Finishing third in this season’s Jamaica Premier League (JPL) competition may not have been the outcome Mount Pleasant Academy envisioned at the start of the campaign, but Sporting Director Paul Christie says the club has still secured an important pathway toward defending its Caribbean Football Union (CFU) crown.

Mount Pleasant, who entered the season as favourites to lift the JPL title, secured third place on Sunday after edging rivals Montego Bay United 3-2 at the National Stadium. The victory earned the St Ann-based club a place in the CFU Shield, which serves as a route into the Caribbean Football Union Championships.

“This is not totally bad because we would have set two objectives at the start of the season, to be the Caribbean champions and to be the local champions, but we fell short at being the local champions,” said Christie.