T&T's senior men's football team will have the opportunity to qualify, along with five other Concacaf teams, to the milestone Comnebol Copa America's centennial tournament in 2016.
In celebration of the South American tournament's 100 years since inception and 45th staging, a decision was made public to allow the United States to host the Copa America Centenario, at a joint-Concacaf and Comnebol press conference, in Miami, yesterday.
It will be the first time the tournament will be held outside South America.
A decision was also made to expand the tournament to 16 teams for the 2016 tournament.
Mexico and the USA have already automatically qualified for the tournament, along with all 10 Comnebol member nations–Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The four other Concacaf qualifiers will be determined from the winner of the 2014 Copa Centroamericana (Central America), the winner of the 2014 Caribbean Cup and another two teams determined by a play-off among the top four non-qualified teams at the 2015 Gold Cup.
Since 2012, the tournament was tipped to be hosted either in Mexico or USA, before a decision was reached to allow the Americans to host due to financial, marketing and infrastructural benefits.
Apart from T&T, there are 38 other Concacaf teams which will attempt to qualify.
T&T is the most successful team in the Caribbean Cup, having won the competition eight times, three times more than nearest rival, Jamaica. However, the last time T&T won the cup was in 2001.