Organising body | CFU |
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Founded | 1989 |
Abolished | 2017 |
Region | Caribbean |
Number of teams | 31 |
Related competitions | CFU Championship Copa Centroamericana/Copa de Naciones UNCAF North American Nations Cup |
Last champions | Curaçao (1st title) |
Most successful team(s) | Trinidad and Tobago (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]