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2010 Caribbean Cup

Digicel Caribbean Cup 2010
Tournament details
Host country	Martinique
Dates	2 October – 5 December
Teams	23 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	8 (in 8 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Jamaica (5th title)
Runners-up	Guadeloupe
Third place	Cuba
Fourth place	Grenada
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	30 (1.88 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kithson Bain Dane Richards (3 goals each)
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The 2010 Caribbean Cup (also known as Digicel Caribbean Cup 2010 for sponsorship reasons) was the 2010 edition of the Caribbean Championship, an international football championship for national teams affiliated with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) of the CONCACAF region. The final stage was hosted by Martinique. Martinique were selected as hosts over fellow bidders Guadeloupe and Barbados. The competition was originally scheduled to begin on 18 August with the final match taking place on 28 November. However, at the beginning of August 2010, the CFU released a different schedule that showed the competition being postponed until 2 October. Also, the Bahamas pulled out of the competition, leaving 23 teams. The groups were changed, allowing Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda to get a bye to the second qualifying round at the expense of Guyana and the Netherlands Antilles.

The top four teams qualified for the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Participants

A total of 23 entered into the tournament. Aruba had initially entered but withdrew shortly before the tournament began, dropping the total from the initial 24 entrants. Seven CFU teams – Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, French Guiana, Sint Maarten, Turks and Caicos Islands, and United States Virgin Islands – did not enter, meaning two more participants than in the 2008 edition. Martinique and Jamaica were given byes into the tournament proper as hosts and title holders, respectively. The six highest-ranking teams – Grenada, Guadeloupe, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and Antigua and Barbuda – based on the results of the 2008 tournament, were given byes into the second qualifying round. All remaining entrants – Anguilla, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname – were drawn into the first qualifying round.

Seeding and bye allocation

Seed	Team	Bye	Notes
1	Martinique	Final group stage	2010 hosts
2	Jamaica		Title holders
3	Grenada	Second preliminary round	Runner-up
4	Guadeloupe		Third place
5	Cuba		Fourth place
6	Trinidad and Tobago		Eliminated in group stage with 4 points
7	Haiti		Eliminated in group stage with 4 points
8	Antigua and Barbuda		Eliminated in group stage with 2 points
9	Barbados	No bye awarded	Eliminated in group stage with 0 points

Qualification

The qualifying competition for the 2010 Caribbean Championship was held from 2 October to 14 November 2010 to determine the qualifying teams for the final tournament. 21 teams competed, with six qualifying to join hosts Martinique and title holders Jamaica. The competition was played over two rounds, with the second through seventh highest-ranked teams from the 2008 Caribbean Championship given byes to the second round.

Squads

At least 30 days prior to the tournament, all teams competing in the final tournament were required to provide a provisional list of between 20 and 30 players. 10 days prior, the teams were required to finalize a list of 20 players for the tournament.

Group stage

The final round was contested in Martinique from 26 November – 5 December. It consisted of two groups of four, and the top two teams from each group progressed to the semifinals. Jamaica and Martinique automatically qualified for the final group stage as title holder and host, respectively.

Group H

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Cuba	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7
Grenada	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
Trinidad and Tobago	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
Martinique	3	0	1	2	1	3	−2	1

Trinidad and Tobago	0–2	Cuba
	Report	J. Colomé 23' Linares 79'

Martinique	1–1	Grenada
Goron 79' (pen.)	Report	Bain 29'

Grenada	1–0	Trinidad and Tobago
Bain 69'	Report

Martinique	0–1	Cuba
	Report	Márquez 28'

Cuba	0–0	Grenada
	Report

Martinique	0–1	Trinidad and Tobago
	Report	Hector 47'

Group I

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Jamaica	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9
Guadeloupe	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4
Antigua and Barbuda	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
Guyana	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

Guyana	1–1	Guadeloupe
D. Jacobs 86'	Report	Loval 70'

Jamaica	3–1	Antigua and Barbuda
Shelton 14', 37' Richards 40'	Report	Gregory 48'

Antigua and Barbuda	1–0	Guyana
Gregory 69'	Report

Guadeloupe	0–2	Jamaica
	Report	Francis 53' Johnson 90+3'

Guadeloupe	1–0	Antigua and Barbuda
Lambourde 41'	Report

Guyana	0–4	Jamaica
	Report	Richards 42' Morgan 49', 75' Vernan 90'

Knockout phase

	Semi-finals				Final
	Cuba	1
	Guadeloupe	2
					Guadeloupe	1 (4)
					Jamaica (pen)	1 (5)
	Jamaica (aet)	2
	Grenada	1
					Third place
					Cuba	1
					Grenada	0

Semi-finals

Cuba	1–2	Guadeloupe
R. Fernández 34'	Report	Gendrey 55' (pen.) Lambourde 78'

Jamaica	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Grenada
Richards 7' Smith 96'	Report	Bain 13'

Third Place Playoff

Grenada	0–1	Cuba
	Report	Linares 12'

Final

Guadeloupe	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Jamaica
Gotin 37'	Report	Cummings 32'
Penalties
Clavier Gendrey Collet Antoine-Curier Lambourde	4–5	Austin Shelton Woodbine Vernan Smith

2010 Caribbean Cup winner
Jamaica Fifth title

Goalscorers

3 goals

• Kithson Bain
• Dane Richards

2 goals

• Gayson Gregory
• Roberto Linares
• Jean-Luc Lambourde
• Marvin Morgan, Jr.
• Luton Shelton

1 goal

• Jaime Colomé
• Reysander Fernández
• Yénier Márquez
• Grégory Gendrey
• Ludovic Gotin
• Loïc Loval
• Dwain Jacobs
• Omar Cummings
• Shaun Francis
• Ryan Johnson
• Troy Smith
• Eric Vernan
• José-Thierry Goron
• Hughton Hector

References

1. "Caribbean cup to start August 18". CONCACAF.com. CONCACAF. 7 June 2010. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
2. "St. Vincent to host Group B of Caribbean Cup". concacaf.org. CONCACAF. 25 August 2010. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
3. ^ "Digicel Cup Kicks Off". caribbeanfootballunion.org. Caribbean Football Union. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
4. "Digicel Caribbean Cup: 2010 Tournament Regulations" (PDF). Caribbean Football Union. 2010. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.

External links

• Caribbean Football Union
• Digicel Caribbean Cup
• Digicel Football

• 2010 Caribbean Cup
• Caribbean Cup
• 2010–11 in Caribbean football
• International association football competitions hosted by Martinique
• 2010 in Martinique