 El Salvador returned to participate in the 1961 CCCF Championship , hosted in Costa Rica , alongside nine other national teams . Due to the larger number of teams the CCCF Championship shifted to a two round format with two round @-@ robin group stages . In the first round , there were two groups , one with five teams and one with four . The top two teams from both groups advanced to the second stage . El Salvador was placed in the four team group Honduras , the Netherlands Antilles , and Nicaragua , which they topped with two wins and one draw . In the decisive round they finished in second place behind Costa Rica , who won their seventh CCCF Championship . Afterward the tournament was dissolved and replaced with the CONCACAF Championship . 
