#OnThisDay in 1968 – Felipe Ruvalcaba, Juan Dosal, Amaury Epaminondas scored for @tolucafc.bsky.social’s 3:2 win over hosts #NYGreekAmericanAA in 2nd leg (7:3 agg) of Concacaf Champions Cup 2nd Round at Downing Stadium in Randall's Island. Victor Jurisenvic & John Kosmides tallied for NY club

#OnThisDay in 1992 – Goals by Victor Badilla & Luis Quiros gave #LDAlajuelense of #CostaRica to a 2:1 victory against #Martinique’s L'Aiglon du Lamentin FC during Concacaf Champions’ Cup Semifinals, before 17,000 fans, at #México’s Estadio Corregidora.

#OnThisDay in 1980 – #NewYorkCosmos played to a 1:1 draw w/ hosts #SportingCP, in a friendly, before a crowd of 35,000, at #Portugal's José Alvalade Stadium. Giorgio Chinaglia scored for the Cosmos, while Manuel Fernandes notched the equalizer for the home side.

#OnThisDay in 1999 – #CIDNecaxa won the Concacaf Champions Cup after defeating #LDAlajuelense, 2:1, in the final at Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium. Sergio Vázquez & Alex Aguinaga scored for Los Rayos as they also qualified to 2000 #FIFAClubWorldCup.

#OnThisDay in 1984 – #ChicagoSting captured its 2nd #SoccerBowl trophy after defeating hosts #TorontoBlizzard, 3:2, in 2nd game & clinched #NASL Final Series, before 16,842 fans, at #Canada’s Varsity Stadium. Pato Margetic scored twice for #Chicago.

#OnThisDay in 1971 – Hosts #ElizabethSC (📸 – Tom McCabe) held #CruzAzul (📸 – Erik Lugo) to a scoreless draw in 1st leg of Concacaf Champions Cup 1st Round at Farcher’s Grove in Union, N.J. Check out the complete story on @footballheritage.bsky.social: shorturl.at/mrSkr

#OnThisDay in 2008 – Trinidad & Tobago’s #JoePublicFC became 1st Caribbean club to defeat a Mexican team on its home soil when it topped #AtlanteFC, 1:0, during Concacaf Champions League Group Stage at Cancún’s Andrés Quintana Roo Stadium. 13,000 saw Roen Nelson notched the game-winner.

#OnThisDay in 2005 – Omar Esparza, Éver Guzmán & Carlos Vela scored for #México as it captured its 1st #FIFA U-17 World Cup after defeating #Brazil, 3:0, in the final, before a crowd of 40,000, at Estadio Nacional in Lima, #Perú.

#OnThisDay in 1984 – Hosts #NYPancyprianFreedoms (📸 – Bill Marth) prevailed 5:3 on pks against #CDVida after a 1:1 tie (2:2 agg.) in 2nd leg of Concacaf Champions Cup 3rd Round, before 2,500 fans, at Hofstra University Stadium. ...

#OnThisDay in 1999 – Sergio Almaguer, Agustín Delgado & David Oliva scored for #CIDNecaxa’s 3:1 victory against @dcunitedofficial.bsky.social during Concacaf Champions Cup Semifinals, before 8,163 fans, at Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium.

#OnThisDay in 1977 – #Pelé scored in 1st half during his farewell game w/ #NewYorkCosmos in a 2:1 victory against his former club #SantosFC, before a crowd of 75,646, at #GiantsStadium. 3-time #FIFAWorldCup champion also played the 2nd half w/ the Brazilian side.

#OnThisDay in 1978 – Vladislav Bogicevic, Giorgio Chinaglia & Seninho scored for #NewYorkCosmos' 3:2 win over hosts Atlético de Madrid, in a friendly where the home side also honored Luis Aragonés, at Estadio Vicente Calderón. Crowd of 45,000 also saw Rubio and Leivinha tallied for the home side.

#OnThisDay in 1969 – Juan Manuel Alejándrez scored the game-winner as #CruzAzul captured its 1st Concacaf Champions Cup after defeating visiting #ComunicacionesFC of #Guatemala, 1:0, in 2nd leg (1:0 agg.) final, before a crowd of 30,000, at #México’s #EstadioAzteca

#OnThisDay in 1999 – Jaime Moreno’s 2nd half goal was game-winner for @dcunitedofficial.bsky.social as it defeated #CDOlimpia, 1:0, during Concacaf Champions’ Cup Quarterfinals, before 7,217 fans, at Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium. (📸 – Francisco Rivas)

#OnThisDay in 1984 – Hosts #NYPancyprianFreedoms (📸 – Bill Marth) drew 1:1 w/ #CDVida (📸 – Francisco Rivas) in 1st leg of Concacaf Champions’ Cup 3rd Round Series 1, before 4,000 fans, at @hofstrau.bsky.social Stadium. Own goal gave the NY club the lead, before Jesús Carías scored the equalizer.

#OnThisDay in 1968 – Amaury Epaminondas scored twice for hosts #CDToluca’s 4:1 victory against #NYGreekAmericanAA in 1st leg of Concacaf Champions’ Cup 2nd Round, before 12,000 fans, at Deportivo Toluca Stadium. Nick Tonorezos tallied for the '67-'68 #USOpenCup champion.

#OnThisDay in 2000 – Dagny Mellgren scored the game-winner in OT to lead #Norway to a 3:2 victory against U.S. & captured gold medal at #Olympic Women’s Soccer Tournament, before a crowd of 22,848, at #Australia's Sydney Football Stadium. Tiffeny Milbrett had both goals for the Stars & Stripes.

#OnThisDay in 1999 – Goals by Dema Kovalenko & Ante Razov gave the @chicagofire.bsky.social to a 2:0 victory against #JoePublicFC of Trinidad & Tobago during Concacaf Champions Cup Quarterfinals, before 10,019 fans, at Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium.

#OnThisDay in 1969 – Guy Francois scored twice to lead #Haiti to a 3:0 victory against hosts #ElSalvador in 2nd leg, therefore tying the Concacaf World Cup Qualifying Final Series (Mexico ’70), before a crowd of 36,403, at San Salvador’s Flor Blanca Stadium.

#OnThisDay in 1986 – Hosts #PembrokeHamilton (📸 - Colin Thompson) became 1st Bermudian club to defeat a Costa Rican side at Concacaf Champions Cup after a 1:0 victory against #LDAlajuelense in 2nd leg Semifinal at #Bermuda’s National Stadium …

#OnThisDay in 1981 – 1st #NASL #SoccerBowl determined via shootout (SO) as #ChicagoSting defeated #NewYorkCosmos, 2:1, after a scoreless final, before a crowd of 36,971 at #Canada’s Exhibition Stadium. Rudy Glenn scored the winning tally in the SO for Chicago’s 1st championship.

#OnThisDay in 1978 – #NewYorkCosmos played to a 1:1 draw w/ hosts @chelseafcn.bsky.social, in a friendly, before crowd of 39,659, at Chelsea Stadium. Dennis Tueart gave the Cosmos the lead, before Ray Wilkins tied it for #ChelseaFC.

#OnThisDay in 1975 – Tommy Ord had 4 goals to lead #NewYorkCosmos (w/ #Pelé who also scored) in a 12:1 victory against hosts #PuertoRico, in a friendly, before 6,000 fans, at Bayamón’s Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium. (📸 Courtesy – Luis Santiago Arce)

#OnThisDay in 1971 – Dave Frost, James Parsons & Elli Wilson scored hosts #PembrokeHamilton’s 3:0 win over #RochesterLancers during the 2nd leg of Concacaf Champions Cup 1st Round & tied the home-and-away series (4:4 agg.), before 4,000 fans, at #Bermuda’s PHC Stadium…

#OnThisDay in 1949 – José Naranjo scored twice for hosts #México captured its 2nd #NAFC (North American Football Confederation) Championship after defeating #Cuba, 3:0, at Mexico City’s Estadio de los Deportes. The home side (along w/ U.S.) also qualified for ’50 #FIFAWorldCup in Brazil.

#Steve1TTrivia?: In 1962, #Jamaica became 1st Caribbean nation since #Cuba, in 1930, to hosts the CAC (Central American & Caribbean) Games. During the '62 men’s soccer tournament, which team captured the gold medal?

#OnThisDay in 1991 – #ClubPuebla captured the Concacaf Champions’ Cup after a 1:1 draw (4:2 agg.) w/ hosts #PoliceFC of #TrinidadandTobago in 2nd leg final at Skinner Park. Renato Porto gave #LaFranja the lead before Alvin Boisson tied it for the home side.

#OnThisDay in 1927 – @realmadridfc1.bsky.social (📸1) made its 1st visit to the U.S., as part of its North/South American tour, & tied 1:1 w/ local side #GaliciaSC (📸2), before 5,000 fans, at #Brooklyn’s Hawthorne Field. Hosts took the lead on a pk from Vega before Travieso notched the equalizer.

#OnThisDay in 1982 – Goals by Andy Chapman, Walter Schlothauer, Brian Tinnion & Clyde Watson gave hosts #DetroitExpress the #AmericanSoccerLeague Championship by defeating #OklahomaCitySlickers 4:1 in last game of best-of-3 finals, before a crowd of 23,726, at #PontiacSilverdome.

#OnThisDay in 1980 – Giorgio Chinaglia scored twice while Julio César Romero added 1 for the #NewYorkCosmos as it captured its 4th #NASL #SoccerBowl Trophy after defeating #FortLauderdaleStrikers, 3:0, before a crowd of 50,786, at Washington, D.C.’s RFK Stadium.

#OnThisDay in 1978 – Kim Jae-Han scored twice to lead the hosts #KoreaRepublic to a 6:2 victory against #WashingtonDiplomats in championship game of President’s Cup at Seoul's Dongdaemun Stadium. Mike Bakić & Bobby Stokes tallied for the #NASL side.

#OnThisDay in 1969 – Elmer Acevedo & Mauricio Rodríguez scored for #ElSalvador as it defeated hosts #Haiti, 2:1, in 1st leg of Concacaf WCQ Final Round (Mexico ’70), before 10,415 fans, at Port-au-Prince’s Sylvio Cator Stadium. Joseph Obás tallied for the home side.

#OnThisDay in 1949 – Pete Matevich scored twice as U.S. finished 2nd at #NAFC (North American Football Confederation) Championship & also qualified to 1950 #FIFAWorldCup in Brazil (along w/ hosts #México) after defeating #Cuba, 5:2, at Estadio de los Deportes.

#OnThisDay in 2024 – Yorman Esorihuela scored twice for #Venezuela as it defeated #Panamá in quarterfinals of VIII International Fútbol de Salón ( #FIFUSA) World Championships at Coliseo Bicentenario Alejandro Galvis Ramírez in Bucaramanga, #Colombia. Jarold Hinojoza had 2 goals for the Canaleros.

#OnThisDay in 2024 – Matheus Gabriel had 4 goals for #Brazil's 9:0 win over #Haiti in ‘Round-of-16’ of VIII International Fútbol de Salón ( #FIFUSA) World Championships at #Colombia's Coliseo Bicentenario Alejandro Galvis Ramírez. Game ended after 1st half due to several Haitian players injured.

#OnThisDay in 1971 – Carlos Metridieri scored twice to lead the hosts #RochesterLancers to a 4:1 win over #PembrokeHamilton of #Bermuda in 1st leg of North American Zone Opening Round Series 2 for Concacaf Champions’ Cup at Aquinas Memorial Stadium.

#OnThisDay in 1926 – Hugh Coyle, Bill Paterson & Dougie Campbell all scored for hosts #FallRiverFC as it ended #ACSpartaPrague’s 3-game winning streak, during its U.S. Tour, w/a 3:2 win, before 6,139 fans, at Mark’s Stadium in North Tiverton, R.I. (📸Courtesy - Fall River Marksmen Historian)

#OnThisDay in 2024 – Omar Iahbiki had 2 goals for the U.S. as it topped #Haiti, 5:1, in Group A finale of VIII International Fútbol de Salón ( #FIFUSA) World Championships at Coliseo Bicentenario Alejandro Galvis Ramírez in Bucaramanga, #Colombia. Nalufal Chabibi Chabibi tallied for the Haitians.

#Steve1TTrivia?: 1st time in history Concacaf Champions Cup the 1978 title was shared by #ComunicacionesFC, #LeonesNegrosCF & #DefenceForceFC after all 3 clubs couldn't agree on dates for triangular final. What 3 historical 1st has #Comunicaciones obtained at the Champions Cup?

#OnThisDay in 2002 – 1st time in Concacaf Champions Cup history an all-Mexican finale was held as #PachucaCF won its 1st title after defeating #CAMorelia, 1:0, before 20,000 fans, at Mexico City’s Estadio Azul. Walter Silvani notched the only goal of the game.

#OnThisDay in 1991 – Roberto Ruiz Esparza, José Carlos Gelinski & Paulo César Silva scored for the hosts #ClubPuebla as it won 1st leg of Concacaf Champions Cup Final after defeating visiting #PoliceFC of #TrinidadandTobago, 3:1, at Estadio Cuauhtémoc. (📸s – Marcelo Assaf)

#OnThisDay in 1982 – Giorgio Chinaglia scored the game-winner as #NewYorkCosmos lifted its 5th #SoccerBowl Trophy after defeating #SeattleSounders, 1:0, in the #NASL Final, before a crowd of 22,634, at San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium.

#OnThisDay in 1969 – Hosts #ComunicacionesFC played to a scoreless draw w/ #CruzAzul during 1st leg of Concacaf Champions’ Cup Final, before a crowd of 40,000, at #Guatemala’s Estadio Mateo Flores.

#OnThisDay in 1949 – Horacio Casarín scored 3 times (hat-trick) for hosts #México as it won #NAFC (North American Football Confederation) Championship & qualified to ’50 #FIFAWorldCup in Brazil after defeating the U.S., 6:2, before a crowd of 54,500 at Estadio de los Deportes.

#OnThisDay in 1977 – #NewYorkCosmos drew 1:1 w/ hosts #China in a historic friendly at Beijing’s Workers Stadium, before a crowd of 80,000. Tony Field scored for the Cosmos, before Shen Hsiang-Fu notched the equalizer.

#OnThisDay in 2024 – Goals by Omar Iahbiki & Henry Scott gave the U.S. a 2:1 victory against #France in Group A of VIII International Fútbol de Salón ( #FIFUSA) World Championships at Coliseo Bicentenario Alejandro Galvis Ramírez in Bucaramanga, #Colombia.

#OnThisDay in 2006 - I worked 10 games in 5 days during 1st ever Concacaf Beach Soccer Championships in Costa Rica, where U.S. claimed the title w/ #Canada taking second place. Both sides qualified to the 2006 #FIFABeachSoccerWorldCup in Brazil.

#OnThisDay in 2024 – Bentallah had 4 goals to lead #France to an 8:0 victory against #Haiti in Group A of VIII International Fútbol de Salón ( #FIFUSA) World Championships at Coliseo Bicentenario Alejandro Galvis Ramírez in Bucaramanga, #Colombia.

#OnThisDay in 2006 – U.S. qualified to '06 #FIFABeachSoccerWC in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after defeating #México, 7:4, during inaugural Concacaf Championship, before 547 fans, at Playa Jaco in Puntarenas, #CostaRica. Yuri Morales notched 2 goals for the Stars & Stripes.

#USOC2026: #NYPancyprianFreedoms (3) & #NYGreekAmericanAA (4) have a combined 7 #USOpenCup titles between the 2 squads...