TRINIDAD AND Tobago will be the host venue for Group Seven, in the Second Round of the 2014 Men’s Caribbean Cup tournament from October 6-13.
The Caribbean Cup will be staged under the auspices of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).
According to a media release on the CFU website, “the Caribbean Cup is the flagship tournament of the CFU as the tournament displays some of the best footballers throughout the region, while also acting as a qualifier for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup.”
The Caribbean Cup will get underway with the Preliminary Qualification Round from May 28 to June 4.
Bonaire will host Group One, with Montserrat and the United States Virgin Islands as the other teams, while Group Two will feature hosts Aruba, British Virgin Islands, French Guiana and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The winners of the respective groups will proceed to the First Round, carded from September 1-8. Group Three, in Martinique, will have the winners of Group One, as well as Barbados and Suriname, while the winners of Group Two will tackle Curacao, Grenada and hosts Puerto Rico in Group Four.
Group Five will be held in Antigua/Barbuda, with Anguilla, Dominican Republic and St Vincent/Grenadines while Group Six will take place in St Kitts/Nevis and includes Dominica, Guyana and St Lucia.
In the Second Round, Trinidad and Tobago will welcome the challenge of the Group Five winners, the Group Six runners-up and the best overall third-placed team; Group Eight, in Haiti, will have the Group Six winners, the Group Three runners-up and the Group Four runners-up while Guadeloupe, hosts of Group Nine, will deal with the winners of Group Three and Four, as well as the runners-up in Group Five.
The Final Round will run from November 9-18 in Montego Bay, Jamaica, with two groups of four teams.
Jamaica will battle the Group Eight winners, the Group Nine winners and the Group Seven runners-up, while reigning Caribbean champs Cuba will oppose the Group Seven winners, the Group Eight runners-up and the Group Nine runners-up.
The top two teams in each of the Final Round groups will qualify for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup while a fifth CFU team will have to face the fifth-placed team from the Central American Zone, to earn a spot in the Gold Cup.