2019 Inter Games Football Tournament

2019 Inter Games Football Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Wales
City	Anglesey
Dates	15–22 June 2019
Teams	10 (men's) 6 (women's)
Venue(s)	8
Final positions
Champions	Ynys Môn (men's)   Isle of Man (women's)
Runners-up	Guernsey (men's)   Ynys Môn (women's)
Third place	Isle of Man (men's)   Jersey (women's)
Fourth place	Shetland (men's)   Hitra Municipality (women's)

The 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament was an association football tournament which was held between 15 and 22 June 2019 in Anglesey, Wales. It was organised due to the hosts of the 2019 Island Games, Gibraltar being unable to run a tournament due to lack of pitches. ^[1] As football is one of the most popular sports at the games it was decided to hold the matches elsewhere, albeit with the results not officially part of the Island Games history. ^[2]

It was announced on 1 May 2018 that the Welsh island had been chosen as the preferred venue to host. In August of that year 12 clubs put forward their names to hold matches and the draw for both the men's and women's competitions were made on 19 November by Wayne Hennessey and Osian Roberts. ^[3] The sponsors of the games were Anglesey based Huws Gray builders merchants. ^[4]

Men's

The men's tournament will start as a group Round-robin tournament followed by knock out games.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ynys Môn (Q)	3	3	0	0	6	2	+4	9	Advance to semi-finals
2	Jersey	3	2	0	1	12	1	+11	6
3	Orkney	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6	3
4	Western Isles	3	0	0	3	2	11	−9	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Jersey   v   Orkney

16 June 2019	Jersey	5–0	Orkney	Llangefni
11:00	Lester 3', 15', 28', 42', 62'			Stadium: Bob Parry Field

Ynys Môn   v   Western Isles

16 June 2019	Ynys Môn	2–1	Western Isles	Holyhead
17:00	McGinness 55' Morris 66'		Shirkie 45'	Stadium: The New Stadium

Ynys Môn   v   Orkney

17 June 2019	Ynys Môn	3–1	Orkney	Gwalchmai
18:30	Gibbs ?' McGinness ?' Jones ?'		Delday ?'	Stadium: Maes Meurig

Jersey   v   Western Isles

17 June 2019	Jersey	7–0	Western Isles	Bodorgan
18:30	Lester 12' Nafkha ?' Hinds ?' Solomon ?', ?', ?', ?'			Stadium: Trefdraeth

Ynys Môn   v   Jersey

18 June 2019	Ynys Môn	1–0	Jersey	Llangefni
19:30	Morris 8'			Stadium: Bob Parry Field Attendance: 1126

Western Isles   v   Orkney

18 June 2019	Western Isles	1–2	Orkney	Cemaes Bay
19:30	Shirkie ?'		? ?' ? ?'	Stadium: School Lane

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Isle of Man (Q)	2	2	0	0	13	2	+11	6	Advance to semi-finals
2	Hitra Municipality	2	1	0	1	5	9	−4	3
3	Alderney	2	0	0	2	3	10	−7	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Alderney   v   Hitra Municipality

16 June 2019	Alderney	2–4	Hitra Municipality	Cemaes Bay
19:30				Stadium: School Lane

Isle of Man   v   Hitra Municipality

17 June 2019	Isle of Man	7–1	Hitra Municipality	Llangefni
18:30	Whitley ?' Kearns ?', ?' Higginbotham ?', ?' Jones ?' Crook ?'		Kristiansen ?'	Stadium: Bob Parry Field

Isle of Man   v   Alderney

18 June 2019	Isle of Man	6–1	Alderney	Llannerch-y-medd
18:00	Crook 9' Gale 39', 62' (pen.) Doyle 40', 56' Simpson 89'		McCullouch ?'	Stadium: Tan Parc

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guernsey (Q)	2	2	0	0	11	1	+10	6	Advance to semi-finals
2	Shetland (Q)	2	1	0	1	7	3	+4	3
3	Saint Helena	2	0	0	2	1	15	−14	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Saint Helena   v   Shetland

16 June 2019	Saint Helena	1–6	Shetland	Bryn Du
14:00	Legg 32'		Leask 10', 18' Bradley 25' Arthur 27', 46', 87'	Stadium: Cae Cynlas

Guernsey   v   Shetland

17 June 2019	Guernsey	2–1	Shetland	Bodedern
15:30	Marsh 20' Hall 44'		Leask 54' (pen.)	Stadium: Cae Ty Cristion

Guernsey   v   Saint Helena

18 June 2019	Guernsey	9–0	Saint Helena	Holyhead
18:30	Renouf ?' Jardim ?', ?' Fazakerley ?', ?', ?' Loaring ?' Hall ?' Rodrihuez ?'			Stadium: The New Stadium

Ranking of second-placed teams

Joining the three group winners in the semi-finals, the final semi-final slot is awarded to the best-ranked runner-up. As Group A contained one more team than the other groups, the result of the Group A runner-up against the Group A fourth-placed team is not taken into consideration. This was Jersey's 7–0 win over the Western Isles.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Shetland (Q)	2	1	0	1	7	3	+4	3	Advance to semi-finals
2	A	Jersey	2	1	0	1	5	1	+4	3
3	B	Hitra Municipality	2	1	0	1	5	9	−4	3

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored ^[5]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Knock-out stage

9th place play-off

Western Isles   v   Saint Helena

20 June 2019	Western Isles	2–1	Saint Helena	Bryn Du
11:30	Miller 2' Shurkie 86'		Benjamin 56'	Stadium: Cae Cynlas Attendance: 138

7th place play-off

Orkney   v   Alderney

20 June 2019	Orkney	1–2	Alderney	Bodorgan
13:00	Rendall ?'		McCullouch 44' Blackham 87'	Stadium: Trefdraeth

5th place play-off

Jersey   v   Hitra Municipality

20 June 2019	Jersey	3–1	Hitra Municipality	Bodedern
14:00	Giles 4' Lester 20' Trotter 82'		Kvakland 55'	Stadium: Cae Ty Cristion

Semi-finals

Ynys Môn   v   Shetland

20 June 2019	Ynys Môn	2–1	Shetland	Llangefni
19:30	Jones 9', 42'		Grant 58'	Stadium: Bob Parry Field Attendance: 1506

Isle of Man   v   Guernsey

20 June 2019	Isle of Man	2–3	Guernsey	Gwalchmai
16:30	Oates 52' Bass 70'		Fazakerley ?' Loaring ?', 84'	Stadium: Maes Meurig Attendance: 276

Bronze medal play-off

Shetland   v   Isle of Man

21 June 2019	Shetland	0–5	Isle of Man	Gwalchmai
14:00			Oates 24', 75', 78' ? 71' (o.g.) Simpson 76'	Stadium: Maes Meurig

Final

Ynys Môn   v   Guernsey

21 June 2019	Ynys Môn	2–1	Guernsey	Holyhead
18:30	Morris 67' McGinness 83'		Marsh 5'	Stadium: The New Stadium Attendance: 3020

Final rankings

Rank	Team
	Ynys Môn
	Guernsey
	Isle of Man
4	Shetland
5	Jersey
6	Hitra Municipality
7	Alderney
8	Orkney
9	Western Isles
10	Saint Helena

Women's

The women's tournament will be two groups of three teams. There were originally to be five teams in one group but on 8 February 2019 it was confirmed that Gibraltar would take part as an additional entrant. ^[6]

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ynys Môn (Q)	2	1	0	1	5	4	+1	3	Advance to semi-finals
2	Hitra Municipality	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	3
3	Western Isles	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Ynys Môn   v   Western Isles

16 June 2019	Ynys Môn	3–1	Western Isles
13:30	Crawley 5', 65', 90'		Macleod 60'

Ynys Môn   v   Hitra Municipality

17 June 2019	Ynys Môn	2–3	Hitra Municipality
18:30	Crawley ?' Greenough ?'		Jorgenson ?', 25' Selvag ?'

Western Isles   v   Hitra Municipality

18 June 2019	Western Isles	1–0	Hitra Municipality
	Macleod ?'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Isle of Man (Q)	2	2	0	0	5	3	+2	6	Advance to semi-finals
2	Jersey	2	1	0	1	8	5	+3	3
3	Gibraltar	2	0	0	2	3	8	−5	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Isle of Man   v   Jersey

16 June 2019	Isle of Man	3–2	Jersey
13:30	Gawne 19' (pen.) Abbott ?' Wignall ?'		Botterill ?' Corbett 70'

Isle of Man   v   Gibraltar

17 June 2019	Isle of Man	2–1	Gibraltar
18:00	Hicklin ?' Wignall ?'		Robba ?'

Jersey   v   Gibraltar

18 June 2019	Jersey	6–2	Gibraltar
18:30	Wood 1', 45' Keen 39' Botterill 54' Watson ?' Corbett ?'		Robba 7'?'

Knock-out stage

5th place play-off

Western Isles   v   Gibraltar

19 June 2019	Western Isles	5–0	Gibraltar
17:30	Macleod 46' Macphail 49' Lee ?' Macleod ?' Stewart ?'

Semi-finals

Ynys Môn   v   Jersey

19 June 2019	Ynys Môn	1–0	Jersey
18:30	Crawley ?'

Isle of Man   v   Hitra Municipality

19 June 2019	Isle of Man	5–1	Hitra Municipality
18:00	Corkish ?' Gawne ?' Burden ?' Hallsall ?' Wignall ?'		Jorgenson ?'

Bronze medal play-off

Jersey   v   Hitra Municipality

21 June 2019	Jersey	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Hitra Municipality	Amlwch
11:30	Barnett 47' (pen.) Wood 90+1' Watson ?'		Antonsen 34' Jorgenson 87' (pen.)	Stadium: Lôn Bach

Final

Ynys Môn   v   Isle of Man

21 June 2019	Ynys Môn	1–2	Isle of Man	Holyhead
15:30	Evans 69'		Wignall 3' Gawne 38'	Stadium: The New Stadium

Final rankings

Rank	Team
	Isle of Man
	Ynys Môn
	Jersey
4	Hitra Municipality
5	Western Isles
6	Gibraltar

References

1. North Wales Chronicle article on the tournament
2. BBC news report on the games
3. Report of draw and video on ITV news website
4. Sponsorship announcement on the Ynys Mon Island Games Association website
5. @ynysmon2019 (18 June 2019). "Deciding factors in order - points, GD, GF" (Tweet). Retrieved 18 June 2019– via Twitter.
6. Womens Football - Internationals Announced Archived 2019-02-09 at the Wayback Machine Gibraltar FA. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019.

External links

• Tournament official website
• 2019 Island Games official site