Cayman Islands national football team

The Caymanian soccer team played its first international match on 3 March 1985, against Dominica, in Roseau, as part of the 1985 CFU Championship. They lost that match 2–1 with Lee Ramoon - who would go on to become the team's top scorer - opening the scoring.

They qualified for the 1991 Caribbean Cup, falling in the first round. They returned to the tournament in 1994, suffering the same fate. However, the following year, the Cayman Islands jointly organized with Jamaica the 1995 Caribbean Cup, reaching the semi-finals. It fell to Trinidad and Tobago by a scandalous 2–9, the worst defeat in its history. In the match for 3rd place, they were defeated by Cuba 0–3. They would qualify again in 1998 although they failed to get past the group stage. They have not played a Caribbean Cup final phase since then.

The Cayman Islands participated in their first World Cup qualifying tie in the 1998 where they succumbed in the first round at the hands of Cuba, who eliminated them after winning twice 0–1 and 0–5.

In 2000, given the status of the Cayman Islands as one of the British overseas territories, the national team attempted to use this as a loophole to call up a number of uncapped players possessing British passports but who had no specific links to the islands. Barry McIntosh, a football agent, was called in to scout players for an upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifier against Cuba and ultimately he secured eight players i.e. Wayne Allison (Tranmere Rovers), Ged Brannan (Motherwell), David Barnett (Lincoln City), Martin O'Connor (Birmingham City), Dwayne Plummer (Bristol City), Barry Hayles (Fulham), Neville Roach (Southend United) and Neil Sharpe (Boreham Wood). With the exception of Allison the players all appeared in a 5–0 friendly defeat against D.C. United but before they could appear in any official internationals FIFA stepped in and barred the players from representing the Cayman Islands due to their failure to satisfy the existing rules for national team eligibility.[3] Of the eight players only Hayles went on to play international football, appearing for Jamaica ten times.

In the first round of the 2002 qualifiers, Cayman Islands was once again eliminated by Cuba, winning 4–0 in Havana and drawing 0–0 in George Town. History repeated itself four years later, in the 2006 qualifiers, since the Cubans eliminated the Caymanian team from the World Cup for the third time in a row (1–2 in George Town and 4–0 in Havana).

Things didn't change significantly for the 2010 qualifiers, only this time it was Bermuda that eliminated the Cayman Islands in the first round, 4–2 on aggregate. Regardless, this tie saw the Caymanians earn their first points away from home, earning a 1–1 draw at Hamilton on 3 February 2008, with Allean Grant scoring in the 87th minute.

Qualifying directly into the second round of the 2014 qualifiers, the Cayman Islands were drawn in group A along with their peers from El Salvador, the Domincan Republic and Suriname. They lost 5 games out of 6, rescuing a 1-1 draw on the last day, on 14 November 2011, against the Dominicans. The Caymanian team did not play any match again in the next few years, since declining their participation in the 2012 and 2014 Caribbean Cups. But they returned to the 2018 qualifiers, facing Belize in the first round. The first leg in Belmopan finished 0–0 and the second leg in George Town finished 1–1, ending 1–1 on aggregate, but being eliminated on the away goal rule. With this unbeaten elimination, Cayman Islands can say that they are one of the few teams in the world that did not qualify for a FIFA World Cup despite not losing a single match.

The following players were called up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Aruba and Bermuda on 2 and 8 June 2021.

Caps and goals correct as of 2 June 2021, after the match against Aruba.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Albertini Holness	(2000-03-06) 6 March 2000	8	0	Cayman Athletic
12	1GK	David Lee		1	0	Academy
22	1GK	Johnathan McLean	(1997-12-11) 11 December 1997	0	0
2	2DF	Cameron Gray	(1998-10-22) 22 October 1998	5	0	Flackwell Heath
3	2DF	Wesley Robinson	(1993-09-07) 7 September 1993	9	0	Elite
4	2DF	Ackeem Hyde	(1999-11-03) 3 November 1999	10	1
5	2DF	Joshewa Frederick-Charlery	(1997-01-24) 24 January 1997	14	0	Bodden Town
6	2DF	Andre McFarlane	(1989-11-01) 1 November 1989	13	0	Future
19	2DF	Tyler Lee	(1994-09-05) 5 September 1994	6	0	Future
23	2DF	Jabari Campbell	(1999-11-03) 3 November 1999	4	0	Academy
11	3MF	Trey Ebanks	(2000-06-05) 5 June 2000	5	0	Academy
13	3MF	Romario Dixon	(1996-09-19) 19 September 1996	5	0	Academy
14	3MF	Barry-Dre Tibbetts	(2002-06-15) 15 June 2002	5	0	Dakota Wesleyan Tigers
15	3MF	Kion Parchmont	(2000-01-28) 28 January 2000	2	0	Leiston
16	3MF	D'Andre Rowe	(2001-01-05) 5 January 2001	5	0	Cayman Athletic
17	3MF	Mason Duval	(2001-08-24) 24 August 2001	6	0	Elon Phoenix
18	3MF	Kareem Foster	(2000-09-06) 6 September 2000	2	0	Westfield
20	3MF	Jonah Ebanks	(1996-05-07) 7 May 1996	13	3	Scholars International
21	3MF	Justin Byles	(2005-01-22) 22 January 2005	2	0	Academy
7	4FW	Jamaal Seymour	(1996-06-21) 21 June 1996	1	0	Academy
8	4FW	Andrew Browning		1	0	East End United
9	4FW	Mark Ebanks	(1990-12-26) 26 December 1990	22	6	Future
10	4FW	Theron Wood	(1990-02-07) 7 February 1990	21	1	Bodden Town