The Isle of Man Representative County football team is the IOMFA

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team of the

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and is controlled by the

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. The team plays in a yellow and red home kit and an all navy blue away kit.

History

The Isle of Man are not members of

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, as the Isle of Man FA are members of

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(The FA), with similar status to an English county. Since they are not a member of either FIFA or UEFA, they are not eligible to enter either the

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or European Championship. The Isle of Man therefore is limited to different forms of competition. The main competition the Isle of Man national football team takes part in is the biennial

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tournament. Isle of Man has won the tournament once, and came in runner-up four times. They play in the '' International Quadrangular Tournament'', a tournament for semi-professional and amateur national teams from the Isle of Man,

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, the

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and

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. They won the tournament in 2000, beating Scotland 1–0 in the final, despite the Isle of Man possessing the only truly all-amateur set-up while the other teams fielded semi-professional players. Another regular competition played in is the ''

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'', which usually features the Isle of Man along with lower division teams from

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. The Isle of Man's best result to date in the tournament, was beating

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1–0 in 2000. In the 2005–06 season, the Isle of Man national team won The

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, a competition for amateur teams representing the leagues at Step 7 of the

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with a few other leagues permitted by the FA. The Isle of Man beat the

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team 4–0 in the final and represented England in the

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. In 2014, a new team, Ellan Vannin, was created by the Manx Independent Football Association in order to enter

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and compete at the ConIFA World Football Cup. As opposed to the official Isle of Man team, which is composed only of

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players, Ellan Vannin will allow only those with Manx ties to play for them, in line with

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. Initially, the IoMFA was reluctant to allow MIFA to run the Ellan Vannin side, but the two associations agreed to work together in February 2014 to allow both the IoMFA side and Ellan Vannin to continue.

Tournament records

Island Games record

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where the side came 3rd.

Selected Internationals opponents

:''Last update: 10 July 2009''

References

External links

Isle of Man with all results on roon.ba-Non_FifaIsle of Man on www.fedefutbol.net
on uefa.com

on thefa.com {{Football in the Crown Dependencies F

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