Barbados exploited two unusual rules variations in its final group stage game.

First, unlike most group stages in football competitions, the organizers had deemed that all games must have a winner.

Barbados was leading 2–0 until the 83rd minute, when an own goal by a Bajan defender made the score 2–1 and brought a new ruling into play.

Barbados successfully held off Grenada for the final five minutes, sending the game into extra time.

In extra time, Barbados scored the game winner, and was awarded a 4–2 victory, which put them through to the next round.

Several Haitian players had criticized the coup d'état on a Miami-based radio station, and their messages had been played in Haiti.