Sponsors
Over the years, the tournament has been named after its respective sponsors. Shell had sponsored the competition since its inception in 1989.
By February 1996, Jack Warner had announced a new sponsorship from sports apparel company Umbro for the 1996 Caribbean Cup. The tournament was also co-sponsored by Umbro in 1997 before Shell re-attained sole-sponsorship for the 1998 event.
In October 1998, during the first and only year of sponsorship from the Asia Sports Group, the competition changed its name to Copa Caribe. CFU's Chairman Jack Warner stated that the change was made to highlight the competition being a branch of the Copa de Oro. Florida based Inter/Forever (now Traffic Group) agreed a sponsorship deal to replace the Asia Sports Group agreement in January 1999. The competition retained the title Copa Caribe for the 1999 and 2001 editions.
There was no competition held in 2003, instead teams focused on a group-stage only qualifying tournament.
Caribbean-based mobile phone company Digicel took over the sponsorship in 2004 and they agreed an extension to the sponsorship in June 2007.
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