Teams Playing in CFU 2009

Cool. Though I know that I won't catch any games up in the States.

 

CARIBBEAN CLUB CHAMPIONS CUP DRAW ON JANUARY 15TH

Jan 09, 2009 at 02:47 PM Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: The CFU Club Champions Cup draw date of January 15th , 2009 was released today by CFU Secretariat officials. The Draw will take place at the CONCACAF office in New York and will establish the knock-out pairings for the event. Initially, 12 teams will be paired for two-leg series in on March 18th and 25th, with the six winners advancing to join Puerto Rico Islanders and San Juan Jabloteh in the next Round.

http://futbolboricua.blogspot.com/2009/01/caribbean-club-champions-cup-draw-on.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFU_Club_Championship_2009 lists 30 nations with room for two clubs from each nation. If only 14 clubs are entering that's much less than 60 and Wikipedia should be edited. 14 clubs would be a decrease from the 17 clubs that entered in 2007 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFU_Club_Championship_2007 and it's also a format change as last time all 17 clubs started in a group stage.
The quarterfinals being played as two leg series and the semifinals and final being played as individual games is the same format as the MLS playoffs. The number of CFU clubs competing (14) is even equal to the number of clubs MLS had in 2008.

 

... Good ol Jack Warner lol

and did you notice that last years 3rd and 4th place are seeded??

 

I had to edit my CFU Club Rankings list too...

 

2007's top two aren't in the 2009 competition

 

Thats because they did not win their respective leagues and therefore they did not qualify.

 

The Wkipedia page was based on each federation being eligible to enter up to two clubs. That is obviously not the case, as it has also been in the past. Hopefully CONCACAF or the CFU will release the official docs soon.

 

CFU already did... that article posted on the FutbolBoricua blog is take directly out of the CFU website.

 

My point was that the 2007 third and fourth place teams could have been seeded because they were top teams in 2007 that are returning this year.

 

That makes sence

 

http://concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?id=4591

The competition is now down to 12 teams after the two Jamaicam teams have pulled out.

Puerto Rico Islanders are now placed automatically into the semifinals. San Juan Jabloteh are now automatically in the second round. And the other 10 teams play to get into the second round.


I don't know much about Caribbean soccer, but this seems like a free pass for the Islanders into the 2009-10 Champions league. All they have to do is either win the semi final match or the 3rd place match if they lose their semifinal.

 

pretty much...The islanders were a sensation this season in the tournament and CONCACAF wants them back next year. New and fresh marketing grounds buddy. Weather it seems to be the case or not, there is money in the Islanders market so CONCACAF will want to get in there. Also Puerto Rico itself is slowly becoming a very decent bed for football so is in the CONCACAF's interest to keep PR around and help them prosper

 

Yep it seem the CFU made it pretty easy for the Islanders and our FO is probably loving it, it also mean that in next year competition they will be given a bye aswell since they will most surely quality.

 

This I highly doubt.. since all CFU teams have to play the preliminaries.

 

Sage they only have to win two games to make it into the preliminaries its mutch easier than all the other CFU team.

 

Actually, they only have to win one of two games.

 

In that sense.. yes... but in general no.