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2019 Inter Games Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host country	Wales
City	Anglesey
Dates	15–22 June 2019
Teams	10 (men's); 6 (women's)
Venue(s)	8
Final positions
Champions	Ynys Môn (men's); Isle of Man (women's)
Runners-up	Guernsey (men's); Ynys Môn (women's)
Third place	Isle of Man (men's); Jersey (women's)
Fourth place	Shetland (men's); Hitra (women's)

The 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament was an association football tournament which was held between 15 and 22 June 2019 in Anglesey, Wales. It was organised due to the hosts of the 2019 Island Games, Gibraltar being unable to run a tournament due to lack of pitches.^[1] As football is one of the most popular sports at the games it was decided to hold the matches elsewhere, albeit with the results not officially part of the Island Games history.^[2]

It was announced on 1 May 2018 that the Welsh island had been chosen as the preferred venue to host. In August of that year 12 clubs put forward their names to hold matches and the draw for both the men's and women's competitions were made on 19 November by Wayne Hennessey and Osian Roberts.^[3] The sponsors of the games were Anglesey based Huws Gray builders merchants.^[4]

Men's edit

The men's tournament will start as a group Round-robin tournament followed by knock out games.

Group stage edit

Group A edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ynys Môn (Q)	3	3	0	6	2	+4	9	Advance to semi-finals
2	Jersey	3	2	1	12	1	+11	6
3	Orkney	3	1	2	3	9	−6	3
4	Western Isles	3	0	3	2	11	−9	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

16 June 2019	Jersey	5–0	Orkney	Llangefni
11:00	Kieran Lester 3', 15', 28', 42', 62'			Stadium: Bob Parry Field

16 June 2019	Ynys Môn	2–1	Western Isles	Holyhead
17:00	Melvin McGinness 55' Liam Morris 66'		Robert Shirkie 45'	Stadium: The New Stadium

17 June 2019	Ynys Môn	3–1	Orkney	Gwalchmai
18:30	Jay Gibbs ?' Melvin McGinness ?' Sam Jones ?'		Liam Delday ?'	Stadium: Maes Meurig

17 June 2019	Jersey	7–0	Western Isles	Bodorgan
18:30	Kieran Lester 12' Kamen Nafkha ?' Karl Hinds ?' Sol Solomon ?', ?', ?', ?'			Stadium: Trefdraeth

18 June 2019	Ynys Môn	1–0	Jersey	Llangefni
19:30	Liam Morris 8'			Stadium: Bob Parry Field Attendance: 1126

18 June 2019	Western Isles	1–2	Orkney	Cemaes Bay
19:30	Robert Shirkie ?'		? ?' ? ?'	Stadium: School Lane

Group B edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Isle of Man (Q)	2	2	0	13	2	+11	6	Advance to semi-finals
2	Hitra	2	1	1	5	9	−4	3
3	Alderney	2	0	2	3	10	−7	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

16 June 2019	Alderney	2–4	Hitra	Cemaes Bay
19:30				Stadium: School Lane

17 June 2019	Isle of Man	7–1	Hitra	Llangefni
18:30	Stephen Whitley ?' Dean Kearns ?', ?' Ashley Higginbotham ?', ?' Frank Jones ?' Jacob Crook ?'		Stian Kristiansen ?'	Stadium: Bob Parry Field

18 June 2019	Isle of Man	6–1	Alderney	Llannerch-y-medd
18:00	Jacob Crook 9' Lee Gale 39', 62' (pen.) Sean Doyle 40', 56' Dan Simpson 89'		Josh McCullouch ?'	Stadium: Tan Parc

Group C edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guernsey (Q)	2	2	0	11	1	+10	6	Advance to semi-finals
2	Shetland (Q)	2	1	1	7	3	+4	3	Advance to semi-finals
3	Saint Helena	2	0	2	1	15	−14	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

16 June 2019	Saint Helena	1–6	Shetland	Bryn Du
14:00	Ronan Legg 32'		Calvin Leask 10', 18' Joel Bradley 25' Richard Arthur 27', 46', 87'	Stadium: Cae Cynlas

17 June 2019	Guernsey	2–1	Shetland	Bodedern
15:30	Keanu Marsh 20' Sam Hall 44'		Calvin Leask 54' (pen.)	Stadium: Cae Ty Cristion

18 June 2019	Guernsey	9–0	Saint Helena	Holyhead
18:30	Steve Renouf ?' Marlon Jardim ?', ?' Will Fazakerley ?', ?', ?' Matt Loaring ?' Sam Hall ?' Thiago Rodriguez ?'			Stadium: The New Stadium

Ranking of second-placed teams edit

Joining the three group winners in the semi-finals, the final semi-final slot is awarded to the best-ranked runner-up. As Group A contained one more team than the other groups, the result of the Group A runner-up against the Group A fourth-placed team is not taken into consideration. This was Jersey's 7–0 win over the Western Isles.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Shetland (Q)	2	1	1	7	3	+4	3	Advance to semi-finals
2	A	Jersey	2	1	1	5	1	+4	3
3	B	Hitra	2	1	1	5	9	−4	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored^[5]
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Knock-out stage edit

9th place play-off edit

20 June 2019	Western Isles	2–1	Saint Helena	Bryn Du
11:30	Eachainn Miller 2' Robert Shirkie 86'		Rico Benjamin 56'	Stadium: Cae Cynlas Attendance: 138

7th place play-off edit

20 June 2019	Orkney	1–2	Alderney	Bodorgan
13:00	Owen Rendall ?'		Josh McCullouch 44' Joe Blackham 87'	Stadium: Trefdraeth

5th place play-off edit

20 June 2019	Jersey	3–1	Hitra	Bodedern
14:00	Jay Giles 4' Kieran Lester 20' Adam Trotter 82'		Sindre Kvakland 55'	Stadium: Cae Ty Cristion

Semi-finals edit

20 June 2019	Ynys Môn	2–1	Shetland	Llangefni
19:30	Sam Jones 9', 42'		Ronan Grant 58'	Stadium: Bob Parry Field Attendance: 1506

20 June 2019	Isle of Man	2–3	Guernsey	Gwalchmai
16:30	Rhys Oates 52' Chris Bass 70'		Will Fazakerley ?' Matt Loaring ?', 84'	Stadium: Maes Meurig Attendance: 276

Bronze medal play-off edit

21 June 2019	Shetland	0–5	Isle of Man	Gwalchmai
14:00			Rhys Oates 24', 75', 78' ? 71' (o.g.) Dan Simpson 76'	Stadium: Maes Meurig

Final edit

21 June 2019	Ynys Môn	2–1	Guernsey	Holyhead
18:30	Liam Morris 67' Melvin McGinness 83'		Keanu Marsh 5' Frank Tobin 15'	Stadium: The New Stadium Attendance: 3020

Final rankings edit

Rank	Team
	Ynys Môn
	Guernsey
	Isle of Man
4	Shetland
5	Jersey
6	Hitra
7	Alderney
8	Orkney
9	Western Isles
10	Saint Helena

Women's edit

The women's tournament will be two groups of three teams. There were originally to be five teams in one group but on 8 February 2019 it was confirmed that Gibraltar would take part as an additional entrant.^[6]