- Source: Kernow football team
The Kernow football team represents Cornwall at international association football since 2018. It uses the native Cornish name of the region, Kernow, to represent its team, and is managed by the Kernow Football Alliance. As the side is not a member of UEFA or FIFA, it cannot qualify for the UEFA European Championship or FIFA World Cup, although it is a member of ConIFA and is eligible to participate in the ConIFA World Football Cup and ConIFA European Football Cup. The team is currently managed by Darren Gilbert, and coached by Darren Wright, Andrew Graham and Wayne Roberts. In 2023 Kernow faced FA Sápmi in a deciding match to join the 2024 ConIFA World Football Cup. Kernow won 2-1 progressing to the 2024 CONIFA World Football Cup finals.
History
Following the 2018 ConIFA World Football Cup held in London, the Kernow Football Alliance was formed by Andrew Bragg and Jason Heaton, and officially joined CONIFA in November 2018. They played their first game on 25 February 2019 against Foxhole Stars in an unofficial game, running out 3–2 winners. The next month, it was announced that they would take part in the 2019 Atlantic Heritage Cup, which was to act as a 2020 ConIFA World Football Cup qualification tournament. However, they withdrew before the tournament, to be replaced by Chagos Islands. They played their first official international on 25 May 2019 against Barawa, winning 5–0 in Bodmin.
Kernow entered the 2024 CONIFA World Cup Qualification, where they were placed in Group A with Sápmi. They beat Sápmi 2-1 and qualified for the 2024 CONIFA World Cup.
Tournament records
= ConIFA World Football Cup record
=Recent fixtures and results
Selected International Opponents
Players
= Current squad
=The following players were called up to a friendly against Chagos Islands on 25 August 2019.
Caps and goals correct as of 16 July 2024 after the game against FA Sapmi. CONIFA includes unofficial friendlies towards the caps total.
= Recent call-ups
=The following players have been called up in the past twelve months or withdrew from the squad due to injury or suspension.
Cornish footballers who represented FIFA national teams
Nigel Martyn
Chris Morris
References
External links
Kernow Football Alliance on Twitter
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kernow football team
- Josh Bragg
- Chagos Islands national football team
- Old gold
- 2024 CONIFA World Football Cup qualification
- Darren Wright (footballer, born 1968)
- Alba gu bràth
- Barawa football team
- Cornwall
- Cascadia official soccer team
