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Football at the 1991 Island Games

Field	Value
tourney_name	Football at the Island Games 1991
size	150px
country	Åland
dates	24–29 June
num_teams	8
champion	Faroe Islands
count	2
second	Anglesey
third	Jersey
fourth	Åland
matches	16
goals	56
top_scorer	Faroe Islands Jens Erik Rasmussen
(6 goals)
prevseason	1989
nextseason	1993

| champion-flagvar = (6 goals) Football was contested as part of the programme for the 1991 Island Games which was hosted in Åland from 23 to 29 June 1991. It was the second edition of the men's football tournament at the multi-sport event organised by the International Island Games Association.

The football tournament began with the first matches in the group stage on 24 June 1991 and ended with the gold medal match on 29 June 1991. Ynys Môn and the Faroe Islands, the defending champions, contested the final. Goals from Jens Erik Rasmussen and Eyðstein Davidsen helped the Faroe Islands to successfully defend their title as they won the match 2–0 after extra time. In the bronze medal match, Jersey defeated the hosts Åland 2–0.

This was the last time that the Faroe Islands men's team contested the Island Games.

Background

A five-a-side youth football tournament was held at the inaugural games in 1985 held in Douglas, Isle of Man but football was completely absent from the programme at the 1987 Island Games held in Guernsey.

The first men's football tournament was held at the 1989 Island Games in the Faroe Islands. The five nations which entered – Åland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Shetland and Ynys Môn – contested a single round robin group. The hosts, the Faroe Islands, won gold, Ynys Môn won silver and Åland won the bronze medal.

Format

Eight teams took part in the competition. They were drawn into two single round robin groups of four teams. The winning team from each group would contest the gold medal match and the runners-up would contest the bronze medal match. Play-off placement matches were held for the teams finishing third and fourth in each group – the third-placed teams contested the fifth-place match and the fourth-placed teams contested the seventh-place match.

Participants

Group phase

The group phase was played on 24, 25 and 26 June 1991.

Group 1

The Faroe Islands won all three of their games to progress to the gold medal match.

Rasmussen
Jarnskor
Mørkøre

Hamon
Salaun
Kreutzmann
Kristiansen
Møller

Rasmussen
Jarnskor
Kreutzmann
Jøorgensen

Hamon
Livesey

Reynheim
Thomassen
Rasmussen
Dam

Johnston
Watt
Williamson
Kreutzmann
Nielsen

Group 2

Ynys Môn won all three of their games to progress to the gold medal match.

Marchini
Henriksson

Kasparek
Welsh
Parry

Greening
Luscome

Placement play-off matches

Seventh-place match

The Isle of Wight defeated Greenland in the seventh-place match.

Greening
Dixon
Robinson

Fifth-place match

Shetland defeated Guernsey in the fifth-place match.

Bronze medal match

Jersey defeated Åland to win the bronze medal.

Gold medal match

After a goalless 90 minutes, the tournament's top scorer, Jens Erik Rasmussen gave the Faroe Islands the lead before Eyðstein Davidsen secured a 2–0 win as the Faroe Islands successfully defended their title.

Rasmussen
Davidsen

Final rankings

Rank	Team
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[[Image:silver medal icon.svg]]
[[Image:bronze medal icon.svg]]
4
5
6
7
8

Top goalscorers

Jens Erik Rasmussen
Adam Greig
Chris Hamon
Karl Kreutzmann
Steve Greening
Michael Williamson
Magni Jarnskor
Edvard Kristiansen
Tony Johnston
George Watt
Jonas Henriksson
Olav Marchini
Robert Söderdahl
Jan Dam
Eyðstein Davidsen
Kurt Mørkøre
Kari Reynheim
Ari Thomasen
Gedion Jörgensen
Peter Møller
Jan Nielsen
Darren Le Tissier
Larry Luscome
Lee Dixon
Adam Robinson
Neil Livesey
Tony Salaun
Colin Jones
Peter Kasparek
Bob Parry
John Walsh

Aftermath

The Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF) became affiliated with FIFA in 1988 and with UEFA in 1989. The 1991 Island Games would be the last that the Faroe Islands men's team would contest. Having won the first two editions unbeaten, they hold a record of eight wins from eight matches overall.

References

(20 July 2023). "Island Games". RSSSF.
(5 April 2007). "Island Games Tournament 1989 (Faroe Islands)". RSSSF.
(5 April 2007). "Island Games Tournament 1991 (Åland)". RSSSF.
"Results - Aland Island Games, Football - Fotboll". International Island Games Association.
(9 July 2018). "Faroe Islands at UEFA.com". UEFA.

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