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2012 CFU Club Championship

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Runners-up
  
W Connection

Fourth place
  
Antigua Barracuda

Third place
  
Puerto Rico Islanders

Dates
  
March 25 – June 21, 2012

Teams
  
15 (from 9 associations)

Champions
  
Caledonia AIA (1st title)

The 2012 CFU Club Champions’ Cup was the 14th 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 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League.

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Participating teams

The following teams were entered into the competition. The four professional teams (in bold) were seeded to directly enter the second round. Per CONCACAF regulations, only the professional teams were eligible to play in the CONCACAF Champions League.

  • th – Title holders
  • The following associations did not enter a team:

    First round

    Winner of each group and the best runner-up advanced to the second round.

    Group 1

    Matches played at the Cayman Islands (host team: Elite).

    Group 2

    Matches played at Guyana (host team: Alpha United).

    Group 3

    Matches played at Haiti.

  • Centro Barber withdrew.
  • Best runner-up

    To determine the best runner-up, since Groups 1 and 3 have three teams each compared to four for Group 2, the results of the last-place team in Group 2 – Milerock – were voided and the standings recalculated.

    Second round

    Winner and runner-up of each group advanced to the final round.

    Group 4

    Matches played at the Cayman Islands (host team: George Town).

  • Baltimore withdrew after the team was denied visas to the Cayman Islands.
  • Group 5

    Matches played at Trinidad and Tobago (host team: W Connection).

    Final round

    In the semifinals, the two second-round group winners played against the runners-up from the opposite group. The semifinal winners played in the final while the losers played in the third place match.

    Matches played at Trinidad and Tobago.

    Caledonia AIA, W Connection, and Puerto Rico Islanders qualified for the Group Stage of the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League.

    Top goalscorers

    Source:

    References

    2012 CFU Club Championship Wikipedia


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