The qualifying competition for the 1968 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament determined the four teams of the final tournament, which decides the teams that would qualify for the 1968 Summer Olympics football finals tournament in Mexico. The qualifying competition consisted of thirteen teams, with Bermuda, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and United States in the first round, while Costa Rica, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles gets a bye to the second round. The teams played home-and-away knockout matches. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the tournament after defeating Haiti 6–3, Cuba 5–1, Bermuda 2–1 on playoffs and Netherlands Antilles 7–0 on aggregate in the final round, respectively.

Summary

| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:whitesmoke;" | First round

| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:whitesmoke;" | Second round

| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:whitesmoke;" | Second round play-off

First round

Bermuda won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Cuba won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Haiti won 14–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

El Salvador won on walkover and advanced to the second round.

Initially, Suriname won 5–3 on aggregate, but on June 19, 1967, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association protested to FIFA about two players in Suriname's lineup, Siegfried Haltman and Armand Monsanto, who had already played professionally in Brazil and the Netherlands respectively. On August 17, 1967, FIFA ruled that Haltman had indeed played professionally in Brazil, for which Suriname was disqualified and Trinidad and Tobago advanced to the second round.

Second round

Costa Rica won 5–4 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.

El Salvador won 5–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.

Match abandoned at 107' due to lack of light.

Play-off

Guatemala won the play-off and qualified for the final tournament.

Trinidad and Tobago won 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.

Goalscorers

External links Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying, CONCACAF.com

References