Åland Islands national football team

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Åland Islands

Association

Ålands Fotbollförbund

Head coach

Tommy Lundberg

Home stadium

Wiklöf Holding Arena

FIFA code





First kit

First international

Åland Islands 4 - 2 Sápmi

(July, 1985)

Biggest win

Åland Islands 6 - 2 Bornholm

(Visby, Gotland; 14 June 1986)

Biggest defeat

Faroe Islands 7 - 1 Åland Islands

(Tórshavn, Faroe Islands; 12 July 1989)

The Åland Islands official football team is the official football team for the Åland Islands, Finland, and is controlled by Ålands Fotbollförbund. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA.

The team mainly competes in the Island Games. Åland hosted it in 1991. The team won a Bronze medal in 1989 and 1993. They also reached fourth place in 1991. Åland will host it again in 2009.

Åland also has a successful club football side, IFK Mariehamn, which plays in the Finnish premier league (Veikkausliiga) and finished 6th in the league in 2007.

1 Tournament records
- 1.1 Island Games record
2 Selected Internationals opponents
3 Team
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] Tournament records

[edit] Island Games record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1989	Group Phase	3rd	4	2	0	2	10	12
1993	3rd Place Match	4th	4	2	0	2	3	3
1993	3rd Place Match	3rd	4	3	0	1	7	4
1995	7th Place Match	7th	4	0	1	3	4	14
1999	5th Place Match	6th	4	2	0	2	8	6
2005	7th Place Match	7th	5	2	0	3	6	10
2007	7th Place Match	7th	3	2	0	1	7	5
Total	7/10		28	12	1	15	45	54

[edit] Selected Internationals opponents

(Last update: March 2008)

Opponents	Matches	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA
Ynys Môn	3	1	0	2	8	8
Bornholm	1	1	0	0	7	1
Falkland Islands	1	1	0	0	2	1
Faroe Islands	1	0	0	1	1	7
Frøya	1	1	0	0	3	1
Gibraltar	1	1	0	0	2	1
Gotland	1	1	0	0	4	1
Greenland	4	4	0	0	13	6
Guernsey	2	1	1	0	4	2
Isle of Man	3	1	0	2	4	4
Isle of Wight	3	2	0	1	3	5
Jersey	4	0	0	4	1	7
Öland	3	2	1	0	7	3
Rhodes	1	0	0	1	2	3
Saaremaa	1	0	0	1	1	2
Sápmi	3	2	0	1	5	4
Sealand	1	0	1	0	2	2
Shetland	3	2	0	1	6	4

[edit] Team

Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Club
GK	Jesper Öst	March 27, 1987 (1987-03-27) (age 21)	IF Östernäskamraterna
GK	Anders Överström	November 25, 1985 (1985-11-25) (age 22)	IFK Mariehamn
GK	Simon Enqvist	October 2, 1988 (1988-10-02) (age 19)
GK	Kim Lindholm	January 27, 1990 (1990-01-27) (age 18)
DF	Fredrik Appel	April 8, 1991 (1991-04-08) (age 17)
DF	Andreas Brändström	June 11, 1988 (1988-06-11) (age 19)
DF	Jacob Erikslund	July 6, 1990 (1990-07-06) (age 17)	IFK Norrköping
DF	Tomas Lindholm	May 8, 1990 (1990-05-08) (age 18)
DF	William Lindström	January 13, 1989 (1989-01-13) (age 19)
DF	Robert Lönnqvist	September 1, 1988 (1988-09-01) (age 19)
DF	Joakim Signell	April 12, 1986 (1986-04-12) (age 22)	IF Finströms Kamraterna
MF	Wilhelm Ingves	January 10, 1990 (1990-01-10) (age 18)	Hammarlands IK
MF	Petter Isaksson	September 11, 1989 (1989-09-11) (age 18)
MF	Thomas Johansson	March 16, 1989 (1989-03-16) (age 19)
MF	Erik Lunden	April 14, 1987 (1987-04-14) (age 21)	IF Finströms Kamraterna
MF	Simon Snickars	August 7, 1989 (1989-08-07) (age 18)	Hammarlands IK
MF	David Welin	October 8, 1986 (1986-10-08) (age 21)	IF Finströms Kamraterna
MF	Jonas Blomqvist	February 2, 1984 (1984-02-02) (age 24)	Hammarlands IK
MF	Linus Blomster	March 27, 1985 (1985-03-27) (age 23)	IF Finströms Kamraterna
FW	Linus Gruner	September 21, 1987 (1987-09-21) (age 20)	IF Finströms Kamraterna
FW	Andre Karring	March 9, 1990 (1990-03-09) (age 18)	IF Finströms Kamraterna
FW	Dan Lindblom	April 5, 1986 (1986-04-05) (age 22)	Hammarlands IK
FW	Alexander Weckström	March 27, 1987 (1987-03-27) (age 21)	IFK Mariehamn