Greenland national football team

Greenland national football team

Infobox National football team
Name= Greenland
Badge= Greenland_FA.gif
Nickname= "Polar-Bamserne"
(The Polar Teddy Bears)
Association= Grønlands Boldspil-Union
Coach= Jens Tang Olesen
Home Stadium= Nuuk Stadion| FIFA Trigramme= N/A
Confederation = NF-Board
Elo Rank= T204
Captain=Niklas Kreutzmann
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First game = fb|Faroe Islands 6 - 0 Greenland flagicon|Greenland (Sauðárkrókur, Iceland; July 2, 1980)
Largest win = flagicon|Greenland Greenland 16 - 0 fb-rt|Sark (St Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands; July 1, 2003)
Largest loss = fb|Faroe Islands 6 - 0 Greenland flagicon|Greenland (Sauðárkrókur, Iceland; July 2, 1980)
flagicon|Guernsey Guernsey 6 - 0 Greenland flagicon|Greenland
(Hamnavoe, West Burra, Shetland; July 13, 2005)
The Greenland national football team is the national team of Greenland and is controlled by the Football Association of Greenland. Greenland is not a member of FIFA nor of any continental confederation and therefore is not eligible to enter the World Cup or other sanctioned tournaments. Most of the matches they have played have been against the Faroe Islands and Iceland, but neither of the two consider those games full internationals. It has also played Tibet, since neither are FIFA members.

Greenland is a member of the International Island Games Association and has taken part in Football at the Island Games. Since October 13, 2005 it is a provisional member of the NF-Board and since March 25, 2006 it is full-member.

The team was once trained by experienced manager Sepp Piontek.

Also, most Greenlander players are eligible to play for Denmark, since Greenland is officially part of the country.

FIFA's recent approval of FieldTurf may allow Greenland to create FIFA-standard playing pitches and apply to play full internationals. They would join either UEFA (due to links with Denmark), or CONCACAF (geographically, Greenland is part of North America).

FIFI Wild cup participation

Greenland has participated in the 2006 FIFI Wild Cup. It played two games and lost both, the first 0-1 against the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the second 2-4 against Zanzibar. So they were eliminated in the First Round.

ELF Cup participation

Greenland has participated in the ELF Cup and it's been eliminated in the Round 1. They played three matches: won against Gagauzia (2-0), draw with Zanzibar (1-1) and lost with Kyrgyzstan (1-0).

Island Games

*1989:"Semifinals, 4th"
*1991:"Round 1, 8th"
*1993:"Semifinals, 4th"
*1995:"Semifinals, 4th"
*1997:"Round 1, 9th"
*1999:"Quarter Finals, 8th"
*2001:"Round 1, 9th"
*2003:"Round 1, 10th"
*2005:"Round 1, 8th"
*2007:"Did Not Enter"


Current squad

The following players were in the ELF Cup squad in November 2006.

elected Internationals opponents

(Last update: 10 Jun 2007)

External links

* [http://www.gbu.gl/ Official site of The Football Association of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaanni Isikkamik Arsaattartut Kattuffiat)]
* [http://www.nf-board.com/en3.htm Greenland member of NF-Board]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/islandgames/fixtures/football/mens/group_d.shtml Greenland on BBC]
* [http://www.fedefutbol.net/ Greenland on www.fedefutbol.net]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesg/groen-intres.html Greenland on www.rsssf.com (List of International Matches)]


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