Television Schedule
For Gold Cup 2005.

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2

Trinidad & Tobago

1  v  1

Honduras

Maynor Figueroa (43)

Trinidad & Tobago

2  v  2

Panama

Luis Tejada (22)
Luis Tejada (91)

Trinidad & Tobago

0  v  2

Colombia

Brent Rahim (75-og)
Héctor Hurtado (78)

• In May 2007 T&T won the first ever Digicel Shield Cup. St Vincent & the Grenadines, Mexico Pan American Team, Haiti and host Trinidad & Tobago all participated.

• The Digicel Caribbean Cup 2006 – 2007 is the 2nd tournament in its history. It will run from September 2nd to February, 2007.

• The Caribbean Cup, known then as the ‘Cope Caribe’ began in 1989.

• The Caribbean Cup is a tournament for the Caribbean federations currently serving biannually (in odd years).

• The Caribbean Cup is a Qualifier for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

• In 1990 on the day of the Final an insurrection by the Jamaat al Muslimeem forced an abandonment and the tournament, one match from completion, was cancelled in Trinidad & Tobago (host).

• Over the years the tournament was named after its sponsors: Shell Caribbean Cup, Shell/Umbro Caribbean Cup, Interforever Caribbean Cup and in 1999 and 2001 it was referred to as Caribbean Nations Cup. 

• Digicel announced its four year sponsorship of the tournament in May 2004. Following on the heels of its announcement, Digicel received a special award from former South African President, Nelson Mandela in recognition of its investment in the championship.

• The tournament was not held in years 2000, 2002 and 2003.

CONCACAF CAMPEONATO DE NACIONES’ ERA

• When the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) was formed in 1961, the first official national team competition was held more than two years later in El Salvador. Nine teams took part in the first competition, Costa Rica defeating the host country in the final.

• The CONCACAF Campeonato de Naciones, as it was called, was then held every two years from 1963-1971.

• The second edition (1965) held in Guatemala, saw Mexico defeat the host in the final of a six-team tournament.

• The 1967 competition was held in Honduras and saw a third different champion crowned, Guatemala.

• Costa Rica won their second title as hosts in 1969, knocking off Guatemala, while two years later, Mexico won their second championship as the tournament moved to the Caribbean for the first time, held in Trinidad & Tobago.

• In 1973, the tournament kept the same format of six teams in one site playing a single round-robin, but now there were bigger stakes attaches: the Confederation’s berth in the FIFA World Cup finals.
In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the host country pulled off a shocking upset by winning the tournament and claiming a spot in West Germany 1974.

• With the Campeonato de Naciones doubling as the final World Cup qualifying tournament, the next two editions were held in Ciudad de México and Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1977 and 1981, respectively, the host country came away as champion and grabbed the spots on offe