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Thursday, July 10, 2025

AC PoS, Police get CFU Club Shield assignments

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Nigel Simon
29 days ago
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T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier I duo Ath­let­ic Club Port-of-Spain and Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice FC were drawn in two tricky six-team pools for the eighth Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) Club Shield com­pe­ti­tion.

The 24-team tour­na­ment to be con­test­ed via four round-robin groups will take place in T&T from Ju­ly 26 to Au­gust 3.

T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier I win­ners in 2023 and fourth in the just-con­clud­ed sea­son, AC POS will con­test Group D along­side reign­ing club shield cham­pi­ons Ar­nett Gar­dens of Ja­maica and Mar­tinique’s Club Fran­cis­cain.

Cay­man Is­lands’ Schol­ars In­ter­na­tion­al SC, Do­mini­ca’s Dublanc FC and An­guil­la’s Doc’s Unit­ed.

Third-placed fin­ish­ers in the T&TPFL Tier I 2024/2025 sea­son, Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice FC, the 1991 Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup fi­nal­ist, have been drawn in Group C with Suri­name’s SV Trans­vaal, An­tigua’s All Saints Unit­ed, Bar­ba­di­ans Wey­mouth Wales, Sint Maarten’s SC­SA Ea­gles, and the British Vir­gin Is­lands’ Wolues FC.

Last year, AC PoS, a team coached by Walt Nor­eiga, and Po­lice rep­re­sent­ed T&T in the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup, and both will have a chance to do so once more, as at the end of the 16-team CFU Club Shield com­pe­ti­tion, the top two fin­ish­ers will qual­i­fy for the 2025 Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup, which will be con­test­ed from Au­gust to De­cem­ber.

So far, T&T Pre­mier League cham­pi­ons De­fence Force, who lift­ed the Caribbean Con­ca­caf Club ti­tle back in 2001, will con­test Group B with last year’s tour­na­ment run­ner-up, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic’s Cibao FC; Ja­maica Wray & Nephew Pre­mier League two-time reign­ing cham­pi­on Cav­a­lier FC, who are al­so the two-time Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup win­ners; Hait­ian cham­pi­ons Ju­ven­tus de Cayes; and the CFU Club Shield run­ner-up.

For De­fence Force, which cap­tured its record 24th T&T na­tion­al league ti­tle ear­li­er this month, it marks a re­turn to the Caribbean Cup com­pe­ti­tion for the first time since 2023, af­ter they con­test­ed the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) Club Shield com­pe­ti­tion last year, a qual­i­fi­er to the Caribbean Cup, but bowed out at the round-of-16 hur­dle.

In Group A, two-time Caribbean Foot­ball Union Club cham­pi­ons Cen­tral FC (2015 & 2016), who last com­pet­ed at the Con­ca­caf lev­el in 2018 but qual­i­fied as the run­ner-up of the 2024/2025 T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier I com­pe­ti­tion, were drawn in Group A along­side Ja­maica Wray & Nephew Pre­mier League run­ner-up Mount Pleas­ant Foot­ball Acad­e­my, Suri­name’s SV Robin­hood, the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic’s O&M FC and the even­tu­al CFU Club Shield cham­pi­on, while in Group B,

In the CFU Club Shield, match­es will be played via a Swiss-style for­mat which will see each team play­ing two match­es apiece.

The group match­es will be con­test­ed from Ju­ly 26 to 29, with on­ly the four group win­ners ad­vanc­ing to the next stage, with the semi­fi­nals set for Au­gust 1 and the fi­nal and third-place play­off sched­uled for Au­gust 3.

Last Au­gust, Ar­nett Gar­dens got a 1-0 win over An­tigua’s Grenades FC to clinch the CFU Club Shield crown.

Suri­name’s SV Robin­hood has won the most CFU Club Shield ti­tles, two, in 2019 and 2023, beat­ing Mar­tinique’s Club Fran­cis­cain (1-0) and Gold­en Li­on (5-1) in the ti­tle match­es, re­spec­tive­ly.

Club San­do had the best fi­nal of a T&T PFL Tier I club, a third-place fin­ish in 2023 af­ter spank­ing Puer­to Ri­co’s Met­ro­pol­i­tan 6-1 in their play­off.

2025 CFU Club Shield groups

Group A: AC Capoise, Acad­e­mia Quin­tana, Acad­e­my Ea­gles, La Clery Foot­ball, Rovers SC, SV Re­al Rin­con.

Group B: AS Etoile De Ma­toury, Guyana De­fence Force, Mo­ca FC, Par­adise FC In­ter­na­tion­al, St Paul’s Unit­ed Strik­ers, SV Bri­tan­nia.

Group C: All Saints Unit­ed, Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice FC, SC­SA Ea­gles, SV Trans­vaal, Wey­mouth Wales, Wolues FC.

Group D: AC Port of Spain, Ar­nett Gar­dens, Club Franis­cain, Docs Unit­ed, Dublanc FC, Schol­ars In­ter­na­tion­al SC.


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