Jersey official football team

Jersey
Nickname(s)Crapauds or Beans
AssociationJersey Football Association
Head coachJack Cannon
Most capsGreg Curtis (55)
Top scorerMike Harper (24)
Home stadiumSpringfield Stadium
FIFA codeJER
First colours
First international
  0–1 Guernsey
(Saint Helier, Jersey; 27 April 1905)
Biggest win
  18–0 Alderney 
(Saint Helier, Jersey; 19 March 1994)
Biggest defeat
  1–7 Guernsey
(Saint Helier, Jersey; 18 April 1929)

The Jersey official football team represents the British Crown Dependency of Jersey in non-FIFA international matches.

The Jersey Football Association is affiliated to the English Football Association.

Jersey’s main football stadium is Springfield Stadium located in Saint Helier, Jersey. Matches have been played at that site for over a century; the current stadium has grandstand capacity for 982.[1][2]

Channel Islands competitions

The Jersey Men's Team's main fixtures are currently the annual Muratti Vase against fellow Channel Islanders Alderney and Guernsey. As of the 2025 Muratti Vase, Jersey has won the tournament 57 times out of the 107 times the tournament has been held.

Island Games

The team participates in the biennial Island Games, having first entered in the 1991 Island Games. They have won the competition on four occasions, in 1993, 1997, 2009, and 2023.

UEFA and FIFA national team competitions

As they are not affiliated to either FIFA or UEFA, the Jersey official football team is not eligible to take part in qualification for both the FIFA World Cup and the European Football Championship.

Players from Jersey are however known to be eligible for all four Home Nations national teams[3] (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) in those competitions. Graeme Le Saux chose England among those options.

In December 2015 an application was submitted to UEFA to allow Jersey to take part in international matches,[4] following on from Gibraltar's admission two years earlier.[5] In October 2016, Jersey's bid to join UEFA was rejected,[6] but this decision was appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in June 2017.[7] In September 2017, the CAS ordered the UEFA Congress to hear Jersey's case.[8] In February 2018 a majority of the member associations of UEFA voted against admitting Jersey as a member.[9] An independent Parishes of Jersey team subsequently formed in August 2018, joining ConIFA in September that year.[10]

In 2023, it was rumoured by Greenland Manager Morten Rutkjær, that Jersey were interested in joining CONCACAF.[11]

FA Inter-League Cup

A technically separate team operated by the island's top league, the Jersey Football Combination, have entered several editions of the FA Inter-League Cup against representative teams of various English tier 11 leagues and Crown Dependency leagues, winning the cup twice (2011–12 and 2019–20) and qualifying for an international UEFA tournament, the UEFA Regions' Cup, by virtue of that. Their best placement in the Regions' Cup has been being 2nd in their group in the 2013 UEFA Regions' Cup intermediary round. Many players have played on both Jersey teams, and some have played on both teams and on the Jersey Bulls that have entered the English league systems.

Players known to have played in the 2023 Island Games, the 2023 UEFA Regions' Cup,[12] and for the Bulls in the 2024–25 Combined Counties Football League season[13] include Adam Trotter, Euan van der Vliet, Jay Giles, Jonny Le Quesne, and Luke Campbell.

Current squad

Squad was picked for the 2023 Island Games in July 2023.[14]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Club
1 1GK Euan van der Vliet (1996-08-11) 11 August 1996 Jersey Bulls
16 1GK Pierce Roche (2005-01-01) 1 January 2005 Jersey Bulls
2DF Jonny Le Quesne (1995-11-22) 22 November 1995 Jersey Bulls
2DF Luke Campbell (1989-05-04) 4 May 1989 Jersey Bulls
2DF James Carr (2001-12-28) 28 December 2001 Jersey Bulls
2DF Paul McCafferty (2000-01-01) 1 January 2000 Jersey Bulls
2DF Harry Curtis (1999-02-23) 23 February 1999 Jersey Bulls
3MF Jay Giles (1990-07-23) 23 July 1990 Jersey Bulls
3MF Joe Kilshaw (2000-08-08) 8 August 2000 Jersey Bulls
3MF Luke Watson (1994-07-30) 30 July 1994 Jersey Bulls
3MF Toby Ritzema (2002-01-01) 1 January 2002 Basford United
3MF Adam Trotter (1996-01-15) 15 January 1996 Jersey Bulls
4FW Francis Lekimamati (1997-01-01) 1 January 1997 Jersey Bulls
4FW Lorne Bickley (1998-12-31) 31 December 1998 Jersey Bulls
4FW Sol Solomon (2001-03-17) 17 March 2001 Tranmere Rovers
4FW Karl Hinds (1998-12-10) 10 December 1998 Jersey Bulls
4FW Miguel Carvalho (2005-12-31) 31 December 2005 Jersey Bulls


Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Jersey squad within the last twelve months.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
16 1GK Danny Birrell (2000-11-28) 28 November 2000 Jersey Wanderers
3 2DF Michael Weir (1991-02-18) 18 February 1991 St. Paul's
6 3MF Jack Cannon (1987-02-17) 17 February 1987 St. Paul's
7 3MF Jay Reid (1990-10-29) 29 October 1990 St. Paul's
8 3MF Jack Boyle (1990-07-09) 9 July 1990 Jersey Bulls
10 3MF Jake Baker (1992-12-09) 9 December 1992 St. Peter
13 3MF Kamen Nafkha (1998-11-28) 28 November 1998 Jersey Wanderers
9 4FW Craig Russell (1987-11-04) 4 November 1987 St. Paul's
15 4FW Jake Prince (1998-06-29) 29 June 1998 St. Peter
2DF James Scott (1980-08-20) 20 August 1980 Jersey Scottish
2DF Stuart Andre (1984-03-18) 18 March 1984 St. Paul's
2DF Rob McBey (1986-11-12) 12 November 1986 St. Clement
12 2DF Connor O'Shea (1999-10-03) 3 October 1999 St. Clement
3MF Cav Miley (1995-03-29) 29 March 1995 Southend United
3MF Ben Gallichan (1988-08-12) 12 August 1988 St. Peter
4FW Kieran Lester (1996-04-29) 29 April 1996 St. Paul's

Honours

  • Muratti Vase: 58 (57 outright, 1 shared)[15]
    • 1908, 1910, 1911, 1921, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1931, 1937*, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 (* shared)
  • Island Games: 4
    • 1993, 1997, 2009, 2023
  • FA Inter League Champions
    • 2021

Youth teams

Jersey under-16s have competed in their own Muratti Cup since 2007.[16]

Honours

  • U-16 Muratti Cup: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015 (shared), 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022

Women's team

Beginning in 1997, the Jersey official women's team have competed in their version of the Muratti Vase against the Guernsey women's team. The competition was paused when the Guernsey women's team was disbanded in 2017, then resumed six years later.[17]

Honours

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Springfield Stadium and Gym". Active Jersey. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  3. ^ Nick Moore (1 October 2010). "Matt Le Tissier: One-on-One". FourFourTwo. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  4. ^ Sport, Brent Pilnick BBC. "Jersey bids to join Uefa to play international football". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Gibraltar given full Uefa membership at London Congress". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Jersey to appeal to CAS after Uefa rejects membership application". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Uefa should have second tier for 'smaller' national teams, says Jersey FA boss". BBC Sport. 22 February 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Court of Arbitration in Sport orders Jersey case to be heard by Uefa congress". BBC Sport. 28 September 2017. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Jersey: Uefa congress rejects application to become international football nation". BBC Sport. 26 February 2018. Archived from the original on 7 July 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  10. ^ "'Parishes of Jersey' accepted into Conifa". 11 September 2018. Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  11. ^ The Greenland national team joining CONCACAF? | Interview with Manager Morten Rutjkær, archived from the original on 21 June 2023, retrieved 21 June 2023
  12. ^ "Jersey-Lazio - UEFA Regions' Cup 2022/23". UEFA. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  13. ^ "Jersey Bulls - Cherry Red Records Combined Countries Football League". Football Association. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  14. ^ |jerseyeveningpost.com |access-date=7 July 2023
  15. ^ "Mens Representative Team". www.jerseyfa.com.
  16. ^ "U16 Muratti 2022 | JFA Combination League". Archived from the original on 2 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  17. ^ "Women's Muratti Vase: Jersey beat Guernsey 5-0 after six-year break". BBC Sport. 23 May 2022.
  18. ^ "Women's Representative Team". Jersey FA.


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