The Jamaica national football team is a team representing Jamaica in international matches and football tournaments . The managing organization is the Jamaican Football Federation . The team only once participated in the World Cup (in 1998 ), but thanks to this performance, it gained a lot of fans around the world. The Jamaican team won the Caribbean Cup six times (in 1991 , 1998 , 2005 , 2008 , 2010 and 2014 ), three times finished in this competition the second and twice more - the third.
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| Nickname | The Reggae Boyz (Reggae Boys) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | CONCACAF | ||||||||||||||||||
| Federation | Jamaica Football Federation | ||||||||||||||||||
| Main coach | Theodore Whitmore | ||||||||||||||||||
| Captain | Andre Blake | ||||||||||||||||||
| The greatest number of games | Ian Goodison (128) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Luton Shelton (35) | ||||||||||||||||||
| House. stadium | Independence Park | ||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA Rating | 47 ▲ 5 (September 19, 2019) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Highest | 27 (August 1998) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lower | 116 (October 2008) | ||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA Code | Jam | ||||||||||||||||||
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| The first game | |||||||||||||||||||
 Haiti 1: 2 Jamaica  ( Haiti ; March 22 , 1925 ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Biggest win | |||||||||||||||||||
 Jamaica 12: 0 Virgin Islands  ( Grand Cayman , Cayman Islands ; March 4 , 1994 ) Jamaica 12: 0 Saint Martin  ( Kingston , Jamaica ; November 24 , 2004 ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Biggest defeat | |||||||||||||||||||
 Costa Rica 9: 0 Jamaica ( San Jose , Costa Rica ; February 24 , 1999 ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
| Participation | 1 ( first in 1998 ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements | Group Stage ( 1998 ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| CONCACAF Gold Cup | |||||||||||||||||||
| Participation | 6 ( first time in 1991 ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements |  Finalist ( 2015 , 2017 ) | ||||||||||||||||||
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The highest achievement at the CONCACAF Gold Cup are the silver medals of 2015 and 2017: the team reached the final twice and lost 1: 3 to Mexico in 2015, and the United States team 1: 2 in 2017. In the FIFA ranking for June 14, 2019, it occupies 54th place [1] .
Content
- 1 History of performance in international tournaments
- 1.1 World Cup
- 1.2 CONCACAF Gold Cup
- 1.3 America's Cup
- 1.4 Pan American Games
- 2 Current squad
- 3 record holders
- 4 Interesting Facts
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Performance History at International Tournaments
World Championship
- 1930 - 1962 - did not apply
- 1966 - 1970 - did not qualify
- 1974 - withdrew the application
- 1978 - did not qualify
- 1982 - did not apply
- 1986 - withdrawn the application
- 1990 - 1994 - did not qualify
- 1998 - group stage
- 2002 - 2018 - did not qualify
CONCACAF Gold Cup
- 1991 - 1st round
- 1993 - semifinal
- 1996 - failed to qualify
- 1998 - 4th place
- 2000 - 1st round
- 2002 - did not qualify
- 2003 - quarter final
- 2005 - quarter final
- 2007 - did not qualify
- 2009 - 1st round
- 2011 - quarter finals
- 2013 - did not qualify
- 2015 - 2nd place
- 2017 - 2nd place
- 2019 - semifinal
America's Cup
- 2015 - group stage
- 2016 - group stage
Pan American Games
- Pan American Games 2007 - Silver Medals
Current squad
The following players were called to the team by head coach Theodore Whitmore to participate in the CONCACAF 2019 Gold Cup matches, which took place in the United States , Costa Rica and Jamaica from June 15 to July 7, 2019 .
- Games and goals as of July 3, 2019:
| No. | Position | Player | Date of birth / age | Matches | Goals | Club | ||
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| one | VR | Andre Blake | November 21 1990 (28 years old) | 38 | 0 | Philadelphia Union | ||
| 13 | VR | Dwayne Miller | July 14 1987 (32 years old) | 34 | 0 | Syurianska | ||
| 23 | VR | Amal Knight | November 19 1993 (25 years old) | four | 0 | University of the West Indies | ||
| 2 | Defense | Jama Topi | January 13 2000 (19 years old) | 2 | 0 | Betlehem steele | ||
| 3 | Defense | Michael Hector | July 19 1992 (27 years old) | thirty | 0 | Chelsea | ||
| 5 | Defense | Alvas Powell | July 18 1994 (25 years old) | 43 | 0 | Cincinnati | ||
| fourteen | Defense | Sean Francis | October 22 1986 (32 years old) | 22 | 3 | Louisville City | ||
| 17 | Defense | Damion low | May 5 1993 (26 years old) | 24 | 2 | Start | ||
| twenty | Defense | Kemar Lawrence | September 17 1992 (27 years old) | 52 | 3 | New York Red Bulls | ||
| 21 | Defense | Kevon lambert | March 22 1997 (22 years old) | 12 | 0 | Phoenix Rising | ||
| four | PP | Andre Lewis | August 12 1994 (25 years old) | 6 | 0 | Portmore United | ||
| 7 | PP | Leon Bailey | August 9 1997 (22 years old) | 6 | 0 | Bayer 04 | ||
| 9 | PP | Ricardo Morris | February 11 1992 (27 years old) | 16 | 2 | Portmore United | ||
| fifteen | PP | J-Won Watson | October 22 1983 (35 years old) | 81 | four | Oklahoma City Energy | ||
| 16 | PP | Peter Lee Wassell | February 3 1998 (21 years old) | 13 | 5 | Los Angeles | ||
| 19 | PP | Tyric Magee | October 27 1999 (19 years old) | 2 | 0 | Harbor view | ||
| 22 | PP | Devon williams | April 8 1992 (27 years old) | 9 | 0 | Louisville City | ||
| 6 | Nap | Dever Orgill | March 8 1990 (29 years old) | fourteen | 2 | Ankaragucu | ||
| 8 | Nap | Maalik Foster | November 5 1996 (22 years old) | four | one | Rio Grande Valley Toros | ||
| 10 | Nap | Darren Mattox | September 2 1990 (29 years old) | 48 | eighteen | Cincinnati | ||
| eleven | Nap | Shamar Nicholson | March 16 1997 (22 years old) | eleven | 3 | Domjale | ||
| 12 | Nap | Junior Flemings | January 16 1996 (23 years old) | 8 | 0 | Phoenix Rising | ||
| eighteen | Nap | Brian Brown | December 24 1992 (26 years old) | 5 | 0 | Partizani | ||
Champions
Data shown as of June 25, 2019. The current players are in bold .
By the number of matches [2]
| By the number of goals [2]
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Interesting Facts
- One of the major defeats of the national team, from the Argentina national team at the World Cup'98, was devoted to the famous song of the group " Chayf " " Argentina - Jamaica 5: 0 ".
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking . FIFA (September 19, 2019). Date of appeal September 19, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Roberto Mamrud. Jamaica - Record International Players . RSSSF. Date of treatment June 3, 2016.