Caribbean Cup
The football Caribbean Cup (English: Caribbean Cup, Spanish: Copa Caribe ), currently referred to as the Digicel Caribbean Cup, a 1989 inaugural registered football competition for national teams of the Caribbean, which originally took place every year and currently in a 2 -year cycle is discharged will. The 1990 tournament was canceled due to political unrest.
Through its sponsorship of the resident in Jamaica telecommunications company Digicel competition currently is named " Digicel Caribbian Cup". Previous sponsors were Shell and Umbro.
Allowed to compete are currently 30 members of the Caribbean Football Union ( CFU ), with three of these countries - Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname are located on the South American continent. Currently, the tournament takes place every two years and regularly serves as a qualifier for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The competition is divided into two qualifying rounds with mini-tournaments to three or four teams in different countries and a final tournament with eight teams.
Most successful teams are Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica with eight with five wins, which thus won 13 of the 16 previously closed tournaments.