Soccer Caribbean Championship
| Soccer Caribbean Championship | |
| abbreviation | Caribbean Cup |
| Association | CFU |
| First edition | 1989 |
| Teams | 4th |
| Game mode | Knockout system |
| Title holder |
 Curaçao (1st title)
|
| Record winner |
 Trinidad and Tobago (8)
|
| Website | CFUfootball.org |
| Qualification for | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
The football Caribbean Cup ( English Caribbean Cup , Spanish Copa del Caribe ) was a football competition held for the first time in 1989 among the national teams of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). The most successful teams were Trinidad and Tobago with eight and Jamaica with six wins, thus winning 14 of the 18 tournaments so far.
After the 2017 edition, the tournament was included in the CONCACAF Nations League .
mode
Most recently, the tournament took place every two years and also regularly served as a qualification for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The last 31 members of the CFU were entitled to start. The teams of the host association and the defending champion were automatically qualified. The competition was divided into two qualifying rounds with mini-tournaments for three or four teams in different countries and a final round with eight teams. The last tournament in 2017 was played as a knockout system with four teams.
First time participant
Below are all national teams that have ever participated in this tournament.
- Teams in bold became Caribbean champions when they first played.
- Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
- Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.
| Year (s) | First time participant | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 |
 Barbados
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 Grenada
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 Guadeloupe
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 St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Trinidad and Tobago
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| 1990 |
 Jamaica
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Martinique
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| 1991 |
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 Dominican Republic
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 Guyana
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.svg){kind=small} St. Lucia
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| 1992 |
 Antigua and Barbuda
|
 Cuba
|
 Suriname
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| 1993 |
 Puerto Rico
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 St. Kitts and Nevis
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 Sint Maarten
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| 1994 |
 Dominica
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 Haiti
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| 1995 |
 French Guiana
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| 1996-1998 | No first-time participants | |||
| 1999 |
 Brazil (U-20)
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| 2001–2012 | No first-time participants | |||
| 2014 | ( Curacao )
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| 2017 | No first-time participants | |||
The tournaments at a glance
Ranking list
| rank | country | Victories | Year (s) | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | 4th pl. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Trinidad and Tobago
|
8th | 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 | 5 | 2 | - |
| 2 |
Jamaica
|
6th | 1991, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014 | 3 | 1 | - |
| 3 |
Cuba
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1 | 2012 | 3 | 3 | 4th |
| 4th |
Martinique
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1 | 1993 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 |
Haiti
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1 | 2007 | 1 | 3 | - |
| 6th |
Curacao
|
1 | 2017 | - | - | - |
| 7th |
Grenada
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2 | - | 2 | ||
| 8th |
Guadeloupe
|
1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 9 |
St. Kitts and Nevis
|
1 | - | 1 | ||
| 10 |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
|
1 | - | - | ||
| 11 |
 St. Lucia
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- | 1 | - | ||
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French Guiana
|
- | 1 | - | |||
| 13 |
Suriname
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- | - | 2 | ||
| 14th |
Guyana
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- | - | 1 | ||
 Cayman Islands
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- | - | 1 | |||
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Antigua and Barbuda
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- | - | 1 | |||
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Barbados
|
- | - | 1 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The final between Trinidad and Tobago and Martinique and the game for third place between Barbados and Jamaica were not played because of a coup by the Jamaat al Muslims . [1]
- ↑ The game for third place between Haiti and Jamaica was canceled after the final due to the lack of space.