The Sint Maarten Football Federation is the governing body of

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

Sint Maarten Sint Maarten () is a Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean region of North America. With a population of 58,477 as of June 2023 on an area of , it encompasses ...

. It was founded in 1986 and its president is Johnny Singh. The federation administers the men's national football team, the women's national football team, and various national leagues, predominantly the

Sint Maarten Senior League Sint Maarten Premier League is the top association football league in Sint Maarten. Previous winners *1975–76: Politie Sport Vereniging *2001: Sporting Club *2002: Victory Boys *2004: Juventus *2005: C&D Connection *2005–06: C&D Connection *20 ...

. The FF mostly fell inactive around 2010, with football being described as a "mess" and returned in 2015, with national and international football coming back.

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devastated the island in 2017 and football was limited for a time, but managed to unsuccessfully apply to

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in 2022. An appeal was made to the

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and the result is undecided by August 2022.

Football stadiums in Sint Maarten

References

External links

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