Outremer Champions Cup was a football cup tournament held annually between 1997 and 2007 and contested by four teams from overseas departments and territories of France, including winners of the Coupe T.O.M., Coupe D.O.M. and Océan Indien Cup. Before 2004, it was called simply Coupe D.O.M.-T.O.M. ( Outremer means "overseas".) [1]
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Coupe T.O.M or The Pacific French Territories Cup is a cup competed for by clubs from Tahiti and New Caledonia. T.O.M. stands for Territoires d'Outre-Mer, which includes Tahiti and New Caledonia. The other two T.O.M.s are Wallis and Futuna, whose standard of football is much lower, and the Southern and Antarctic Lands, which are uninhabited bar scientific personnel. All inhabited T.O.M.s are now called C.O.M.s, French: collectivités d'outre-mer or overseas collectivities). The winners qualify for the Outremer Champions Cup.
Coupe D.O.M. was a cup played by clubs from French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte and Réunion.
The tournament was always played in France. In 2008, it was decided to replace this competition by a similar one played by national teams called Coupe de l'Outre-Mer.
France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.3 million. France, a sovereign state, is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.
La Coupe de l'Outre-Mer de football was a biennial football competition that was created in 2008. It was designed to have the national football teams of the overseas departments and territories of France play against each other. This competition replaces the Coupe des Clubs Champions de l'Outre-Mer that involved clubs from the territories. The first edition took place between 24 September and 4 October 2008 in Île-de-France.
