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The Gibraltar national football team represents Gibraltar in men's international football competitions, and is controlled by the Gibraltar Football Association.Gibraltar applied for full Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) membership and was accepted by the UEFA Congress in May 2013.
The Gibraltar team lining up before their 2013 match against Slovakia; the team's first official match as a UEFA member. The Gibraltar national football team represents Gibraltar in association football and is controlled by the Gibraltar Football Association (GFA), the governing body of the sport there.
The Gibraltar team lining up before the 2013 match against Slovakia, their first official match as a UEFA member. The Gibraltar national football team is the representative association football team of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
Gibraltarian football clubs in European competitions. Gibraltar became a full member of UEFA, the governing body of association football in Europe, on 24 May 2013. [2] Teams from the territory can qualify for UEFA's two main continental competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, and have entered since the 2014–15 season.
The Gibraltar national football team has a long history, originally competing against teams of visiting British military personnel. The highlight of their existence to date was a draw with Real Madrid CF in 1949 at a time when the Spanish club were about to enter a period of European dominance. [ 2 ]
Liam Walker is the most capped player for Gibraltar with 81 appearances, and top scorer with six goals. Roy Chipolina, current captain and scorer of Gibraltar's first goal as members of UEFA. Jake Gosling was the first player to score more than one goal for the national team. Joseph Chipolina has received the most yellow cards (cautions) for ...
Gibraltar Football League. The Gibraltar Football League is the only senior tier of association football in Gibraltar, founded in 2019 as the Gibraltar National League after a merger of the Gibraltar Premier Division, which served as the top division of football on the Rock since 1905, and the Gibraltar Second Division, which had existed since ...
This is a list of all the players who have captained the Gibraltar national football team since its full UEFA membership in May 2013. Roy Chipolina is the first captain of the Gibraltar national football team. [1] He wore the captain band the most times (73), and is the current captain of the national team.