Caribbean Cup

This article is about the defunct national team tournament. For the club competition, see CONCACAF Caribbean Cup. For the international baseball tournament, see Caribbean Baseball Cup.

Caribbean Cup

Organising body	CFU
Founded	1989;36 years ago (1989)
Abolished	2017;8 years ago (2017)
Region	Caribbean
Number of teams	31
Related competitions	CFU Championship Copa Centroamericana/Copa de Naciones UNCAF North American Nations Cup
Last champions	Curaçao (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Trinidad and Tobago (8 titles)
Website	www.caribbeancup.org

The Caribbean Cup was a regional football competition for senior national teams from the Caribbean. It was organized by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), the regional body for the Caribbean Zone under CONCACAF. The tournament was held from 1989 to 2017, as the direct successor competition of the CFU Championship and also served as a qualification method for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Trinidad and Tobago, eight-time champions, and Jamaica, six-time champions, were the most successful teams, winning a combined 14 titles of 18 editions. Martinique, Haiti, Cuba and Curaçao 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 and 3rd place play-off game remaining. Also, the tournament was not held in 2000, 2002 and 2003.

The 2017 edition of the tournament was the 19th and final. The tournament was discontinued in favour of participation in the CONCACAF Nations League. ^[1]

Sponsors

Over the years, the tournament has been named after its respective sponsors. Shell had sponsored the competition since its inception in 1989. ^[2]

By February 1996, Jack Warner had announced a new sponsorship from sports apparel company Umbro for the 1996 Caribbean Cup. ^[3] 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. ^[4] Florida-based Inter/Forever (now Traffic Group) agreed a sponsorship deal to replace the Asia Sport Group agreement in January 1999. ^[5] 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, ^[6] in June 2007 they agreed to sponsor the 2008 and 2010 events. ^[7] The 2012 and 2014 editions of the competition had no title sponsor, while the last tournament (in 2017) was sponsored by Scotiabank. ^[8]

Editions

19 editions of the tournament were held.

Ed.	Year	Hosts	Final			Third place match
			Champions	Results	Runners-up	Third place	Results	Fourth place
1	1989	Barbados	Trinidad and Tobago	2–1	Grenada	Guadeloupe	n/a [n 1]	Netherlands Antilles
2	1990	Trinidad and Tobago	The tournament was unfinished, the final and third place matches were not played [n 2]
3	1991	Jamaica	Jamaica	2–0	Trinidad and Tobago	Saint Lucia	4–1	Guyana
4	1992	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	3–1	Jamaica	Martinique	1–1 (5–3 p)	Cuba
5	1993	Jamaica	Martinique	0–0 (6–5 p)	Jamaica	Trinidad and Tobago	3–2	Saint Kitts and Nevis
6	1994	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	7–2	Martinique	Guadeloupe	2–0	Suriname
7	1995	Cayman Islands   Jamaica	Trinidad and Tobago	5–0	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Cuba	3–0	Cayman Islands
8	1996	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	2–0	Cuba	Martinique	1–1 (3–2 p)	Suriname
9	1997	Antigua and Barbuda   Saint Kitts and Nevis	Trinidad and Tobago	4–0	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Jamaica	4–1	Grenada
10	1998	Jamaica   Trinidad and Tobago	Jamaica	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago	Haiti	3–2	Antigua and Barbuda
11	1999	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	2–1	Cuba	Haiti   Jamaica	n/a [n 3]	–
12	2001	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	3–0	Haiti	Martinique	1–0	Cuba
13	2005	Barbados	Jamaica	Round-Robin	Cuba	Trinidad and Tobago	Round-Robin	Barbados
14	2007	Trinidad and Tobago	Haiti	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago	Cuba	2–1	Guadeloupe
15	2008	Jamaica	Jamaica	2–0	Grenada	Guadeloupe	0–0 (5–4 p)	Cuba
16	2010	Martinique	Jamaica [9]	1–1 (5–4 p)	Guadeloupe	Cuba	1–0	Grenada
17	2012	Antigua and Barbuda [10]	Cuba	1–0	Trinidad and Tobago	Haiti	1–0	Martinique
18	2014	Jamaica	Jamaica	0–0 (4–3 p)	Trinidad and Tobago	Haiti	2–1	Cuba
19	2017	Martinique	Curaçao	2–1	Jamaica	French Guiana	1–0	Martinique

Participating teams

The 31 members of CFU participated on the tournament and qualification:

•   Anguilla
•   Antigua and Barbuda
•   Aruba
•   Bahamas
•   Barbados
•   Bermuda
•   Bonaire
•   British Virgin Islands
•   Cayman Islands
•   Cuba
•   Curaçao
•   Dominica
•   Dominican Republic
•   French Guiana
•   Grenada
•   Guadeloupe
•   Guyana
•   Haiti
•   Jamaica
•   Martinique
•   Montserrat
•   Puerto Rico
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis
•   Saint Lucia
•   Saint Martin
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
•   Sint Maarten
•   Suriname
•   Trinidad and Tobago
•   Turks and Caicos Islands
•   U.S. Virgin Islands

Performances

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
Trinidad and Tobago	8 (1989, 1992 , 1994 , 1995, 1996 , 1997, 1999 , 2001 )	5 (1991, 1998 , 2007 , 2012, 2014)	2 (1993, 2005)	–
Jamaica	6 ( 1991 , 1998 , 2005, 2008 , 2010, 2014 )	3 (1992, 1993 , 2017)	2 (1997, 1999)	–
Cuba	1 (2012)	3 (1996, 1999, 2005)	3 (1995, 2007, 2010)	4 (1992, 2001, 2008, 2014)
Haiti	1 (2007)	1 (2001)	4 (1998, 1999, 2012, 2014)	–
Martinique	1 (1993)	1 (1994)	3 (1992, 1996, 2001)	2 (2012, 2017 )
Curaçao /  Netherlands Antilles	1 (2017)	–	–	1 (1989)
Grenada	–	2 (1989, 2008)	–	2 (1997, 2010)
Guadeloupe	–	1 (2010)	3 (1989), (1994), (2008)	1 (2007)
Saint Kitts and Nevis	–	1 ( 1997 )	–	1 (1993)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	–	1 (1995)	–	–
Saint Lucia	–	–	1 (1991)	–
French Guiana	–	–	1 (2017)	–
Suriname	–	–	–	2 (1994, 1996)
Guyana	–	–	–	1 (1991)
Cayman Islands	–	–	–	1 ( 1995 )
Antigua and Barbuda	–	–	–	1 (1998)
Barbados	–	–	–	1 ( 2005 )

Notes

Italic — Hosts

Awards

Year	Most Valuable player	Top Goalscorer(Finals only)	Best goalkeeper	Fair play award
1989	Steve Mark [11]	Dwight Yorke, Philbert Jones (2 goals)		Grenada
1991	Paul Davis	Paul Davis (5 goals)
1992		Leonson Lewis (7 goals) [12]
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 [13]	Luton Shelton (9 goals)
2007	Pierre Richard Bruny	Gary Glasgow (6 goals)
2008	Eric Vernan [14]	Kithson Bain, Luton Shelton (5 goals)
2010	Rodolph Austin	Dane Richards, Kithson Bain (3 goals)
2012		eight players (2 goals)
2014	Rodolph Austin	Kervens Belfort, Darren Mattocks and Kevin Molino (3 goals)	Andre Blake	Haiti
2017	Gino van Kessel	Elson Hooi (2 goals)	Eloy Room

Notes

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.

See also

• CFU
• UNCAF
• NAFU
• CFU Championship
• Copa Centroamericana/Copa de Naciones UNCAF
• North American Nations Cup

References

1. "CONCACAF Nations League to replace Caribbean Cup". Caribbean National Weekly. Archived from the original on 20 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
2. "Shell Football Cup to kick off April 1989". Jamaica Gleaner. 25 August 1988. p. 12.
3. "CFU boss takes shot at regional federations". Jamaica Gleaner. 28 February 1996. p. 1.
4. "New name for Carib champs". Kingston Gleaner. 1 October 1998. p. 20.
5. "New Sponsor, Format For Cup". Jamaica Gleaner. 7 January 1999.
6. "Busy week for CFU's Burrell". Jamaica Gleaner. 26 April 2004. p. 14.
7. "DIGICEL RENEWS SPONSORSHIP OF THE DIGICEL CARIBBEAN CUP". Digicel Group. 8 June 2007. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
8. "Curaçao wins maiden Caribbean Cup - Wikinews, the free news source". Archived from the original on 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
9. "Cummings, Jamaica win Caribbean Cup". coloradorapids.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-20.
10. "Coach: T&T unlucky". trinidadexpress.com. 16 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-18. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
11. "Shell/Umbro jinx persists – Trinidad & Tobago Football History". www.ttfootballhistory.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
12. "Trinidad regain Shell Cup – Trinidad & Tobago Football History". www.ttfootballhistory.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-20.
13. "The Jamaica Star :: Andy set to miss Guatemala ::". Archived from the original on 2005-11-23. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
14. "Jamaica Star : Reggae Boyz bash Guyana : Sport : December 2, 2010". Archived from the original on 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2012-06-03.

External links

• Caribbean Football Union
• RSSSF archive
• CONCACAF's official site for the Caribbean Cup (in English and Spanish)