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Digicel T&T Pro League clubs, W Connection and Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA will be on first round byes when the Caribbean Football Union Club Champions Cup begin today in the Cayman Islands.

W Connection has won the CFU title four times—2001, 2002, 2006 and 2009—the last of which was a 2–1 triumph over two-time reigning champion Puerto Rico Islanders at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya.

For Caledonia, it will be the second consecutive appearance in the competition after reaching the quarterfinals on debut last year before bowing out to Haiti’s Tempete.

In the opening Group One three-team series, Cayman Islands duo Elite Sport and Georgetown will tangle with North Village of Bermuda as announced by the CFU on Monday.
 
The three-team series is one of three first-round groups that each will qualify a winner along with the best runner-up from all three to a second, eight-team group stage May 1-6.

The four qualifiers will join seeded sides, Puerto Rico Islanders, the two-time defending champion, and Caledonia AIA, paired in one of the second-round groups, and W Connection and Barracudas FC of Antigua, in the other.

The winners and runners-up from the two second-round groups will advance to the CFU club championship finals May 23-27, with three teams qualifying for next season’s CONCACAF Champions League.

The two other first-round series will see Group Two being played in Guyana from April 15–22. Group Three will contest in Haiti from April 15-22.