Greenland national football team

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Greenland

Nickname(s)

Polar-Bamserne
(The Polar Teddy Bears)

Association

Grønlands Boldspil-Union

Confederation

NF-Board

Head coach

Jens Tang Olesen

Captain

Home stadium

N/A

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First kit





Second kit

First international

Faroe Islands 6 - 0 Greenland

(Sauðárkrókur, Iceland; July 2, 1980)

Biggest win

Greenland 16 - 0 Sark

(St Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands; July 1, 2003)

Biggest defeat

Faroe Islands 6 - 0 Greenland

(Sauðárkrókur, Iceland; July 2, 1980)

Guernsey 6 - 0 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).

1 FIFI Wild cup participation
2 ELF Cup participation
3 Island Games
4 Current squad
5 Selected Internationals opponents
6 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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

[edit] Current squad

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

Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Club
GK	Anders Cortsen		Nagdlunguaq-48
	Loke Svane		Kugsak 45
	Miki Petersen	27 November 1987	Frederikshavn FI
DF	Jamma Degn Olsvig		Nagdlunguaq-48
DF	Niklas Kreutzmann	18 September 1982	Aarhus Fremad
DF	Antuuaraq Enoksen	9 August 1982	N-85
DF	Aputsiaq Birch	4 June 1985	Frederikshavn FI
	Anda Aminak		ATA Tasiilaq
MF	John Eldevig	12 March 1974	SAK Sisimiut
DF	Anders H. Petersen	6 March 1981	B-67
	Hans Knudsen		K-33
MF	Kaassannquaq Zeeb	10 December 1985	FC Malamuk
FW	Pelle Mortensen	13 February 1983	Boldklubben 1908
	Ulluriaq Grønvold		G-44
	Poul B. Olsen		B-67
	Børge Høy		ATA Tasiilaq
	Kristian Sandgreen		Nagdlunguaq-48

[edit] Selected Internationals opponents

(Last update: 10 Jun 2007)

Opponents	Matches	W	D	L	GF	GA
Åland Islands	4	-	-	4	6	13
Alderney	1	1	-	-	3	0
Frøya	2	1	-	1	3	1
Gǎgǎuzia	1	1	-	-	2	0
Gibraltar	4	2	-	2	7	7
Gotland	2	-	-	2	3	9
Guernsey	2	-	1	1	0	6
Isle of Man	1	1	-	-	4	0
Isle of Wight	5	1	1	3	6	13
Iceland	2	-	-	2	1	5
Faroe Islands	7	-	1	6	6	20
Falkland Islands	1	1	-	-	4	0
Jersey	4	-	-	4	9	16
Orkney	1	1	-	-	2	1
Rhodes	2	-	-	2	0	4
Saaremaa	2	2	-	-	6	1
Sápmi	1	-	-	1	1	5
Sark	1	1	-	-	16	0
Shetland	2	1	-	1	6	6
Tibet	1	1	-	-	4	1
Western Isles	1	-	1	-	4	4
Ynys Môn	4	1	1	2	2	3
Zanzibar	1	-	-	1	2	4