| Organiser(s) | CFU |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989; 36 years ago (1989) |
| Abolished | 2017; 8 years ago (2017) |
| Region | Caribbean |
| Teams | 31 |
| Related competitions | CFU Championship Copa Centroamericana/Copa de Naciones UNCAF North American Nations Cup |
| Last champions |  Curaçao(1st title) |
| Most championships |  Trinidad and Tobago(8 titles) |
| Website | www.caribbeancup.org |
TheCaribbean Cup was anassociation football competition organized byCFU as its top regional tournament for men's senior national teams from theCaribbean. The tournament was held from 1989 to 2017, as the direct successor competition of theCFU Championship and also served as a qualification method for theCONCACAF Gold Cup.
Trinidad and Tobago, eight-time champions, andJamaica, six-time champions, were the most successful teams, winning a combined 14 titles of 18 editions.Martinique,Haiti,Cuba andCuraçao also won the tournament.
In 1990 on the day of the final, an insurrection inTrinidad and Tobago, the host nation, by theJamaat 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 theCONCACAF 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 companyUmbro for the1996 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 (nowWorld 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 theCopa de Oro.[4] Florida-based Inter/Forever (nowTraffic 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 onlyqualifying tournament.
Caribbean-based mobile phone companyDigicel 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 byScotiabank.[8]
The 31 members ofCFU participated on the tournament and qualification:
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Cuba Curaçao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
French Guiana
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guyana
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinique
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Maarten
Suriname Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands| Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinidad and Tobago | 8 (1989,1992,1994,1995,1996,1997,1999,2001) | 5 (1991,1998,2007,2012,2014) | 2 (1993,2005) | – | 15 |
| Jamaica | 6 (1991,1998,2005,2008,2010,2014) | 3 (1992,1993,2017) | 2 (1997,1999) | – | 11 |
| Cuba | 1 (2012) | 3 (1996,1999,2005) | 3 (1995,2007,2010) | 4 (1992,2001,2008,2014) | 11 |
| Haiti | 1 (2007) | 1 (2001) | 4 (1998,1999,2012,2014) | – | 6 |
 Martinique | 1 (1993) | 1 (1994) | 3 (1992,1996,2001) | 2 (2012,2017) | 7 |
Curaçao/ Netherlands Antilles | 1 (2017) | – | – | 1 (1989) | 2 |
| Grenada | – | 2 (1989,2008) | – | 2 (1997,2010) | 4 |
| Guadeloupe | – | 1 (2010) | 3 (1989), (1994), (2008) | 1 (2007) | 5 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | – | 1 (1997) | – | 1 (1993) | 2 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | – | 1 (1995) | – | – | 1 |
| Saint Lucia | – | – | 1 (1991) | – | 1 |
| French Guiana | – | – | 1 (2017) | – | 1 |
| Suriname | – | – | – | 2 (1994,1996) | 2 |
| Guyana | – | – | – | 1 (1991) | 1 |
| Cayman Islands | – | – | – | 1 (1995) | 1 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | – | – | – | 1 (1998) | 1 |
| Barbados | – | – | – | 1 (2005) | 1 |
Italic — Hosts
| Year | Most Valuable player | Top Goalscorer(Finals only) | Best goalkeeper | Fair play award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Steve Mark[11] | Dwight Yorke, Philbert Jones (2 goals) | Grenada | |
| 1991 | Paul Davis | Paul Davis (5 goals) | ||
| 1992 | Leonson Lewis (7 goals)[12] | |||
| 1993 | Walter Boyd | Jean-Michel Modestin (5 goals) | Saint Kitts and Nevis | |
| 1994 | David Nakhid | |||
| 1995 | David Nakhid | |||
| 1996 | Russell Latapy (6 goals) | |||
| 1997 | Jerren Nixon | Clayton Ince | ||
| 1998 | Stern John | Stern John (10 goals) | Clayton Ince | |
| 1999 | Raciel Martínez | Ariel Álvarez (5 goals) | Clayton Ince | |
| 2001 | Dennis Lawrence | Golman Pierre (5 goals) | Clayton Ince | |
| 2005 | Andy Williams[13] | Luton Shelton (9 goals) | ||
| 2007 | Pierre Richard Bruny | Gary Glasgow (6 goals) | ||
| 2008 | Eric Vernan[14] | Kithson Bain,Luton Shelton (5 goals) | ||
| 2010 | Rodolph Austin | Dane Richards,Kithson Bain (3 goals) | ||
| 2012 | eight players (2 goals) | |||
| 2014 | Rodolph Austin | Kervens Belfort,Darren Mattocks andKevin Molino (3 goals) | Andre Blake | Haiti |
| 2017 | Gino van Kessel | Elson Hooi (2 goals) | Eloy Room |
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