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.

The Caribbean Cup was an association football competition organized by CFU as its top regional tournament for men's senior national teams from the Caribbean. 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.

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

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]

Results

Year	Hosts	Champions	Results	Runners-up	Third place	Results	Fourth place
1989	Barbados	Trinidad and Tobago	2–1	Grenada	Guadeloupe	–[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 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

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	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total
Trinidad and Tobago	8 (1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001)	5 (1991, 1998, 2007, 2012, 2014)	2 (1993, 2005)	–	15
Jamaica	6 (1991, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014)	3 (1992, 1993, 2017)	2 (1997, 1999)	–	11
Cuba	1 (2012)	3 (1996, 1999, 2005)	3 (1995, 2007, 2010)	4 (1992, 2001, 2008, 2014)	11
Haiti	1 (2007)	1 (2001)	4 (1998, 1999, 2012, 2014)	–	6
Martinique	1 (1993)	1 (1994)	3 (1992, 1996, 2001)	2 (2012, 2017)	7
Curaçao/ Netherlands Antilles	1 (2017)	–	–	1 (1989)	2
Grenada	–	2 (1989, 2008)	–	2 (1997, 2010)	4
Guadeloupe	–	1 (2010)	3 (1989), (1994), (2008)	1 (2007)	5
Saint Kitts and Nevis	–	1 (1997)	–	1 (1993)	2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	–	1 (1995)	–	–	1
Saint Lucia	–	–	1 (1991)	–	1
French Guiana	–	–	1 (2017)	–	1
Suriname	–	–	–	2 (1994, 1996)	2
Guyana	–	–	–	1 (1991)	1
Cayman Islands	–	–	–	1 (1995)	1
Antigua and Barbuda	–	–	–	1 (1998)	1
Barbados	–	–	–	1 (2005)	1

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