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CFU Club Shield
Organising bodyCFU
CONCACAF (2018–2023)
Founded2018; 6 years ago (2018)
RegionCaribbean
Number of teams20
Qualifier forCONCACAF Caribbean Cup
Current championsJamaica Arnett Gardens (1st title)
Most successful club(s)Suriname Robinhood (2 titles)
Television broadcastersCFU (YouTube)
2024 CFU Club Shield

The CFU Club Shield, also known as the CFU Caribbean Club Shield and formerly as the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield, is an annual Caribbean football competition for clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). It is a second-tier competition to the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup (and formerly the Caribbean Club Championship), introduced in 2018 for clubs which worked towards professional standards.[1] It is organized by the CFU, with CONCACAF organizing it between 2018 and 2023.[2]

Until 2022, the winner of this competition, as long as it fulfilled the licensing criteria, played against the fourth-placed team of the Caribbean Club Championship for a place in the CONCACAF League. Starting with 2023, the winner and runner-up qualify for the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup.[3]

History

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On 25 July 2017 in San Francisco, California, the CONCACAF Council approved the implementation of a two-tier competition for affiliated clubs of Caribbean member associations, starting in 2018. The tier-one competition, known as the Caribbean Club Championship, would be contested by the champions and runners-up of the top professional and semi-professional leagues in year one, and open to only fully professional leagues in year two onwards. The tier-two competition, known as the Caribbean Club Shield, would be contested by the champions of the leagues that had no professional teams in year one (2018), opened to semi-professional standards in year two (2019) and planned to be open to fully professional leagues by 2022.[citation needed]

In 2023, both tournaments were restructured and renamed. The winner and runner-up of the second-tier Caribbean Shield now qualify for the first-tier CONCACAF Caribbean Cup to be held later in the same month.[4]

On 30 April 2024, CONCACAF officially gave the responsibility to organize the Caribbean Club Shield to the Caribbean Football Union, and as such the name of the competition was changed to the CFU Club Shield.[5]

Results

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Season Hosts Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place
2018  Dominican Republic Martinique Club Franciscain 2–1 Suriname Inter Moengotapoe Bonaire Real Rincon 3–1 Aruba Nacional
2019  Curaçao Suriname Robinhood 1–0 Martinique Club Franciscain Barbados Weymouth Wales and Curaçao Jong Holland
2020  Curaçao Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[6]
2021  Curaçao Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[7]
2022  Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Bayamón FC 2–1 (a.e.t.) Suriname Inter Moengotapoe Guadeloupe AS Gosier 2–0 Curaçao Jong Holland
2023  Saint Kitts and Nevis Suriname Robinhood 5–1 Martinique Golden Lion Trinidad and Tobago Club Sando 6–1 Puerto Rico Metropolitan
2024  Curaçao Jamaica Arnett Gardens 1–0 Antigua and Barbuda Grenades Dominican Republic Atlético Pantoja 1–1 (9–8 (p)) Dominica Dublanc

Summary

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Performance by club

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Team Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place Semi-finalist Top 4 total
Suriname Robinhood 2 (2019, 2023) 2
Martinique Club Franciscain 1 (2018) 1 (2019) 2
Puerto Rico Bayamón FC 1 (2022) 1
Jamaica Arnett Gardens 1 (2024) 1
Suriname Inter Moengotapoe 2 (2018, 2022) 2
Martinique Golden Lion 1 (2023) 1
Antigua and Barbuda Grenades 1 (2024) 1
Bonaire Real Rincon 1 (2018) 1
Guadeloupe AS Gosier 1 (2022) 1
Trinidad and Tobago Club Sando 1 (2023) 1
Dominican Republic Atlético Pantoja 1 (2024) 1
Curaçao Jong Holland 1 (2022) 1 (2019) 2
Aruba Nacional 1 (2018) 1
Puerto Rico Metropolitan 1 (2023) 1
Dominica Dublanc 1 (2024) 1
Barbados Weymouth Wales 1 (2019) 1

Performance by association

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Legend
Team 2018
Dominican Republic
2019
Curaçao
2020
Curaçao
2021
Curaçao
2022
Puerto Rico
2023
Saint Kitts and Nevis
2024
Curaçao
Total
 Antigua and Barbuda QF x 2nd 2
 Aruba 4th GS x x GS GS R16 5
 Barbados GS SF x 2
 Bonaire 3rd GS x x GS R16 4
 British Virgin Islands x 0
 Cayman Islands GS GS x GS R16 4
 Cuba QF x 1
 Curaçao GS SF x x 4th GS QF 5
 Dominica x x GS GS 4th 3
 Dominican Republic GS 3rd 2
 French Guiana x GS R16 2
 Grenada GS PR 2
 Guadeloupe GS QF x x 3rd GS 4
 Guyana –– GS x PR 2
 Haiti –– 0
 Jamaica –– 1st 1
 Martinique 1st 2nd x x GS 2nd 4
 Puerto Rico x x 1st 4th QF 3
 Saint Kitts and Nevis GS QF x GS QF 4
 Saint Lucia GS x x GS R16 3
 Saint Martin PR 1
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines GS x x 1
 Sint Maarten x GS GS PR 3
 Suriname 2nd 1st x x 2nd 1st QF 5
 Trinidad and Tobago 3rd R16 2
 Turks and Caicos Islands GS GS R16 3
Total 12 13 0 (15) 0 (14) 10 16 20

See also

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ "Dominican Republic Selected to Host Inaugural CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield". mailchi.mp. CONCACAF. Archived from the original on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Concacaf transitions Caribbean Club Shield organization and management to Caribbean Football Union". CONCACAF. 30 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Concacaf announces details for 2023 Concacaf Caribbean Club Competitions". Concacaf. 21 April 2023. Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  4. ^ "CONCACAF Caribbean Cup: A brand new tournament to crown the best club". FIFA. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  5. ^ Nicholson, Paul (1 May 2024). "Rehabilitated CFU takes over the running of Concacaf's Caribbean Club Shield competition". Inside World Football. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Update on Concacaf Caribbean Club Shield and Flow Concacaf Caribbean Club Championship". CONCACAF. 25 August 2020. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Update on 2021 Concacaf Caribbean Club Competitions". Concacaf. concacaf.com. 23 April 2021. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
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