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Caribbean Football Union
The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) is the representative organization for football associations in the Caribbean. It represents 25 FIFA member nations, as well as 6 territories that are not affiliated with FIFA. The Union was established in January 1978 and its member associations compete in the CONCACAF region. The CFU also runs developmental competitions, including the CONCACAF Caribbean Shield and youth challenge series. History The formation of the Caribbean Football Union is credited to former Trinidad and Tobago national footballer Patrick Raymond. In 1976, he approached Phil Woosnam, the Commissioner of the North American Soccer League (NASL), about ownership of a Caribbean franchise within the NASL, and instead, Woosnam proposed the formation of a Caribbean Professional League. Acting on Woosnam's advice, and with assistance from former England player-turned businessman Jimmy Hill and his company World Sports Academy, plus the recommendation of former FIFA President Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of International Sports Federations
This is a list of international sports federations, each of which serves as a non-governmental organization, non-governmental sports governing body, governing body for a given sport and administers its sport at a world level, most often crafting rules, promoting the sport to prospective spectator sport, spectators and fan (person), fans, developing prospective players, and organizing world or continental championships. Some international sports federations, such as the FINA, International Swimming Federation and the International Skating Union, may oversee multiple activities referred to in common parlance as separate sports: FINA, for example governs swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, and water polo as separate "disciplines" within the single "sport" of Aquatics. International sports federations form an integral part of the Olympic and Paralympic movements. Each Olympic sport is represented by its respective international sports federation, which in turn helps administer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean Club Championship
The Caribbean Club Championship, also known as the CFU Club Championship or CFU Club Champions' Cup, was an annual international football competition held amongst association football clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). The Caribbean Club Championship served as a qualifying event for the CONCACAF Champions League tournament. The tournament was officially the Flow CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship for sponsorship reasons from 2018 to 2022. With the expansion of the CONCACAF Champions League starting from the 2024 edition, the 2022 edition of the Caribbean Club Championship was the last held. Instead, a regional cup tournament will be launched as a qualifying tournament of the CONCACAF Champions League for teams from the Caribbean, besides those which qualify directly through their professional leagues. Qualification Thirty-one national associations affiliated with the CFU were invited to participate, with each eligible to send two clubs, usually their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFU Boys U-14 Challenge Series
CFU may refer to: * Cambridge Fans United, fans of the English football team Cambridge United F.C. * Canadian Freelance Union, a Canadian trade union for freelance media contributors * Caribbean Football Union, the nominal governing body for Caribbean football * Cedar Falls Utilities, a municipally-owned public utility located in Cedar Falls, Iowa * Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (ASX and LSX code), an Australian fuel cell technology company * Children's Film Unit, a British film production company & educational charity * Colony-forming unit, a measure of viable bacterial or fungal numbers * Commercial Farmers' Union, a trade union in Zimbabwe * Community Fire Unit, a New South Wales, Australia-based residential volunteer fire protection organisation * Corfu International Airport (IATA airport code), an airport on the Greek island of Corfu at Kerkyra * Croatian Fraternal Union The Croatian Fraternal Union ( hr, Hrvatska bratska zajednica) (CFU), the oldest and largest Croatian organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship Qualifying
Caribbean zone The format and dates were published on 24 June 2016. Teams A total of 25 teams entered the tournament. First round Group 1 ---- ---- Group 2 ---- ---- Group 3 ---- ---- Group 4 ---- ---- Group 5 ---- ---- Group 6 ---- ---- Ranking of second-placed teams The best runners-up from the group stage will also qualify for the final round. Final round Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Ranking of third-placed teams The best third-placed team from the final round group stage also qualified for the 2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship. Semi-finals Third-place playoff Final Central American zone The format is a single round-robin stage. Panama qualified for the CONCACAF U-17 Championship as hosts and did not enter the qualifying competition. In September 2016, it was announced that San José, Costa Rica would host the Central American qualifying tournament from 17 to 26 November 2016. Due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFU Men's U-17 Tournament
CFU may refer to: * Cambridge Fans United, fans of the English football team Cambridge United F.C. * Canadian Freelance Union, a Canadian trade union for freelance media contributors * Caribbean Football Union, the nominal governing body for Caribbean football * Cedar Falls Utilities, a municipally-owned public utility located in Cedar Falls, Iowa * Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (ASX and LSX code), an Australian fuel cell technology company * Children's Film Unit, a British film production company & educational charity * Colony-forming unit, a measure of viable bacterial or fungal numbers * Commercial Farmers' Union, a trade union in Zimbabwe * Community Fire Unit, a New South Wales, Australia-based residential volunteer fire protection organisation * Corfu International Airport (IATA airport code), an airport on the Greek island of Corfu at Kerkyra * Croatian Fraternal Union The Croatian Fraternal Union ( hr, Hrvatska bratska zajednica) (CFU), the oldest and largest Croatian organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship Qualifying
The qualifying competitions for the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship were handled by two regional of CONCACAF's bodies; the Caribbean Football Union (Caribbean zone) and the Central American Football Union (Central American zone). Representative teams from Canada, Mexico and the United States automatically qualified for the final competition. Caribbean zone The details were announced in April 2016. Teams First round Group 1 To be held 15–19 June 2016 and hosted in St. Maarten. ---- ---- Group 2 To be held 15–19 June 2016 and hosted in Trinidad and Tobago. ---- ---- Group 3 To be held 29 June – 3 July 2016 and hosted in Haiti. ---- ---- Group 4 To be held 15–19 June 2016 and hosted in Dominican Republic. ---- ---- Ranking of second-placed teams Three runners-up from the group stage (best three group runners-up) will also qualify for the final round. Final round To be held 21–30 October 2016 and hosted in Curaçao. Group stage =Group A= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFU Men's U-20 Tournament
CFU may refer to: * Cambridge Fans United, fans of the English football team Cambridge United F.C. * Canadian Freelance Union, a Canadian trade union for freelance media contributors * Caribbean Football Union, the nominal governing body for Caribbean football * Cedar Falls Utilities, a municipally-owned public utility located in Cedar Falls, Iowa * Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (ASX and LSX code), an Australian fuel cell technology company * Children's Film Unit, a British film production company & educational charity * Colony-forming unit, a measure of viable bacterial or fungal numbers * Commercial Farmers' Union, a trade union in Zimbabwe * Community Fire Unit, a New South Wales, Australia-based residential volunteer fire protection organisation * Corfu International Airport (IATA airport code), an airport on the Greek island of Corfu at Kerkyra * Croatian Fraternal Union The Croatian Fraternal Union ( hr, Hrvatska bratska zajednica) (CFU), the oldest and largest Croatian organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship Qualification
The 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification was a men's under-23 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship. Players born on or after 1 January 1993 were eligible to compete in the tournament. A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, where the berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows: *Three teams from the North American Zone (NAFU), i.e., Canada, Mexico and the hosts United States, who all qualified automatically *Three teams from the Central American Zone (UNCAF) *Two teams from the Caribbean Zone (CFU) The top two teams of the final tournament qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in Brazil, while the third-placed team advanced to the CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off against the 2015 South American Youth Football Championship runner-up for the final berth in the Olympics. Teams A total of 27 CONCACAF member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFU Men's U-23 Tournament
CFU may refer to: * Cambridge Fans United, fans of the English football team Cambridge United F.C. * Canadian Freelance Union, a Canadian trade union for freelance media contributors * Caribbean Football Union, the nominal governing body for Caribbean football * Cedar Falls Utilities, a municipally-owned public utility located in Cedar Falls, Iowa * Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (ASX and LSX code), an Australian fuel cell technology company * Children's Film Unit, a British film production company & educational charity * Colony-forming unit, a measure of viable bacterial or fungal numbers * Commercial Farmers' Union, a trade union in Zimbabwe * Community Fire Unit, a New South Wales, Australia-based residential volunteer fire protection organisation * Corfu International Airport (IATA airport code), an airport on the Greek island of Corfu at Kerkyra * Croatian Fraternal Union The Croatian Fraternal Union ( hr, Hrvatska bratska zajednica) (CFU), the oldest and largest Croatian organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Be Determined
To be announced (TBA), to be confirmed (TBC), to be determined or decided or declared (TBD), and other variations, are placeholder terms used very broadly in event planning to indicate that although something is scheduled or expected to happen, a particular aspect of that remains to be fixed or set. TBA versus TBC versus TBD These phrases are similar, but may be used for different degrees of indeterminacy: *To be announced (TBA) or to be declared (TBD) – details may have been determined, but are not yet ready to be announced. *To be confirmed (TBC), to be resolved (TBR), or to be provided (TBP) – details may have been determined and possibly announced, but are still subject to change prior to being finalized. *To be arranged, to be agreed (TBA), to be determined (TBD) or to be decided – the appropriateness, feasibility, location, etc. of a given event has not been decided. Other similar phrases sometimes used to convey the same meaning, and using the same abbreviations, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Caribbean Cup
The 2017 Caribbean Cup was the 19th and final edition of the Caribbean Cup, the biennial international men's association football, football championship of the Caribbean region organized by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). The top four teams qualified for the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup, while the 2017 Caribbean Cup qualification#Fifth place playoff, fifth-placed team advanced to a 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification (CFU–UNCAF play-off), play-off against the fifth-placed team from the 2017 Copa Centroamericana for the final Gold Cup berth. The host for the final round was expected to be announced in January 2016. Martinique was announced as host on 25 January 2017, winning over bids of Curaçao and French Guiana. The draw for the semi-finals was also conducted on the same day at the CFU office in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. Curaçao won their first and only title following a 2–1 win over Jamaica in the final. Qualification Qualified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean Professional Football League
The Caribbean Professional Football League was a short-lived association football competition spanning several Caribbean nations. The aim of the competition was to introduce professional standard football to the Caribbean region. The participating teams were franchises created by local businessmen and the teams featured full international players. Players such as Theodore Whitmore and Rodney Jack participated in the competition. The league proved to be problematic and the Kingston Gleaner reported that it had made "significant losses" before the end of the inaugural competition. In June 1993, the Jamaican press reported that the CPFL had "toiled miserably in its second year and come under fire from competing teams who have incurred heavy financial losses brought on by inefficient organization". Christopher Ziadie, a player and director at the Kingston Lions franchise revealed that it had lost JMD $1.7m in two years and that in some cases less than 50 people would attend a game. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
