Åland Islands national football team

Åland Islands
Association	Ålands Fotbollförbund
Head coach	Tommy Lundberg
Home stadium	Wiklöf Holding Arena, Mariehamn
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Åland Islands 4 - 2 Sápmi ; (July, 1985)
Biggest win
	Åland Islands 6 - 2 Bornholm ; (Visby, Gotland; 14 June 1986)
Biggest defeat
	Faroe Islands 7 - 1 Åland Islands ; (Tórshavn, Faroe Islands; 12 July 1989)

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The Åland Islands official football team is the official football team for the Åland Islands, Finland, and is controlled by Ålands Fotbollförbund. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA.

The team mainly competes in the Island Games. Åland hosted it in 1991. The team won a Bronze medal in 1989 and 1993. They also reached fourth place in 1991. Åland will host it again in 2009.

Åland also has a successful club football side, IFK Mariehamn, which plays in the Finnish premier league (Veikkausliiga) and finished 6th in the league in 2007.

[edit] Tournament records

[edit] Island Games record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1989	Group Phase	3rd	4	2	0	2	10	12
1991	3rd Place Match	4th	4	2	0	2	3	3
1993	3rd Place Match	3rd	4	3	0	1	7	4
1995	7th Place Match	7th	4	0	1	3	4	14
1999	5th Place Match	6th	4	2	0	2	8	6
2005	7th Place Match	7th	5	2	0	3	6	10
2007	7th Place Match	7th	3	2	0	1	7	5
2009	Final	2nd	5	3	1	1	10	7
Total	8/11		33	15	2	16	55	61

[edit] Selected Internationals opponents

Last game: Åland Islands 1-2 Jersey - Åland - 3 July 2009. (Island Games Final)

(Last update: March 2008)

Opponents	Matches	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA
Ynys Môn	3	1	0	2	8	8
Bornholm	1	1	0	0	7	1
Falkland Islands	1	1	0	0	2	1
Faroe Islands	1	0	0	1	1	7
Frøya	1	1	0	0	3	1
Gibraltar	1	1	0	0	2	1
Gotland	2	1	0	1	4	4
Greenland	5	5	0	0	17	8
Guernsey	2	1	1	0	4	2
Isle of Man	4	2	0	2	6	5
Isle of Wight	3	2	0	1	3	5
Jersey	5	0	0	5	2	9
Minorca	1	0	1	0	1	1
Öland	2	1	1	0	6	3
Rhodes	1	0	0	1	2	3
Saaremaa	1	0	0	1	1	2
Sápmi	3	2	0	1	5	4
Shetland	4	3	0	1	8	5

[edit] Team

The following players were in the Island Games squad in 2009.^[1]

Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Club
GK	Simon Enqvist	October 2, 1988 (1988-10-02) (age 20)	IFK Mariehamn
GK	Kim Lindholm	January 27, 1990 (1990-01-27) (age 19)	Sunds IF
DF	Fredrik Appel	April 8, 1991 (1991-04-08) (age 18)	IFK Mariehamn
DF	Tomas Lindholm	May 8, 1990 (1990-05-08) (age 19)	Hammerlands IK
DF	William Lindström	January 13, 1989 (1989-01-13) (age 20)
DF	Joakim Signell	April 12, 1986 (1986-04-12) (age 23)	IF Finströms Kamraterna
MF	Wilhelm Ingves	January 10, 1990 (1990-01-10) (age 19)	IFK Mariehamn
MF	Petter Isaksson	September 11, 1989 (1989-09-11) (age 19)	Sunds IF
MF	Simon Snickars	August 7, 1989 (1989-08-07) (age 19)	Sunds IF
MF	David Welin	October 8, 1986 (1986-10-08) (age 22)	Hammerlands IK
FW	Andre Karring	March 9, 1990 (1990-03-09) (age 19)	Hammerlands IK
FW	Alexander Weckström	March 27, 1987 (1987-03-27) (age 22)	IF Finströms Kamraterna
	Jimmy Sundman		Sunds IF
	John Mattsson		Sunds IF
	Johannes Nordström		IFK Mariehamn
	Tony Jansson		Hammerlands IK
	Linus Gestranius		Hammerlands IK
	Andreas Björk		Jomala IK
	Rezgar Amani
	Fabian Söderdahl