The sport of
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
in the island of
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Barthélemy (french: Saint-Barthélemy, ), officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, is an overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean. It is often abbreviated to St. Barth in French, and St. Barts in English ...
is run by the
Saint Barthélemy Football Association. The association administers the
men's national football team, the
women's national football team, the
Saint-Barthelemy Championships The territory of Saint Barthélemy consists of Saint Barthelemy and the near islands.
Champions per year
*2003/04: FC Gustavia
*2004/05: FC Beach-Hôtel
*2005/06: FC Beach-Hôtel
*2006/07: FC Amicale (ex FC Beach-Hôtel)
*2007/08: ASPSB (Assoc ...
, and the
Trophée José da Silva. There are also veterans matches and youth involvement for both genders, though this appears to be limited to individual events. The sport is mostly restricted to the
Stade de Saint-Jean, which is located in the capital
Gustavia, a multi-purpose stadium constructed in the 1970s. As the pitch aged, it required renovation and
Roman Abramovich
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provided £3m to this effect in 2010.
While the island was included as part of
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...
up until 2007, the
Saint-Barthelemy Championships The territory of Saint Barthélemy consists of Saint Barthelemy and the near islands.
Champions per year
*2003/04: FC Gustavia
*2004/05: FC Beach-Hôtel
*2005/06: FC Beach-Hôtel
*2006/07: FC Amicale (ex FC Beach-Hôtel)
*2007/08: ASPSB (Assoc ...
started as early as 2004, with the most successful club being APSB. The championship has run annually since, though was not run in 2020/21 due to the pandemic. No corresponding women's league appears to yet be running, though APSB have fielded a women's side in friendlies against club opposition from
Saint Martin and
Sint Maarten
Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the north ...
. With the association not a member of
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
, they are limited to friendlies, with the national side debuting as early as 2010 but the majority of their matches coming in locally held tournaments against the neighbouring islands in 2018 and 2019. The women's side has been extremely limited in scope, but did play against
Sint Maarten women's national football team on 1 December 2019, defeating them 5–3.
National football stadium
References
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