The Caribbean Cup, formerly known as the Copa Caribe, is the championship tournament for national association football teams that are members of the Caribbean Football Union

Caribbean Football Union

The Caribbean Football Union, often referred to by the acronym CFU, is the nominal governing body for Caribbean football. It represents 25 FIFA member nations, as well as 5 territories that are not affiliated to FIFA. Its member associations compete in the CONCACAF region...

. The first competition was contested in 1989 in Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

. The Caribbean Cup also serves as a qualification tournament among CFU members for the CONCACAF Gold Cup

CONCACAF Gold Cup

The CONCACAF Gold Cup is the main association football competition of the men's national football teams governed by CONCACAF, determining the regional champion of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.The Gold Cup is held every two years and when it does not fall the same year as an...

. Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago national football team

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed The Soca Warriors, is the national team of Trinidad and Tobago and is run by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. It reached the first round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals...

, eight-time winners, and Jamaica

Jamaica national football team

The Jamaica national football team is the national team of Jamaica and is controlled by the Jamaica Football Federation. After decades in CONCACAF obscurity, they gained many fans throughout the world after they qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup...

, five-time winners, are the most successful sides, having won a combined 13 of 15 titles. Martinique

Martinique national football team

The Martinique national football team represents the French overseas department and region of Martinique in international football. The team is controlled by the Ligue de Football de la Martinique , a local branch of French Football Federation . On 7 August 2010, the national team adopted the...

 and Haiti

Haiti national football team

The Haiti national football team represents Haiti in association football and is controlled by the Fédération Haïtienne de Football, the governing body for football in Haiti. Haiti's home ground is Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince and their head coach is Edson Tavares...

 have also won the tournament.

Over the years, the tournament was named after its respective sponsors: Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

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 and Umbro

Umbro

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 Interforever Caribbean Cup in 1999. In 2001 it was referred to as Caribbean Nations Cup, Digicel

Digicel

Digicel is a mobile phone network provider covering parts of Oceania, Central America, and the Caribbean regions. The company is owned by Irishman Denis O'Brien, is incorporated in Bermuda, and based in Jamaica. It provides mobile services in 26 countries and territories throughout the Caribbean...

 announced its four year sponsorship of the tournament in May 2004.

In 1990 on the day of the final, an insurrection in Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

, the host nation, by the Jamaat al Muslimeen

Jamaat al Muslimeen

The Jamaat al Muslimeen is a Muslim organisation within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago with a membership of predominantly Afro-Trinidadians....

 forced an abandonment of the tournament with only the final remaining. Also, the tournament was not held in 2000, 2002 and 2003.

Tournaments

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1989 Details	Barbados		2 – 1			By TableNo third place playoff was played. Third place was awarded based on table standings.
1990		ABANDONEDPlay was suspended when Jamaat al Muslimeen Jamaat al Muslimeen The Jamaat al Muslimeen is a Muslim organisation within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago with a membership of predominantly Afro-Trinidadians....  attempted a coup d'état Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt On Friday 27 July 1990, 114 members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, an Afro-Trinidadian Islamic organisation, led by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilaal Abdullah attempted to stage a coup d'état against the government of Trinidad and Tobago. Forty-two insurgents stormed the Red House and took the Prime...  of the government of Trinidad and Tobago Politics of Trinidad and Tobago The politics of Trinidad and Tobago function within the framework of a unitary state regulated by a parliamentary democracy modelled on that of the UK, from which the country gained its independence in 1962... . 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 Details	Jamaica		2 – 0			4 – 1
1992 Details			3 – 1			1 – 1 (5–3 pen.)
1993 Details	Jamaica		0 – 0 (6–5 pen.)			3 – 2
1994 Details			7 – 2			2 – 0
1995 Details	Cayman Islands  Jamaica		5 – 0			3 – 0
1996 Details			2 – 0			1 – 1 (3–2 pen.)
1997 Details			4 – 0			4 – 1
1998 Details	Jamaica		2 – 1			3 – 2
1999 Details			2 – 1			n/aThe third place match was cancelled due to condition of field after the final was already played.
2001 Details			3 – 0			1 – 0
2005 Details	Barbados		1 – 0Finals played in league table format.			3 – 2
2007 Details			2 – 1			2 – 1
2008 Details	Jamaica		2 – 0			0 – 0 (5–4 pen.)
2010 Details 2010 Caribbean Championship -Group B:Played in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from October 6–10.*Saint Kitts and Nevis ranked ahead of Saint Vincent and Barbados based on head-to-head tiebreaker...	Martinique		1 – 1 (5–4 pen.)			1 – 0

Cumulative results

The following is a compiled national level championship table for the CFU region. Years in italics indicate that a nation was the host or co-host.

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
	8 (1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001)	3 (1991, 1998, 2007)	2 (1993, 2005)	0
	5 (1991, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010 2010 Caribbean Championship -Group B:Played in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from October 6–10.*Saint Kitts and Nevis ranked ahead of Saint Vincent and Barbados based on head-to-head tiebreaker... )	2 (1992, 1993)	2 (1997, 1999)	0
	1 (1993)	1 (1994)	3 (1992, 1996, 2001)	0
	1 (2007)	1 (2001)	2 (1998, 1999)	0
	0	3 (1996, 1999, 2005)	3 (1995, 2007, 2010 2010 Caribbean Championship -Group B:Played in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from October 6–10.*Saint Kitts and Nevis ranked ahead of Saint Vincent and Barbados based on head-to-head tiebreaker... )	3 (1992, 2001, 2008)
	0	2 (1989, 2008)	0	2 (1997, 2010 2010 Caribbean Championship -Group B:Played in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from October 6–10.*Saint Kitts and Nevis ranked ahead of Saint Vincent and Barbados based on head-to-head tiebreaker... )
	0	1 (2010 2010 Caribbean Championship -Group B:Played in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from October 6–10.*Saint Kitts and Nevis ranked ahead of Saint Vincent and Barbados based on head-to-head tiebreaker... )	3 (1989, 1994, 2008)	1 (2007)
	0	1 (1997)	0	1 (1993)
	0	1 (1995)	0	0
	0	0	1 (1991)	0
	0	0	0	2 (1994, 1996)
	0	0	0	1 (1989)
	0	0	0	1 (1991)
	0	0	0	1 (1995)
	0	0	0	1 (1998)
	0	0	0	1 (2005)

External links

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