1994 Caribbean Cup
The Shell Caribbean Cup 1994 was the 5th playout of the Caribbean Football Championship. The final round was held from 7 to 17 April 1994, in Trinidad and Tobago. The matches were played in the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. Title sponsor of the tournament was the oil company Shell, based in The Netherlands.
Hosts Trinidad and Tobago won his third title and was Caribbean champions in 1994. The tournament was not this year as qualifying for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
- 4.1 Group A
- 4.2 Group B
- 4.3 Semi-finals
- 4.4 3rd place match
- 4.5 final
Participant
A total of 21 teams participated in the competition. All were members of the Caribbean Football Union, a regional subsidiary of the CONCACAF. The U.S. Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, St. Martin, Netherlands Antilles, the Turks and Caicos Islands and St. Lucia did not participate. Cuba withdrew shortly before the qualifiers, so that in group 6, only played two teams.
Therefore, 19 teams started in the group stage of qualifying as hosts Trinidad & Tobago and defending Martinique were set for the final round.
Control experiment
In the preliminary round, FIFA tested a rule by which were also the group matches of the preliminary round ends in a draw in an extension. The extension should after the first fallen gate end ( sudden victory overtime and golden goal ), but this goal should be double- counted - because in the final table and the goal difference can be decisive, this should make up for the "disadvantage" that by Golden - goal rule no chance of multiple hits is more. Remained scoreless for an extension, the group match went to penalties. Both teams received one point, the winner of the penalty shoot got a goal for goal difference credited.
After the preliminary round this new rule was again abolished, as they proved to be very problematic (see below), and applied in the final of proven group mode without extensions.
Qualification
Group 1
Venue: Barbados
Curiosity at the game against Barbados Grenada
By the results of the first two games of group 1 was clear that Barbados to win by at least two goals difference needed to still be winners and so to reach the finals. Through the control experiment and the gameplay it came to the "maybe craziest game of football history."
Barbados led to just before the end of the regular season 2-0 and would have qualified for the finals; However scored Grenada in 83 minutes through an own goal by a player from Barbados a score of 2:1 ( and Grenada would progress ). Barbados now had to restore the two-goal difference to top the group, and had two ways to achieve this: Either they had to achieve in the remaining minutes, the 3-1 - or bring about forcing extension and thereafter twice gewertetes by a Golden Goal secure the victory in extra time. Barbados therefore shot in the 87th minute one (this time intentionally ) Own goal, reaching the 2-2, which led to the extension, if not a fool would fall - no matter which side.
In the final minutes of normal time so Grenada tried to score a goal - and on both sides, as both a victory ( regular goal ) and a defeat with only one goal ( own goal ) would have meant the group victory for them. Barbados now had to defend both gates and escaped with it into overtime, in which, finally, a golden goal the game decided in favor of the team from Barbados.
The coach of the team from Grenada was after the game following opinion:
"Who came up with this scheme is a candidate for the madhouse. Our players did not even know in which direction they should attack. In football, you should actually score goals against and not for an enemy. "
Group 2
Venue: St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Group 3
Venue: Suriname
Group 4
Venue: St. Kitts and Nevis
Group 5
Venue: Cayman Islands
Group 6
Finals
Venue: Trinidad and Tobago