Jamaican national soccer team

Jamaica
Jamaica

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)

First jersey

Second jersey

statistics

First international match Haiti 1: 2 Jamaica ( Haiti ; March 9, 1925)

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)

Biggest defeat Costa Rica 9-0 Jamaica ( San José , Costa Rica ; February 24, 1999)

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

2015 - preliminary round
2016 - Preliminary round (Copa América Centenario)

Record player

(As of November 18, 2019)

Record player
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
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.)