British Virgin Islands national football team

British Virgin Islands
Nickname(s)	The Nature Boyz
Association	British Virgin Islands; Football Association
Confederation	CONCACAF
Head coach	Avondale Williams[1]
Captain	Andy Davis
Most caps	Andy Davis (14)
Top scorer	Avondale Williams (5)
Home stadium	A.O. Shirley Recreation Ground
FIFA code	VGB
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	203 1 (20 September 2018)
Highest	160 (March 2000, August–November 2002)
Lowest	206 (April 2018 – May 2018)
Elo ranking
Current	226 (12 October 2018)
Highest	171 (1989)
Lowest	230 (2017)
First international
	Cayman Islands 2–1 British Virgin Islands ; (Basseterre, SK&N; 10 May 1991)
Biggest win
	British Virgin Islands 5–0 Puerto Rico ; (Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 19 March 1999); British Virgin Islands 5–0 U.S. Virgin Islands ; (Road Town, BVI; 30 January 2004)
Biggest defeat
	Dominican Republic 17–0 British Virgin Islands ; (San Cristobal, Dominican Rep.; 14 October 2010)

The British Virgin Islands national football team is the national team of the British Virgin Islands and is controlled by the British Virgin Islands Football Association.

A member of CONCACAF, it is among its weakest teams.

History

Early football games in the British Virgin Islands were between British Royal Navy crew, and expatriates. In 1968, the British Virgin Islands team was founded by a team of Royal Engineers, and soon after, in 1973 the British Virgin Islands Football Association was founded. In 1974, it was affiliated by FIFA.^[2] The former Tottenham, Chelsea and Porto manager, Portuguese André Villas-Boas had his first job as Technical Director of the national team British Virgin Islands in 2000 and 2001.^[3]

World Cup qualification

In the qualifying rounds for the 2006 World Cup were drawn against St Lucia, and they were eliminated 10–0 on aggregate.^[4]

In the qualifying rounds for the 2010 World Cup they were paired with the Bahamas. They lost on the away goals rule after a 3–3 draw over both legs. Both matches were actually played in the Bahamas, but British Virgin Islands were designated as the home team in the second match, which ended 2–2.^[5] Despite going out of the competition in the first qualifying round, the British Virgin Islands were the only side to enter the 2010 FIFA World Cup to remain unbeaten through qualification and the finals tournament (although New Zealand was undefeated in the finals tournament, they did lose a game in qualification.)

In the qualifying rounds for the 2014 FIFA World Cup they were in the unusual position of being favorites to win their two-legged tie against neighbors U.S. Virgin Islands. However, after losing the first leg 2–0 and the return leg 2–1, the British Virgin Islands once again failed to advance to the next round.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying rounds saw British Virgin Islands take on Dominica with both legs taking place in Dominica, with the first leg acting as BVI's 'home ground' due to the away goal ruling. Despite taking the lead twice, the Islanders fell to a 3 – 2 defeat at 'home' and drew 0 – 0 away. Meaning that once again first round qualification remained elusive.

World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record									FIFA World Cup Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1930	Did not enter								Did not enter
1934
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1994
1998
2002	Did not qualify								2	0	0	2	1	14
2006									2	0	0	2	0	10
2010									2	0	2	0	3	3
2014									2	0	0	2	1	4
2018									2	0	1	1	2	3
2022	To be determined								Qualification yet to start
Total		0/21							10	0	3	7	7	34

Gold Cup record

1991 to 1993 – Did not qualify
1996 – Withdrew
1998 to 2005 – Did not qualify
2007 – Withdrew
2009 to 2017 – Did not qualify

Caribbean Cup record

Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1989 to 1994	Did not qualify
1995	Withdrew
1996	Did not enter
1997 to 2005	Did not qualify
2007	Withdrew
2008 to 2017	Did not qualify
Total	0/18	0	0	0	0	0	0

Recent results and forthcoming fixtures

Win Draw Loss

2016

23 March 2016 2017 Caribbean Cup Qualification	Martinique	3–0	British Virgin Islands	Fort-de-France, Martinique
20:00	Kevin Parsemain 12' Yoann Arquin 68' Steeven Langil 84'	report		Stadium: Stade Pierre-Aliker Referee: Michael van der Sande (Curaçao)

26 March 2016 2017 Caribbean Cup Qualification	British Virgin Islands	0–7	Dominica	Road Town, British Virgin Islands
16:00		report	Dicker 20' (o.g.) Walters 28', 51' Bertrand 33' Wade 44', 55', 85' (pen.)	Stadium: A. O. Shirley Recreation Ground Referee: Gianni Ascani (Turks and Caicos Islands)

2018

Unnoficial friendly match	Weymouth FC	6–1	British Virgin Islands	Dorset, England.

25 July 2018 Friendly	Sint Maarten	2–3	British Virgin Islands	Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
	Drijvers		25' (o.g.) Johnson 35' Rowe 65'	Stadium: Raoul Illidge Sports Complex

27 July 2018 Friendly	Saint Martin	0–0	British Virgin Islands	Saint Barthelemy

28 July 2018 Friendly	Saint Barthélemy	3–4	British Virgin Islands	Saint Barthélemy

11 September 2018 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League Qualification	Martinique	v	British Virgin Islands	Martinique

13 October 2018 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League Qualification	Suriname	v	British Virgin Islands	Suriname

November 2018 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League Qualification	British Virgin Islands	v	Bonaire	British Virgin Islands

2019

March 2019 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League Qualification	British Virgin Islands	v	Turks and Caicos Islands	British Virgin Islands

Current squad

The following players were called up to the CONCACAF Nations League against Suriname and Martinique ,October 2018

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Ben Chapman	(1991-05-03) 3 May 1991	4	0	Leek Town
	1GK	Phillip Jules	(2000-09-11) 11 September 2000	0	0	Panthers FC
	1GK	Will Skingly	17 January 2001 (age 17)	0	0	Shortford F.C.

	2DF	Liam Blok	(2001-09-10) 10 September 2001	1	0	The Hauge
4	2DF	Troy Caesar	(1994-05-13) 13 May 1994	15	0	Life University
6	2DF	Phil Nelson	(1988-04-14) 14 April 1988	2	0	Wolues FC
5	2DF	James Drury	(1986-07-16) 16 July 1986	2	0	Wolues FC
	2DF	Chris Pease		0	0	Wolues FC
3	2DF	Joshua Bertie	(1996-10-09) 9 October 1996	2	0	Andover Town

10	3MF	Tsharne Gallimore	(2000-08-20) 20 August 2000	2	0	Westfield F.C.
	3MF	Carlos Septus	(1991-06-16) 16 June 1991	7	1	Rebels FC
	3MF	Kristian Javier	(1996-04-06) 6 April 1996	3	0	Peachtree City MOBA
7	3MF	Charles Medway	(2002-06-02) 2 June 2002	2	0	New Milton Town
11	3MF	Leo Forte	(1999-10-20) 20 October 1999	2	0	Wolues FC
2	3MF	Jamie Wilson	(1996-01-31) 31 January 1996	2	0	Wolues FC
	3MF	Robbie Green	(1997-09-05) 5 September 1997	2	0	Hyde United

	4FW	Bailey Rowe	(2002-03-05) 5 March 2002	2	1	Weymouth FC
9	4FW	Jordan Johnson	(1986-10-09) 9 October 1986	7	2	Leek Town
	4FW	Trevor Peters	(1990-03-19) 19 March 1990	10	1	Rebels FC
	3MF	Tyler Forbes	(2002-04-18) 18 April 2002	2	0	Maldon & Triptree

Past Squads

The following players were called up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification^[6]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
	1GK	Desire Montgomery Butler	(1967-01-05) 5 January 1967	10	Islanders FC
	1GK	Will Skingly	17 January 2001 (age 17)	1	Unknown
	1GK	Alexander Keen	13 April 2002 (age 16)	0	Unknown
	2DF	Allon Williams	(1996-10-24) 24 October 1996	3	VG United
		Karl Tuitt		0	unknown
	2DF	Ryan Dicker	22 September 1986 (age 31)	5	Leek Town FC
	2DF	Josh Fines	7 July 1996 (age 21)	2	Memphis City FC
	2DF	Peter Monks	3 October 1986 (age 31)	6	Unknown
	2DF	James Felix	(1993-11-16) 16 November 1993	1	Unknown
	3MF	Karl Espley	24 March 1986 (age 32)	4	Kidsgrove Athletic
	3MF	James Quinn	6 July 1994 (age 23)	2	Wayland Baptist University
	3MF	Matthew Bell	(1992-01-03) 3 January 1992	2	Nantwich Town
	3MF	Fladimir Septus	(1991-06-16) 16 June 1991	6	Ballstarz
10	3MF	James Shearman	(1986-02-11) 11 February 1986	12	Wolues FC^[7]
	4FW	Lewis Jones	25 December 1994 (age 23)	2	Lansing United^[8]
11	4FW	Shamoy Thompson	(1997-05-27) 27 May 1997	2	Ballstarz

Coaches

Gary White (1998–1999)
? Gregory Grant (2000)
William H. Moravek (2000–01)
Patrick Mitchell (2002)
Michael Tulloch (2004)
? Ben Davies (2004)
Patrick Mitchell (2008)
Avondale Williams (2010–)

References

↑ https://www.fifa.com/associations/association=VGB/about.html
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
↑ Virgin Islands recall their days in the sun under former coach – Independent
↑ St. Lucia flogs BVI 9–0 in World Cup qualifier Archived May 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ – Qualifiers – North, Central America and Caribbean – All Matches". FIFA.com. 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
↑ "BVI to play Antigua ahead of 2018 WC Qualifiers". Virgin Islands News Online. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
↑ "Reigatians Football Club duo handed international call ups". Surrey Mirror. 2014-09-18. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
↑ "Fisher heads off to Jr College Life in Colorado". Virgin Islands News Online. Retrieved 2017-03-01.

External links

British Virgin Islands FIFA.com
British Virgin Islands caribbeanfootballdatabase.com

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[1] ttps://www.fifa.com/associations/association=VGB/about.html

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2013-05-19.

[3] Virgin Islands recall their days in the sun under former coach – Independent

[4] St. Lucia flogs BVI 9–0 in World Cup qualifier Archived May 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

[5] "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ – Qualifiers – North, Central America and Caribbean – All Matches". FIFA.com. 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2017-03-01.

[6] "BVI to play Antigua ahead of 2018 WC Qualifiers". Virgin Islands News Online. Retrieved 2017-03-01.

[7] "Reigatians Football Club duo handed international call ups". Surrey Mirror. 2014-09-18. Retrieved 2017-03-01.

[8] "Fisher heads off to Jr College Life in Colorado". Virgin Islands News Online. Retrieved 2017-03-01.

International association football
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Europe	UEFA – European Championship U-21 U-19 U-17 Nations League
North America, Central America and the Caribbean	CONCACAF – Gold Cup U-20 U-17 U-15 Nations League Regional (CFU, UNCAF)
Oceania	OFC – Nations Cup U-19 U-17
South America	CONMEBOL – Copa América U-20 U-17 U-15
Non-FIFA	NF-Board – Viva World Cup CONIFA – ConIFA World Football Cup ConIFA European Football Cup IIGA – Island Games
Games	African Games Asian Games Central America Central America and Caribbean East Asian Games Francophonie Games Indian Ocean Island Lusophony Games Mediterranean Games Pan American Games Pan Arab Games Pacific Games South Asian Games Southeast Asian Games West Asian Games
See also Geography Codes Player/Club of the Century Women's football

National football teams of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)
North America	Canada Mexico United States
Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
Caribbean	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bermuda¹ Bonaire³ British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Cuba Curaçao Dominica Dominican Republic French Guiana^{2 3} Grenada Guadeloupe³ Guyana² Haiti Jamaica Martinique³ Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Martin³ Sint Maarten³ Suriname² Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands U.S. Virgin Islands
Defunct	Netherlands Antilles
1: Inside the North American zone, but CFU member. 2: South American country, but affiliated to CONCACAF and CFU. 3: Full or associate CONCACAF member, but non-FIFA member.