Dominica national football team
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The Dominica national football team represents Dominica in international football and is controlled by the Dominica Football Association. They are a member of CONCACAF and a member of FIFA since 1995, Dominica has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, nor the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
History
Beginnings
Dominica played its first international match in 1932, against Martinique, a match that ended in a 1–0 victory. In the 1940s they participated in the 1948 Coupe des Caraibes, losing in the preliminaries against Martinique 5–0 but qualified due to Trinidad and Tobago's withdrawal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the competition proper, Dominica again faced Martinique, losing 6–0 and being eliminated.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Dominica played in several editions of the Windward Islands Tournament, winning the competition in 1971 with two 3–0 victories over Saint Vincent and Grenada, and a 2–2 draw against Saint Lucia. In the 1980s, Dominica regularly participated in the qualifying rounds of the CFU Championship, although they were unable to make it into the tournament proper.
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 could not get past the first phase, after losing to the hosts Trinidad and Tobago 5–0 and Guadeloupe 4–0. They were only able to draw 1–1 with Barbados. They next qualified for the 1998 Caribbean Cup, being eliminated again in the first round, this time with three defeats against Martinique 5–1, Antigua and Barbuda 2–1 and Trinidad and Tobago 8–0. Dominica has not managed to return to the final phase of the Caribbean Cup since.
Dominica participated in World Cup qualification for the first time in the 1998 qualifiers beating Antigua and Barbuda in the first round (3–3 in Roseau and 1–3 in St. John's) before losing in the second phase to Barbados (1–0 in both Roseau and Bridgetown).
2000–present
In the 2002 qualifiers, the Pericos succumbed to Haiti 7–1 on aggregate, and in the 2006 qualifiers, after beating the Bahamas with an aggregate result of 4–2, the Dominicans faced the Mexican team that crushed them 10–0 in the first leg, then 8–0 at Aguascalientes. The decade would end with an elimination at the hands of Barbados, just like in 1996, this time as part of the 2010 qualifiers (1–1 in Roseau and 0–1 in Bridgetown).
On 15 October 2010, Dominica achieved the greatest 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, in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, Dominica was drawn against Panama and Nicaragua. They lost all four of their games, failing to score a goal and conceding 11. They were eliminated from 2018 World Cup qualification by Canada, who beat them 6–0 over two legs.
Results and fixtures
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
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Coaching history
- Template:Flagicon Clifford Celaire (1996)
- Template:Flagicon Helmut Kosmehl (2000)
- Template:Flagicon Don Leogal (2004)
- Template:Flagicon Clifford Celaire (2005–2006)
- Template:Flagicon Christopher Ericson (2008–2009)
- Template:Flagicon Kurt Hector (2009–2013)<ref name="Hectordeath">Hector was reported to have been killed in a traffic accident on 19 April 2013. No new coach has yet been appointed.Dominica football coach, player die in crash | Boston Herald Template:Webarchive</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Ronnie Gustave (2013–2014)
- Template:Flagicon Shane Marshall (2014–2017)
- Template:Flagicon Rajesh Latchoo (2017–2022)
- Template:Flagicon Ellington Sabin (2022–present)
Players
Current squad
The following players were called up for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF second round matches against British Virgin Islands and Dominican Republic on 4 and 10 June 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Caps and goals correct as of 11 May 2025, after the match against Barbados.
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Recent call-ups
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Records
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- Players in bold are still active with Dominica.
Most appearances
| Rank | Player | Caps | Goals | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glenson Prince | 79 | 0 | 2005–present |
| 2 | Chad Bertrand | 58 | 7 | 2010–present |
| 3 | Briel Thomas | 56 | 8 | 2013–present |
| 4 | Julian Wade | 52 | 20 | 2010–present |
| 5 | Malcolm Joseph | 46 | 1 | 2011–2022 |
| Travist Joseph | 46 | 5 | 2015–present | |
| 7 | Javid George | 35 | 3 | 2018–present |
| 8 | Erskim Williams | 33 | 0 | 2013–present |
| 9 | Euclid Bertrand | 32 | 0 | 1998–2021 |
| Sidney Lockhart | 32 | 0 | 2014–2022 |
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Goals | Caps | Ratio | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Julian Wade | 20 | 52 | {{#expr:20/52 round 2}} | 2010–present |
| 2 | Kurlson Benjamin | 14 | 24 | {{#expr:14/24 round 2}} | 2008–2018 |
| 3 | Kelly Peters | 9 | 16 | {{#expr:9/16 round 2}} | 1999–2011 |
| Audel Laville | 9 | 28 | {{#expr:9/28 round 2}} | 2018–present | |
| 5 | Briel Thomas | 8 | 56 | {{#expr:8/56 round 2}} | 2013–present |
| 6 | Chad Bertrand | 7 | 58 | {{#expr:7/58 round 2}} | 2010–present |
| 7 | Vincent Casimir | 6 | 11 | {{#expr:6/11 round 2}} | 2000–2004 |
| 8 | Mitchell Joseph | 5 | 20 | {{#expr:5/20 round 2}} | 2005–2015 |
| Travist Joseph | 5 | 46 | {{#expr:5/46 round 2}} | 2010–present | |
| 10 | Peter Greenaway | 4 | 8 | {{#expr:4/8 round 2}} | 1993–2001 |
| Troy Jules | 4 | 11 | {{#expr:4/11 round 2}} | 2023–present | |
| Randolph Peltier | 4 | 20 | {{#expr:4/20 round 2}} | 2004–2019 |
Competition records
FIFA World Cup
| FIFA World Cup | Qualification | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1930 to 1978 | Part of Template:Flag | Part of Template:Flag | |||||||||||||
| 1982 to 1994 | Not a FIFA member | Not a FIFA member | |||||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1998 | Did not qualify | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon 2002 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2006 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 20 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2010 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2014 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2018 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 2022 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon 2026 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 14 | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon 2030 | To be determined | Qualification yet to start | |||||||||||||
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| Total | Template:Tooltip | 28 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 25 | 72 | ||||||||
CONCACAF Gold Cup
CONCACAF Nations League
| CONCACAF Nations League record | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| League | Finals | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | Division | Group | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Finals | Result | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | |
| 2019–20 | B | D | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 14 | Template:Fall | Template:Flagicon 2021 | Ineligible | ||||||||
| 2022–23 | C | C | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Template:Same position | Template:Flagicon 2023 | |||||||||
| 2023–24 | C | C | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | Template:Rise | Template:Flagicon 2024 | |||||||||
| 2024–25 | B | D | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 18 | Template:Same position | Template:Flagicon 2025 | |||||||||
| Total | — | — | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 39 | — | Total | 0 Titles | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Caribbean Cup
| Caribbean Cup record | ||||||||||
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| Year | Round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |||
| Template:Flagicon 1989 | Did not qualify | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1990 | ||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1991 | Did not enter | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1992 | Did not qualify | |||||||||
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| Template:Flagicon 1994 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | |||
| Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon 1995 | Did not qualify | |||||||||
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| Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon 1997 | ||||||||||
| Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon 1998 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 15 | |||
| Template:Flagicon 1999 | Did not qualify | |||||||||
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| Total | 2/19 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 26 | |||
References
External links
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