Qualifying for the 2017 Caribbean Cup and the Caribbean Football Union's representatives in the 2017 Gold Cup took a little longer than anticipated thanks to the intervention of Hurricane Matthew. But the uncertainty regarding the final standings of the qualifying tournament was entirely down to the CFU.
After Haiti beat St. Kitts and Nevis, 2-0, on November 13, the Haitian players and staff celebrated as though they had achieved their goal: a place in the CFU playoff for a shot at a Gold Cup berth. But there was cause to doubt their claim as the only competition rules anyone seemed able to find allowed for either Haiti or Antigua and Barbuda to make a compelling case for their place in the playoff.