Caribbean Football Union
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The CFU emblem
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| Abbreviation | CFU |
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| Formation | 28 January 1978 |
| Type | Sports organisation |
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 Jamaica
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Membership
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31 Member Associations |
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Secretary General
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 Neil Cochrane
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President
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Gordon Derrick
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| Website | http://www.cfufootball.org |
The Caribbean Football Union, often referred to by its initials CFU, is the nominal governing body for association football in the Caribbean as well as Bermuda, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. It represents 25 FIFA member nations, as well as 6 territories that are not affiliated to FIFA. The Union was established in January 1978 and its Member Associations compete in the CONCACAF region.
CFU also runs the CFU Club Championship, a competition to determine the Caribbean club representatives to the CONCACAF Champions League.
The union made international headlines in 2011 when it was revealed that Mohammed bin Hammam, a candidate for the FIFA Presidency, had offered US$40,000 to each national association representative present at a CFU meeting on 10 May 2011. Several had accepted the offer. CFU president Jack Warner was to be investigated by FIFA, but upon his resignation the investigation was terminated. The resignation resulted in several of the most influential members of the CFU being suspended from football and delays of the CFU congress.
Saint-Barthélemy became an overseas collectivity of France in February 2007, the same political status as Saint-Martin.
Following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, the public bodies of Saba and Sint Eustatius could become eligible to compete as separate entities within the Caribbean Football Union. Bonaire, which also has this political status, became a CFU member (and CONCACAF associate member) in April 2013. Each of these areas is an integral part of the Netherlands.
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