1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship

1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship
Coupe des nations féminine de la CONCACAF 1998
Tournament details
Host country	Canada
City	Toronto
Dates	28 August – 6 September
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (1st title)
Runners-up	Mexico
Third place	Costa Rica
Fourth place	Guatemala
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	99 (6.19 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Silvana Burtini (14 goals)
Best player(s)	Silvana Burtini
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The 1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship was the fourth staging of the CONCACAF Women's Championship, the international women's association football tournament for North America, Central America and Caribbean nations organized by CONCACAF. The final stage of the tournament took place at Etobicoke and Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canada took the sole automatic qualifying place for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup by finishing first. The runner-up, Mexico, qualified after defeating Argentina in a two-leg playoff in December 1998.

The tournament was originally planned to take place in Haiti, but was moved due to disputes between the Haitian government and the Haitian Football Federation.^[2] This was the only edition of CONCACAF's Women's Championship or the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in which the traditional superpower of CONCACAF women's football, the United States, did not participate. This was because they directly qualified for the 1999 Women's World Cup as hosts of the event.

^ "Canadian soccer timeline from 1997 to 2000". canadasoccer.com. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
^ Giron, Carlos (June 29, 1998). "Canada to host CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifier". CONCACAF. New York. Archived from the original on January 21, 2001. Retrieved January 21, 2021.

[1] "Canadian soccer timeline from 1997 to 2000". canadasoccer.com. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.

[2] Giron, Carlos (June 29, 1998). "Canada to host CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifier". CONCACAF. New York. Archived from the original on January 21, 2001. Retrieved January 21, 2021.

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