Football

Going for gold for a seventh time!

Heroes of 1999. Picture by kind permission of Steve Humphreys

Ynys Môn men will take part in their SEVENTH Island Games football final on Friday.

Anglesey first won the competition in 1999, when a Steve Humphreys goal secured a 1-0 triumph over Isle of Man in Gotland.

Twenty years later, Môn hosted the one-off Inter-Games tournament due to Island Games hosts Gibraltar not having enough pitches to stage a football competition.

They reached a second final, beating Guernsey 2-1 thanks to a Mel McGinness dramatic late winner.

Ynys Môn’ footballers were runners-up in the first Island Games on the Faroe Islands in 1989, but there was no final as the competition was played on a round-robin group basis.

Here are Ynys Môn men’s Island-Inter Games football final appearances

1991 – Faroe Islands 2 Ynys Môn 0
1997 – Jersey 1 Ynys Môn 0
1999 – Isle of Man 0 Ynys Môn 1 (Humphreys)
2001 – Guernsey 0 Ynys Môn 0 (Guernsey won 3-1 pens)
2019 – Ynys Môn 2 (Liam Morris, McGinness) Guernsey 1 (Inter-Games)
2023 – Ynys Môn 2 (Van Der Vliet OG, Sam Gregson) Jersey 5
2025 – Ynys Môn v Bermuda

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