Football at the Island Games

Football tournament

Football at the Island GamesFounded| 1989

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Region| International
Current champions| Men –
Jersey
(4th title)
Women –
Bermuda
(2nd title)
Most successful team(s)| Men –
Jersey
(4 titles)
Women -
Åland
Faroe Islands
(3 titles)

Guernsey 2023 – Men's
Guernsey 2023 – Women's

Football has been a regular event since 1989 at the Island Games,[1][2] 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

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### Results

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Year  | Games  | Host  | Final  | Third Place  | Num.
teams

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Gold | Score  | Silver | Bronze | Score  | Fourth place
1989
details | III |
Faroe Islands |
Faroe Islands | Round robin |
Ynys Môn |
Åland | Round robin |
Greenland | 5
1991
details | IV |
Åland |
Faroe Islands | 2–0 |
Ynys Môn |
Jersey | 2–0 |
Åland | 8
1993
details | V |
Isle of Wight |
Jersey | 5–1 |
Isle of Man |
Åland | 2–1 |
Greenland | 8
1995
details | VI |
Gibraltar |
Isle of Wight | 1–0 |
Gibraltar |
Jersey | 6–3 |
Greenland | 8
1997
details | VII |
Jersey |
Jersey | 1–0 |
Ynys Môn |
Isle of Wight | 3–1 |
Guernsey | 9
1999
details | VIII |
Gotland |
Ynys Môn [3] | 1–0 |
Isle of Man |
Isle of Wight | 2–0 |
Jersey | 14
2001
details | IX |
Isle of Man |
Guernsey | 0–0
(p.s.o)  |
Ynys Môn |
Jersey | 2–0 |
Isle of Wight | 12
2003
details | X |
Guernsey |
Guernsey | 3–1 |
Isle of Man |
Jersey | 3–0 |
Isle of Wight | 15
2005
details | XI |
Shetland |
Shetland | 2–0 |
Guernsey |
Western Isles | 4–0 |
Isle of Man | 10
2007
details | XII |
Rhodes |
Gibraltar | 4–0 |
Rhodes |
Western Isles | 1–0 |
Bermuda | 11
2009
details | XIII |
Åland |
Jersey | 2–1 |
Åland |
Guernsey | 5–0 |
Isle of Man | 16
2011
details[4] | XIV |
Isle of Wight |
Isle of Wight | 4–2 |
Guernsey |
Jersey | 5–1 |
Åland | 15
2013
details[5] | XV |
Bermuda |
Bermuda | 1–0 |
Greenland |
Falkland Islands | 6–0 |
Frøya | 4
2015
details[6] | XVI |
Jersey |
Guernsey | 3–0 |
Isle of Man |
Menorca | 1–0 |
Shetland | 16
2017
details | XVII |
Gotland |
Isle of Man | 6–0 |
Greenland |
Guernsey | 1–0 |
Menorca | 16
2019  | XVIII |
Gibraltar | No football tournament held
(see 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament)
2023
details | XIX |
Guernsey |
Jersey | 5–2 |
Ynys Môn |
Isle of Wight | 2-1 |
Bermuda U23  | 16
2025
details | XX |
Orkney |  |  |  |  |  |  |

### Medalists

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Team  | Gold | Silver | Bronze

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Jersey | 4 ('93, '97, '09, '23) |  | 5 ('91, '95, '01, '03, '11)
Guernsey | 3 ('01, '03, '15) | 2 ('05, '11) | 2 ('09, '17)
Isle of Wight | 2 ('95, '11) |  | 3 ('97, '99, '23)
Faroe Islands | 2 ('89, '91) |  |
Ynys Môn | 1 ('99) | 5 ('89, '91, '97, '01, '23) |
Isle of Man | 1 ('17) | 4 ('93, '99, '03, '15) |
Gibraltar | 1 ('07) | 1 ('95) |
Shetland | 1 ('05) |  |
Bermuda | 1 ('13) |  |
Greenland |  | 2 ('13, '17) |
Åland |  | 1 ('09) | 2 ('89, '93)
Rhodes |  | 1 ('07) |
Western Isles |  |  | 2 ('05, '07)
Falkland Islands |  |  | 1 ('13)
Minorca |  |  | 1 ('15)

### Performances by team

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* 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

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Åland | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 7th |  | 6th |  |  | 7th | 7th | 2nd | 4th |  | 9th | 7th | 13th
Alderney |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 11th |  |  |  | 14th |  | 16th | 15th |
Bermuda |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4th |  |  | 1st |  |  | 4th
Falkland Islands |  |  |  |  |  |  | 11th |  | 10th |  | 16th | 13th | 3rd | 12th | 16th | 14th
Faroe Islands | 1st | 1st |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Frøya |  |  |  |  | 7th | 12th |  | 13th |  | 8th | 15th |  | 4th |  | 14th | 15th
Gibraltar |  |  | 8th | 2nd | 6th | 11th | 5th | 6th |  | 1st | 9th | 5th |  | 10th |  |
Gotland |  |  |  |  |  | 7th |  | 9th |  | 6th | 11th | 10th |  | 14th | 6th |
Greenland | 4th | 8th | 4th | 4th | 9th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 8th |  | 12th | 11th | 2nd | 5th | 2nd | 8th
Guernsey |  | 6th |  | 5th | 4th | 9th | 1st | 1st | 2nd |  | 3rd | 2nd |  | 1st | 3rd | 5th
Gozo |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6th
Hitra |  |  |  |  | 8th | 13th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 15th | 12th |
Isle of Man |  |  | 2nd | 8th |  | 2nd | 7th | 2nd | 4th |  | 4th | 8th |  | 2nd | 1st | 9th
Isle of Wight |  | 7th | 5th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th |  |  | 10th | 1st |  | 6th |  | 3rd
Jersey |  | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 4th | 3rd | 3rd |  | 5th | 1st | 3rd |  | 7th | 5th | 1st
Menorca |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 9th | 7th | 7th |  | 3rd | 4th | 12th
Orkney |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12th | 8th | 9th |  |  |  |  |  | 9th | 10th
Rhodes |  |  |  |  |  | 5th | 6th | DNF |  | 2nd | 5th | DSQ |  |  |  |
Saare County |  |  |  |  |  | 14th | 10th | 12th | 6th | 10th | 14th | 6th |  | 13th | 13th |
Saint Helena |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16th
Sark |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 14th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Shetland | 5th | 5th | 7th |  | 5th | 10th | 8th | 7th | 1st |  | 13th |  |  | 4th | 10th | 7th
Western Isles |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3rd | 3rd | 8th | 12th |  | 11th | 11th | 11th
Ynys Môn | 2nd | 2nd | 5th | 6th | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 5th | 5th | 11th | 6th | 9th |  | 8th | 8th | 2nd

### Top goalscorers

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Year  | Player  | Goals

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1989  |  Bergur Magnussen | 11
1991  |  Jens Erik Rasmussen | 6
1993  |  Adam Greig | 7
1995  |  Adam Barsdell | 4
1997  |  Eifion Williams | 6
1999  |  Peter Langridge | 9
2001  |  Chris Higgins
Daniel Craven | 5
2003  |  Roy Chipolina
Graham Alvez | 9
2005  |  Peter Langridge
Johnny Myers
Martti Pukk | 4
2007  | ?  |
2009  |  Lee Casciaro
Ross Allen  | 5
2011  |  Peter Lundberg | 5
2013  |  Norsaq Lund Mathæussen  | 5
2015  |  Dominic Heaume
Ashley Webster
Leighton Flaws
Shane Jamieson | 4
2017  |  Calum Morrissey | 8
2023  |  Jake Scrimshaw | 7

## Women's tournament

[edit]

### Results

[edit]

Year  | Games  | Host  | Final  | Third Place  | Num.
teams

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Gold | Score  | Silver | Bronze | Score  | Fourth place
2001
details | IX |
Isle of Man |
Faroe Islands | 5–4 |
Åland |
Jersey | 3–2 |
Isle of Man | 7
2003
details | X |
Guernsey |
Faroe Islands | 5–2 |
Gotland |
Jersey | 3–2 |
Guernsey | 8
2005
details | XI |
Shetland |
Faroe Islands | Round robin |
Åland |
Bermuda | Round robin |
Isle of Man | 6
2007
details | XII |
Rhodes |
Åland | 3–0 |
Prince Edward Island |
Bermuda | 0–0
(p.s.o)  |
Isle of Man | 11
2009
details | XIII |
Åland |
Åland | 2–0 |
Gotland |
Isle of Man | 3–1 |
Isle of Wight | 10
2011
details[4] | XIV |
Isle of Wight |
Åland | 5–1 |
Isle of Man |
Greenland | 1–0 |
Western Isles | 10
2013
details | XV |
Bermuda |
Bermuda | 0–0
(p.s.o)  |
Greenland |
Hitra | —  | 3
2015
details[7] | XVI |
Jersey |
Jersey [8] | 1–0

Åland |
Gotland | 2–0 |
Isle of Man | 11
2017
details | XVII |
Gotland |
Gotland | 2–1 |
Isle of Man |
Jersey | 3–1 |
Isle of Wight | 11
2019  | XVII |
Gibraltar | No football tournament held
(see 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament)
2023
details | XVIII |
Guernsey |
Bermuda | 4–0 |
Western Isles |
Isle of Man | 3–1 |
Menorca | 10
2025
details | XVIV |
Orkney |  |  |  |  |  |  |

### Medalists

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Team  | Gold | Silver | Bronze

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Åland | 3 ('07, '09, 11') | 3 ('01, '05, '15) |
Faroe Islands | 3 ('01, '03, '05) |  |
Bermuda | 2 ('13, '23) |  | 2 ('05, '07)
Gotland | 1 ('17) | 2 ('03, '09) | 1 ('15)
Jersey | 1 ('15) |  | 3 (01', '03, '17)
Isle of Man |  | 2 ('11, '17) | 2 ('09, '23)
Greenland |  | 1 ('13) | 1 ('11)
Prince Edward Island |  | 1 ('07) |
Western isles |  | 1 ('23) |
Hitra |  |  | 1 ('13)

### Performances by team

[edit]

* 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

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Åland Islands | 2nd |  | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st |  | 2nd | 5th | 7th
Bermuda |  |  | 3rd | 3rd |  |  | 1st |  |  | 1st
Faroe Islands | 1st | 1st | 1st |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Gibraltar |  |  |  |  |  | 10th |  | 11th | 10th |
Gotland |  | 2nd |  | 6th | 2nd | 7th |  | 3rd | 1st |
Greenland |  |  |  | 8th | 7th | 3rd | 2nd | 9th | 8th |
Guernsey | 6th | 4th | 5th | 7th | 8th |  |  | 8th |  | 10th
Hitra |  |  |  |  | 9th | 9th | 3rd | 6th | 9th | 9th
Isle of Man | 4th | 8th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd |  | 4th | 2nd | 3rd
Isle of Wight | 5th | 5th |  | 5th | 4th | 5th |  | 5th | 4th | 8th
Jersey | 3rd | 3rd |  | 11th | 6th | 8th |  | 1st | 3rd | 6th
Menorca |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6th | 4th
Prince Edward Island |  |  |  | 2nd |  |  |  |  |  |
Rhodes |  | 7th |  | 10th |  |  |  |  |  |
Saaremaa |  |  |  |  | 10th | 6th |  |  |  |
Shetland |  |  | 6th |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Western Isles |  |  |  | 9th | 5th | 4th |  | 7th | 7th | 2nd
Ynys Môn | 7th | 6th |  |  |  |  |  | 10th | 11th | 5th

### Top goalscorers

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Year  | Player  | Goals

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2001  | ?  |
2003  |  |
2005  |  Rannvá B. Andreasen | 7
2007  | ?  |
2009  |  Donna Shimmin  | 8
2011  |  Adelina Engman
Jade Burden
Eleanor Gawne  | 5
2013  |  Tschana Wade
Laila Platoú  | 3
2015  | ?  |
2017  |  Gemma Woodford  | 6
2023  |  Leilanni Nesbeth
Eve Watson
Sinead Macleod  | 4

## See also

[edit]

* Non-FIFA football
* List of non-national representative teams in men's football
* N.F.-Board

## References

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1. ^ "Ynys Mon prepare to take on UEFA's newest member Gibraltar in the Island Games". dailypost.co.uk. 17 February 2015.
2. ^ "Third Island Games Faroe Islands 1989". IIGA.
3. ^ "Ynys Môn football Champs and Rhodes won the Basketball- the Games are closed". gotland-tv.se. Retrieved 24 Aug 2015.
4. ^ a b "Isle of Wight 2011 - NatWest Island Games XIV - Isle of Wight 2011" (PDF). IIGA.org. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
5. ^ iiga.org - Football - NatWest Island Games - Bermuda 2013
6. ^ jersey2015results.com - Football - Men's Football
7. ^ jersey2015results.com - Football - Women's Football
8. ^ "Football: Jersey's ladies win historic gold". ITV News.

## External links

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