CFU Club Championship

CFU Club Championship
Founded 1997
Region Caribbean Islands (CFU)
Number of teams 13
Current champions Trinidad and Tobago Central (2015)
Most successful club(s) Trinidad and Tobago W Connection (3)
Website CFU homepage
2016 CFU Club Championship

The CFU Club Championship or CFU Club Champions' Cup[1] is the annual international football competition held amongst association football clubs from the Caribbean Islands for clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). The CFU Club Champions’ Cup serves as a qualifying event for the CONCACAF Champions League Tournament.

Qualification

Thirty National Associations affiliated to the CFU are invited to participate with their National League or Cup Champion and Sub Champion, although many member nations do not send a representative team every year. The winner of this competition as well as the first and the second runners-up advance to the CONCACAF Champions League group stage.

The CFU presents an exact replica of the CFU Club Champions Cup trophy to the winning team for their permanent possession.

Since being founded in 1997 all championships have been won by clubs from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico (though, in seasons where no champion was crowned, clubs from other countries have been finalists). CFU previously allowed the Puerto Rican team Puerto Rico Islanders and Antigua Barracuda FC (both now defunct) to compete despite being members of the United States league system.

Participation of Member Associations in CFU Club Champions Cups

Country Competitions Years
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 18 1997–98, 2000–07, 2009–16
Jamaica Jamaica 14 1997–98, 2000, 2002–07, 2009, 2013-16
Suriname Suriname 14 1997, 2000–01, 2003–05, 2007, 2009–12, 2014–16
Haiti Haiti 13 2000–02, 2006–07, 2009–16
Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda 11 2000–01, 2004–07, 2009, 2011–13, 2015
Curaçao Curaçao 10 2000–01, 2003, 2005–07, 2009–10, 2012, 2014
Guyana Guyana 9 1997, 2001, 2006, 2009–12, 2014–15
Dominica Dominica 8 2000, 2002–03, 2005, 2007, 2009–11
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 8 2006–07, 2009–14
Cayman Islands Cayman Islands 6 2002, 2010–12, 2014, 2016
Guadeloupe Guadeloupe 5 1997–98, 2014–16
Martinique Martinique 5 1997–98, 2000–02
Saint Lucia Saint Lucia 5 2000–02, 2005, 2011
United States Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands 5 2001, 2005–07, 2015
Aruba Aruba 4 2005–07, 2009
Barbados Barbados 4 1997–98, 2000, 2003
Bermuda Bermuda 4 2010–12, 2016
Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis 4 2001, 2003, 2007, 2011
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3 1997–98, 2010
The Bahamas Bahamas 1 2015
British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands 1 2001
Cuba Cuba 1 2007
The Bahamas Bahamas 1 2015
Grenada Grenada 1 2003
Montserrat Montserrat 1 2004
Dominican Republic Dominican Republic 1 2016
Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands 1 2003

The following associations have never entered any teams to the CFU Club Championship:

Past winners

Season Winner Score Runner-up Third Place Score Fourth Place
1997 United Petrotrin Trinidad and Tobago 2 – 1 Jamaica Seba United N/A N/A
1998 Joe Public Trinidad and Tobago 1 – 0 Trinidad and Tobago Caledonia AIA N/A N/A
2000 Joe Public Trinidad and Tobago (1) Trinidad and Tobago W Connection Harbour View Jamaica (1) Haiti Carioca FC
2001 Defence Force Trinidad and Tobago (2) Trinidad and Tobago W Connection Racing Club Haïtien Haiti (2) Suriname SNL
2002 W Connection Trinidad and Tobago (2) Jamaica Arnett Gardens Violette Haiti (2) Jamaica Harbour View
2003 San Juan Jabloteh Trinidad and Tobago 3 – 3 (4 – 2 PSO)
(2 – 1 / 1 – 2)		 Trinidad and Tobago W Connection N/A N/A
2004 Harbour View Jamaica 3 – 2
(1 – 1 / 2 – 1) 		Jamaica Tivoli Gardens N/A N/A
2005 Portmore United Jamaica 5 – 2
(2 – 1 / 4 – 0) 		Suriname Robinhood N/A N/A
2006 W Connection Trinidad and Tobago 1 – 0 Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh N/A N/A
2007 (3) Harbour View Jamaica 2 – 1 Trinidad and Tobago Joe Public Puerto Rico Islanders Puerto Rico 1 – 0
(1 – 0 / 0 – 0) 		Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh
2009 W Connection Trinidad and Tobago 2 – 1 Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Islanders San Juan Jabloteh Trinidad and Tobago 2 – 1 Haiti Tempête
2010 Puerto Rico Islanders Puerto Rico (1) Trinidad and Tobago Joe Public San Juan Jabloteh Trinidad and Tobago (1) Puerto Rico Bayamón FC
2011 Puerto Rico Islanders Puerto Rico 3 – 1 (aet) Haiti Tempête Alpha United Guyana 1 – 1 (4 – 3 PSO) Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
2012 Caledonia AIA Trinidad and Tobago 1 – 1(aet) (4 – 3 PSO) Trinidad and Tobago W Connection Puerto Rico Islanders Puerto Rico 2 – 0 Antigua and Barbuda Antigua Barracuda
Qualified teams
2013 Trinidad and Tobago W Connection (Group 1 winner) Haiti Valencia FC (Group 2 winner) Trinidad and Tobago Caledonia AIA (Playoff winner)
2014 Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Bayamón FC (Group 1 winner) Jamaica Waterhouse (Group 2 winner) Guyana Alpha United (Group 3 winner)
Season Winner Score Runner-up Third Place Score Fourth Place
2015 Central Trinidad and Tobago 2 – 1 Trinidad and Tobago W Connection Montego Bay United Jamaica 1 – 0 Haiti Don Bosco
2016 To be played February–May 2016
1 No final matches were held. The championship round was decided by a final group round.
2 No final matches were held. Winners based on tiebreakers: Group Points, GD, GF.
3 After the CONCACAF Champions League (CCL) replaced the Champions Cup in 2008, the two-losing-semifinalists in the 2007 CFU Clubs Championships (CFU-CC) played a 2-leg series on the 10th and 25 May 2008 to determine the 2007 CFU-CC tournament's 3rd place team and the final Caribbean spot (CFU#3) to the inaugural 2008 CCL.
4 Not played: 1999 & 2008

Results

By club

Team Winners Runners-up Years Won Years Runner-up
Trinidad and Tobago W Connection 3 5 2002, 2006, 2009 2000, 2001, 2003, 2012, 2015
Trinidad and Tobago Joe Public 2 2 1998, 2000 2007, 2010
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Islanders 2 1 2010, 2011 2009
Jamaica Harbour View 2 0 2004, 2007
Trinidad and Tobago Caledonia AIA 1 1 2012 1998
Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh 1 1 2003 2006
Trinidad and Tobago Central 1 0 2015
Jamaica Portmore United 1 0 2005
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force 1 0 2001
Trinidad and Tobago United Petrotrin 1 0 1997
Haiti Tempête 0 1 2011
Suriname Robinhood 0 1 2005
Jamaica Tivoli Gardens 0 1 2004
Jamaica Arnett Gardens 0 1 2002
Jamaica Seba United 0 1 1997

By country

Nation Winners Runners-up Winning Clubs Runner-up Clubs
 Trinidad and Tobago 10 9 W Connection (3), Joe Public (2), San Juan Jabloteh (1), United Petrotrin (1), Defence Force (1), Caledonia AIA (1), Central (1) W Connection (5), Joe Public (2), San Juan Jabloteh (1), Caledonia AIA (1)
 Jamaica 3 3 Harbour View (2), Portmore United (1) Arnett Gardens (1), Tivoli Gardens (1), Seba United (1)
 Puerto Rico 2 1 Puerto Rico Islanders (2) Puerto Rico Islanders (1)
 Haiti 0 1 Tempête (1)
 Suriname 0 1 Robinhood (1)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ CFU CLUB CHAMPIONS’ CUP 2011 TOURNAMENT REGULATIONS

External links

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