Tournament details | |
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Host country | Rhodes |
Dates | 30 June – 6 July |
Teams | 11 |
Final positions | |
Champions | |
Runners-up | Prince Edward Island |
Third place | |
Fourth place | |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 21 |
Goals scored | 68 (3.24 per match) |
The 2007 Island Games on the island of Rhodes was the 4th edition in which a women's football (soccer) tournament was played at the multi-games competition. It was contested by 11 teams.
The 2007 Island Games were the 12th edition of the Island Games, and were held in Rhodes, Greece, from June 30 to July 6, 2007.
Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean administrative region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Rhodes. The city of Rhodes had 50,636 inhabitants in 2011. It is located northeast of Crete, southeast of Athens and just off the Anatolian coast of Turkey. Rhodes' nickname is The island of the Knights, named after the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who once conquered the land.
Football has been a regular event since 1989 at the Island Games, the biennial multi-sports event for island nations, territories and dependencies. A 5-a-side competition for under-16s was held at the inaugural event on the Isle of Man, and the success this minor competition brought to the games meant senior men's football was included on the itinerary for the first time in the Faroe Islands, in 1989. Women's football was included on the games' schedule for the first time in 2001.
The Åland Islands won the tournament for the first time.
The Åland Islands or Åland is an archipelago province at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland. It is autonomous, demilitarised and is the only monolingually Swedish-speaking region in Finland. It is the smallest region of Finland, constituting 0.49% of its land area and 0.50% of its population.
The Bermuda women's national football team is the national women's football team of Bermuda and is overseen by the Bermuda Football Association. The Gotlandic official football team is the official football team for Gotland, an island off the east coast of Sweden. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA. Gotland is a member of the International Island Games Association and has taken part in Football at the Island Games. The Guernsey official football team is the official football team representing the island of Guernsey in non-FIFA international football matches. It is not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA, and therefore cannot compete for the FIFA World Cup or UEFA European Football Championship. | The Isle of Wight football team represents the Isle of Wight at the biannual Island Games, which it won in 1995 and 2011. The Isle of Wight is not a member of FIFA or UEFA, it is an island within England and plays under the auspices of the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. The Isle of Wight plays separately in St George's Park which has a capacity of 3,200 and has 200 seats, however the Isle of Wight is divisional FA of The Hampshire Foootball Association, which is a county FA of the English FA who are part of FIFA and play at Wembley Stadium which has a capacity of 90,000. The Jersey official football team represents the British Crown Dependency of Jersey in non-FIFA international matches. The Rhodes football team is the football team which represents the island of Rhodes, at the biannual Island Games. Rhodes is not a member of FIFA or UEFA, it is an island within Greece and plays under the auspices of the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. |
Rank | Nation | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | GD |
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1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | +8 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -1 | |
3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | -5 |
0 – 1 | ||
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Rank | Nation | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | GD |
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1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 6 | +4 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | -4 |
2 – 4 | ||
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2 – 0 | ||
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Rank | Nation | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | GD |
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1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 6 | +10 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | +3 | |
3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | -13 |
0 – 2 | ||
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8 – 0 | ||
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Rank | Nation | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | GD |
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1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | +1 | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | -1 |
2 – 1 | ||
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3 – 1 | ||
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0 –1 | ||
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1 – 0 | ||
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2 – 0 | ||
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(a.e.t.) |
3 – 2 | ||
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2 – 0 | ||
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0 – 0 | ||
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Penalties | ||
4-3 |
2007 Island Games Winners |
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Åland Islands First Title |
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