Greenland national football team
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| Nickname(s) |
Polar-Bamserne (The Polar Teddy Bears) |
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| Association | Grønlands Boldspil-Union |
| Confederation | ConIFA |
| Head coach | Rene Olsen & Tekle Ghrebrelul |
| Captain | Niklas Kreutzmann |
| Home stadium | Nuuk Stadion |
| FIFA code | GRL (not official) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 199 |
| Highest | 186 (July 1980) |
| Lowest | 203 (June 1993) |
| First international | |
 Faroe Islands 6–0 Greenland  (Sauðárkrókur, Iceland; 2 July 1980) |
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| Biggest win | |
Greenland 16–0 Sark  (St Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands; 1 July 2003) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
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Faroe Islands 6–0 Greenland (Sauðárkrókur, Iceland; 2 July 1980)  Guernsey 6–0 Greenland (Stromness, West Burra, Shetland; 13 July 2005)  Minorca 6–0 Greenland (Åland Islands; 29 June 2009) |
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The Greenland national football team represents Greenland in international football. It is controlled by the Football Association of Greenland. Although it has the same status as the Faroe Islands within the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is not, like the Faroe Islands national football team, 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.
Greenland is a member of the International Island Games Association and has taken part in Football at the Island Games. Since 13 October 2005, it is a provisional member of the N.F.-Board and since 25 March 2006 it is full-member. On 17 October 2009 the team was accepted as a provisional member of the IFU. Greenland also played Tibet, another non-FIFA team, in 2001 at Copenhagen's Vanlose Arena. However, the team was composed of players who were of Tibetan heritage and not from Tibet themselves. The match drew international attention when China threatened to embargo Greenland's shrimp exports because of Tibet's contested sovereignty. Greenland won the match 4–1.
Champion Runners-up 3rd Place
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