Isle of Man national football team

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Isle of Man

Nickname

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

Appearances

- (First in -)

Best result

The Isle of Man national football team is the national football (soccer) team of the Isle of Man and is controlled by the Isle of Man Football Association. The Isle of Man are not members of FIFA or UEFA, as the Isle of Man FA are members of the Football Association, with similar status to an English county. They are not eligible to enter either the World Cup or European Championship.

The Isle of Man therefore is limited to different forms of competition. They play in the annual Celtic Nations Cup, which is a tournament for semi-professional and amateur national teams from the Isle of Man, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. They managed to win this tournament in 2000, beating Scotland 1-0 in the final, despite the Isle of Man possessing the only truly all-amateur set-up (the other teams field semi-professional players).

Another regular competition they play 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 achieved what is arguably their best result to date in that tournament, defeating Burnley F.C. 1-0 in the year 2000.

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

In 2005/06 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 and other leagues as decided by the Football Association. The Isle of Man team beat the team representing the Cambridgeshire County League 4-0 in the final and will now represent England in the UEFA Regions Cup.

The team plays in a yellow and red home kit and an all navy blue away kit.

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Football Teams Participating in the 2007 Island Games
Åland \| Alderney \| Bermuda \| Cayman \| Falkland \| Frøyar \| Gibraltar \| Greenland \| Guernsey \| Hitra \| Isle of Man \| Isle of Wight \| Jersey \| Minorea \| Orkney \| PEI \| Rhodes \| Saaremaa \| Sark \| Shetland \| St. Helena \| W. Isles \| Ynys Mon