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Isle of Man official football team

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Not to be confused with Ellan Vannin football team or F.C. Isle of Man.

Isle of Man
Nickname(s)The Yellows
AssociationIsle of Man Football Association
Head coachBlane Slattery [1]
Most capsPeter Langridge
Top scorerPeter Langridge
Home stadiumThe Bowl, Douglas
FIFA codeIOM
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Isle of Wight 1–0 Isle of Man 
(Isle of Wight; 4 July 1993)
Biggest win
 Hitra 0–13 Isle of Man 
(Fardhem, Gotland; 28 June 1999)
Biggest defeat
 Isle of Man 0–5 Guernsey 
(Eckerö, Åland; 3 July 2009)

The Isle of Man Representative County football team is the IOMFA football team of the Isle of Man and is controlled by the Isle of Man Football Association. The team plays in a yellow and red home kit and an all navy blue away kit.

History

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The Isle of Man are not members of FIFA or UEFA, as the Isle of Man FA are members of The Football Association (The FA), with similar status to an English county. Since they are not a member of either FIFA or UEFA, they are not eligible to enter either the World Cup or European Championship. The Isle of Man therefore is limited to different forms of competition. The main competition the Isle of Man national football team takes part in is the biennial Football at the Island Games tournament. Isle of Man has won the tournament once, and came in runner-up four times.

They play in the International Quadrangular Tournament, a tournament for semi-professional and amateur national teams from the Isle of Man, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. They won the tournament in 2000, beating Scotland 1–0 in the final, despite the Isle of Man possessing the only truly all-amateur set-up while the other teams fielded semi-professional players.

Another regular competition played in is the Steam Packet Football Festival, which usually features the Isle of Man along with lower division teams from The Football League. The Isle of Man's best result to date in the tournament, was beating Burnley F.C. 1–0 in 2000.

In the 2005–06 season, the Isle of Man national team won The FA National League System Cup, a competition for amateur teams representing the leagues at Step 7 of the National League System with a few other leagues permitted by the FA. The Isle of Man beat the Cambridgeshire Football Association County League team 4–0 in the final and represented England in the UEFA Regions' Cup.

In 2014, a new team, Ellan Vannin, was created by the Manx Independent Football Association in order to enter ConIFA and compete at the ConIFA World Football Cup. As opposed to the official Isle of Man team, which is composed only of Isle of Man Football League players, Ellan Vannin will allow only those with Manx ties to play for them, in line with FIFA eligibility rules. Initially, the IoMFA was reluctant to allow MIFA to run the Ellan Vannin side, but the two associations agreed to work together in February 2014 to allow both the IoMFA side and Ellan Vannin to continue.[2]

Tournament records

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Island Games record

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Football at the Island Games record
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Faroe Islands 1989 Did not enter
Åland 1991
Isle of Wight 1993 Runners-up 2nd 4 2 0 2 8 7
Gibraltar 1995 Group stage 8th 4 0 0 4 2 12
Jersey 1997 Did not enter
Gotland 1999 Runners-up 2nd 5 3 1 1 20 6
Isle of Man 2001 Group stage 7th 4 1 1 2 12 6
Guernsey 2003 Runners-up 2nd 4 3 0 1 9 5
Shetland 2005 Fourth place 4th 5 2 1 2 12 7
Rhodes 2007 Did not enter
Åland 2009 Fourth place 4th 5 3 0 2 12 10
Isle of Wight 2011 Group stage 8th 4 2 1 1 16 9
Bermuda 2013 Did not enter
Jersey 2015 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1 22 5
Gotland 2017 Champions 1st 5 5 0 0 24 5
Gibraltar 2019[n 1] Third place 3rd 4 3 0 1 20 5
Guernsey 2023 Group stage 9th 4 2 0 2 7 5
Total 1 title 12/18 53 30 4 19 164 82
  1. ^ Not held football tournament (Replaced by 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament in  Anglesey).

Selected Internationals opponents

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Last update: 10 July 2009
Opponents Matches Win Draw Loss GF GA GD Win%
 Åland 4 2 0 2 5 6 −1 050.00
 Falkland Islands 3 3 0 0 20 1 +19 100.00
 Gibraltar 2 0 0 2 1 3 −2 000.00
 Gotland 2 1 1 0 8 6 +2 050.00
 Greenland 1 0 0 1 0 4 −4 000.00
 Guernsey 3 0 0 3 3 11 −8 000.00
 Hitra 1 1 0 0 13 0 +13 100.00
 Isle of Wight 2 1 0 1 5 2 +3 050.00
 Jersey 3 2 0 1 4 6 −2 066.67
 Rhodes 1 0 0 1 1 3 −2 000.00
 Saare County 2 1 1 0 6 2 +4 050.00
 Shetland 4 2 1 1 9 5 +4 050.00
 Western Isles 2 1 0 1 5 4 +1 050.00
 Ynys Môn 3 1 0 2 1 3 −2 033.33

Honours

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Non-FIFA competitions

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References

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  1. ^ "Blane Slattery appointed new Isle of Man football manager". Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  2. ^ Association, The Football. "Sorry. Something's wrong with the pitch. - Isle of Man FA". www.isleofmanfa.com.
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