Gibraltar national football team

This article is about the Gibraltar men's national soccer team. For the women's team, see Gibraltar women's national football team .

Gibraltar

Association	GFA
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	admiral
Head coach	Julio Ribas
captain	Roy Chipolina
Record scorer	Lee Casciaro (3)
Record player	Liam Walker (42)
Home stadium	Victoria Stadium Estádio Algarve (2013-2017)
FIFA code	GIB
FIFA rank	196. (879 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
44 games 4 wins 3 draws 37 losses
statistics
First international match Gibraltar 0-0 Slovakia ( Faro , Portugal ; November 19, 2013 )
Highest wins Gibraltar 1-0 Malta ( Faro , Portugal ; June 4, 2014 ) Gibraltar 1-0 Latvia ( Gibraltar ; March 25, 2018 ) Armenia 0: 1 Gibraltar ( Yerevan , Armenia ; October 13, 2018 ) Gibraltar 2: 1 Liechtenstein ( Gibraltar ; October 16, 2018 )
Biggest defeat Belgium 9-0 Gibraltar ( Liège , Belgium ; August 31, 2017 )
(As of October 15, 2019)

The Gibraltar national football team is the national team of the British overseas territory Gibraltar under the direction of the Gibraltar Football Association (GFA). On May 24, 2013, GFA became the 54th full member of UEFA. She took in the qualifying for the European Championship 2016 in France for the first time in qualifying matches for European part. On May 13, 2016, GFA became the 211th member of FIFA .

history

Gibraltar have never been able to qualify for a European or World Cup. Gibraltar's first international appearances mainly took place at the Island Games , which are held every two years. This tournament also resulted in Gibraltar's highest victory against the football selection of the island of Sark with 19: 0. In the early summer of 2006, Gibraltar took part in the FIFI Wild Cup in Hamburg and came third there.

Efforts to become an independent member of UEFA and FIFA have repeatedly failed in the past due to objections from the Spanish Football Association . The possibility of Gibraltar membership in UEFA increased in 2006 when the International Court of Sport (CAS) recommended that the Continental Federation accept Gibraltar as a member. In December 2006, Gibraltar was accepted as a provisional member of UEFA. The UEFA Congress in Düsseldorf at the end of January 2007 decided on full membership , where Gibraltar, the 54th member country, was rejected. On October 1, 2012, Gibraltar was re-admitted as a provisional member of UEFA.

The UEFA Congress on May 24, 2013 in London decided on full membership, with Gibraltar finally being admitted as a full member. Thus, the national team took part in a tournament for the first time in qualifying for the 2016 European Championship in France, where they met Germany , Ireland , Poland , Scotland and Georgia . On November 19, 2013, Gibraltar played the first official international match against Slovakia in the Estádio Algarve in Faro, Portugal . It ended 0-0, which was classified as a respectable success. The second international match on March 1, 2014 at home in Victoria Stadium was clearly lost with 1: 4 against the Faroe Islands ; Roy Chipolina scored the first international goal since joining UEFA with a header. In the fifth official international match on June 4, 2014 against Malta, the first victory was achieved with a goal by Kyle Casciaro .

The football association of Gibraltar made its first coach dismissal as a UEFA member in March 2015. Allen Bula , who had held a responsible position on the bench at all official internationals, had to resign. He was temporarily replaced by his assistant David Wilson . In July 2015, the association presented Jeff Wood, a full-time successor to the head coach position. As part of the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League , Gibraltar achieved their first victory in a competitive game and an away game in October 2018 with a 1-0 away win against Armenia .

Participation in Gibraltar in the World Cup

• 1930 to 2014 - was not a FIFA member
• 2018 - did not qualify

Participation in Gibraltar in the European Football Championship

The Gibraltar national team took part in a qualification for the European Football Championship for the first time in 2014 . When the qualifying groups were drawn in Nice on February 23, 2014 , Gibraltar was drawn in Group D with Germany, Ireland, Poland, Scotland and Georgia. After four defeats without a goal of his own, Lee Casciaro scored the first competitive goal for Gibraltar on March 29, 2015 in a 6-1 draw against Scotland with the goal to make it 1-1.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
2016	France	not qualified			In the qualifiers against Germany , Georgia , Ireland , Poland and Scotland excreted.
2021	Europe-wide	not qualified			In the qualifiers against Georgia , Ireland , Switzerland and Denmark excreted.

Squad

The following players have been nominated for the two 2018/19 UEFA Nations League matches against Armenia and Liechtenstein in October 2018 .

No.	Item	player	Calls	Gates	society
	TW	Kyle Goldwin	04th	0	Gibraltar United
	TW	Matt Cafer	00	0	Gibraltar Phoenix
	FROM	Joseph Chipolina	30th	1	Lincoln Red Imps
	FROM	Roy Chipolina ( )	29	1	Lincoln Red Imps
	FROM	Jean-Carlos Garcia	26th	0	Lincoln Red Imps
	FROM	Jack Sergeant	15th	0	West Didsbury & Chorlton
	FROM	Jayce Olivero	15th	0	Abingdon United
	FROM	Erin Barnett	13	0	Gibraltar United
	FROM	Louie Annesley	02	0	Lincoln Red Imps
	FROM	Ethan Britto	01	0	Mons Calpe SC
	FROM	Ethan Jolley	00	0	Europe FC
	MF	Liam Walker	32	2	Europe FC
	MF	Kyle Casciaro	23	1	Lincoln Red Imps
	MF	Anthony Bardon	22nd	0	Lincoln Red Imps
	MF	Alain Pons	07th	0	Lincoln Red Imps
	MF	Andrew Hernandez	01	0	Lincoln Red Imps
	MF	Scott Ballantine	00	0	Gibraltar Phoenix
	ST	Lee Casciaro	22nd	2	Lincoln Red Imps
	ST	Jamie Coombes	10	0	West Didsbury & Chorlton
	ST	George Cabrera	07th	0	Lincoln Red Imps
	ST	Reece Styche	04th	0	Darlington FC

International matches against German-speaking teams

date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
Nov 14, 2014	Nuremberg	Germany	4-0	Gibraltar
June 13, 2015	Faro / Loulé ( POR )	Gibraltar	0: 7	Germany
23 Mar 2016	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	0-0	Liechtenstein
0Sep 9 2018	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	2-0	Gibraltar
Oct 16, 2018	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	2: 1	Liechtenstein

Trainer

• Peter Barnes (1998)
• Allen Bula (2010-2015)
• David Wilson (2015, interim)
• Jeff Wood (2015-2018)
• Desi Curry (2018, interim)
• Julio Ribas (2018-)

See also

• List of international matches for the Gibraltar national soccer team
• List of Gibraltar national football players

Web links

• Gibraltar Football Association website
• List of international matches in Gibraltar on the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website
• Profile of Gibraltar on the Island Games website

Individual evidence

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16. ↑ Gibraltar Squad - UEFA Nations League October 2018 . Gibraltar Football Association. October 8, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.