1977 CONCACAF Championship qualification

Listed below are the dates and results for the tournament qualification. A total of 17 CONCACAF teams entered the competition. Honduras withdrew before the matches were played. The remaining 16 teams were divided into 3 zones, based on geographical considerations, as follows:
 * North American Zone had 3 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner and runner-up would advance to the Final Round.
 * Central American Zone had 4 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner and runner-up would advance to the Final Round.
 * Caribbean Zone had 9 teams, which would be divided into 2 groups of 4 or 5 teams. The teams played in a knockout tournament, with matches on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.

Entrants

 * 🇧🇧 barbados
 * 🇨🇦 canada
 * 🇨🇷 costa rica
 * 🇨🇺 cuba
 * 🇩🇴 dominican republic
 * 🇸🇻 el salvador
 * 🇬🇹 guatemala
 * 🇬🇾 guyana
 * 🇭🇹 haiti
 * 🇯🇲 jamaica
 * 🇲🇽 mexico
 * 🇵🇦 panama
 * 🇸🇷 suriname
 * 🇹🇹 trinidad and tobago
 * 🇺🇸 united states
 * 🇺🇸 united states

CONCACAF North American Zone
Canada and United States finished level on points and goal difference, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the Final Round.

Mexico and Canada advanced to the tournament.

CONCACAF Central American Zone
Guatemala and El Salvador advanced to the tournament.

First round
Suriname advanced to the Second Round.

The aggregate score was tied 2–2, and a play-off was played to decide who would advance to the Second Round.

Trinidad and Tobago advanced to the Second Round, via the play-off.

Second round
The aggregate score was tied 3–3, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the tournament.

Suriname advanced to the tournament, via the play-off.

Preliminary round
Haiti advanced to the First Round.

First round
Haiti advanced to the Second Round.

Cuba advanced to the Second Round.

Second round
The aggregate score was tied 2–2, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the Final Round.

Haiti advanced to the tournament, via the play-off.

Teams qualified to the 1977 CONCACAF Championship

 * 🇲🇽 mexico (CONCACAF North America Zone Winners)
 * 🇨🇦 canada (CONCACAF North American Zone Play-Off Winners)
 * 🇬🇹 guatemala (CONCACAF Central American Zone Winners)
 * 🇸🇻 el salvador (CONCACAF Central American Zone Runners-up)
 * 🇸🇷 suriname (CONCACAF Caribbean Zone Second Round Winners)
 * 🇭🇹 haiti (CONCACAF Caribbean Zone Second Round and Play-off winners)

Goalscorers

 * 6 goals


 * Emmanuel Sanon


 * 5 goals


 * Óscar Enrique Sánchez
 * 🇸🇻 Luis Ramírez Zapata
 * 🇸🇷 Roy George


 * 4 goals


 * Pierre Bayonne
 * Leintz Domingue
 * Steve David


 * 3 goals


 * 🇧🇧 Victor Clarke
 * Javier Jiménez
 * Selvin Pennant


 * 2 goals


 * 🇨🇦 Bob Bolitho
 * Johnny Alvarado Cascante
 * 🇨🇺 Francisco Fariñas
 * 🇸🇻 David Arnoldo Cabrera
 * 🇸🇻 Victor Manuel Mejia Valencia
 * Peter Sandoval
 * 🇸🇷 Remie Olmberg
 * Sammy Llewellyn


 * 1 goal


 * 🇨🇦 Brian Budd
 * 🇨🇦 Bob Lenarduzzi
 * 🇨🇦 Buzz Parsons
 * Mario Barrantes
 * Javier Masís
 * William Fisher Salgado
 * 🇨🇺 Dagoberto Lara
 * 🇨🇺 Ramón Núñez
 * 🇨🇺 Agustín Pérez Castillo
 * 🇨🇺 Miguel Rivero
 * 🇨🇺 Andrés Roldán
 * 🇸🇻 Silvio Aquino
 * Julio César Anderson
 * Leonardo McNish
 * Felix McDonald
 * Benjamin Monterroso
 * 🇬🇾 Vibert Butts
 * 🇬🇾 Keith Niles
 * Arsène Auguste
 * Jean Marie Jean Baptiste
 * Carlo Brevil
 * Jean-Claude Désir
 * Louidor Labissiere
 * 🇯🇲 Carl Brown
 * 🇲🇽 Pedro Damián Álvarez
 * 🇲🇽 Hugo Dávila
 * 🇲🇽 Francisco Solís
 * Monico Eluterio Ruiz
 * 🇵🇦 Hector Nestor Hernández
 * 🇵🇦 Daniel Montillo Ruíz
 * 🇵🇦 Federico Ponce
 * 🇵🇦 Agustín Sánchez
 * 🇵🇦 Luis Ernesto Tapia
 * 🇵🇦 Virgílio Vázquez
 * 🇸🇷 Rinaldo Entingh
 * 🇸🇷 Henry Playfair
 * Leon Carpette
 * Anthony Douglas
 * Selris Figaro
 * 🇺🇸 Boris Bandov
 * 🇺🇸 Miro Rys
 * 🇺🇸 Juli Veee


 * 1 own goal


 * 🇧🇧 Victor Clarke (playing against Trinidad and Tobago)
 * Allan Wellmann (playing against Panama)