CFU Club Championship

CFU Club Championship

Founded	1997
Region	Caribbean (CFU)
Number of teams	13
Current champions	Central (2016)
Most successful club(s)	W Connection (3)
Website	CFU homepage
2017 CFU Club Championship

The CFU Club Championship or CFU Club Champions' Cup^[1] is the annual international football competition held amongst association football clubs from the Caribbean for clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). The CFU Club Champions’ Cup serves as a qualifying event for the CONCACAF Champions League Tournament.

Qualification

Thirty National Associations affiliated to the CFU are invited to participate with their National League or Cup Champion and Sub Champion, although many member nations do not send a representative team every year. The winner of this competition as well as the first and the second runners-up advance to the CONCACAF Champions League group stage.

The CFU presents an exact replica of the CFU Club Champions Cup trophy to the winning team for their permanent possession.

Since being founded in 1997 all championships have been won by clubs from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico (though, in seasons where no champion was crowned, clubs from other countries have been finalists). CFU previously allowed the Puerto Rican team Puerto Rico Islanders and Antigua Barracuda FC (both now defunct) to compete despite being members of the United States league system.

Participation of Member Associations in CFU Club Champions Cups

Country	Competitions	Years
Trinidad and Tobago	18	1997–98, 2000–07, 2009–16
Jamaica	14	1997–98, 2000, 2002–07, 2009, 2013-16
Suriname	14	1997, 2000–01, 2003–05, 2007, 2009–12, 2014–16
Haiti	13	2000–02, 2006–07, 2009–16
Antigua and Barbuda	11	2000–01, 2004–07, 2009, 2011–13, 2015
Curaçao	10	2000–01, 2003, 2005–07, 2009–10, 2012, 2014
Guyana	9	1997, 2001, 2006, 2009–12, 2014–15
Dominica	8	2000, 2002–03, 2005, 2007, 2009–11
Puerto Rico	8	2006–07, 2009–14
Cayman Islands	6	2002, 2010–12, 2014, 2016
Guadeloupe	5	1997–98, 2014–16
Martinique	5	1997–98, 2000–02
Saint Lucia	5	2000–02, 2005, 2011
U.S. Virgin Islands	5	2001, 2005–07, 2015
Aruba	4	2005–07, 2009
Barbados	4	1997–98, 2000, 2003
Bermuda	4	2010–12, 2016
Saint Kitts and Nevis	4	2001, 2003, 2007, 2011
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3	1997–98, 2010
Bahamas	1	2015
British Virgin Islands	1	2001
Cuba	1	2007
Dominican Republic	1	2016
Grenada	1	2003
Montserrat	1	2004
Saint-Martin	1	2004
Turks and Caicos Islands	1	2003

The following associations have never entered any teams to the CFU Club Championship:

• Anguilla
• Bonaire¹
• French Guiana
• Sint Maarten¹

1. Bonaire and Sint Maarten have both had teams participate in the qualifying rounds of the tournament as members of NAVU, but have yet to enter a team since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, and the foundation of their own independent football associations.

Past winners

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1997	United Petrotrin	2 – 1	Seba United	N/A		N/A
1998	Joe Public	1 – 0	Caledonia AIA	N/A		N/A
2000	Joe Public	(1)	W Connection	Harbour View	(1)	Carioca FC
2001	Defence Force	(2)	W Connection	Racing Club Haïtien	(2)	SNL
2002	W Connection	(2)	Arnett Gardens	Violette	(2)	Harbour View
2003	San Juan Jabloteh	3 – 3 (4 – 2 PSO) (2 – 1 / 1 – 2)	W Connection	N/A		N/A
2004	Harbour View	3 – 2 (1 – 1 / 2 – 1)	Tivoli Gardens	N/A		N/A
2005	Portmore United	5 – 2 (2 – 1 / 4 – 0)	Robinhood	N/A		N/A
2006	W Connection	1 – 0	San Juan Jabloteh	N/A		N/A
2007 (3)	Harbour View	2 – 1	Joe Public	Puerto Rico Islanders	1 – 0 (1 – 0 / 0 – 0)	San Juan Jabloteh
2009	W Connection	2 – 1	Puerto Rico Islanders	San Juan Jabloteh	2 – 1	Tempête
2010	Puerto Rico Islanders	(1)	Joe Public	San Juan Jabloteh	(1)	Bayamón FC
2011	Puerto Rico Islanders	3 – 1 (aet)	Tempête	Alpha United	1 – 1 (4 – 3 PSO)	Defence Force
2012	Caledonia AIA	1 – 1(aet) (4 – 3 PSO)	W Connection	Puerto Rico Islanders	2 – 0	Antigua Barracuda
Qualified teams
2013	W Connection (Group 1 winner)		Valencia FC (Group 2 winner)		Caledonia AIA (Playoff winner)
2014	Puerto Rico Bayamón FC (Group 1 winner)		Waterhouse (Group 2 winner)		Alpha United (Group 3 winner)
Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2015	Central	2 – 1	W Connection	Montego Bay United	1 – 0	Don Bosco
2016	Central	3 – 0	W Connection	Don Bosco	2 – 0	Arnett Gardens

¹ No final matches were held. The championship round was decided by a final group round.

² No final matches were held. Winners based on tiebreakers: Group Points, GD, GF.

³ After the CONCACAF Champions League (CCL) replaced the Champions Cup in 2008, the two-losing-semifinalists in the 2007 CFU Clubs Championships (CFU-CC) played a 2-leg series on the 10th and 25 May 2008 to determine the 2007 CFU-CC tournament's 3rd place team and the final Caribbean spot (CFU#3) to the inaugural 2008 CCL.

⁴ Not played: 1999 & 2008

Results

By club

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Years Won	Years Runner-up
W Connection	3	6	2002, 2006, 2009	2000, 2001, 2003, 2012, 2015, 2016
Joe Public	2	2	1998, 2000	2007, 2010
Puerto Rico Islanders	2	1	2010, 2011	2009
Central	2	0	2015, 2016
Harbour View	2	0	2004, 2007
Caledonia AIA	1	1	2012	1998
San Juan Jabloteh	1	1	2003	2006
Portmore United	1	0	2005
Defence Force	1	0	2001
United Petrotrin	1	0	1997
Tempête	0	1		2011
Robinhood	0	1		2005
Tivoli Gardens	0	1		2004
Arnett Gardens	0	1		2002
Seba United	0	1		1997

• When sorted by years won or lost, the table is sorted by the date of each team's first placement

By country

Nation	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Clubs	Runner-up Clubs
Trinidad and Tobago	11	10	W Connection (3), Central (2), Joe Public (2), San Juan Jabloteh (1), United Petrotrin (1), Defence Force (1), Caledonia AIA (1)	W Connection (6), Joe Public (2), San Juan Jabloteh (1), Caledonia AIA (1)
Jamaica	3	3	Harbour View (2), Portmore United (1)	Arnett Gardens (1), Tivoli Gardens (1), Seba United (1)
Puerto Rico	2	1	Puerto Rico Islanders (2)	Puerto Rico Islanders (1)
Haiti	0	1		Tempête (1)
Suriname	0	1		Robinhood (1)

Notes and references

1. CFU CLUB CHAMPIONS’ CUP 2011 TOURNAMENT REGULATIONS

External links

• Caribbean Football Union
• CFU Championship, RSSSF.com