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Football at the Island Games
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Football at the Island Games |
| founded | 1989 |
| region | International |
| current champions | Men – |
| (4th title) | |
| Women – | |
| (2nd title) | |
| most successful team | Men – |
| (4 titles) | |
| Women - | |
| (3 titles) | |
| current | |
| Guernsey 2023 – Men's | |
| Guernsey 2023 – Women's |
(4th title) Women –
(2nd title)
(4 titles) Women -
(3 titles) Guernsey 2023 – Men's Guernsey 2023 – Women's
Football has been a regular event since 1989 at the Island Games, the biennial multi-sports event for island nations, territories and dependencies. A 5-a-side competition for under-16s was held at the inaugural event on the Isle of Man, and the success this minor competition brought to the games meant senior men's football was included on the itinerary for the first time in the Faroe Islands, in 1989. Women's football was included on the games' schedule for the first time in 2001.
Over the years, the competition has grown in stature, becoming one of the most important competitions for 'national' teams in non-FIFA football, and has grown from a five-team round robin competition to a 16-team tournament. Football was not included in the 2019 Island Games as hosts Gibraltar do not have enough pitches. As a replacement the 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament was held in Anglesey, and was not officially part of the games.
Men's tournament
Results
| Year | Games | Host | Final | Third Place | Num. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | |||
| 1989 | |||||||||
| details | III | FRO | |||||||
| Faroe Islands | Round robin | Round robin | 5 | ||||||
| 1991 | |||||||||
| details | IV | Åland | |||||||
| Åland | 2–0 | 2–0 | 8 | ||||||
| 1993 | |||||||||
| details | V | Isle of Wight | |||||||
| Isle of Wight | 5–1 | 2–1 | 8 | ||||||
| 1995 | |||||||||
| details | VI | Gibraltar | |||||||
| Gibraltar | 1–0 | 6–3 | 8 | ||||||
| 1997 | |||||||||
| details | VII | Jersey | |||||||
| Jersey | 1–0 | 3–1 | 9 | ||||||
| 1999 | |||||||||
| details | VIII | Gotland | |||||||
| Gotland | 1–0 | 2–0 | 14 | ||||||
| 2001 | |||||||||
| details | IX | Isle of Man | |||||||
| Isle of Man | 0–0 | ||||||||
| (p.s.o) | 2–0 | 12 | |||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||
| details | X | Guernsey | |||||||
| Guernsey | 3–1 | 3–0 | 15 | ||||||
| 2005 | |||||||||
| details | XI | Shetland | |||||||
| Shetland | 2–0 | 4–0 | 10 | ||||||
| 2007 | |||||||||
| details | XII | Rhodes | |||||||
| Rhodes | 4–0 | 1–0 | 11 | ||||||
| 2009 | |||||||||
| details | XIII | Åland | |||||||
| Åland | 2–1 | 5–0 | 16 | ||||||
| 2011 | |||||||||
| details | XIV | Isle of Wight | |||||||
| Isle of Wight | 4–2 | 5–1 | 15 | ||||||
| 2013 | |||||||||
| details | XV | Bermuda | |||||||
| Bermuda | 1–0 | 6–0 | 4 | ||||||
| 2015 | |||||||||
| details | XVI | Jersey | |||||||
| Jersey | 3–0 | 1–0 | 16 | ||||||
| 2017 | |||||||||
| details | XVII | Gotland | |||||||
| Gotland | 6–0 | 1–0 | 16 | ||||||
| 2019 | XVIII | Gibraltar | |||||||
| Gibraltar | *No football tournament held | ||||||||
| (see 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament)* | |||||||||
| 2023 | |||||||||
| details | XIX | Guernsey | |||||||
| Guernsey | 5–2 | 2–1 | U23 | 16 | |||||
| 2025 | |||||||||
| details | XX | Orkney | |||||||
| Orkney | U23 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 12 | |||||
| 2027 | |||||||||
| details | XXI | Faroe Islands | |||||||
| Faroe Islands |
Medalists
| Team |
|---|
| Gold |
| Jersey Jersey |
| Guernsey Guernsey |
| Isle of Wight Isle of Wight |
| Bermuda Bermuda |
| Faroe Islands Faroe Islands |
| Anglesey Ynys Môn |
| Isle of Man Isle of Man |
| Gibraltar Gibraltar |
| Shetland Shetland |
| Greenland Greenland |
| Åland Åland |
| Rhodes Rhodes |
| Western Isles Western Isles |
| Falkland Islands Falkland Islands |
| Menorca Minorca |
Performances by team
- Blue square indicates host
| Year | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participants | 1989 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | 1991 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | 1993 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | 1995 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | 1997 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | 1999 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 | 2001 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | 2003 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | 2005 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | 2007 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | 2009 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | 2011 | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | 2013 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| 16 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 7th | 6th | 7th | 7th | 2nd | 4th | 9th | 7th | 13th | |||||
| 11th | 14th | 16th | 15th | |||||||||||||
| 4th | 1st | 4th | ||||||||||||||
| 11th | 10th | 16th | 13th | 3rd | 12th | 16th | 14th | |||||||||
| 1st | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| 7th | 12th | 13th | 8th | 15th | 4th | 14th | 15th | |||||||||
| 8th | 2nd | 6th | 11th | 5th | 6th | 1st | 9th | 5th | 10th | |||||||
| 7th | 9th | 6th | 11th | 10th | 14th | 6th | ||||||||||
| 4th | 8th | 4th | 4th | 9th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 8th | 12th | 11th | 2nd | 5th | 2nd | 8th | ||
| 6th | 5th | 4th | 9th | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 5th | |||||
| 6th | ||||||||||||||||
| 8th | 13th | 15th | 12th | |||||||||||||
| 2nd | 8th | 2nd | 7th | 2nd | 4th | 4th | 8th | 2nd | 1st | 9th | ||||||
| 7th | 5th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 10th | 1st | 6th | 3rd | ||||||
| 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 5th | 1st | 3rd | 7th | 5th | 1st | ||||
| 9th | 7th | 7th | 3rd | 4th | 12th | |||||||||||
| 12th | 8th | 9th | 9th | 10th | ||||||||||||
| 5th | 6th | DNF | 2nd | 5th | DSQ | |||||||||||
| 14th | 10th | 12th | 6th | 10th | 14th | 6th | 13th | 13th | ||||||||
| 16th | ||||||||||||||||
| 14th | ||||||||||||||||
| 5th | 5th | 7th | 5th | 10th | 8th | 7th | 1st | 13th | 4th | 10th | 7th | |||||
| 3rd | 3rd | 8th | 12th | 11th | 11th | 11th | ||||||||||
| 2nd | 2nd | 5th | 6th | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 5th | 5th | 11th | 6th | 9th | 8th | 8th | 2nd |
Top goalscorers
| Year | Player | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Faroe Islands Bergur Magnussen | 11 |
| 1991 | Faroe Islands Jens Erik Rasmussen | 6 |
| 1993 | Jersey Adam Greig | 7 |
| 1995 | Isle of Wight Adam Barsdell | 4 |
| 1997 | Anglesey Eifion Williams | 6 |
| 1999 | Isle of Man Peter Langridge | 9 |
| 2001 | Isle of Man Chris Higgins | |
| Jersey Daniel Craven | 5 | |
| 2003 | Gibraltar Roy Chipolina | |
| Gibraltar Graham Alvez | 9 | |
| 2005 | Isle of Man Peter Langridge | |
| Isle of Man Johnny Myers | ||
| Saaremaa Martti Pukk | 4 | |
| 2007 | ? | |
| 2009 | Gibraltar Lee Casciaro | |
| Guernsey Ross Allen | 5 | |
| 2011 | Åland Peter Lundberg | 5 |
| 2013 | Greenland Norsaq Lund Mathæussen | 5 |
| 2015 | Guernsey Dominic Heaume | |
| IOM Ashley Webster | ||
| Shetland Leighton Flaws | ||
| Shetland Shane Jamieson | 4 | |
| 2017 | Isle of Man Calum Morrissey | 8 |
| 2023 | Isle of Wight Jake Scrimshaw | 7 |
Women's tournament
Results
| Year | Games | Host | Final | Third Place | Num. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | |||
| 2001 | |||||||||
| details | IX | Isle of Man | |||||||
| Isle of Man | 5–4 | 3–2 | 7 | ||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||
| details | X | Guernsey | |||||||
| Guernsey | 5–2 | 3–2 | 8 | ||||||
| 2005 | |||||||||
| details | XI | Shetland | |||||||
| Shetland | Round robin | Round robin | 6 | ||||||
| 2007 | |||||||||
| details | XII | Rhodes | |||||||
| Rhodes | 3–0 | 0–0 | |||||||
| (p.s.o) | 11 | ||||||||
| 2009 | |||||||||
| details | XIII | Åland | |||||||
| Åland | 2–0 | 3–1 | 10 | ||||||
| 2011 | |||||||||
| details | XIV | Isle of Wight | |||||||
| Isle of Wight | 5–1 | 1–0 | 10 | ||||||
| 2013 | |||||||||
| details | XV | Bermuda | |||||||
| Bermuda | 0–0 | ||||||||
| colspan=2 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2015 | |||||||||
| details | XVI | Jersey | |||||||
| Jersey | 1–0 | ||||||||
| 2–0 | 11 | ||||||||
| 2017 | |||||||||
| details | XVII | Gotland | |||||||
| Gotland | 2–1 | 3–1 | 11 | ||||||
| 2019 | XVII | Gibraltar | |||||||
| Gibraltar | *No football tournament held | ||||||||
| (see 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament)* | |||||||||
| 2023 | |||||||||
| details | XVIII | Guernsey | |||||||
| Guernsey | 4–0 | 3–1 | 10 | ||||||
| 2025 | |||||||||
| details | XVIV | Orkney | |||||||
| Orkney | 1–1 | ||||||||
| 3–0 | 11 |
Medalists
| Team | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALA Åland | 3 ('07, '09, 11') | 3 ('01, '05, '15) | ||
| Bermuda Bermuda | 3 ('13, '23, '25) | 2 ('05, '07) | ||
| Faroe Islands Faroe Islands | 3 ('01, '03, '05) | |||
| Gotland Gotland | 1 ('17) | 2 ('03, '09) | 1 ('15) | |
| Jersey Jersey | 1 ('15) | 3 (01', '03, '17) | ||
| Isle of Man Isle of Man | 3 ('11, '17, '25) | 2 ('09, '23) | ||
| Greenland Greenland | 1 ('13) | 1 ('11) | ||
| Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island | 1 ('07) | |||
| Western Isles Western isles | 1 ('23) | 1 ('25) | ||
| Hitra Hitra | 1 ('13) |
Performances by team
- Blue square indicates host
| Year | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participants | 2001 | ||||||||||
| 7 | 2003 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 2005 | ||||||||||
| 6 | 2007 | ||||||||||
| 11 | 2009 | ||||||||||
| 10 | 2011 | ||||||||||
| 10 | 2013 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2015 | ||||||||||
| 11 | 2017 | ||||||||||
| 11 | 2023 | ||||||||||
| 10 | |||||||||||
| Åland Åland Islands | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 5th | 7th | |||
| Bermuda Bermuda | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | |||||||
| Faroe Islands Faroe Islands | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||||||
| Gibraltar Gibraltar | 10th | 11th | 10th | ||||||||
| Gotland Gotland | 2nd | 6th | 2nd | 7th | 3rd | 1st | |||||
| Greenland Greenland | 8th | 7th | 3rd | 2nd | 9th | 8th | |||||
| Guernsey Guernsey | 6th | 4th | 5th | 7th | 8th | 8th | 10th | ||||
| Hitra Hitra | 9th | 9th | 3rd | 6th | 9th | 9th | |||||
| Isle of Man Isle of Man | 4th | 8th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 3rd | ||
| Isle of Wight Isle of Wight | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 8th | |||
| Jersey Jersey | 3rd | 3rd | 11th | 6th | 8th | 1st | 3rd | 6th | |||
| Menorca Menorca | 6th | 4th | |||||||||
| Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island | 2nd | ||||||||||
| Rhodes Rhodes | 7th | 10th | |||||||||
| Saaremaa Saaremaa | 10th | 6th | |||||||||
| Shetland Shetland | 6th | ||||||||||
| Western Isles Western Isles | 9th | 5th | 4th | 7th | 7th | 2nd | |||||
| Anglesey Ynys Môn | 7th | 6th | 10th | 11th | 5th |
Top goalscorers
| Year | Player | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | ? | |
| 2003 | ||
| 2005 | Faroe Islands Rannvá B. Andreasen | 7 |
| 2007 | ? | |
| 2009 | Isle of Man Donna Shimmin | 8 |
| 2011 | Åland Adelina Engman | |
| Isle of Man Jade Burden | ||
| Isle of Man Eleanor Gawne | 5 | |
| 2013 | Bermuda Tschana Wade | |
| Greenland Laila Platoú | 3 | |
| 2015 | ? | |
| 2017 | Isle of Wight Gemma Woodford | 6 |
| 2023 | Bermuda Leilanni Nesbeth | |
| Jersey Eve Watson | ||
| Western Isles Sinead Macleod | 4 |
References
References
- (17 February 2015). "Ynys Mon prepare to take on UEFA's newest member Gibraltar in the Island Games". dailypost.co.uk.
- "Third Island Games Faroe Islands 1989". IIGA.
- "Ynys Môn football Champs and Rhodes won the Basketball- the Games are closed.". gotland-tv.se.
- "Isle of Wight 2011 - NatWest Island Games XIV - Isle of Wight 2011". IIGA.org.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102031336/http://www.iiga.org/media///2013/Football.pdf iiga.org - Football - NatWest Island Games - Bermuda 2013]
- [http://jersey2015results.com/Sports/SOCCER/default.aspx?SportID=28&EventID=139 jersey2015results.com - Football - Men's Football]
- [https://orkney2025results.com/Sports/SOCCER/default.aspx?SportID=28&EventID=139 orkney2025results.com - Football - Men's Football]
- [http://jersey2015results.com/Sports/SOCCER/default.aspx?SportID=28&EventID=140 jersey2015results.com - Football - Women's Football]
- "Football: Jersey's ladies win historic gold". ITV News.
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