A total of 15 CONCACAF teams entered the competition. The 15 teams were divided into 3 zones, based on geographical considerations, as follows: * North American Zone had 3 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner and runner-up would advance to the Final Round. * Central American Zone had 5 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner and runner-up would advance to the Final Round. * Caribbean Zone had 7 teams, which would be divided into 2 groups - Group A had 4 teams and Group B had 3 teams. 2 teams in Group A played in the preliminary round, against each other on a home-and-away basis, with the winner advancing to Group A proper. The 3 teams in each group would then play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.

Entrants

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North American Zone

---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Canada and Mexico advanced to the

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Central American Zone

---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Honduras and El Salvador advanced to the

Caribbean Zone

Group A Preliminary Round

Guyana won 8-4 on aggregate and advanced to Group A.

Group A

---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Cuba advanced to the

Group B

---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Haiti advanced to the

Qualified Teams

* (CONCACAF North American Zone Winners) * (CONCACAF North American Zone Runners-up) * (CONCACAF Central American Zone Winners) * (CONCACAF Central American Zone Runners-up) * (CONCACAF Caribbean Zone Group 1 Winners) * (CONCACAF Caribbean Zone Group 2 Winners)

Goalscorers

;5 goals * Jorge González * Salvador Bernárdez ;4 goals * Julio Roberto Gómez Rendón *

Clyde Watson Clyde Watson (born 10 February 1956) is a retired Guyanese footballer who played professionally in the American Soccer League. He also served as an assistant coach at the Washington Freedom. Watson attended Clemson University, where he played o ...

* Roberto Bailey *

Hugo Sánchez Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born 11 July 1958) is a Mexican former professional Association football, footballer and Manager (association football), manager, who played as a Forward (association football), forward. A prolific goalscorer known for ...

;3 goals *

José Roberto Figueroa José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , ...

;2 goals * Omar Morera Barrantes * Luis Hernández * Roberto Pereira *

Norberto Huezo José Norberto Huezo Montoya (6 June 1956 – 5 March 2025) was a footballer from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. Club career Huezo started his career at UES and played for ANTEL before joining ...

* José María Rivas * José Emilio Mitrovich * Óscar Enrique Sánchez * Ashton Canterbury Taylor * Serge Crispin * Adrián Camacho *

Daniel Montillo Ruíz Daniel commonly refers to: * Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname * List of people named Daniel * List of people with surname Daniel * Daniel (biblical figure) * Book of Daniel, a biblical apocalypse, "an account of the activi ...

* Johan Leisbergen *

Steve Moyers Steve Moyers (born September 23, 1956, in St. Louis, Missouri) is a retired soccer forward from the United States, who was a member of the American squad that competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He spent eight sea ...

;1 goal * Gerry Gray * Robert Iarusci * Branko Šegota * Mike Stojanović * Omar Arroyo * Javier Jiménez * William Jiménez Mora * Rodolfo Mills * Regino Delgado * Roberto Espinosa * Andrés Roldán * Óscar Gustavo Guerrero * Carlton Belfon * Douglas Cherubin * Jude Julien * Jude Mitchell * Allan Wellmann *

Selvin Pennant Selvin Valentín Pennant Taylor (born 4 January 1950) is a Guatemalan former footballer and one of that country's most prolific goalscorers ever. He played for Deportes Aviación in the Chilean First Division for three years, and was a member ...

* Gordon Braithwaite * Clyde Ford * Fritz Bobo * Carlo Brevin * Fernando Bulnes * Allan Anthony Costly * Moisés Tomás Velásquez Torres * José Luis González China * Guillermo Mendizabal * Glenn Kwidama * Ricardo Paschal Chambers * Ricardo Calor * Roy George * Kenneth Stjeward * Leroy Spann *

Rick Davis Richard Dean Davis (born November 24, 1958) is an American former soccer midfielder, and former captain of the U.S. national team for much of the 1980s. He is considered by fans the best U.S.-born player of the North American Soccer League er ...

* Greg Villa

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1981 Concacaf Championship Qualification CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification

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