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Friday, May 23, 2025

T&T clubs to renew fierce rivalry in Caribbean Cup

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Sport Desk
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FILE - Anthony Charles (No 18) of AC Port of Spain holds off Rivaldo Coryat (No 13) from Defence Force to maintain possession during the T&T Premier League match at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar, Arima on March 10. AC Port of-Spain won 3-0. Both teams will renew their rivalry again when they face each other in the group stage of the Concacaf Caribbean Cup, starting in August.

FILE - Anthony Charles (No 18) of AC Port of Spain holds off Rivaldo Coryat (No 13) from Defence Force to maintain possession during the T&T Premier League match at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar, Arima on March 10. AC Port of-Spain won 3-0. Both teams will renew their rivalry again when they face each other in the group stage of the Concacaf Caribbean Cup, starting in August.

Daniel Prentice

MI­A­MI, Flori­da – De­fence Force and AC Port of Spain, the two teams chal­leng­ing for the in­au­gur­al ti­tle in the Trinidad & To­ba­go Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier 1 com­pe­ti­tion this sea­son, will re­new their ri­val­ry again when they face each oth­er in the group stage of the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup, start­ing in Au­gust.

This fol­lows the of­fi­cial draw for the 10-club tour­na­ment on Thurs­day at Con­ca­caf head­quar­ters in the Unit­ed States.

De­fence Force, for­mer cham­pi­ons of Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup, and AC Port of Spain have been drawn in Group A with Cav­a­lier FC of Ja­maica, Mo­ca FC of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, and the run­ners-up of the Caribbean Club Shield tour­na­ment to be played from Au­gust 3-13 in St Kitts.

On­ly one point present­ly sep­a­rates De­fence Force and AC Port of Spain in the TTPFL, which ap­pears like­ly to go down to the wire.

Two Ja­maican clubs, Har­bour View, the two-time for­mer Caribbean club cham­pi­ons, and emerg­ing side Dun­be­hold­en FC will tack­le Cibao FC and CA Pan­to­ja out of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, as well as the win­ner of the Caribbean Club Shield in Group B.

The Caribbean Cup will kick off with group stage play, fol­lowed by a home-and-away di­rect elim­i­na­tion knock­out stage.

Af­ter round-robin play, where each club plays every oth­er club in their group once, two match­es at home and two match­es away, the first and sec­ond-place fin­ish­ers ad­vance to the knock­out stage.

The knock­out stage com­pris­es home and away semi­fi­nals, third place, and fi­nal.

At the end of the Caribbean Cup, the cham­pi­on qual­i­fies for the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup Round of 16, while the run­ners-up and third-place fin­ish­er will play in the first round.

Con­ca­caf will an­nounce the match sched­ule for the Caribbean Cup at a lat­er date, but they in­di­cat­ed the first two rounds will be played be­tween Au­gust 22 to 24 and Au­gust 29-31; the third and fourth rounds will be played be­tween Sep­tem­ber 19-21 and Sep­tem­ber 26-28; and the fi­nal group match­es will be played be­tween Oc­to­ber 3-5.

The first leg match­es in the semi­fi­nals have been ear­marked for Oc­to­ber 24 to 26, and the sec­ond leg match­es be­tween Oc­to­ber 31 to No­vem­ber 2.

The first leg match­es in the fi­nal and third-place play­off will be con­test­ed from No­vem­ber 28 to 30, and the sec­ond legs from De­cem­ber 5-7.

Con­ca­caf of­fi­cials at­tend­ing the draw in­di­cat­ed that the Caribbean Cup forms part of the con­fed­er­a­tion’s new men’s club ecosys­tem, which al­so in­cludes re­gion­al cups in North Amer­i­ca and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, all lead­ing to a re­vamped 27-club Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup, which re­places the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League.

CMC


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