Isle of Man national football team

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Isle of Man

Nickname(s)

Association

Isle of Man Football Association

Head coach

Kevin Manning

Most caps

Top scorer

Home stadium

The Bowl (Douglas)

FIFA code

GBM





First kit





Second kit

First international

Isle of Wight 1 - 0 Isle of Man

(Isle of Wight, England; 4 July 1993)
not FIFA regulated

Biggest win

Isle of Man 13 - 0 Hitra

(Gotland Island, Sweden; 28 June 1999)
not FIFA regulated

Biggest defeat

Jersey 5 - 1 Isle of Man

(Isle of Wight, England; 9 July 1993)
not FIFA regulated

Greenland 4 - 0 Isle of Man

(Gibraltar; 18 July 1995)
not FIFA regulated

Western Isles 4 - 0 Isle of Man

(Shetland Islands, Scotland; 15 July 2005)
not FIFA regulated

The Isle of Man national football team is the national football team of the Isle of Man and is controlled by the Isle of Man Football Association. The team plays in a yellow and red home kit and an all navy blue away kit.

The Isle of Man are not members of FIFA or UEFA, as the Isle of Man FA are members of The Football Association (The FA), with similar status to an English county. Since they are not a member of either FIFA or UEFA, they are not eligible to enter either the World Cup or European Championship, nor are their league clubs eligible for the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup. The Isle of Man therefore is limited to different forms of competition.

The main competition the Isle of Man national football team takes part in is the biennial Football at the Island Games. Isle of Man has won three Silver Medals in 1993, 1999 and 2003.

They play in the annual Celtic Nations Cup, a tournament for semi-professional and amateur national teams from the Isle of Man, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. They won the tournament in 2000, beating Scotland 1-0 in the final, despite the Isle of Man possessing the only truly all-amateur set-up as the other teams fielded semi-professional players.

Another regular competition played in is the Steam Packet Football Festival, which usually features the Isle of Man along with lower division teams from The Football League. The Isle of Man's best result to date in the tournament, was beating Burnley F.C. 1-0 in 2000.

In the 2005-06 season, the Isle of Man national team won The FA National League System Cup, a competition for amateur teams representing the leagues at Step 7 of the National League System with a few other leagues permitted by the FA. The Isle of Man beat the Cambridgeshire Football Association County League team 4-0 in the final and represented England in the UEFA Regions Cup.

1 Tournament records
- 1.1 Island Games record
2 Selected Internationals opponents
3 External links

[edit] Tournament records

[edit] Island Games record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1993	Final	2nd	4	2	0	2	8	7
1995	7th Place Match	8th	4	0	0	4	2	12
1999	Final	2nd	5	3	1	1	20	6
2001	7th Place Match	7th	4	1	1	2	12	6
2003	Final	2nd	4	3	0	1	9	5
2005	3rd Place Match	4th	5	2	1	2	12	7
Total	6/10		26	11	3	12	63	43

[edit] Selected Internationals opponents

(Last update: March 2008)

Opponents	Matches	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA
Åland Islands	3	2	0	1	4	4
Falkland Islands	2	2	0	0	18	0
Gibraltar	2	0	0	2	1	3
Gotland	1	0	1	0	4	4
Greenland	1	0	0	1	0	4
Guernsey	2	0	0	2	3	6
Hitra	1	1	0	0	13	0
Isle of Wight	2	1	0	1	5	2
Jersey	3	2	0	1	4	6
Rhodes	1	0	0	1	1	3
Saaremaa	2	1	1	0	6	2
Shetland	4	2	1	1	9	5
Ynys Môn	3	1	0	2	1	3
Western Isles	1	0	0	1	0	4