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Feb 11, 2011 Sports
With the kick off of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship just over one month away, the fixtures have been released by the CFU.
Top Guyana side Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will square off with Antigua and Barbuda’s Bassa Sports Club while the second Guyana club competing in the championship, Milerock, is set to match skills with Suriname champions, Intermoengatope in first round home matches scheduled between March 9-11 in Guyana.
The Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover Coached Alpha United and the Brian ‘Joe Boy’ Joseph led Milerock finished as champions and runner-up of the Guyana Football Federation Super League, Alpha repeating as champions for the second successive year.
In the previous edition of the Regional tournament, Guyana was represented by Alpha and the Guyana Defence Force.
In other first round fixtures, Trinidad and Tobago’s Digicel Pro League champions, Defence Force which won its 20th national title and first in 11 years last month will be at home to Bermuda’s Western Stars while Caledonia AIA, T&T’s runner-up team will travel to St. Kitts & Nevis to engage Newtown United.
River Plate FC of Puerto Rico tangle with Cayman Islands’ Bodden Town, Bath Estate FC of Dominica oppose Haiti’s Tempete FC and Northern United of St Lucia tackle Suriname’s Walking Boyz.
The second legs will be played March 18-20, with the second round schedule for the weeks of April 12-14 and April 22-24. The semifinals will take place in T&T from May 25 with the final and third-place game set for four days later.
Defending CFU Club champions Puerto Rico Islanders will play the winner between St Lucia’s Northern United and Suriname’s Walking Boyz in the second round of the tournament.
The other six first-round winners will advance to a second round eight team tournament with the winners qualifying for the semifinals and a chance to claim one of three region’s berths in the 2011-2012 CONCACAF Champions League.
Puerto Rico has qualified each season in the Champions League’s three-year existence. Defence Force is the only club from the English-speaking Caribbean and any Caribbean nation to have won the CONCACAF Champions League crown, in 1985, 2-1 on home-and-away aggregate over Honduran club, CD Olimpia.
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