Caribbean Cup

Caribbean Cup
Founded 1989
Region Caribbean (CFU)
Number of teams 8 (finals)
30 (qualifiers)
Current champions  Jamaica (5th title)
Most successful team  Trinidad and Tobago (8 titles)
2010 Caribbean Championship

The Caribbean Cup, formerly known as the Copa Caribe, is the championship tournament for national association football teams that are members of the Caribbean Football Union. The first competition was contested in 1989 in Barbados. The Caribbean Cup also serves as a qualification tournament among CFU members for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Trinidad and Tobago, eight-time winners, and Jamaica, five-time winners, are the most successful sides, having won a combined 13 of 15 titles. Martinique and Haiti have also won the tournament.

Over the years, the tournament was named after its respective sponsors: Shell and Umbro Interforever Caribbean Cup in 1999. In 2001 it was referred to as Caribbean Nations Cup, Digicel announced its four year sponsorship of the tournament in May 2004.

In 1990 on the day of the final, an insurrection in Trinidad and Tobago, the host nation, by the Jamaat al Muslimeen forced an abandonment of the tournament with only the final remaining. Also, the tournament was not held in 2000, 2002 and 2003.

Contents

Tournaments

Year Host Final Third Place Match
Winner Score Runner-up 3rd Place Score 4th Place
1989
Details
 Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago
2 – 1
Grenada

Guadeloupe
By Table[n 1]
Netherlands Antilles
1990  Trinidad ABANDONED[n 2]
1991
Details
 Jamaica
Jamaica
2 – 0
Trinidad and Tobago

Saint Lucia
4 – 1
Guyana
1992
Details
 Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
3 – 1
Jamaica

Martinique
1 – 1
(5–3 pen.)

Cuba
1993
Details
 Jamaica
Martinique
0 – 0
(6–5 pen.)

Jamaica

Trinidad and Tobago
3 – 2
Saint Kitts and Nevis
1994
Details
 Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
7 – 2
Martinique

Guadeloupe
2 – 0
Suriname
1995
Details
 Cayman Islands
 Jamaica

Trinidad and Tobago
5 – 0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Cuba
3 – 0
Cayman Islands
1996
Details
 Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
2 – 0
Cuba

Martinique
1 – 1
(3–2 pen.)

Suriname
1997
Details
 Antigua
 Saint Kitts

Trinidad and Tobago
4 – 0
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jamaica
4 – 1
Grenada
1998
Details
 Jamaica
 Trinidad

Jamaica
2 – 1
Trinidad and Tobago

Haiti
3 – 2
Antigua and Barbuda
1999
Details
 Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
2 – 1
Cuba

Haiti
n/a[n 3]
Jamaica
2001
Details
 Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
3 – 0
Haiti

Martinique
1 – 0
Cuba
2005
Details
 Barbados
Jamaica
1 – 0[n 4]
Cuba

Trinidad and Tobago
3 – 2[n 4]
Barbados
2007
Details
 Trinidad
Haiti
2 – 1
Trinidad and Tobago

Cuba
2 – 1
Guadeloupe
2008
Details
 Jamaica
Jamaica
2 – 0
Grenada

Guadeloupe
0 – 0
(5–4 pen.)

Cuba
2010
Details
 Martinique
Jamaica[1]
1 – 1
(5–4 pen.)

Guadeloupe

Cuba
1 – 0
Grenada

Cumulative results

The following is a compiled national level championship table for the CFU region. Years in italics indicate that a nation was the host or co-host.

Team Titles Runners-up Third place Fourth place
 Trinidad and Tobago 8 (1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001) 3 (1991, 1998, 2007) 2 (1993, 2005) 0
 Jamaica 5 (1991, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010) 2 (1992, 1993) 2 (1997, 1999) 0
 Martinique 1 (1993) 1 (1994) 3 (1992, 1996, 2001) 0
 Haiti 1 (2007) 1 (2001) 2 (1998, 1999) 0
 Cuba 0 3 (1996, 1999, 2005) 3 (1995, 2007, 2010) 3 (1992, 2001, 2008)
 Grenada 0 2 (1989, 2008) 0 2 (1997, 2010)
 Guadeloupe 0 1 (2010) 3 (1989,[n 1] 1994, 2008) 1 (2007)
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 1 (1997) 0 1 (1993)
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 1 (1995) 0 0
 Saint Lucia 0 0 1 (1991) 0
 Suriname 0 0 0 2 (1994, 1996)
 Netherlands Antilles 0 0 0 1 (1989)
 Guyana 0 0 0 1 (1991)
 Cayman Islands 0 0 0 1 (1995)
 Antigua and Barbuda 0 0 0 1 (1998)
 Barbados 0 0 0 1 (2005)

Notes

  1. ^ a b No third place playoff was played. Third place was awarded based on table standings.
  2. ^ Play was suspended when Jamaat al Muslimeen attempted a coup d'état of the government of Trinidad and Tobago. The tournament was abandoned altogether after Tropical storm Arthur forced the cancellation of the final round of games. Trinidad and Tobago were to meet Martinique in the final, and Jamaica and Barbados were to meet in the third place match.
  3. ^ The third place match was cancelled due to condition of field after the final was already played.
  4. ^ a b Finals played in league table format.

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