Dominica national football team

The Dominica national football team is the national representative of this country. It is controlled by the Dominica Football Federation, which belongs to Concacaf.

History

Beginnings

Dominica would have played its first international match in 1932, against the Martinique team, a match that ended with a 1:0 victory. In the '40s it participated in the Coupe des Caraibes 1948, regional tournament predecessor of the current Caribbean Cup, where they lost twice to Martinique: 5:0 in Fort de France and 0:6 in Basseterre, on December 16, 1948.

In the decades of the '60s and '70s it competed in several editions of the Windward Islands Tournament (Tournament of the Windward Islands) where it faced its neighbors of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Saint Lucia. In the '80s he regularly participated in the qualification rounds of the CFU Championship, although without being able to access the final phase.

1990s

After the creation of the Caribbean Cup, in 1989, Dominica was only able to qualify for the group stage in the 1994 edition. They were unable to overcome the first phase, after losing to the local team Trinidad and Tobago by 5: 0 and Guadalupe by 0:4. They could only draw 1:1 with Barbados, on April 10, 1994. Four years later, they returned to the regional tournament in 1998, being eliminated again in the first round, this time with three defeats against Martinique (1:5), Antigua and Barbuda (1:2) and Trinidad and Tobago (8:0). Dominica has not managed to return to the final phase of the Caribbean Cup since that edition.

Dominica participated for the first time in a World Cup qualifier, in 1996, on the occasion of the preliminary tournament for France 1998, beating Antigua and Barbuda in the first round (3:3 in Roseau and 1:3 in St. John's). s) before losing in the second phase at the hands of Barbados (0:1 in both Roseau and Bridgetown).

2000s

In the qualifiers for Korea-Japan 2002, the Pericos succumbed to Haiti, which won with an overall result of 7:1 (4:0 in Port-au-Prince and 1:3 in Roseau). For the qualifiers for Germany 2006, after defeating the Bahamas with an aggregate result of 4:2, the Dominicans faced the Mexican team that crushed them 10:0 in San Antonio, Texas, on June 19, 2004, becoming the worst defeat in their history. Eight days later, they lost again in Aguascalientes by 8:0, saying goodbye with a terrible accumulated result of 18:0 against. The decade would end with an elimination at the hands of Barbados, as happened in 1996, this time in the framework of the qualifiers for South Africa 2010 (1:1 in Roseau and 0:1 in Bridgetown).

From 2010

On October 15, 2010, Dominica achieved the biggest victory in its history, beating the British Virgin Islands 10:0 - with 5 goals from striker Kurlson Benjamin - in the first qualifying round of the 2010 Caribbean Cup The following year, when the qualifying tournament for Brazil 2014 began, Dominica found itself in group C of the second round along with Panama and Nicaragua. They lost their four games, failing to score a goal and conceding 11 against.

On April 19, 2013, the Dominican national team was mourned by a car accident that cost the lives of the then technical director, Kurt Hector, and the player Norran Jno Hope.

Latest and upcoming meetings

Date	City	Local	Outcome	Visitor	Competition
02-06-2022	The Valley	AnguillaAIA	0:0	DMADominica	Concacaf League 22/23
05-06-2022	Basseterre	DominicaDMA	1:1	AIAAnguilla	Concacaf League 22/23
09-06-2022	Roseau	DominicaDMA	0:1	LCASaint Lucia	Concacaf League 22/23
27-03-2023	Gros Islet	Saint LuciaLCA	3:1	DMADominica	Concacaf League 22/23
12-09-2023	Cockburn Town	Turks and CaicosTurks and Caicos	0:3	DMADominica	League Nations Concacaf 23/24
12-10-2023	Roseau	DominicaDMA	1:1	LCASaint Lucia	League Nations Concacaf 23/24
16-11-2023	Road Town	British I.V.VGB	-:	DMADominica	League Nations Concacaf 23/24
20-11-2023	Roseau	DominicaDMA	-:	Turks and CaicosTurks and Caicos	League Nations Concacaf 23/24

Statistics

Soccer World Cup

World Cup Soccer
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
1930	There was no selection
1934 - 1994	No.
1998	He didn't qualify.
2002
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022
2026	To dispute
Total	0/22	-	-	-	-	-	-

Concacaf Gold Cup

Concacaf Gold Cup
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
1963 - 1991	No.
1993	He didn't qualify.
1996
1998
2000
2002
2003	Withdrawal
2005	He didn't qualify.
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
2021
2023
Total	0/27	-	-	-	-	-	-

Concacaf Nations League

Concacaf League of Nations
Year	L	G	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
2019-20	B	D	Fourth place	6	1	0	5	3	14
2022-23	C	C	Third place	4	0	2	2	2	5
2023-24	C	C	Disputing	2	1	1	0	4	1
Total			3/3	12	2	3	7	9	20

CFU regional tournaments

CFU Nations Cup

CFU Nations Cup
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
1978	No.
1979
1981	He didn't qualify.
1983
1985
1988
Total	0/6	-	-	-	-	-	-

Caribbean Cup

Caribbean Cup
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
1989	He didn't qualify.
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994	Group phase	3	0	1	2	1	11
1995	He didn't qualify.
1996
1997
1998	Group phase	3	0	0	3	2	15
1999	He didn't qualify.
2001
2005
2007
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
Total	2/19	6	0	1	5	3	26

Players

Last call

List of players to contest the elimination to Catar 2022 before PANELPanama and DOMDominican Republic on March 24 and 28, 2021.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Apa.	Goles	Club
	1BY	Glenson Prince	17 September 1987 (36 years)	63	0	Phare Petit-Canal
	1BY	Dion Laurent	27 December 1990 (32 years)	1	0	Middleham United
	1BY	Tafari Elie	16 December 1999 (23 years)	0	0	Harlem United
	2DEF	Malcolm Joseph	10 October 1993 (30 years)	42	1	Portsmouth Bombers
	2DEF	Euclid Bertrand	23 July 1974 (49 years)	31	0	Dublanc
	2DEF	Sidney Lockhart	8 March 1996 (27 years)	25	0	Morvant Caledonia United
	2DEF	Erskim Williams	21 October 1994 (29 years)	15	0	Portsmouth Bombers
	2DEF	Gylles Mitchel	16 December 1997 (25 years)	8	0	Louisiana State Generals
	2DEF	Ajaya Royer	4 September 1997 (26 years)	8	0	Dublanc
	3MED	Chad Bertrand	19 December 1986 (36 years)	46	4	Solidarité Scolaire
	3MED	Briel Thomas	25 November 1994 (28 years)	37	3	W Connection
	3MED	Travist Joseph	23 May 1994 (29 years)	25	2	Dublanc
	3MED	Kelrick Walter.	6 November 1989 (33 years)	22	3	Bath Estate
	3MED	Anfernee Frederick	23 January 1996 (27 years)	21	2	Bath Estate
	3MED	Javid George	14 June 1998 (25 years)	14	0	Sagicor South East United
	3MED	Arlington Fritz	2 December 1990 (32 years)	6	0	Dublanc
	3MED	Kassim Peltier	7 September 1998 (25 years)	3	0	Harlem United
	3MED	Fitz Jolly	16 March 1999 (24 years)	1	0	Bath Estate
	4OF THE	Julian Wade	12 July 1990 (33 years)	42	17	Solidarité Scolaire
	4OF THE	Randolph Peltier	16 September 1982 (41 years)	20	4	Pointe Michel FC
	4OF THE	Jamie Parillon	10 December 1994 (28 years)	12	0	Portsmouth Bombers
	4OF THE	Audel Laville	14 September 2002 (21 years)	6	1	Harlem United
	4OF THE	Darryl Longdon	8 November 2000 (22 years)	1	0	FC Tucson

Coaches

• Clifford Celaire (1996)
• Helmut Kosmehl (2000)
• Dick Howard (2000)
• Don Leogal (2004)
• Christopher Erickson (2008)
• Kurt Hector (2013)
• Ronnie Gustave (2013–2014)
• Shane Marshall (2016)
• Rajesh Latchoo (2017–2022)
• Ellington Sabin (2022-present)