The CFU Club Shield, also known as the CFU Caribbean Club Shield and formerly as the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield, is an annual

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competition for clubs that are members of the

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(CFU). It is a second-tier competition to the

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(and formerly the

Caribbean Club Championship 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). T ...

), introduced in 2018 for clubs which worked towards professional standards. It is organized by the CFU, with

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organizing it between 2018 and 2023. Until 2022, the winner of this competition, as long as it fulfilled the licensing criteria, played against the fourth-placed team of the

for a place in the

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. Starting with 2023, the winner and runner-up qualify for the

History

On 25 July 2017 in

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, 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. 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

to be held later in the same month. 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.

Results

Summary

Performance by club

Performance by association

;Legend * – Champions * – Runners-up * – Third place * – Fourth place * – Semi-finals *QF – Quarter-finals *R16 – Round of 16 *PR – Preliminary round *GS – Group stage *Q – Qualified * — Hosts *x – Entered, but tournament not held * – – Did not enter * –– – Withdrew before tournament

All-time top scorers

Top goalscorers

Notes and references

External links

Caribbean Football Union

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