CFU Club Shield

CFU Club Shield

Organising body	CFU CONCACAF (2018–2023)
Founded	2018;6 years ago (2018)
Region	Caribbean
Number of teams	20
Qualifier for	CONCACAF Caribbean Cup
Current champions	Arnett Gardens (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	Robinhood (2 titles)
Television broadcasters	CFU (YouTube)
2024 CFU Club Shield

The CFU Club Shield, also known as the CFU Caribbean Club Shield and formerly as the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield, is an annual Caribbean football competition for clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). It is a second-tier competition to the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup (and formerly the Caribbean Club Championship), introduced in 2018 for clubs which worked towards professional standards. ^[1] It is organized by the CFU, with CONCACAF organizing it between 2018 and 2023. ^[2]

Until 2022, the winner of this competition, as long as it fulfilled the licensing criteria, played against the fourth-placed team of the Caribbean Club Championship for a place in the CONCACAF League. Starting with 2023, the winner and runner-up qualify for the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup. ^[3]

History

On 25 July 2017 in San Francisco, California, the CONCACAF Council approved the implementation of a two-tier competition for affiliated clubs of Caribbean member associations, starting in 2018. The tier-one competition, known as the Caribbean Club Championship, would be contested by the champions and runners-up of the top professional and semi-professional leagues in year one, and open to only fully professional leagues in year two onwards. The tier-two competition, known as the Caribbean Club Shield, would be contested by the champions of the leagues that had no professional teams in year one (2018), opened to semi-professional standards in year two (2019) and planned to be open to fully professional leagues by 2022.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2023, both tournaments were restructured and renamed. The winner and runner-up of the second-tier Caribbean Shield now qualify for the first-tier CONCACAF Caribbean Cup to be held later in the same month. ^[4]

On 30 April 2024, CONCACAF officially gave the responsibility to organize the Caribbean Club Shield to the Caribbean Football Union, and as such the name of the competition was changed to the CFU Club Shield. ^[5]

Results

Season	Hosts	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
2018	Dominican Republic	Club Franciscain	2–1	Inter Moengotapoe	Real Rincon	3–1	Nacional
2019	Curaçao	Robinhood	1–0	Club Franciscain	Weymouth Wales and Jong Holland
2020	Curaçao	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic [6]
2021	Curaçao	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic [7]
2022	Puerto Rico	Bayamón FC	2–1 ( a.e.t. )	Inter Moengotapoe	AS Gosier	2–0	Jong Holland
2023	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Robinhood	5–1	Golden Lion	Club Sando	6–1	Metropolitan
2024	Curaçao	Arnett Gardens	1–0	Grenades	Atlético Pantoja	1–1 (9–8 ( p ))	Dublanc

Summary

Performance by club

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Semi-finalist	Top 4 total
Robinhood	2 (2019, 2023)	—	—	—	—	2
Club Franciscain	1 (2018)	1 (2019)	—	—	—	2
Bayamón FC	1 (2022)	—	—	—	—	1
Arnett Gardens	1 (2024)	—	—	—	—	1
Inter Moengotapoe	—	2 (2018, 2022)	—	—	—	2
Golden Lion	—	1 (2023)	—	—	—	1
Grenades	—	1 (2024)	—	—	—	1
Real Rincon	—	—	1 (2018)	—	—	1
AS Gosier	—	—	1 (2022)	—	—	1
Club Sando	—	—	1 (2023)	—	—	1
Atlético Pantoja	—	—	1 (2024)	—	—	1
Jong Holland	—	—	—	1 (2022)	1 (2019)	2
Nacional	—	—	—	1 (2018)	—	1
Metropolitan	—	—	—	1 (2023)	—	1
Dublanc	—	—	—	1 (2024)	—	1
Weymouth Wales	—	—	—	—	1 (2019)	1

Performance by association

Legend

1st – Champions 2nd – Runners-up 3rd – Third place 4th – Fourth place SF – Semi-finals

QF – Quarter-finals R16 – Round of 16 PR – Preliminary round GS – Group stage Q – Qualified

— Hosts x – Entered, but tournament not held  –  – Did not enter  ––  – Withdrew before tournament

Team	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	Total
Antigua and Barbuda	–	QF	x	–	–	–	2nd	2
Aruba	4th	GS	x	x	GS	GS	R16	5
Barbados	GS	SF	x	–	–	–	–	2
Bonaire	3rd	GS	x	x	GS	–	R16	4
British Virgin Islands	–	–	x	–	–	–	–	0
Cayman Islands	GS	GS	x	–	–	GS	R16	4
Cuba	–	QF	x	–	–	–	–	1
Curaçao	GS	SF	x	x	4th	GS	QF	5
Dominica	–	–	x	x	GS	GS	4th	3
Dominican Republic	–	–	–	–	–	GS	3rd	2
French Guiana	–	–	–	x	–	GS	R16	2
Grenada	GS	–	–	–	–	–	PR	2
Guadeloupe	GS	QF	x	x	3rd	GS	–	4
Guyana	––	GS	–	x	–	–	PR	2
Haiti	–	–	–	–	–	–	––	0
Jamaica	–	–	–	–	–	––	1st	1
Martinique	1st	2nd	x	x	GS	2nd	–	4
Puerto Rico	–	–	x	x	1st	4th	QF	3
Saint Kitts and Nevis	GS	QF	–	x	–	GS	QF	4
Saint Lucia	–	GS	x	x	–	GS	R16	3
Saint Martin	–	–	–	–	–	–	PR	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	GS	–	x	x	–	–	–	1
Sint Maarten	–	–	–	x	GS	GS	PR	3
Suriname	2nd	1st	x	x	2nd	1st	QF	5
Trinidad and Tobago	–	–	–	–	–	3rd	R16	2
Turks and Caicos Islands	–	–	–	–	GS	GS	R16	3
Total	12	13	0 (15)	0 (14)	10	16	20

See also

• Leagues Cup
• CONCACAF Central American Cup
• CONCACAF Champions Cup

Notes and references

1. "Dominican Republic Selected to Host Inaugural CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield". mailchi.mp. CONCACAF. Archived from the original on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
2. "Concacaf transitions Caribbean Club Shield organization and management to Caribbean Football Union". CONCACAF. 30 April 2024.
3. "Concacaf announces details for 2023 Concacaf Caribbean Club Competitions". Concacaf. 21 April 2023. Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
4. "CONCACAF Caribbean Cup: A brand new tournament to crown the best club". FIFA. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
5. Nicholson, Paul (1 May 2024). "Rehabilitated CFU takes over the running of Concacaf's Caribbean Club Shield competition". Inside World Football. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
6. "Update on Concacaf Caribbean Club Shield and Flow Concacaf Caribbean Club Championship". CONCACAF. 25 August 2020. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
7. "Update on 2021 Concacaf Caribbean Club Competitions". Concacaf. concacaf.com. 23 April 2021. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.

External links

• Caribbean Football Union
• CFU Championship, RSSSF.com