Guyana national football team

Guyana
Nickname(s) Golden Jaguars
Association Guyana Football Federation
Confederation CONCACAF
(North America)
Sub-confederation CFU (Caribbean)
Head coach Wayne Dover
Top scorer Nigel Codrington (18)
Home stadium Providence Stadium
FIFA code GUY
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 160 Decrease 22 (6 July 2017)
Highest 86 (November 2010)
Lowest 185 (February 2004)
Elo ranking
Current 166 (28 May 2017)
Highest 86 (April 1980)
Lowest 183 (April 1996)
First international
 British Guiana 1–4 Trinidad and Tobago 
(British Guiana; 21 July 1905)[1]
Biggest win
 Guyana 14–0 Anguilla 
(St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda; 16 April 1998)
Biggest defeat
 Mexico 9–0 Guyana 
(Santa Ana, United States; 2 December 1987)

The Guyana national football team, nicknamed the Golden Jaguars, is the national team of Guyana and is controlled by the Guyana Football Federation. It is one of three South American nations to be a member of the Caribbean Football Union of CONCACAF alongside Suriname and French Guiana. Until the independence of Guyana in 1966, it competed as British Guiana. They qualified for the Caribbean Nations Cup in 1991, coming fourth, and in 2007. Guyana has never qualified for the CONCACAF Gold Cup or the FIFA World Cup.

History

British Guiana (1905–59)

Guyana (as British Guiana) played its first international football match on 21 July 1905, a 4–1 defeat against nearby and fellow British colony Trinidad and Tobago. Their next recorded game came almost 16 years later on 28 January 1921, an away 2–1 win against its neighbour Suriname. The two played again in Suriname on 27 August 1923, and on that occasion the hosts won 2–1. British Guiana did not play another match until 1937, when they lost two matches against Trinidad and Tobago in Suriname: 3–0 and 3–2. After seven years without a match, British Guiana entered a three-team tournament in Trinidad & Tobago against its national side and Barbados. They won twice against Barbados (1–0 and 3–0) before drawing 1–1 and losing 3–0 to Trinidad and Tobago. In the final of this Trinagular tournament they again lost 3–0 to Trinidad and Tobago.

In November 1947 British Guiana played in a Standard Life tournament in Trinidad and Tobago. They beat the hosts 2–1 in their opening game on 5 November before beating Jamaica 2–0 the very next day. On 10 November they drew 0–0 with Jamaica before losing 2–0 to Trinidad and Tobago in the last game on 14 November.

British Guiana played its first home games in 1950 against Trinidad and Tobago: these were British Guiana's first matches since the Standard Life tournament. British Guiana lost 1–0 and 4–1 before winning 1–0. The last match played under the name British Guiana was the next match on 2 March 1959 – a 2–2 draw against Trinidad and Tobago.[2]

Guyana

After independence in 1966, Guyana did not play a match for five years. Their first fixtures under their new name were qualifiers for the 1971 CONCACAF Championship against Suriname. The first match, away, was lost 4–1 and the home match on 21 September 1971 was lost 3–2 as Suriname advanced 7–3 on aggregate. In 1976 Guyana entered its first ever World Cup qualification campaign with the aim of reaching the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina. Guyana and Suriname were drawn in a two-legged preliminary in the Caribbean section of CONCACAF qualification and Guyana won the first leg 2–0 at home on 4 July 1976. The second leg in Paramaribo was lost 3–0 which allowed Suriname to advance.[2]

2006

Guyana had a remarkable calendar year 2006, with eleven successive wins, including five CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifiers[3] These results boosted Guyana's spot in the FIFA World Rankings by 87 spots in little over a year. As a consequence, the team rose to the top 12 in CONCACAF and were in the third rank of seeds in the World Cup qualifying draw.

Caribbean Nations Cup 2007

At the 2006–07 Caribbean Nations Cup, Guyana finished top of Group A in Stage One, then top of Group H in Stage Two (which they hosted), and finished 3rd in the Bobby Sookram Group, missing out on a semi-final berth on goal difference alone. Had Guyana reached the semi-finals, they would have qualified for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

2014 World Cup Qualifying

In 2011 the second round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers saw Guyana grouped alongside a strong Barbados side, Bermuda, and Trinidad and Tobago, the undisputed favourites of the group containing talented players such as Kenwyne Jones in the line-up. Yet Guyana managed to top the group and qualify for the CONCACAF semi-finals of World Cup qualifying for the first time in their history. This saw them drawn with Mexico, Costa Rica and El Salvador, and their first group game was against Mexico at the famous Azteca Arena, where Guyana lost 3–1 in June 2012. A 2–2 draw against El Salvador was the only point Guyana managed to gain in the group, but the performances during the games against tough opposition suggested there was lots of potential for the future within the team.

Lack of football 2012/13

From November 2012 to October 2014 Guyana failed to play a single game of International football due to off-field problems.[4]

Current squad

The following 20 players were called up for games in the Scotia Bank Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Caribbean Cup Round Three

Caps and goals as of 1st January 2017

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Kai McKenzie-Lyle (1997-11-30) 30 November 1997 2 1 England Barnet F.C.
1GK Andrew Nestor 0 0 Retired
2DF Walter Moore (1984-09-01) 1 September 1984 62 4 Finland FF Jaro
2DF Colin Nelson (1991-08-09) 9 August 1991 27 1 Guyana Western Tigers
2DF Jake Newton (1984-06-09) 9 June 1984 25 0 England Walton & Hersham
2DF Quincy Linford Adams (1989-01-07) 7 January 1989 7 0 Suriname S.V. Nishan 42
2DF Samuel Cox (C) (1990-10-10) 10 October 1990 7 0 England Wealdstone F.C.
2DF Adrian Butters (1988-07-15) 15 July 1988 4 2 Canada Vaughan Azzurri
2DF Anani Mohamed (1992-02-10) 10 February 1992 3 1 Unattached
3MF Dwight Peters (1986-08-23) 23 August 1986 31 4 Guyana Alpha United
3MF Chris Nurse (1984-05-07) 7 May 1984 26 2 Unattached
3MF Trayon Bobb (1993-11-05) 5 November 1993 19 2 Guyana Uitvlugt FC
3MF Daniel Wilson (1993-11-01) 1 November 1993 18 2 Suriname S.V. Nishan 42
3MF Brandon Beresford (1992-07-15) 15 July 1992 17 3 United States Rochester Rhinos
3MF Warren Creavalle (1990-08-14) 14 August 1990 2 0 United States Philadelphia Union
3MF Cashion London (1996-07-25) 25 July 1996 2 0 United States Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
4FW Anthony Abrams (1979-10-03) 3 October 1979 61 15 Guyana Fruta Conquerors
4FW Vurlon Mills (1990-12-10) 10 December 1990 28 8 Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh F.C.
4FW Pernell Schultz (1994-04-07) 7 April 1994 7 2 Trinidad and Tobago Caledonia AIA
4FW Marcel Barrington (1995-08-28) 28 August 1995 3 2 England Hendon F.C.


Staff

As of 23 March 2017

Manager Guyana Wayne Dover
Assistant manager Guyana Charles Pollard
First Team Coach Guyana Anson Ambrose [5]
Goalkeeping coach United States Andrew Hazel[6]
Kitman Guyana Trevor Burnett [7]
GFF President Guyana Wayne Forde[8]
Technical Director England Ian Greenwood[9]

Results and fixtures

Matches in last 12 months, as well as any future scheduled matches

Coaches

References

  1. ↑ Trinidad and Tobago – List of International Matches
  2. 1 2 http://www.rsssf.com/tablesg/guyana-intres.html
  3. ↑ "Guyana: Fixtures and Results". FIFA. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  4. ↑ http://www.worldsoccer.com/blogs/brief-history-football-guyana-356619/
  5. ↑ "GFF gears up with Shabazz for Bajan encounter". Newsscource GY.
  6. ↑ "Players eager to play for Guyana- Shabaaz". Kaieteur News.
  7. ↑ "Staff –Nurse among overseas trio to join squad". Guyana Times.
  8. ↑ http://guyanachronicle.com/wayne-forde-guyanas-new-football-boss-team-integrity-triumphs/
  9. ↑ http://www.gffonline.com/gff-appoints-technical-director/
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