Gibraltar national football team

The Gibraltar national football team is the national team of the British colony of Gibraltar under the auspices of the Gibraltar Football Association ( GFA ). The GFA is not a member of FIFA, however, was until January 2007 December 2006 provisional member of UEFA and had this status since October 2012 again held. On 24 May 2013, the GFA was admitted as 54th full member of UEFA. You will first compete to qualify for the European Football Championship 2016 in France at the European Football Championship qualifying matches.

History

The recent international appearances Gibraltar went largely at the Iceland Games, which are held every two years. For this tournament also the largest margin of victory in Gibraltar against the football team of the island Sark results ( 19:0 ). In the early summer of 2006 at the FIFI Wild Cup Gibraltar took part in Hamburg and took the third place there.

Efforts to become, an independent member of UEFA and FIFA have failed in the past again and again on appeal by the Spanish Federation. The possibility of membership of Gibraltar in UEFA had increased in 2006, when the International Court of Sport (CAS ) had recommended to the Continental Association to include Gibraltar as a member. In December 2006, Gibraltar was then taken as a provisional member of UEFA. About a full membership of UEFA Congress late January 2007, decided in Dusseldorf, where membership of Gibraltar was rejected as 54th member country. On October 1, 2012 Gibraltar was re-recorded as a provisional member of UEFA. About a full membership of UEFA Congress decided on 24 May 2013 London, where Gibraltar was finally accepted as a full member. Thus, the national team will first compete to qualify for the European Football Championship 2016 in France in a tournament where it meets the German national football team, Ireland, Poland, Scotland and Georgia. On November 19, 2013 Gibraltar played his first official match against Slovakia in Faro, Portugal, which ended 0-0. The second international game is clearly lost with 1:4 on March 1, 2014 the Faroese national football team; Roy scored with a header Chipolina the first international goal since membership in the UEFA.

Squad

Squad of the second and third international match in March 2014 against the Faroe Islands and Estonia: (* matches dating on March 8, 2014)

On call: