The Caribbean Cup was the championship tournament for national
association football
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teams that are members of the
Caribbean Football Union. The first competition, established by Shell and run by former England Cricket fast bowler
Fred Rumsey
Frederick Edward Rumsey (born 4 December 1935) is an English former cricketer who founded the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA) in 1967. He played five Test cricket, Test matches for England cricket team, England against Australia, Sout ...
, was contested in
1989
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in
Barbados
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. The Caribbean Cup served as a qualification tournament among CFU members for the
CONCACAF Gold Cup
The CONCACAF Gold Cup ( es, Copa de Oro de la CONCACAF, french: Coupe D'or CONCACAF) is the main association football competition of the men's national football teams governed by CONCACAF, determining the continental champion of North Ameri ...
. The Caribbean Cup replaced the
CFU Championship
The CFU Championship (sometimes referred to as the CFU Nations Cup) was a football tournament for teams in the area of Caribbean between the years 1978–1988. It was the precursor of the Caribbean Cup
The Caribbean Cup was the championship ...
competition which was active between 1978 and 1988.
Trinidad and Tobago
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, eight-time winners, and
Jamaica
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, six-time winners, were the most successful sides, winning a combined 14 of 18 titles.
Martinique
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,
Haiti,
Cuba
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and
Curaçao also won the tournament.
In 1990 on the day of the final, an insurrection in
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...
, the host nation, by the
Jamaat al Muslimeen
The Jamaat al Muslimeen (, also transliterated as Jamaat-ul Muslimeen or Jama'at al-Muslimeen, ''"School of Muslims", "Group of Muslims", "The Muslim Group", "The Muslim Assembly", "The Muslim Society", "The Muslim Community"'') is a radical extr ...
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
The CONCACAF Nations League ( es, Liga de Naciones CONCACAF, french: Ligue des Nations de la CONCACAF) is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF, the ...
.
Sponsors
Over the years, the tournament has been named after its respective sponsors.
Shell
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had sponsored the competition since its inception in 1989.
By February 1996,
Jack Warner had announced a new sponsorship from sports apparel company
Umbro
Umbro is an English sports equipment manufacturer founded in 1924 in Wilmslow, Cheshire and based in Manchester. They specialise in football and rugby sportswear featuring their ''Double Diamond'' logo. Umbro products are marketed in over 10 ...
for the
1996 Caribbean Cup
The 1996 Caribbean Cup (also known as the Shell/Umbro Caribbean Cup for sponsorship reasons), was the 8th edition of the Caribbean Cup, the biennial football championship of the Caribbean region (CFU). It was held in Trinidad, where it began on ...
. 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
Headquartered in Singapore, World Sport Group was a sports marketing, event management and media company in Asia, with a roster of golf, association football and cricket events. World Sport Group manages almost 600 days of sports events annually ...
), 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. Florida-based Inter/Forever (now
Traffic Group
Traffic Group is a sports event management company founded in Brazil, headquartered in São Paulo.
History
Traffic Group holds the television rights to a number of association football matches in the Americas including Copa América, Copa Libe ...
) agreed a sponsorship deal to replace the Asia Sport Group agreement in January 1999. 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
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.
Caribbean-based mobile phone company
Digicel
Digicel is a Jamaican and Caribbean mobile phone network and home entertainment provider operating in 33 markets worldwide.
Digicel has operated in several countries, including Guyana, Fiji, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Suriname, a ...
took over the sponsorship in 2004, in June 2007 they agreed to sponsor the 2008 and 2010 events. The 2012 and 2014 editions of the competition had no title sponsor, while the last tournament (in 2017) was sponsored by
Scotiabank.
Tournaments
Cumulative results
The following is a compiled national level championship table for the CFU region. Years in ''italics'' indicate that a nation was the host or co-host.
:
Awards
Notes
See also
*
References
External links
Caribbean Football Union*
{{International football
CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
International association football competitions in the Caribbean
Defunct international association football competitions in North America
Recurring sporting events established in 1989
Recurring events disestablished in 2017
1989 establishments in North America
2017 disestablishments in North America