| Caribbean Cup | |
| Organiser: | CFU |
| 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 |
The Caribbean Cup was a regional football competition for senior national teams from the Caribbean. It was organized by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), the regional body for the Caribbean Zone under CONCACAF. The tournament was held from 1989 to 2017, as the 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.[1]
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]
| Ed. | Year | Hosts | Final | Third place match | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champions | Results | Runners-up | Third place | Results | Fourth place | ||||
| 1 | 1989 |  Barbados | 2–1 | n/a[9] | |||||
| 2 | 1990 |  Trinidad and Tobago | The tournament was unfinished, the final and third place matches were not played[10] | ||||||
| 3 | 1991 |  Jamaica | 2–0 | 4–1 | |||||
| 4 | 1992 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3–1 | 1–1 | |||||
| 5 | 1993 | Jamaica | 0–0 | 3–2 | |||||
| 6 | 1994 | Trinidad and Tobago | 7–2 | 2–0 | |||||
| 7 | 1995 |  Cayman Islands Jamaica | 5–0 | 3–0 | |||||
| 8 | 1996 | Trinidad and Tobago | 2–0 | 1–1 | |||||
| 9 | 1997 |  Antigua and Barbuda Saint Kitts and Nevis | 4–0 | 4–1 | |||||
| 10 | 1998 | Jamaica Trinidad and Tobago | 2–1 | 3–2 | |||||
| 11 | 1999 | Trinidad and Tobago | 2–1 | n/a[11] | – | ||||
| 12 | 2001 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3–0 | 1–0 | |||||
| 13 | 2005 | Barbados | Round-Robin | Round-Robin | |||||
| 14 | 2007 | Trinidad and Tobago | 2–1 | 2–1 | |||||
| 15 | 2008 | Jamaica | 2–0 | 0–0 | |||||
| 16 | 2010 |  Martinique | [12] | 1–1 | 1–0 | ||||
| 17 | 2012 | Antigua and Barbuda[13] | 1–0 | 1–0 | |||||
| 18 | 2014 | Jamaica | 0–0 | 2–1 | |||||
| 19 | 2017 | Martinique | 2–1 | 1–0 | |||||
The 31 members of CFU participated on the tournament and qualification:
| Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 (1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001) | 5 (1991, 1998, 2007, 2012, 2014) | 2 (1993, 2005) | – | ||
| 6 (1991, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014) | 3 (1992, 1993, 2017) | 2 (1997, 1999) | – | ||
| 1 (2012) | 3 (1996, 1999, 2005) | 3 (1995, 2007, 2010) | 4 (1992, 2001, 2008, 2014) | ||
| 1 (2007) | 1 (2001) | 4 (1998, 1999, 2012, 2014) | – | ||
| 1 (1993) | 1 (1994) | 3 (1992, 1996, 2001) | 2 (2012, 2017) | ||
| 1 (2017) | – | – | 1 (19891) | ||
| – | 2 (1989, 2008) | – | 2 (1997, 2010) | ||
| – | 1 (2010) | 3 (1989), (1994), (2008) | 1 (2007) | ||
| – | 1 (1997) | – | 1 (1993) | ||
| – | 1 (1995) | – | – | ||
| – | – | 1 (1991) | – | ||
| – | – | 1 (2017) | – | ||
| – | – | – | 2 (1994, 1996) | ||
| – | – | – | 1 (1991) | ||
| – | – | – | 1 (1995) | ||
| – | – | – | 1 (1998) | ||
| – | – | – | 1 (2005) |
| Year | Most Valuable player | Top Goalscorer(Finals only) | Best goalkeeper | Fair play award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 |  Steve Mark[14] | Dwight Yorke, Philbert Jones (2 goals) | |||
| 1991 | Paul Davis (5 goals) | ||||
| 1992 | Leonson Lewis (7 goals)[15] | ||||
| 1993 | Walter Boyd | Jean-Michel Modestin (5 goals) | |||
| 1994 | David Nakhid | ||||
| 1995 | David Nakhid | ||||
| 1996 | Russell Latapy (6 goals) | ||||
| 1997 | Clayton Ince | ||||
| 1998 | Stern John (10 goals) | Clayton Ince | |||
| 1999 |  Ariel Álvarez (5 goals) | ||||
| 2001 |  Golman Pierre (5 goals) | Clayton Ince | |||
| 2005 | Andy Williams[16] | Luton Shelton (9 goals) | |||
| 2007 | Pierre Richard Bruny | Gary Glasgow (6 goals) | |||
| 2008 | Eric Vernan[17] | Kithson Bain, Luton Shelton (5 goals) | |||
| 2010 | Dane Richards, Kithson Bain (3 goals) | ||||
| 2012 | eight players (2 goals) | ||||
| 2014 | Kervens Belfort, Darren Mattocks and Kevin Molino (3 goals) | ||||
| 2017 | Elson Hooi (2 goals) | Eloy Room |