Barbados national football team

Barbados
Nickname(s)	The Bajans
Association	Barbados Football Association
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America)
Head coach	Eyre Sealy
Home stadium	Barbados National Stadium
FIFA code	BRB
FIFA ranking	120
Highest FIFA ranking	93 (June 2000, October 2007)
Lowest FIFA ranking	152 (July 2006)
Elo ranking	139
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Barbados 3 - 2 Martinique ; (Barbados; February 11, 1931)
Biggest win
	Barbados 7 - 1 Anguilla ; (St. John's, Antigua & Barbuda; September 24, 2006)
Biggest defeat
	USA 8 - 0 Barbados ; (Carson, CA, USA; June 15, 2008)

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The Barbados national football team, nicknamed Bajan Pride, is the national team of Barbados and is controlled by the Barbados Football Association. It has never qualified for a major international tournament. It came close to qualifying for the 2005 Gold Cup as it hosted the Digicel Cup finals for the Caribbean that acted as Gold Cup qualifiers, but finished fourth of the four teams. In 2001, it surprised many by making the semifinal round of the 2002 World Cup Qualifers. In the first game of this round, they pulled off a shock 2-1 win over Costa Rica, but lost their five remaining games. In 2004, Barbados draw a shock 1-1 home against Northern Ireland.

Barbados National Football's most recent successes have been at youth level where their Under-15s were narrowly defeated in the 2007 Caribbean Football Union Under-15' tournament by El Salvador. Their under 20s recently recorded good results on a tour of Colombia and the Barbados Under 23s National Football Team are looking to make progress in the CONCACAF regional qualifiers for the Olympics in Beijing.

[edit] World Cup record

1930 to 1974 - Did not enter (as until 1966, British Barbados)
1978 - Did not qualify
1982 - Did not enter
1986 - Withdrew
1990 - Did not enter
1994 to 2010 - Did not qualify

[edit] CONCACAF Championship record

1963-73 - Did not enter
1977 - Did not qualify
1981 - Withdrew
1985-89 - Did not enter

[edit] Gold Cup record

1991 - Did not enter
1992 to 2009 - Did not qualify

[edit] Current squad

The following players were called for the Caribbean Championships 2008.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Adrian Chase	November 6, 1973 (1973-11-06) (age 35)	23	0	Youth Milan FC
2	DF	Barry Skeete		11	1	Barbados Defence Force SC
3	DF	Jonathan Straker	October 16, 1979 (1979-10-16) (age 29)	31	3	Barbados Defence Force SC
4	DF	Omar Archer		6	0	Brittons Hill
5	DF	Bryan Neblett	October 12, 1978 (1978-10-12) (age 30)	24	1	Notre Dame SC
6	DF	Rohan Hall		7	0	Barbados Defence Force SC
7	MF	Donovan Lavine		6	0	Technico
8	DF	Bryan Gay		1	0	Brittons Hill
9	FW	Riviere Williams	April 28, 1982 (1982-04-28) (age 27)	18	5	Barbados Defence Force SC
10	MF	Norman Forde	April 30, 1977 (1977-04-30) (age 32)	65	16	Youth Milan FC
11	FW	Richard Lavine		1	0
12	MF	Jeffrey Williams		15	6	Notre Dame SC
13	FW	Mario Harte		10	1	Barbados Defence Force SC
14	MF	Ramuel Miller	January 28, 1980 (1980-01-28) (age 29)	10	0	Youth Milan FC
15	MF	Romelle Burgess	August 8, 1973 (1973-08-08) (age 35)	23	0	New Hampshire Phantoms
16	DF	Andre Daniel		4	0
17	FW	Angus Doyle		8	1	Youth Milan FC
18	GK	Bentley Springer		2	0	Technico

[edit] Recent call-ups

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Alvin Rouse	August 13, 1982 (1982-08-13) (age 26)	15	0	Dungannon Swifts (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
2	DF	Dyson James	November 17, 1978 (1978-11-17) (age 30)	19	1	Notre Dame SC (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
3	DF	Daryl Ferguson	June 4, 1985 (1985-06-04) (age 24)	1	0	Real Maryland Monarchs (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
4	DF	Greg Belle	July 19, 1985 (1985-07-19) (age 23)	7	0	Barbados Defence Force SC (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
7	MF	Paul Ifill	October 20, 1979 (1979-10-20) (age 29)	10	6	Crystal Palace (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
8	MF	Rondelle Vaughn		9	0	Brittons Hill (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
9	FW	Mark McCammon	August 7, 1978 (1978-08-07) (age 30)	5	4	Gillingham (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
10	FW	Arantes Lawrence		1	0	Brittons Hill (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
11	FW	Jon Nurse	March 28, 1981 (1981-03-28) (age 28)	4	0	Dagenham & Redbridge (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
12	MF	Malcolm Marshall	July 3, 1985 (1985-07-03) (age 24)	9	1	Barbados Defence Force SC (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
15	DF	Emmerson Boyce	September 24, 1979 (1979-09-24) (age 29)	2	0	Wigan Athletic (WCQ v. 22 June)
17	MF	John Parris	April 26, 1972 (1972-04-26) (age 37)	101		Notre Dame SC (WCQ v. USA, 22 June)
6	DF	Romell Braithwaite	March 18, 1982 (1982-03-18) (age 27)	23	0	Notre Dame SC (WCQ v. USA, 15 June)
8	MF	Jonathan Forte	July 25, 1986 (1986-07-25) (age 22)	2	0	Scunthorpe United (WCQ v. USA, 15 June)
	GK	Omari Eastmond		1	0	Pride of Gall Hill FC (Friendly v. Bermuda, 9 June)
	FW	Miles Jones	December 17, 1987 (1987-12-17) (age 21)	2	0	Aldershot Town (Friendly v. Bermuda, 9 June)
	FW	Walton Burrowes		15	3	Brittons Hill (Friendly v. Bermuda, 9 June)
	FW	Brett Carrington		3	0	(Friendly v. Bermuda, 9 June)
		Charlie Gray		0	0	(Friendly v. Bermuda, 6 June)
	MF	Madalitso Mkoloma		1	0	(Friendly v. Trinidad and Tobago, 11 May)
	FW	Kieran Crichlow		1	0	(Friendly v. Trinidad and Tobago, 11 May)
8	FW	Dwayne McClean		6	1	Silver Sands
14	FW	Dwayne Stanford		10	3	Beverly Hills (WCQ v. Dominica, 26 March)
15	MF	Elvis Defreitas	January 20, 1981 (1981-01-20) (age 28)	15	0	Paradise SC (WCQ v. Dominica, 26 March)
	FW	Kenroy Skinner	July 8, 1980 (1980-07-08) (age 28)	12	3	Youth Milan FC (Friendly v. Grenada, 15 March)
	GK	Kerry Holder		0	0	Barbados Defence Force SC (Friendly v. Grenada, 15 March)
16	FW	Neil Harvey	February 13, 1984 (1984-02-13) (age 25)	4	2	Macclesfield Town (WCQ v. Dominica, 6 February)
	DF	Dwight James		6	0	Notre Dame SC
	MF	Dwayne Lynch		1	1	Brittons Hill
	FW	Renaldo Marques		1	0	Pride of Gall Hill FC