The grand finals of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Men’s Caribbean Cup kicks off at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, in the city of Montego Bay, Jamaica, November 10 with a double header.
Curacao meets Trinidad and Tobago at 5:30 pm in the early game while defending champions Cuba encounters French Guiana in the feature game at 8:00pm.
The eight top teams qualified for this regional competition are Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Curacao and Cuba in Pool A while in Pool B the teams are Antigua & Barbuda, Haiti, hosts Jamaica and Martinique.
At the end of the tournament the two top teams from each group will take automatic spots in the CONCACAF Gold Cup for 2015; and the fifth placed team will compete in a home and away playoff game against a fifth placed team from the Unión Centro Americana de Fútbol (UNCAF), the winner from this encounter will qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition.
Six teams emerged from the keenly contested ‘Second Round’ which featured twelve teams divided into three Groups namely 7, 8 and 9.
These games were played in Trinidad & Tobago, Haiti and Guadeloupe respectively. Trinidad & Tobago topped Group 7 securely with maximum nine points while Antigua & Barbuda earned four points to take second place.
The Dominican Republic had four points as well but with a lesser goal average and St Lucia failed to get a point in all three games. In Group 8, Haiti topped the group with five points, just one ahead of French Guiana who gained four points.
St Kitts and Nevis also got four points (lesser goal average) and Barbados ended with three points.
Martinique topped Group 9 with seven points, Curacao was next with four points while host Guadeloupe and St Vincent and the Grenadines earned three each.
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