Jamaica national football team - Definition and Overview

Jamaica

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Nickname	The Reggae Boyz
Association	Jamaica Football Federation
Coach	Wendell Downswell (2004-)
Most caps	Durrant Brown
Top scorer	Onandi Lowe, Walter Boyd (19)
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Haiti 2 - 1 Jamaica (Haiti; March 9, 1925)
Largest win Jamaica 12 - 0 BVI (Grand Cayman, Cayman Isls.; March 4, 1994) Jamaica 12 - 0 Saint-Martin (Kingston, Jamaica; November 24, 2004)
Worst defeat Costa Rica 9 - 0 Jamaica (San Jose, Costa Rica; February 24, 1999)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 1998)
Best result	Round 1, 1998
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Appearances	5 (First in 1991)
Best result	Third place shared, 1993

The Jamaica national football team, or The Reggae Boyz, is the national team of Jamaica and is controlled by the Jamaica Football Federation. After decades in CONCACAF obscurity, they gained many fans throughout the world after they qualified for the 1998 World Cup. Many of the current Jamaican players come from England, whether Jamaican-born or qualifying through ancestry.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1962 - Did not enter
• 1966 - Did not qualify
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Withdrew
• 1978 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Did not enter
• 1986 - Withdrew
• 1990 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2006 - Did not qualify

Gold Cup record

• 1991 - Round 1
• 1993 - Third place shared
• 1996 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Fourth place
• 2000 - Round 1
• 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2003 - Quarterfinals

Selected famous players

• Durrant Brown
• Warren Barrett
• Walter Boyd
• Deon Burton
• Linval Dixon
• Ricardo Fuller
• Ricardo Gardner
• Onandi Lowe
• Damani Ralph
• Shavar Thomas
• Andy Williams
• Theodore Whitmore
• Craig Ziadie