Åland Islands national football team

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Åland Islands

Association	Ålands Fotbollförbund
Head coach	Tommy Lundberg
Home stadium	Wiklöf Holding Arena, Mariehamn
Home colours Away colours
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 and 2009. The team won a Bronze medal in 1989 and 1993. They also reached fourth place in 1991.

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.

Contents 1 Tournament records 1.1 Island Games record 2 Selected Internationals opponents 3 Team 4 External links 5 References 6 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
1991	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
2009	Final	2nd	5	3	1	1	10	7
Total	8/11		33	15	2	16	55	61

[edit] Selected Internationals opponents

• Last game:  Åland Islands 1-2 Jersey  - Åland - 3 July 2009. (Island Games Final)

(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	2	1	0	1	4	4
Greenland	5	5	0	0	17	8
Guernsey	2	1	1	0	4	2
Isle of Man	4	2	0	2	6	5
Isle of Wight	3	2	0	1	3	5
Jersey	5	0	0	5	2	9
Minorca	1	0	1	0	1	1
Öland	2	1	1	0	6	3
Rhodes	1	0	0	1	2	3
Saaremaa	1	0	0	1	1	2
Sápmi	3	2	0	1	5	4
Shetland	4	3	0	1	8	5

[edit] Team

The following players were in the Island Games squad in 2009.^[1]

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Simon Enqvist October 2, 1988 (1988-10-02) (age 21) IFK Mariehamn GK Kim Lindholm January 27, 1990 (1990-01-27) (age 19) Sunds IF DF Fredrik Appel April 8, 1991 (1991-04-08) (age 18) IFK Mariehamn DF Tomas Lindholm May 8, 1990 (1990-05-08) (age 19) Hammerlands IK DF William Lindström January 13, 1989 (1989-01-13) (age 20) DF Joakim Signell April 12, 1986 (1986-04-12) (age 23) IF Finströms Kamraterna MF Wilhelm Ingves January 10, 1990 (1990-01-10) (age 19) IFK Mariehamn MF Petter Isaksson September 11, 1989 (1989-09-11) (age 20) Sunds IF MF Simon Snickars August 7, 1989 (1989-08-07) (age 20) Sunds IF MF David Welin October 8, 1986 (1986-10-08) (age 23) Hammerlands IK FW Andre Karring March 9, 1990 (1990-03-09) (age 19) Hammerlands IK FW Alexander Weckström March 27, 1987 (1987-03-27) (age 22) IF Finströms Kamraterna Jimmy Sundman Sunds IF John Mattsson Sunds IF Johannes Nordström IFK Mariehamn Tony Jansson Hammerlands IK Linus Gestranius Hammerlands IK Andreas Björk Jomala IK Rezgar Amani Fabian Söderdahl

[edit] External links

• Official Site (Swedish)
• National-Football-Teams.com
• Island Games Website
• List of matches in Roon Ba

[edit] References

[edit] See also

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