Caribbean Cup

Caribbean Cup

Founded	1989
Region	Caribbean (CFU)
Number of teams	8 (finals) 30 (qualifiers)
Current champions	Cuba (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Trinidad and Tobago (8 titles)
2014 Caribbean Cup

The Caribbean Cup 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 serves as a qualification tournament among CFU members for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Caribbean Cup replaced the CFU Championship competition which was active between 1978 and 1988.

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.

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.

Sponsors

Over the years, the tournament has been named after its respective sponsors. Shell had sponsored the competition since its inception in 1989.^[1]

By February 1996, Jack Warner had announced a new sponsorship from sports apparel company Umbro for the 1996 Caribbean Cup.^[2] The tournament was also co-sponsored by Umbro in 1997 before Shell re-attained sole-sponsorship for the 1998 event.

In October 1998, during the first and only year of sponsorship from the Asia Sport Group (now World Sport Group), the competition changed its name to Copa Caribe. CFU's Chairman Jack Warner stated that the change was made to highlight the competition being a branch of the Copa de Oro.^[3] Florida-based Inter/Forever (now Traffic Group) agreed a sponsorship deal to replace the Asia Sport Group agreement in January 1999.^[4] The competition retained the title Copa Caribe for the 1999 and 2001 editions.

There was no competition held in 2003, instead teams focused on a group-stage only qualifying tournament.

Caribbean-based mobile phone company Digicel took over the sponsorship in 2004,^[5] in June 2007 they agreed to sponsor the 2008 and 2010 events.^[6] The 2012 edition of the competition had no title sponsor.

Tournaments

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		3rd Place	Score	4th Place
Shell Caribbean Cup
1989 Details	Barbados		Trinidad and Tobago	2 – 1	Grenada		Guadeloupe	By Table[n 1]	Netherlands Antilles
1990	Trinidad		ABANDONED DUE TO COUP ATTEMPT[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
Umbro/Shell Caribbean Cup
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
Shell Caribbean Cup
1998 Details	Jamaica  Trinidad		Jamaica	2 – 1	Trinidad and Tobago		Haiti	3 – 2	Antigua and Barbuda
Copa Caribe
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
Digicel Caribbean Cup
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[7]	1 – 1 (5–4 pen.)	Guadeloupe		Cuba	1 – 0	Grenada
Caribbean Cup
2012 Details	Antigua and Barbuda[8]		Cuba	1 – 0	Trinidad and Tobago		Haiti	1 – 0	Martinique

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)	4 (1991, 1998, 2007, 2012)	2 (1993, 2005)	0
Jamaica	5 (1991, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010)	2 (1992, 1993)	2 (1997, 1999)	0
Cuba	1 (2012)	3 (1996, 1999, 2005)	3 (1995, 2007, 2010)	3 (1992, 2001, 2008)
Martinique	1 (1993)	1 (1994)	3 (1992, 1996, 2001)	1 (2012)
Haiti	1 (2007)	1 (2001)	3 (1998, 1999, 2012)	0
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)

Awards

Year	Most Valuable player	Top Goalscorer(Finals only)	Best goalkeeper	Fair play award
1989	Steve Mark[9]	Dwight Yorke & Philbert Jones (2 goals)		Grenada
1991	Paul Davis	Paul Davis (5 goals)
1992		Leonson Lewis (7 goals)[10]
1993	Walter Boyd	Jean Michel Modestin (5 goals)		Saint Kitts and Nevis
1994	David Nakhid
1995	David Nakhid
1996		Russell Latapy (6 goals)
1997	Jerren Nixon		Clayton Ince
1998	Stern John	Stern John (10 goals)	Clayton Ince
1999	Raciel Martínez	Ariel Álvarez (5 goals)	Clayton Ince
2001	Dennis Lawrence	Golman Pierre (5 goals)	Clayton Ince
2005	Andy Williams[11]	Luton Shelton (9 goals)
2007	Pierre Richard Bruny	Gary Glasgow (6 goals)
2008	Eric Vernan[12]	Kithson Bain & Luton Shelton (5 goals)
2010	Rodolph Austin	Dane Richards & Kithson Bain (3 goals)
2012

Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Finals played in league table format.

References

External links

• RSSSF archive

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