Action from the CFU Club Championship first-round game between Central FC and Scholars International on March 11, 2016, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. (Photo: Paul Reid)
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua & Barbuda – The Caribbean Football Union announced Friday that the last stages of the 2016 CFU Club Championship will be held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The four, first-round group winners will converge on the Stade Sylvio Cator for the semifinals on April 29. Two days later, the match for third place and final will be contested at the same venue.
Defending champion Central FC (Trinidad & Tobago) will take on host Don Bosco FC (Haiti) in one semifinal, while DireccTV W Connection (Trinidad & Tobago) is pitted against Arnett Gardens (Jamaica) in the other.
In addition to a place in the tournament decider, the winner of each semifinal will gain a berth in the 2016/17 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League. The region’s last representative to the annual confederation competition will come from the survivor of third-place match.
Central FC, W Connection (both participants in the 2015/16 SCCL) and Don Bosco FC are all making a second straight trip to the Caribbean’s final four.
The Sharks defeated W Connection, 2-1, in the 2015 final for their first-ever international trophy.
