Montserrat national football team

Montserrat
Montserrat

Nickname (s)

Emerald Boys

Association

MFA

confederacy

CONCACAF

Head coach

Willie Donachie (since 2018)

Record scorer

Jaylee Hodgson (4)

Home stadium

Blakes Estate Stadium

FIFA code

MSR

FIFA rank

183. (921 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)

First jersey

Second jersey

statistics

First international match, St. Lucia 3-0 Montserrat ( Castries , St. Lucia ; May 10, 1991 )

Greatest victory Brit. Virgin Islands 0-7 Montserrat ( Fort-de-France , Martinique ; September 9, 2012 )

Biggest loss Bermuda 13-0 Montserrat ( Hamilton , Bermuda ; February 29, 2004 )

(As of September 9, 2012)

The Montserrat national football team is the national team of the British overseas territory of Montserrat . Montserrat is an independent member of the world football association FIFA and the regional association CONCACAF and therefore also takes part in qualifying games for football world championships and the CONCACAF Gold Cup . It is one of the weakest teams in the continental association CONCACAF. So far, the team has not yet managed to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup or the World Cup.

history

After the eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano in 1995, Montserrat only played a few games, most of which were then played away. Montserrat achieved his only two wins in 21 games against neighboring Anguilla as part of qualifying for the 1996 Caribbean Cup .

A portrait of football on Montserrat is offered by the documentary The Other Final , which reports on the international match against Bhutan , the second bottom of the FIFA world rankings , which took place in 2002 parallel to the World Cup final . Montserrat lost the game in Thimphu 4-0.

Tournaments

World Championship

1930 to 1998 - did not participate

2002 - In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , they were eliminated in Caribbean zone 3 of the preliminary round with 0: 3 and 1: 3 against the Dominican Republic .

2006 - In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany , they met the team from Bermuda . They were clearly eliminated with 0:13 and 0: 7.

2010 - As part of qualifying for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa , the team faced the national team from Suriname in the first round of the CONCACAF zone , which was 51 places above Montserrat in the FIFA world rankings . This first meeting of the two teams decided Suriname with 7: 1 clearly for themselves, which is why Montserrat failed in the first qualifying round.

2014 - In the World Cup qualification for the tournament in Brazil 2014 they met Belize in the 1st round and were eliminated with 2: 5 and 1: 3.

2018 - In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia , the team was eliminated in the first round in March 2015 with 1: 2 and 2: 2 against the team from Curaçao .