Greenland national football team

**Greenland**
Nickname(s)	Polar-Bamserne; (The Polar Teddy Bears)
Association	Grønlands Boldspil-Union
Head coach	Jens Tang Olesen
Captain	Niklas Kreutzmann
Home stadium	Nuuk Stadion
Elo ranking	T204
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Faroe Islands 6 - 0 Greenland ; (Sauðárkrókur, Iceland; July 2, 1980)
Biggest win
	Greenland 16 - 0 Sark ; (St Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands; July 1, 2003)
Biggest defeat
	Faroe Islands 6 - 0 Greenland ; (Sauðárkrókur, Iceland; July 2, 1980); Guernsey 6 - 0 Greenland ; (Hamnavoe, West Burra, Shetland; July 13, 2005); Minorca 6 - 0 Greenland ; (Åland Islands; June 29, 2009)

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The Greenland national football team is the national team of Greenland and is controlled by the Football Association of Greenland. Although it has the same status as the Faroe Islands within the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is not a member of FIFA nor of any continental confederation and therefore is not eligible to enter the World Cup or other sanctioned tournaments as of September, 2009. Most of the matches they have played have been against the Faroe Islands and Iceland, but neither of the two consider those games full internationals. Greenland has also played Tibet, since neither are FIFA members.

Greenland is a member of the International Island Games Association and has taken part in Football at the Island Games. Since October 13, 2005 it is a provisional member of the NF-Board and since March 25, 2006 it is full-member. On October 17, 2009 the team was accepted as a provisional member of the IFU. On September 13, 2010 Sepp Blatter visited the island and announced FIFAs approval of the new field.

[edit] FIFI Wild Cup participation

Greenland participated in the 2006 FIFI Wild Cup. The team played two games and lost both, the first 0-1 against the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the second 2-4 against Zanzibar. They were eliminated in the First Round.

[edit] ELF Cup participation

Greenland was eliminated in Round 1 of the ELF Cup. They played three matches in total, beating Gagauzia (2-0), drawing with Zanzibar (1-1) and losing to Kyrgyzstan (1-0).

[edit] Future International participation

FIFA's recent approval of FieldTurf may allow Greenland to create FIFA-standard playing pitches and apply to play full internationals. They would join either UEFA (due to links with Denmark) or CONCACAF (geographically, Greenland is part of North America). The first artificial turf in Greenland was completed and inaugurated in Qaqortoq in September 2009.

On September 13, 2010 FIFA president Sepp Blatter arrived in Qaqortoq, Greenland and announced FIFAs approval of the new field, which is seen as a major step towards the country being granted FIFA membership.^[1]

[edit] Island Games

1989: Semifinals, 4th
1991: Round 1, 8th
1993: Semifinals, 4th
1995: Semifinals, 4th
1997: Round 1, 9th
1999: Quarter Finals, 8th
2001: Round 1, 9th
2003: Round 1, 10th
2005: Round 1, 8th
2007: Did Not Enter
2009: Round 1, 12th
2011: Round 1, 11th

[edit] Current squad

The following 23-players were in the Island Games squad in 2009.

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of Birth (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Loqe Svane	November 3, 1982 (1982-11-03) (age 29)	3	0	B-67
16	GK	Anders Corsten	November 17, 1982 (1982-11-17) (age 29)	2	0	Nagdlunguaq-48
22	GK	Kasper Akinshavn	July 22, 1975 (1975-07-22) (age 36)	0	0	Beijing Guoan

2	DF	Aputsiaq Birch	June 4, 1985 (1985-06-04) (age 26)	4	0	B-67
3	DF	Jim Degn Olsvig	March 30, 1982 (1982-03-30) (age 29)	3	0	Nagdlunguaq-48
5	DF	Jens Jacobsen	November 18, 1982 (1982-11-18) (age 29)	2	0	Nagdlunguaq-48
6	DF	Anders Petersen	March 6, 1981 (1981-03-06) (age 30)	2	0	B-67
12	DF	Niklas Kreutzmann	September 18, 1982 (1982-09-18) (age 29)	18	8	Aarhus Fremad
20	DF	Jens Knud Lennert	October 1, 1986 (1986-10-01) (age 25)	0	0	Kissaviarsuk-33

4	MF	Tim Skjær	April 10, 1978 (1978-04-10) (age 33)	4	1	Viborg
7	MF	Kaali Matthaeussen	April 1, 1988 (1988-04-01) (age 23)	4	1	Nagdlunguaq-48
11	MF	John Eldevig	March 12, 1974 (1974-03-12) (age 37)	4	0	B-67
13	MF	Maasi Maqe	November 2, 1987 (1987-11-02) (age 24)	4	0	B-67
14	MF	Lars-Niels Bertherlsen	July 25, 1981 (1981-07-25) (age 30)	3	0	B-67
19	MF	Aputsiaq Hansen	December 11, 1982 (1982-12-11) (age 29)	2	0	Kissaviarsuk-33
21	MF	Thomas Brandt	August 14, 1986 (1986-08-14) (age 25)	0	0	Kugsak-45
23	MF	Jaarsi Skade	January 11, 1982 (1982-01-11) (age 30)	1	0	Frederikshavn fI

9	FW	Peri Fleischer	July 15, 1981 (1981-07-15) (age 30)	4	2	Kugsak-45
10	FW	Hans Knudsen	August 9, 1978 (1978-08-09) (age 33)	4	1	Kissaviarsuk-33
15	FW	Pavia Mølgaard	March 9, 1982 (1982-03-09) (age 29)	2	4	Kugsak-45

[edit] Notable players

Niklas Kreutzmann

[edit] Managers

1996: Ulf Abrahamsen
1997-1999: Lars Olsvig
2000-2002: Sepp Piontek
2002-present : Jens Tang Olesen

[edit] Selected Internationals opponents

(Last update: July 10, 2009)

Opponents	Matches	W	D	L	GF	GA
Åland Islands	5	-	-	5	8	17
Alderney	1	1	-	-	3	0
Frøya	2	1	-	1	3	1
Găgăuzia	1	1	-	-	2	0
Gibraltar	4	2	-	2	7	7
Gotland	3	-	-	3	6	13
Guernsey	2	-	1	1	0	6
Isle of Man	1	1	-	-	4	0
Isle of Wight	5	1	1	3	6	13
Iceland	2	-	-	2	1	5
Faroe Islands	7	-	1	6	6	20
Falkland Islands	1	1	-	-	4	0
Jersey	5	-	-	5	9	22
Orkney	1	1	-	-	2	1
Rhodes	2	-	-	2	0	4
Saaremaa	2	2	-	-	6	1
Sápmi	1	-	-	1	1	5
Sark	1	1	-	-	16	0
Shetland	3	2	-	1	9	7
Tibet	1	1	-	-	4	1
Western Isles	1	-	1	-	4	4
Ynys Môn	4	1	1	2	2	3
Zanzibar	1	-	-	1	2	4