UTC-6	Costa Rica	1 – 0	El Salvador	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, San José Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (México)
	Saborío  49' (pen.)	Report

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6 September 2008 19:30 UTC-6	El Salvador	5 – 0	Haiti	Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Jair Marrufo (USA)
	Zelaya  7', 24', 53' Larios  58' Torres  79'	Report

6 September 2008 20:00 UTC-6	Costa Rica	7 – 0	Suriname	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, San José Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Steven Depiero (Canada)
	Ledezma  9', 41' Alpízar  47' Alonso  78' Borges  79' Solís  86' Ruiz  88'	Report

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10 September 2008 16:30 UTC-3	Suriname	0 – 2	El Salvador	André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
		Report	Martin  2' Felter  12' (o.g.)

10 September 2008 17:00 UTC-5	Haiti	1 – 3	Costa Rica	Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince Attendance: 14,700 Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
	Alcénat  40'	Report	Ruiz  12', 75' Alpízar  86'

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11 October 2008 16:30 UTC-3	Suriname	1 – 4	Costa Rica	André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Courtney Campbell (Jamaica)
	Sandvliet  48'	Report	Centeno  10' Borges  41' Alonso  47' Solís  78'

11 October 2008 17:00 UTC-5	Haiti	0 – 0	El Salvador	Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Neal Brizan (Trinidad and Tobago)
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15 October 2008 20:00 UTC-6	Costa Rica	2 – 0	Haiti	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, San José Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Ricardo Salazar (USA)
	Díaz  16' Núñez  90+2'	Report

15 October 2008 20:00 UTC-6	El Salvador	3 – 0	Suriname	Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)
	Zelaya  8' Quintanilla  27' Garden  81' (o.g.)	Report

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19 November 2008 16:30 UTC-3	Suriname	1 – 1	Haiti	André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo Attendance: 800 Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez (México)
	Christoph  40'	Report	Saint-Preux  28'

19 November 2008 19:30 UTC-6	El Salvador	1 – 3	Costa Rica	Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Silviu Petrescu (Canada)
	Corrales  18'	Report	Myrie  24', 90' Fernández  30'

Goalscorers

Bold indicates a player whose team advanced to the Fourth Round. A total of 103 goals were scored over 36 games, for an average of 2.86 goals per game.

4 goals

Rodolfo Zelaya

Keon Daniel

3 goals

Bryan Ruiz

Ramón Núñez

Wensley Christoph

2 goals

Ali Gerba Armando Alonso Alejandro Alpízar Celso Borges Froylan Ledezma

Roy Myrie Alonso Solís Carlos Ruíz Luton Shelton Pável Pardo

Dwight Yorke DaMarcus Beasley Brian Ching Clint Dempsey

1 goal

Julián de Guzmán Andrew Hainault Tomasz Radzinski Adrian Serioux Álvaro Saborío Walter Centeno Júnior Díaz José Fernández Victor Núñez Jaime Colomé Roberto Linares Jeniel Márquez Jensy Muñoz Allianni Urgelles Rudis Corrales César Larios Shawn Martin Eliseo Quintanilla William Torres

José Manuel Contreras Carlos Gallardo Marco Pappa Mario Rodríguez Jean Alcénat Frantz Bertin Fucien Brunel Leonel Saint-Preux Carlos Costly Amado Guevara Julio César de León Walter Martínez Hendry Thomas Omar Cummings Ricardo Fuller Marlon King Andy Williams Fernando Arce

Omar Bravo Andrés Guardado Jonny Magallon Rafael Márquez Carlos Salcido Matías Vuoso Clifton Sandvliet Russell Latapy Cornell Glen Kenwyne Jones Freddy Adu Jozy Altidore Carlos Bocanegra Michael Bradley Kenny Cooper Landon Donovan Charlie Davies Oguchi Onyewu

Own goals

Ricardo Osorio (for Honduras)

Marlon Felter (for El Salvador)

Derrik Garden (for El Salvador)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} The two matches between Jamaica and Mexico had their playing dates reversed due to the Hurricane Gustav.^[1]

References

1. ^ Gustav strikes again!, the Jamaica Observer.

External links

• FIFA.com
• CONCACAF.com

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