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2017 Central American Games

Tournament details
Host country	Nicaragua
City	Managua
Dates	3 December 2017 (2017-12-03)– 17 December 2017 (2017-12-17)
Teams	6 (men's) + 4 (women's) (from 1 sub-confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Honduras (men's)  Costa Rica (women's)
← 2013 2022 (Cancelled) →

The football tournament at the 2017 Central American Games took place in December 2017.

The tournament acted as a qualifying tournament for the Central American nations for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games. Three teams qualified from the men's tournament, two teams qualified from the women's tournament.

The men's tournament was restricted to those born after 1 January 1997 and the women's tournament had no age restrictions.

Teams

In October 2017, CONCACAF wrote to ORDECA to confirm that teams from Guatemala would not be eligible for the competitions due to suspension of the National Football Federation of Guatemala from FIFA. Honduras and Belize did not enter a team into the women's competition.

Men's

Team	App.	Previous best
Belize	5th	Group stage (1994, 1997, 2001, 2013)
Costa Rica	7th	Gold medal (1997)
El Salvador	8th	Gold medal (1977)
Honduras	7th	Gold medal (1990, 1994, 2013)
Nicaragua	9th	Silver medal (1973)
Panama	6th	Gold medal (1973)

Women's

Team	App.	Previous best
Costa Rica	3rd	Gold medal (2001, 2013)
El Salvador	3rd	4th (2001)
Nicaragua	3rd	Silver medal (2013)
Panama	2nd	4th (2013)

Men's tournament

Squads

Group stage

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

1. Greater number of goals between teams
2. Number of goals scored in group
3. Goal difference in group
4. Number of goals scored across all groups
5. Drawing of lots

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	4	Semi-finals
2	El Salvador	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
3	Panama	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	1

Panama	0–1	Costa Rica
	Report

Panama	0–0	El Salvador
	Report

Costa Rica	0–0	El Salvador
	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Honduras	2	1	1	0	5	0	+5	4	Semi-finals
2	Nicaragua	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	2
3	Belize	2	0	1	1	1	6	−5	1

Nicaragua	1–1	Belize
	Report

Belize	0–5	Honduras
	Report

Nicaragua	0–0	Honduras
	Report

Knockout stage

	Semifinals				Final
	11 December 2017
	Costa Rica	1
					13 December 2017
	Nicaragua	0
					Costa Rica	0
	11 December 2017
					Honduras	1
	Honduras	1 (2)
	El Salvador	1 (1)

Semi-finals

Honduras	1–1	El Salvador
	Report
Penalties
	2–1

Costa Rica	1–0	Nicaragua
	Report

Third-place playoff

Nicaragua	0–1	El Salvador
	Report

Final

Costa Rica	0–1	Honduras
	Report

Women's tournament

Squads

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	3	3	0	0	15	1	+14	9	Semi-finals
2	Nicaragua	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	6
3	Panama	3	1	0	2	6	8	−2	3
4	El Salvador	3	0	0	3	3	15	−12	0

Costa Rica	4–0	Panama
Granados 67', 71', 82', 85'	Report

Nicaragua	2–1	El Salvador
W. Flores 27' Y. Flores 67'	Report	Cerén 75'

El Salvador	1–8	Costa Rica
Herrera 33'	Report	Morales 4', 35' Chinchilla 6' Coto 21' Araya 27', 55' Varela 45', 51'

Nicaragua	3–1	Panama
Acevedo 5', 44' Y. Flores 67'	Report	Mills 77'

Panama	5–1	El Salvador
Riley 6', 64' Mills 21' Rangel 78' Cedeño 90+1'	Report	Osegueda 1'

Nicaragua	0–3	Costa Rica
	Report	Varela 24' Alvarado 29' (pen.) Rodríguez 77'

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Costa Rica	3–0	El Salvador
Chinchilla 59', 65', 81'	Report

Nicaragua	1–1	Panama
Aguilar 13'	Report	Hernández 87'
Penalties
	4–2

Third-place playoff

El Salvador	1–1	Panama
Payés 11'	Report	Cox 60'
Penalties
	1–4

Final

Costa Rica	1–1	Nicaragua
Alvarado 40'	Report	Pérez 18'
Penalties
	2–0

Qualified teams for Central American and Caribbean Games

For the men's, the top three teams qualified for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games as the UNCAF representatives:

•  Honduras
•  Costa Rica
•  El Salvador

For the women's, the top two teams qualified for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games as the UNCAF representatives:

•  Costa Rica
•  Nicaragua

References

1. "SISTEMAS DE CLASIFICACIÓN" (PDF). Baq2018.com. 6 October 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
2. "UNCAF, FENIFUT y COL de los Juegos Centroamericanos Managua 2017 tuvieron primer acercamiento - Uncaf". uncafut.com (in European Spanish). 23 February 2016. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
3. "El Gráfico".
4. "Carta de la CONCACAF a la Organización Deportiva Centroamericana". CONCACAF (in Spanish). 12 October 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
5. "Manual Técnico – Futbol" (PDF) (in Spanish). 2 February 2017.

External links

• Official website

• Football at the 2017 Central American Games
• Football at the Central American Games
• International association football competitions hosted by Nicaragua
• 2017 in Central American football
• 2017 Central American Games
• 2017–18 in Nicaraguan football