Caribbean Cup

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::summary International football tournament organised by the Caribbean Football Union ::

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Field	Value
name	Caribbean Cup
organiser	CFU
founded
abolished
region	Caribbean
related comps	CFU Championship
Copa Centroamericana/Copa de Naciones UNCAF
North American Nations Cup
number of teams	31
current champions
(1st title)
most successful team
(8 titles)
website	www.caribbeancup.org
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::callout[type=note] the defunct national team tournament ::

| name = Caribbean Cup | logo = | caption = | organiser = CFU | founded = | abolished = | region = Caribbean | related comps = CFU Championship Copa Centroamericana/Copa de Naciones UNCAF North American Nations Cup | number of teams = 31 | current champions = (1st title) | most successful team = (8 titles) | broadcasters = | motto = | website = www.caribbeancup.org

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.

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.

Sponsors

Over the years, the tournament has been named after its respective sponsors. Shell had sponsored the competition since its inception in 1989.

By February 1996, Jack Warner had announced a new sponsorship from sports apparel company Umbro for the 1996 Caribbean Cup. 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. Florida-based Inter/Forever (now Traffic Group) 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.

Caribbean-based mobile phone company Digicel 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.

Results

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Year	Hosts	Champions	Results	Runners-up	Third place	Results	Fourth place
1989	Barbados		2–1			–No third place playoff was played. Third place was awarded based on table standings.
1990	Trinidad and Tobago	The tournament was unfinished, the final and third place matches were not playedPlay 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.
1991	Jamaica		2–0				4–1
1992	Trinidad and Tobago		3–1			1–1
1993	Jamaica		0–0
		3–2
1994	Trinidad and Tobago		7–2			2–0
1995	Cayman Islands
Jamaica		5–0			3–0
1996	Trinidad and Tobago		2–0			1–1
1997	Antigua and Barbuda
Saint Kitts and Nevis		4–0			4–1
1998	Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago		2–1			3–2
1999	Trinidad and Tobago		2–1
–The third place match was cancelled due to condition of field after the final was already played.	–
2001	Trinidad and Tobago		3–0			1–0
2005	Barbados		Round-Robin			Round-Robin
2007	Trinidad and Tobago		2–1			2–1
2008	Jamaica		2–0			0–0
2010	Martinique		1–1
		1–0
2012	Antigua and Barbuda		1–0			1–0
2014	Jamaica		0–0
		2–1
2017	Martinique		2–1			1–0
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Participating teams

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

Performances

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Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total
	8
(1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001)	5
(1991, 1998, 2007, 2012, 2014)	2
(1993, 2005)	–	15
	6
(1991, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014)	3
(1992, 1993, 2017)	2
(1997, 1999)	–	11
	1
(2012)	3
(1996, 1999, 2005)	3
(1995, 2007, 2010)	4
(1992, 2001, 2008, 2014)	11
	1
(2007)	1
(2001)	4
(1998, 1999, 2012, 2014)	–	6
	1
(1993)	1
(1994)	3
(1992, 1996, 2001)	2
(2012, 2017)	7
/	1
(2017)	–	–	1
(1989)	2
	–	2
(1989, 2008)	–	2
(1997, 2010)	4
	–	1
(2010)	3
(1989), (1994), (2008)	1
(2007)	5
	–	1
(1997)	–	1
(1993)	2
	–	1
(1995)	–	–	1
	–	–	1
(1991)	–	1
	–	–	1
(2017)	–	1
	–	–	–	2
(1994, 1996)	2
	–	–	–	1
(1991)	1
	–	–	–	1
(1995)	1
	–	–	–	1
(1998)	1
	–	–	–	1
(2005)	1
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;Notes: Italic — Hosts

Awards

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Year	Most Valuable player	Top Goalscorer(Finals only)	Best goalkeeper	Fair play award
1989	Grenada Steve Mark	Trinidad and Tobago Dwight Yorke, Trinidad and Tobago Philbert Jones (2 goals)
1991	Jamaica Paul Davis	Jamaica Paul Davis (5 goals)
1992		Trinidad Leonson Lewis (7 goals)
1993	Jamaica Walter Boyd	Martinique Jean-Michel Modestin (5 goals)
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	Jamaica Luton Shelton (9 goals)
2007	Haiti Pierre Richard Bruny	Trinidad and Tobago Gary Glasgow (6 goals)
2008	Jamaica Eric Vernan	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	HAI Kervens Belfort, JAM Darren Mattocks and TRI Kevin Molino (3 goals)	Jamaica Andre Blake
2017	Curaçao Gino van Kessel	Curaçao Elson Hooi (2 goals)	Curaçao Eloy Room
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Notes

References

References

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