Bonaire national football team
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| Association | Bonaire Football Federation |
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| Confederation |
CONCACAF (North America, Central America, Caribbean) |
| Sub-confederation | CFU (Caribbean) |
| Head coach | Ferdinand Bernabela |
| Most caps | 3 players (9) |
| Top scorer |
Suehendley Barzey & Yurick Seinpaal (3) |
| Home stadium | Municipal Stadium |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 199 |
| Highest | 194 (December 2011 September 2014) |
| Lowest | 201 (July 2012) |
| First international | |
 Curaçao 4–0 Bonaire  (Willemstad, Curaçao, 28 February 2010) |
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| Biggest win | |
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Bonaire 3–1 Curaçao (Paramaribo, Suriname, 2 December 2011) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Suriname 8–0 Bonaire (Oranjestad, Aruba, 13 July 2012) |
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| Location | Kaya Hermandad, Kralendijk, Bonaire |
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| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Surface | artificial turf |
| Construction | |
| Renovated | 2007, 2012 |
| Tenants | |
| Bonaire national team Bonaire League clubs |
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The Bonaire national football team (Dutch: "Bonairiaans voetbalelftal"; Papiamentu, Selekshon Boneriano di futbòl) is the national football team of the Caribbean island of Bonaire, a public body of the Netherlands. It is under the control of the Bonaire Football Federation. It became a member of the CFU and an associate member of CONCACAF on 19 April 2013. after which it became a full CONCACAF member on 10 June 2014 The team can participate in the CONCACAF Gold Cup and Caribbean Cup because of their membership in the confederation and sub-confederation. However, Bonaire is not a member of FIFA and therefore can not compete in the FIFA World Cup or other FIFA events.
Between 1960 when the Bonaire Football Federation was founded and 1988, a Bonaire selection played over fifty unofficial interinsular matches against Curaçao and Aruba. The first such match was a 0–2 defeat to Curaçao on 7 March 1960. On 14 January 1987 and 16 January 1991, an amateur Dutch selection played matches against Bonaire on Bonaire while touring the Caribbean. The matches ended in 1–4 and 2–5 defeats, respectively. In June 2008, a Bonaire selection was assembled for a match against NEC Nijmegen as the club held a training camp on the Island. Approximately 1500 spectators attended the match at the Municipal Stadium. The match also marked Lasse Schöne's first appearance for the club.
Until 2010 people from Bonaire competed in confederated football as part of the Netherlands Antilles national football team. After the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved as a unified political entity (a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands) on 10 October 2010, the five constituent islands took on new constitutional statuses within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands Antilles national team was succeeded by the Curaçao national football team and remained thus a CFU, CONCACAF and FIFA member, while Aruba was already a FIFA and CONCACAF member after registering their own association and leaving the Netherlands Antilles team in 1986. Sint Maarten was also already an independent member of CONCACAF. Before Bonaire was a member of the CFU or CONCACAF, they competed in the ABCS Tournament, a competition between the Dutch-speaking teams of the Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, and Suriname), since its inception in 2010 and were surprise champions in 2011. Bonaire assembled a squad for a match on 28 February 2010 for a friendly against Curaçao, months before the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved. The match ended in a 4–0 victory for Curaçao. Bonaire's first match after the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved was an eventual 2–4 defeat to Suriname in the 2010 ABCS Tournament on 29 October 2010,19 days after the islands gained their new status in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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