Åland Islands official football team

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 (Swedish: Ålands herrlandslag i fotboll) 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 12th in the league in 2010.

This national team is not affiliated in FIFA association, but it's in The Roon Ba ranking, in the position number 186.

Tournament records

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

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

Team

The following players were in the Island Games squad in 2009.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Simon Enqvist October 2, 1988 (1988-10-02) IFK Mariehamn GK Kim Lindholm January 27, 1990 (1990-01-27) Sunds IF DF Fredrik Appel April 8, 1991 (1991-04-08) IFK Mariehamn DF Tomas Lindholm May 8, 1990 (1990-05-08) Hammerlands IK DF William Lindström January 13, 1989 (1989-01-13) DF Joakim Signell April 12, 1986 (1986-04-12) IF Finströms Kamraterna MF Wilhelm Ingves January 10, 1990 (1990-01-10) IFK Mariehamn MF Petter Isaksson September 11, 1989 (1989-09-11) Sunds IF MF Simon Snickars August 7, 1989 (1989-08-07) Sunds IF MF David Welin October 8, 1986 (1986-10-08) Hammerlands IK FW Andre Karring March 9, 1990 (1990-03-09) Hammerlands IK FW Alexander Weckström March 27, 1987 (1987-03-27) 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

External links

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