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Isle of Man

Nickname(s)	The Yellows
Association	Isle of Man Football Association
Head coach	Blane Slattery
Most caps	Peter Langridge
Top scorer	Peter Langridge
Home stadium	The Bowl, Douglas
FIFA code	IOM
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)
Island Games
Appearances	12 (first in 1993)
Best result	Champions (2017)

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

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.

Tournament records

Island Games record

Football at the Island Games record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1989	Did not enter
1991
1993	Runners-up	2nd	4	2	0	2	8	7
1995	Group stage	8th	4	0	0	4	2	12
1997	Did not enter
1999	Runners-up	2nd	5	3	1	1	20	6
2001	Group stage	7th	4	1	1	2	12	6
2003	Runners-up	2nd	4	3	0	1	9	5
2005	Fourth place	4th	5	2	1	2	12	7
2007	Did not enter
2009	Fourth place	4th	5	3	0	2	12	10
2011	Group stage	8th	4	2	1	1	16	9
2013	Did not enter
2015	Runners-up	2nd	5	4	0	1	22	5
2017	Champions	1st	5	5	0	0	24	5
2019	Third place	3rd	4	3	0	1	20	5
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

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

Non-FIFA competitions

• Island Games
  • Gold medal (1): 2017
  • Silver medal (4): 1993, 1999, 2003, 2015
• Inter-Games
  • Bronze medal (1): 2019

References

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.

External links

• Isle of Man with all results on roon.ba-Non_Fifa
• Isle of Man on www.fedefutbol.net
• Isle of Man representing England at the UEFA Regions' Cup on uefa.com
• Isle of Man playing against San Marino B-National-Team (with squad) on thefa.com

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Badminton Cricket (M • W) Football (IoMFA • ConIFA) Netball
Commonwealth Games

• National sports teams of the Isle of Man
• Football in the Isle of Man
• European national and official selection-teams not affiliated to FIFA
• Amateur association football teams
• 1993 establishments in the Isle of Man
• Sports organizations established in 1993