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Trinidad & Tobago to host 2007 Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals next January; Haiti in Group D

17.8.06 - Trinidad & Tobago will host the 2007 Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals next January where three teams qualify to the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup? that will take place in the USA from 6-24 June.

The 2007 Digicel Caribbean Cup will begin first round with six groups of four teams each and hosted in six different nations from 2 September ? 1 October 2006.

The second round will involve the top two teams from each group competing in four groups and will be contested during October/November 2006 at venues to be announced and then the Finals in Trinidad & Tobago from 31 January - 11 February.

?This promises to be a very exciting and action packed tournament which will go a very long way in the uplifting of football in this region,? said CONCACAF President Jack Warner.

The Netherlands Antilles will stage Group A during the first round of the Digicel Caribbean Cup, while Groups B & C will take place in Antigua & Barbuda and US Virgin Islands, respectively.

Jamaica, who won the last Digicel Caribbean Cup in 2005, is hosting Group D, while Cuba and Guadeloupe are staging Groups E and F, respectively.

2007 CONCACAF GOLD CUP? ? CARIBBEAN QUALIFYING

Caribbean Digicel Cup

* Host

First Round

Group A (6-10 September 2006)

Grenada, Guyana, *Netherlands Antilles, Surinam

Group B (20-24 September 2006)

Antigua & Barbuda, Anguilla, Barbados, St. Kitts & Nevis

Group C (26-30 September 2006)

Dominican Republic, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands*

Group D (26 September ? 1 October 2006)

Haiti, Jamaica*, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines

Group E (2-6 September 2006)

Cuba*, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos Islands

Group F (20-24 September 2006)

Guadeloupe*, Saint-Martin, Martinique, Dominica

ALL-TIME CARIBBEAN CUP

YEAR - WINNER - VENUE (S) - (GOLD CUP QUALIFIERS)

1989 - Trinidad & Tobago - Barbados

1991 - Jamaica - Jamaica - (Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago)

1992 - Trinidad & Tobago - Trinidad & Tobago

1993 - Martinique - Jamaica - (Jamaica, Martinique)

1994 - Trinidad & Tobago - Trinidad & Tobago

1995 - Trinidad & Tobago - Cayman Islands, Jamaica - (St. Vincent & Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago)

1996 - Trinidad & Tobago - Trinidad & Tobago

1997 - Trinidad & Tobago - Antigua & Barbuda, St. Kitts & Nevis - (Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago)

1998 - Jamaica - Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago

1999 - Trinidad & Tobago - Trinidad & Tobago - (Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago)

2001 - Trinidad & Tobago - Trinidad & Tobago - (Cuba, Haiti, Martinique, Trinidad & Tobago)

2003 - No Winner* - Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago - (Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique^)

2005 ? Jamaica ? Barbados ? (Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago)

* No Caribbean champion was crowned as the two respective Caribbean Final Round Qualification Group Winners from Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago (Jamaica & Cuba) qualified to the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup?