- Isle of Man national football team
Infobox National football team
Name = Isle of Man
Badge = Logo iom.png
Nickname = The yellows
Association =Isle of Man Football Association
Coach =Kevin Manning
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FIFA Trigramme = GBM
Home Stadium = The Bowl (Douglas)
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First game = flagicon|Isle of Wight Isle of Wight 1 - 0 Isle of Man flagicon|Isle of Man
(Isle of Wight ,England ;4 July ,1993 )
"notFIFA regulated"
Largest win = flagicon|Isle of Man Isle of Man 13 - 0 Hitra regulated"
Largest loss = flagicon|Jersey Jersey 5 - 1 Isle of Man flagicon|Isle of Man
(Isle of Wight ,England ;9 July ,1993 )
"notFIFA regulated"
flagicon|Greenland Greenland 4 - 0 Isle of Man flagicon|Isle of Man
(Gibraltar ;18 July ,1995 )
"notFIFA regulated"
regulated"
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Regional cup best =The Isle of Man national football team is the national football team of the
Isle of Man and is controlled by theIsle of Man Football Association . The team plays in a yellow and red home kit and an all navy blue away kit.The Isle of Man are not members of
FIFA orUEFA , as the Isle of Man FA are members ofThe 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, nor are their league clubs eligible for theUEFA Champions League orUEFA Cup . 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 . Isle of Man has won three Silver Medals in 1993, 1999 and 2003.They play in the annual "
Celtic Nations Cup ", a tournament for semi-professional and amateur national teams from the Isle of Man,Scotland , theRepublic of Ireland andNorthern Ireland . They won the tournament in2000 , beating Scotland 1-0 in the final, despite the Isle of Man possessing the only truly all-amateur set-up as 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 fromThe Football League . The Isle of Man's best result to date in the tournament, was beatingBurnley 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 theNational League System with a few other leagues permitted by the FA. The Isle of Man beat theCambridgeshire Football Association County League team 4-0 in the final and represented England in theUEFA Regions Cup .Tournament records
Island Games record
Selected Internationals opponents
(Last update: March 2008)
National squad
Goalkeepers
* Mark Blair
* Kelvin Dawson
* Daniel WadeDefenders
* Robert Cottier
* Marc Kelly
* Julian Ringham
* Mark TeareMidfielders
* Lee Dixon
* Chris Feeney
* Paul Jones
* Daniel Lace
* Kevin MegsonStrikers
* Gavin Faragher
* Nick Hurt
* Peter Langridge
* Martin TorrExternal links
* [http://roonba.50webs.com/nonfifa.htm Isle of Man with all results on roon.ba-Non_Fifa]
* [http://www.fedefutbol.net/ Isle of Man on www.fedefutbol.net]
* [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/regionscup/standings/index.html Isle of Man representing England at the UEFA Regions Cup] on uefa.com
* [http://www.thefa.com/England/NationalGameXI/UEFARegionsCup/Postings/2007/03/Amateurs_EnglandSanMarino.htm Isle of Man playing against San Marino B-National-Team (with squad)] on thefa.com
* [http://www.sanmarinonotizie.com/default.asp?id=98&opr=5&content=8283&mnu=98 Complete lineups for the match against San Marino B-National-Team] (in Italian)
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