Caribbean Club Championship


The Caribbean Club Championship, also known as the CFU Club Championship or CFU Club Champions' Cup is the Caribbean football championship. It is an annual international football competition held amongst association football clubs from the Caribbean for clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union. The Caribbean Club Championship serves as a qualifying event for the CONCACAF Champions League tournament.
The tournament is officially the Flow CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship for sponsorship reasons since 2018.

Qualification

Thirty-one national associations affiliated with the CFU are invited to participate, with each eligible to send two clubs, usually their league champions and runners-up. However, many member nations do not send a representative team every year. CFU has also allowed Antigua Barracuda, Puerto Rico Islanders, and Puerto Rico FC to compete despite being members of the United States league system. This tournament currently sends three or four teams to CONCACAF competitions: the champions enter the CONCACAF Champions League, the runners-up and third place teams enter the CONCACAF League, and the fourth place team competes in a playoff with the Caribbean Club Shield winner for a spot in the CONCACAF League.
The CFU presents an exact replica of the championship trophy to the winning team for their permanent possession.

Participation of Member Associations

CountryCompetitionsYears
Trinidad and Tobago191997–98, 2000–04, 2006–07, 2009–18
Haiti162000–02, 2006–07, 2009–19
Jamaica161997–98, 2000, 2002–07, 2013–19
Suriname151997, 2000–01, 2003–05, 2007, 2009–12, 2014–17
Antigua and Barbuda102000, 2004–07, 2009, 2012–13, 2015, 2017
Curaçao102000–01, 2003, 2005–07, 2009–10, 2012, 2014
Puerto Rico92006–07, 2009–14, 2017
Guyana81997, 2001, 2009–12, 2014–15
Cayman Islands62002, 2011–12, 2014, 2016–17
Guadeloupe61997–98, 2014–17
Dominica52000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
Saint Lucia52000–02, 2005, 2011
Aruba42005–07, 2009
Bermuda42010–12, 2016
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines41997–98, 2010, 2017
U.S. Virgin Islands42005–07, 2015
Barbados31997–98, 2000
Dominican Republic32016–18
Martinique31997–98, 2002
Montserrat22004, 2017
Bahamas12015
Cuba12007
Saint-Martin12004
Saint Kitts and Nevis12011
Sint Maarten12017

The following associations have never had any team participate in a Club Championship:
Associations in italics have had teams participate in the Caribbean Club Shield

Past winners

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 replaced the Champions Cup in 2008, the two-losing-semifinalists in the 2007 CFU Clubs Championships 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 to the inaugural 2008 CCL.

4 Not played: 1999 & 2008

Results

By club

TeamWinnersRunners-upYears WonYears Runner-up
W Connection362002, 2006, 20092000, 2001, 2003, 2012, 2015, 2016
Joe Public221998, 20002007, 2010
Puerto Rico Islanders212010, 20112009
Portmore United202005, 2019
Central202015, 2016
Harbour View202004, 2007
San Juan Jabloteh1220032006, 2017
Caledonia AIA1120121998
Atlético Pantoja102018
Cibao102017
Defence Force102001
United Petrotrin101997
Arnett Gardens022002, 2018
Waterhouse012019
Tempête012011
Robinhood012005
Tivoli Gardens012004
Seba United011997

NationWinnersRunners-upWinning ClubsRunner-up Clubs
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21Puerto Rico Islanders Puerto Rico Islanders
20Cibao, Atlético Pantoja
01Tempête
01Robinhood

Caribbean Club Shield

A second-tier competition, called the Caribbean Club Shield, was introduced in 2018 for clubs from non-professional leagues which are working towards professional standards. The winner of this competition, as long as it fulfills the CONCACAF Regional Club Licensing criteria, will play against the fourth-placed team of the Caribbean Club Championship for a place in the CONCACAF League.