The Caribbean Club Championship , also known as the CFU Club Championship or CFU Club Champions' Cup , was an annual international football competition held amongst association football clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). The tournament served as a qualifying event for the CONCACAF Champions League and, from 2017, the CONCACAF League .
7-637: In 2023, the tournament was replaced by the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup which follows a similar format. This change was made in conjunction with the expansion of the CONCACAF Champions League starting from the 2024 edition. Thirty-one national associations affiliated with the CFU were invited to participate, with each eligible to send two clubs, usually their league champions and runners-up. However, many member nations did not send
14-612: A representative team every year. CFU also allowed Antigua Barracuda , Puerto Rico Islanders , and Puerto Rico FC (all now defunct) to compete despite being members of the United States league system . This tournament currently sent 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
21-739: The CFU Club Shield , formerly known as the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield , was introduced in 2018 for clubs from non-professional leagues that worked towards professional standards. Until 2022, the winner of this competition, as long as it fulfills the CONCACAF Regional Club Licensing criteria, played against the fourth-placed team of the Caribbean Club Championship for a place in the CONCACAF League . Since 2023,
28-679: The CONCACAF Champions Cup for clubs from the region. The tournament is the successor to the Caribbean Club Championship which ran from 1997 to 2022. The top three clubs from the Caribbean Cup qualify for the Champions Cup, with the winner entering the round of 16 and second and third-place finishers entering in round one. In September 2021, CONCACAF announced that beginning in 2024,
35-564: The CONCACAF Champions League would be expanded from 16 to 27 clubs. At that time, it was announced that clubs from the Caribbean sub-region would qualify via the new CONCACAF Caribbean Cup, but specific details were not revealed. Further details were announced in June 2022. Eight of the ten competing clubs will be the current title-holders and runners-up of the four leagues in the region which meet CONCACAF's professional licensing standards. For
42-576: The fourth place team competed in a playoff with the CFU Club Shield winner for a spot in the CONCACAF League. The CFU presented an exact replica of the championship trophy to the winning team for their permanent possession. 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 A second-tier competition, called
49-483: The winner and runner-up qualify for the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup . CONCACAF Caribbean Cup The CONCACAF Caribbean Cup is an annual football competition for clubs that are members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). It is the regional club championship for the Caribbean zone of CONCACAF . Beginning with the inaugural tournament in 2023 , the new competition serves as qualification to
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