Kiribati national soccer team

Republic of Kiribati
Republic of Kiribati

Association	Kiribati Islands Football Association
confederacy	CONIFA
Head coach	Kevin McGreskin
Record scorer	Lawrence Nemeia (2)
Home stadium	Bairiki National Stadium
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
9 games 1 win 0 draw 8 defeats
statistics
First international match Papua New Guinea 13-0 Kiribati ( Suva , Fiji ; August 22, 1979)
Biggest win Kiribati 1-0 Vanuatu ( Suva , Fiji ; August 13, 2009)
Biggest defeat Fiji 24-0 Kiribati ( Suva , Fiji ; August 24, 1979)
(As of September 1, 2011)

The Kiribati national soccer team is the selection team for the Pacific island nation of Kiribati .

Kiribati is not a member of the world football association FIFA and only an associate member of the regional association OFC . Therefore, the national team cannot qualify for the soccer world championships or the Oceania championship.

In its history so far, Kiribati has only played nine international matches, eight of which were lost. Eight games took place at the Pacific Games.

Participation in soccer world championships

• 1930 to 2022 - did not participate

Participation in the OFC Nations Cup

• 1973 to 2020 - did not participate

Participation in the South Pacific and Pacific Games

Kiribati only took part in three events and was never able to survive the preliminary round

• 1963 - 1975 - did not take part
• 1979 - preliminary round (represented by Flying Tigers Club)
• 1983 - 1995 - did not take part
• 2003 - preliminary round
• 2007 - did not participate
• 2011 - preliminary round
• 2015 - did not participate

Web links

• Results of the national team at Fedefutbol.net
• Results of the national team at RSSSF (until July 7, 2003)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Results of the XIV. Pacific Games New Caledonia 2011 on oceaniafootball.com ( Memento of September 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in English, accessed on September 12, 2011