Association | Anguilla Football Association |
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Confederation | CONCACAF (North America) |
Sub-confederation | CFU (Caribbean) |
Head coach | Romare Kelsick |
Most caps | Girdon Connor (19) |
Top scorer | Richard O'Connor (5) |
Home stadium | Webster Park |
FIFA code | AIA |
FIFA ranking | |
Current | 206 1 (6 April 2017) |
Highest | 189 (June–September 1997) |
Lowest | 209 (April–July 2015) |
Elo ranking | |
Current | 225 (10 July 2016) |
Highest | 219 |
Lowest | 225 (July 2016) |
First international | |
Anguilla 0–0 Montserrat (Saint Lucia; 14 May 1991) |
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Biggest win | |
Anguilla 4–0 Montserrat (Saint Martin; 8 February 2001) |
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Biggest defeat | |
Guyana 14–0 Anguilla (St. John's, A&B; 16 April 1998) |
The Anguilla national football team is the national team of Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, and is controlled by the Anguilla Football Association. It is affiliated to the Caribbean Football Union of CONCACAF. Along with the teams from Bahamas, Tonga, Gibraltar, Eritrea, and Somalia, they are ranked as the worst in the world in the FIFA rankings.
Updated 29 March 2015
Anguilla entered World Cup qualification for the first time for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan.
In the Caribbean zone, Anguilla were put in a play-off against the Bahamas and hosted the first leg on 5 March 2000, losing 3–1 at Webster Park in The Valley in front of 3,000 people. In the second leg on 19 March, Anguilla lost 2–1 to the Bahamas at Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau with an attendance of 330. They therefore lost 5–2 on aggregate.
In a play-off for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Anguilla faced the Dominican Republic and held them to an away 0–0 draw at the Estadio Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte in Santo Domingo, on 19 March 2004. However the second leg was held at the same stadium two days later and the Dominican Republic won 6–0.