Jamaican national soccer team
Nickname (s) | The Reggae Boyz | ||
Association | Jamaica Football Federation | ||
confederacy | CONCACAF | ||
Head coach | Theodore Whitmore (since 2016) | ||
captain | Rodolph Austin | ||
Record scorer | Luton Shelton (35) | ||
Record player | Ian Goodison (128) | ||
Home stadium | Independence Park | ||
FIFA code | JAM | ||
FIFA rank | 48th (1438 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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First international match Haiti 1: 2 Jamaica ( Haiti ; March 9, 1925)
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Biggest wins Jamaica 12-0 British Virgin Islands ( Grand Cayman , Cayman Isls .; March 4, 1994) Jamaica 12-0 Saint-Martin ( Kingston , Jamaica ; November 24, 2004)
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Biggest defeat Costa Rica 9-0 Jamaica ( San José , Costa Rica ; February 24, 1999)
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Successes in tournaments | |||
World Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 1 ( first : 1998 ) | ||
Best results | Preliminary round 1998 | ||
North and Central American Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 13 ( first : 1963 ) | ||
Best results | Final 2015 | ||
(As of November 18, 2019) |
The Jamaican national football team , also known as The Reggae Boyz , is the selection team of the Jamaica Football Federation , the football association of the Caribbean island state of Jamaica .
Jamaica qualified for a soccer World Cup for the first time in 1998 . In France, the Jamaica team was eliminated in the preliminary round. It had lost to Argentina (0: 5) and Croatia (1: 3) and only won one win against Japan (2: 1). In 2015, Jamaica became the first team from the Caribbean to reach the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup . In the final, Jamaica lost 3-1 to Mexico , but participation in the final was described as a similarly significant event for Jamaican football history as the qualification for the 1998 World Cup.
In addition, Jamaica won the Caribbean football championship in 1991, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2014.
World Cup qualification
As part of qualifying for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the team met the Bahamas in the second round of the CONCACAF zone . With a total score of 13-0, it qualified for the third round, in which Jamaica met Mexico , Honduras and Canada . Despite victories against all three opponents, the team failed in the end due to the goal difference against Mexico that was three goals worse .
In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup , Jamaica reached the final group stage . There were there The Reggae Boyz with Costa Rica , Honduras , Mexico , Panama and the selection of the United States to do and failed as a Table.
Tournaments
World Championship
1930 in Uruguay | not participated |
1934 in Italy | not participated |
1938 in France | not participated |
1950 in Brazil | not participated |
1954 in Switzerland | not participated |
1958 in Sweden | not participated |
1962 in Chile | not participated |
1966 in England | not qualified |
1970 in Mexico | not qualified |
1974 in Germany | withdrawn |
1978 in Argentina | not qualified |
1982 in Spain | not participated |
1986 in Mexico | locked out |
1990 in Italy | not qualified |
1994 in the USA | not qualified |
1998 in France | Preliminary round |
2002 in South Korea / Japan | not qualified |
2006 in Germany | not qualified |
2010 in South Africa | not qualified |
2014 in Brazil | not qualified |
2018 in Russia | not qualified |
CONCACAF championship
CONCACAF Nations Cup
From 1973 the tournament also served as a World Cup qualifier.
- 1963 - preliminary round
- 1965 - did not take part
- 1967 - did not qualify
- 1969 - 6th place
- 1971 - did not qualify
- 1973 - withdrawn
- 1977 - did not qualify
- 1981 - did not participate
- 1985 - withdrawn
- 1989 - did not qualify
CONCACAF Gold Cup
- 1991 - preliminary round
- 1993 - third
- 1996 - did not qualify
- 1998 - fourth
- 2000 - preliminary round
- 2002 - did not qualify
- 2003 - quarter-finals
- 2005 - quarter-finals
- 2007 - did not qualify
- 2009 - preliminary round
- 2011 - quarter-finals
- 2013 - did not qualify
- 2015 - 2nd place
- 2017 - 2nd place
- 2019 - semi-finals
- 2021 - qualified
Caribbean Championship
- 1989 - did not qualify
- 1990 - withdrawn
- 1991 - Caribbean champion
- 1992 - 2nd place
- 1993 - 2nd place
- 1994 - did not qualify
- 1995 - preliminary round
- 1996 - preliminary round
- 1997 - 3rd place
- 1998 - Caribbean champion
- 1999 - 3rd place
- 2001 - preliminary round
- 2005 - Caribbean champion
- 2007 - did not qualify
- 2008 - Caribbean champion
- 2010 - Caribbean champion
- 2012 - finals
- 2014 - Caribbean champion
- 2017 - 2nd place
Copa America
Record player
(As of November 18, 2019)
Record player | ||||
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Games | player | position | Period | Gates |
128 (125) | Ian Goodison | Defense | 1996-2009 | 10 |
127 (124) | Linval Dixon | Defense | 1993-2003 | 3 |
120 (116) | Theodore Whitmore | midfield | 1993-2004 | 24 |
111 (108) | Ricardo Gardner | Defense / midfield | 1997-2012 | 9 |
108 (102) | Warren Barrett | goal | 1990-2000 | 0 |
107 (<100) | Andy Williams | midfield | 1997-2008 | 22 (21) |
102 (<100) | Durrant Brown | Defense | 1992-1998 | 0 |
101 (96) | Jermaine Taylor | Defense | 2004-2017 | 0 |
100 (96) | Donovan Ricketts | goal | 1999-2014 | 0 |
88 (85) | Rudolph Austin | midfield | 2004-2016 | 7th |
88 (83) | Fabian Davis | Defense / midfield | 1995-2007 | 6th |
88 (86) | Je-Vaughn Watson | midfield | 2008- | 4th |
85 (84) | Christopher Dawes | Defense / midfield | 1995-2001 | 1 |
84 (79) | Tyrone Marshall | Defense | 2000-2010 | 5 |
Record shooters | |||
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Gates | player | Period | Games |
35 (29) | Luton Shelton | 1998-2013 | 75 (70) |
27 | Onandi Lowe | 1995-2004 | 81 |
24 | Theodore Whitmore | 1993-2004 | 120 (116) |
22 (21) | Andy Williams | 1997-2008 | 107 (<100) |
22 (21) | Paul Young | 1989-1997 | 49 (48) |
19th | Walter Boyd | 1991-2001 | 75 (73) |
18th | Paul Davis | 1983-1997 | 61 (57) |
17th | Darren Mattocks | 2012- | 50 |
16 | Hector Wright | 1988-1997 | 71 (69) |
Source: rsssf.com
- ↑ Incl. Matches and goals against French Guiana , Guadeloupe , Martinique , Saint Martin and Sint Maarten , who are members of CONCACAF but not members of FIFA and are therefore not taken into account by FIFA. (Matches and goals recognized by FIFA in brackets, if different.)
Known players
- Deon Burton
- Alan Cole
- Robert Earle (scorer of the 1st World Cup goal for Jamaica )
- Jason Euell
- Daniel Gordon ( Bundesliga player)
- Stephen Malcolm
- Damani Ralph
- Frank Sinclair
- Shavar Thomas
- Craig Ziadie
Trainer
- Otmar Calder (1978–1979)
- Carl Brown (1990-1994)
- Renê Simões (1994-2000)
- Sebastião Lazaroni (2000)
- Clovis de Oliveira (2000-2001)
- Carl Brown (2001-2004)
- Sebastião Lazaroni (2004)
- Wendell Downswell (2004-2006)
- Carl Brown (2006)
- Bora Milutinović (2006-2007)
- Theodore Whitmore (2007)
- Renê Simões (2008)
- Theodore Whitmore (2008)
- John Barnes (2008-2009)
- Theodore Whitmore (2009-2013)
- Winfried Schäfer (2013-2016)
- Theodore Whitmore (2016–)
International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | 03/22/2007 | Fort Lauderdale ( ) | Jamaica | 0: 2 | Switzerland |
2. | 05/30/2014 | Lucerne | Switzerland | 1-0 | Jamaica |
So far there have been no games against Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Mexico too strong for Jamaica in the final In: derstandard.at , July 27, 2015, accessed on: July 27, 2015.
- ↑ Honduras with the best cards: Jamaica eliminated. In: fussball-wm-total.de. FOOTBALL WM-Total, October 12, 2013, accessed on October 12, 2013 .
- ↑ fifa.com: History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year) (PDF; 325 kB), p. 27
- ^ Roberto Mamrud: Jamaica - Record International Players ( English ) rsssf.com. Retrieved May 3, 2020.