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 bodyCFU
Founded1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Abolished2017; 7 years ago (2017)
RegionCaribbean
Number of teams31
Related competitionsCFU 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)
Websitewww.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 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

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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

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

Participating teams

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

Champions

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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 1 (2017) – – 1
(19891)
 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

  1. Results as Netherlands Antilles.

Awards

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Year Most Valuable player Top Goalscorer(Finals only) Best goalkeeper Fair play award
1989 Grenada Steve Mark[11] Trinidad and Tobago Dwight Yorke, Trinidad and Tobago Philbert Jones (2 goals)  Grenada
1991 Jamaica Paul Davis Jamaica Paul Davis (5 goals)
1992 Trinidad and Tobago Leonson Lewis (7 goals)[12]
1993 Jamaica Walter Boyd Martinique Jean-Michel Modestin (5 goals)  Saint Kitts and Nevis
1994 Trinidad and Tobago David Nakhid
1995 Trinidad and Tobago David Nakhid
1996 Trinidad and Tobago Russell Latapy (6 goals)
1997 Trinidad and Tobago Jerren Nixon Trinidad and Tobago Clayton Ince
1998 Trinidad and Tobago Stern John Trinidad and Tobago Stern John (10 goals) Trinidad and Tobago Clayton Ince
1999 Cuba Raciel Martínez Cuba Ariel Álvarez (5 goals) Trinidad and Tobago Clayton Ince
2001 Trinidad and Tobago Dennis Lawrence Haiti Golman Pierre (5 goals) Trinidad and Tobago Clayton Ince
2005 Jamaica Andy Williams[13] Jamaica Luton Shelton (9 goals)
2007 Haiti Pierre Richard Bruny Trinidad and Tobago Gary Glasgow (6 goals)
2008 Jamaica Eric Vernan[14] Grenada Kithson Bain, Jamaica Luton Shelton (5 goals)
2010 Jamaica Rodolph Austin Jamaica Dane Richards, Grenada Kithson Bain (3 goals)
2012 eight players (2 goals)
2014 Jamaica Rodolph Austin Haiti Kervens Belfort, Jamaica Darren Mattocks and Trinidad and Tobago Kevin Molino (3 goals) Jamaica Andre Blake  Haiti
2017 Curaçao Gino van Kessel Curaçao Elson Hooi (2 goals) Curaçao Eloy Room

Notes

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  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

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References

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  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.
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