New York Inter-Giuliana & the 1976 CONCACAF Championship

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Check out this story: CD Aguila captures 1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

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Entrants as the 1975 US Open Cup runners-up, New York Inter-Giuliana were the sixth club to represent the tournament, ending a four-year absence since 1970 champion Elizabeth SC played in the 1971 event.

NYIG faced a Canadian foe in the 1976-77 CONCACAF Championship's opening round, the First Round in the North American Zone. They fell 3-2 in the first leg and again, 2-1, in the return leg for a 5-3 aggregate series loss to Toronto Italia. Toronto, though, would withdraw before playing Mexico's Leon in the NAZ Final, sending the Mexicans onto the tournament semifinals and the dramatic conclusion in which an on-field-fight ended the series.

The club was slated to make a second consecutive appearance in the confederation's championship a year later also as Open Cup finalists. However, the team withdrew from the tournament in which they were slated to play Club America in the North American Zone Final as there were no entrants from Canada. Club America would win that tournament as chronicled in this CONCACAF Retro story: Club America wins first two international titles in 1978
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