The 2010 CFU Club Championship was the 12th edition of the CFU Club Championship, the annual international club football competition in the Caribbean region, held amongst clubs whose football associations are affiliated with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). The top three teams in the tournament qualified for the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League.
Qualified clubs
The following clubs were all entered into the competition. AssociationTeam Bermuda Devonshire Cougars Cayman Islands Elite ‡ Dominica Bath Estate ‡ Guyana Defence Force Alpha United Haiti Racing Gonaïves Tempête † Netherlands Antilles Barber Hubentut Fortuna Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Islanders † Bayamón FC River Plate Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Avenues United Systems 3 Suriname Leo Victor WBC Trinidad and Tobago Joe Public San Juan Jabloteh †
Notes † Three clubs, as the three highest placed finishers of the 2009 CFU Club Championship among the qualified clubs, were awarded a bye into the second round. W Connection, the 2009 CFU champions, did not qualify for the 2010 tournament. ‡ Elite SC and Bath Estate withdrew before playing any matches. The following CFU member associations did not enter a club into the tournament: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, Turks and Caicos Islands, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Competition format
The competition was initially announced by the CFU to be structures similarly to the previous year, during which several team played two-legged playoffs and other seed teams received byes in the later knockout rounds. However, the format was changed at the 2010 CFU Congress, where it was decided that three rounds of group stages would be used. Also, Haiti, who had not initially entered any clubs into the tournament, added Racing Gonaïves and Tempête. Elite SC from Cayman Islands were also later added. However, Elite SC and Bath Estate later withdrew from the tournament, and Guyana Defence Force were moved to Group D due to travel and immigration difficulties. Those changes reduced Group B to two teams, both of which qualify to the second round.
First round
The top two teams from each group as well as the highest ranked third place team advance to the second round.
Group A
All matches hosted in Netherlands Antilles.
Team River Plate3300122+109 Racing des Gonaïves311134−14 Barber310236−33 Hubentut Fortuna301239−61
Group B
All matches hosted in Puerto Rico. Officially, Bayamón FC played as visitor in the first leg. Team Bayamón FC211062+44 Systems 3201126−41
Group C
All matches hosted in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Team Joe Public3300185+139 Avenues United311159−44 Leo Victor31029903 Devonshire Cougars3012615−91
Group D
All matches hosted in Guyana.
Team Alpha United211042+24 WBC211032+14 Defence Force200225−30
Second round
In the second round, only the group winners advance to the final round.
After the completion of the first round, the following changes to the second round have been made:
Alpha United traded places with Leo Victor, allowing the matches to be staged as schedule by avoiding travel delays due to U.S. restrictions for the Guyanese club. The matches in Group E and Group F were postponed due to delays by Haitian clubs Tempete FC and Racing Gonaives in obtaining U.S. visas to travel to Puerto Rico. The matches in Group G and Group H were postponed due to stadium availability and were scheduled to begin a day later than previously announced. Leo Victor withdrew from Group E for financial reasons, and Tempête was forced to withdraw from Group F following difficulties in obtaining visas to Puerto Rico. Therefore both Group E and F would be played as two-team groups.
Group E
All matches hosted in Puerto Rico.
Team Puerto Rico Islanders220050+56 Racing des Gonaïves200205−50
Group F
All matches hosted in Puerto Rico.
Team Bayamón FC220082+66 Avenues United200228−60
Group G
All matches hosted in Trinidad & Tobago.
Team San Juan Jabloteh220030+36 River Plate201112−11 Alpha United201113−21
Group H
All matches hosted in Trinidad & Tobago.
Team Joe Public220081+76 WBC210125−33 Systems 3200215−40
Final round The top three finishers qualify for the preliminary round of the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League.
All matches hosted in Trinidad & Tobago.
Team321051+47 Joe Public311134−14 San Juan Jabloteh310243+13 Bayamón FC310248−43
CFU Club Championship2010 WinnersPuerto Rico IslandersFirst Title
Top goalscorers
Updated for all matches. Rank Player Club Goals 1 Kerry Baptiste Joe Public 9 2 Jason Marcano San Juan Jabloteh 5 Kendall Waston Bayamón FC 5 4 Josh Hansen Puerto Rico Islanders 4 Marcus Joseph Joe Public 4 Stefano Rijssel Leo Victor 4 Juan Sara River Plate 4 Conrad Smith Joe Public 4
References
External links
Caribbean Football Union homepage Results from CONCACAF