1985 CONCACAF Championship qualification

Qualifying Round:

Guatemala received a bye and advanced to the Championship directly. The remaining 16 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the CONCACAF Championship.

Entrants

Mexico did not participate in order to focus on hosting the 1986 FIFA World Cup

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
El Salvador	8–0	Puerto Rico	5–0	3–0
Canada	w/o	Jamaica	n/a	n/a
Netherlands Antilles	0–4	United States	0–0	0–4
Costa Rica	w/o	Barbados	n/a	n/a
Panama	0–4	Honduras	0–3	0–1
Trinidad and Tobago	w/o	Grenada	n/a	n/a
Antigua and Barbuda	2–5^[A]	Haiti	0–4	2–1
Suriname	2–1	Guyana	1–0	1–1

29 July 1984	El Salvador	5–0	Puerto Rico	Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador
	Hernández 6', 19' Rivas 28' Alfaro 45' López Medrano 82'			Referee: Rómulo Méndez (Guatemala)

5 August 1984	Puerto Rico	0–3 (0–8 agg.)	El Salvador	Estadio Sixto Escobar, San Juan, Puerto Rico
			Zapata 1' Rivas 12' Perla 80'	Referee: Osborne (Bermuda)

El Salvador advanced.

	Canada	w/o	Jamaica
			Withdrew

Jamaica withdrew, so Canada qualified automatically.

29 September 1984	Netherlands Antilles	0–0	United States	Ergilio Hato Stadium, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
				Referee: Goede (Suriname)

6 October 1984	United States	4–0 (4–0 agg.)	Netherlands Antilles	Busch Stadium, St. Louis, United States
	DiBernardo 50' Coker 58', 67' Kapp 85' ^[1]			Referee: Fusco (Canada)

United States advanced.

	Costa Rica	w/o	Barbados
			Withdrew

Barbados withdrew, so Costa Rica qualified automatically.

15 June 1984	Panama	0–3	Honduras	Estadio Armando Dely Valdés, Colón, Panama
			Figueroa 50', 78' Laing 71'	Referee: Ortiz Cardoza (El Salvador)

24 June 1984	Honduras	1–0 (4–0 agg.)	Panama	Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
	Figueroa 67' (pen.)			Referee: Gus Constantine (United States)

Honduras advanced.

	Trinidad and Tobago	w/o	Grenada
			Withdrew

Grenada withdrew, so Trinidad and Tobago qualified automatically.

4 August 1984	Antigua and Barbuda	0–4	Haiti	Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince, Haiti^[2]
			Auguste 20', 31', 87' Thomas 51'	Referee: Taylor (Jamaica)

7 August 1984	Haiti	1–2 (5–2 agg.)	Antigua and Barbuda	Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
	Vorbe 33'		Gonzalves 17' Roberts 56'	Referee: Campbell (Jamaica)

Haiti advanced.

15 August 1984	Suriname	1–0	Guyana	André Kamperveen Stadion, Paramaribo, Suriname
	Edwards 77'			Referee: Lee (Netherlands Antilles)

29 August 1984	Guyana	1–1 (1–2 agg.)	Suriname	Georgetown Cricket Club Ground "Bourda", Georgetown, Guyana
	Archer 36'		Klinker 58'	Referee: Sirjuesingh (Trinidad and Tobago)

Suriname qualified.