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First Citizens Cup
Founded	2000
Region	Trinidad and Tobago
Number of teams	11
Current champions	Defence Force (2)
Most successful club	W Connection (6)
Website	First Citizens Cup
	2009 First Citizens Cup

The Trinidad and Tobago First Citizens Bank (FCB) Cup, or commonly known as the First Citizens Cup, is TT Pro League's league cup style football competition. The knockout tournament was inaugurated in 2000 and has since been sponsored by First Citizens Bank. The cup is contested in September towards the end of each TT Pro League regular season.

Beginning in 2000, under the name of the Professional Football League Cup, San Juan Jabloteh defeated Defence Force 1–0 to claim the inaugural tournament. First Citizens Bank began to sponsor the league cup in 2001, which saw W Connection claim their first title. Defence Force went on to claim the cup in 2002 and Jabloteh became the first club to win the title twice having won again in 2003. W Connection were crowned champions for five consecutive years from 2004 to 2008.^[1] However, in 2009, Defence Force claimed their second title and their first trophy in six years with a 1–0 win over Joe Public.

The current theme of the knockout tournament is No Room for Losers, with TT$65,000 to the winner.^[2]

[edit] Format

Currently, seeding for the competition is determined from the league standings following the twentieth league match day. The bottom two teams are placed in the 10th Place Playoff with the winner advancing to the Qualifying Round. Teams placed seventh to ninth in the standings are placed in the Qualifying Round to determine which teams advance to the Quarterfinals. The teams ranked from first to sixth automatically advance to the Quarterfinals.

All matches are played for 90 minutes duration, at the end of which if the match is still tied, penalty-kicks are used to determine the match winner.

[edit] Finals

Key
*	Match decided in extra time
^†	Match decided by a penalty shootout after regulation time
^‡	Match decided by a penalty shootout after extra time

Season	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Venue	Most Valuable Player	Top Scorer
Season	Winner	Score	Runners–up	Venue	Most Valuable Player	Player(s)	Goals
2000	San Juan Jabloteh	1–0	Defence Force	Marvin Lee Stadium
2001	W Connection	1–0	Caledonia AIA
2002	Defence Force	2–0	W Connection
2003	San Juan Jabloteh	2–1*	W Connection	Manny Ramjohn Stadium	Kerry Noray (San Juan Jabloteh)
2004	W Connection	2–2^‡	Defence Force	Manny Ramjohn Stadium	Silvio Spann (W Connection)	Kurt Williams (Defence Force)	2
2005	W Connection	3–1	San Juan Jabloteh	Manny Ramjohn Stadium	Earl Jean (W Connection)	Jerrol Forbes (United Petrotrin) Devon Jorsling (Defence Force) Andre Toussaint (W Connection) Aurtis Whitley (San Juan Jabloteh)	2
2006	W Connection	3–1	North East Stars	Manny Ramjohn Stadium	Andre Toussaint (W Connection)	Hughton Hector (W Connection)	4
2007	W Connection	2–0	Caledonia AIA	Manny Ramjohn Stadium	Marvin Oliver (Caledonia AIA)	Jonathan Faña Frias (W Connection) Walter Moore (Caledonia AIA) Marvin Oliver (Caledonia AIA)	2
2008	W Connection	2–2^†	Joe Public	Manny Ramjohn Stadium	Gregory Richardson (Joe Public)	Gregory Richardson (Joe Public)	4
2009	Defence Force	1–0	Joe Public	Marvin Lee Stadium	Kevin Graham (Defence Force)	Devon Jorsling (Defence Force) Richard Roy (Defence Force)	3