The Belize national football team represents Belize in men's international football, which is governed by the Football Federation of Belize founded in 1980. It has been a member of FIFA since 1986 and a member of CONCACAF since 1992. Regionally, it is a member of UNCAF in the Central American Zone.
Belize has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, but has participated once for the CONCACAF Gold Cup (2013). It has participated three times in League B and once in League C of the CONCACAF Nations League. Regionally, the team finished fourth place in the Copa Centroamericana in 2013.
Belize's debut in international competitions was in the 1995 UNCAF Nations Cup. Their first appearance in World Cup qualifiers was in the 1998 CONCACAF qualification. The team as British Honduras achieved its first victory in 1928, defeating Honduras 1–0, which was also the first match in the team's history. As Belize, it achieved its first victory in 2001, defeating Nicaragua 2–0.
History
Overview
Named British Honduras whilst under British colonial rule, the country's first international match was in 1928, beating Honduras 1–0. Following independence, Belize's first game came on 8 December 1983, in a 2–0 loss against Canada in Belize. Although Belize gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1981 (and many of the UK's current colonies have international teams), Belize did not begin to regularly play international football until 1995. It made its debut at the 1995 UNCAF Nations Cup and was eliminated in the first round after losing to El Salvador and Costa Rica.
Belize has never qualified for the World Cup but finished fourth in the 2013 Copa Centroamericana. Their fourth-place finish in the 2013 Copa Centroamericana gave Belize its first qualification to a major international competition, that being the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
June 2011 suspension by FIFA
On 15 June 2011, Belize kicked off its 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign against minnows Montserrat, winning 2–5 away in a match played in the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, Trinidad. However, the return which was scheduled for June 19 was postponed by FIFA when they
suspended the FFB due to governmental interference.
Team image
In February 2023 the Football Federation of Belize unveiled a new logo that would represent Belize’s national teams. Created by Rolando Ramirez, the new logo prominently features a Jaguar, the nickname of the team. The FFB hoped that the new image would promote unity and pride in the Belize football community.
Kit sponsorship
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
! Kit supplier
! Period
|-
| Runic || 2005–2006
|-
| Keuka || 2008
|-
| Rotto || 2011
|-
| Spadd || 2012
|-
| Nike || 2013
|-
| None || 2014–Present
|}
Stadium
FFB Stadium in Belmopan is the home stadium for the Belize national football team. Prior to this stadium, Belize had no facilities that met FIFA specifications. Apart from this Belize has many fields to play on but with no facilities for the players.
Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
2025
2026
Coaching staff
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!style="color:#0000FF;background:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #0000FF"|Name
!style="color:#0000FF;background:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #0000FF"|Nat
!style="color:#0000FF;background:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #0000FF"|Position
|-
|Philip Marin Interim
|
|Head coach
|-
|Joaquín Lobón
|
|Technical Consultant
|-
|Norman Koko
|
|rowspan="2"| Assistant head coach
|-
|Dale Pelayo Sr.
|
|-
|TBD
|
|Goalkeeping coach
|-
|TBD
|
|Physical Trainer
|-
|Thomas Rivars
|
|Physiotherapist
|}
Coaching history
Since the creation of the national team in 1995, several coaches have been in charge of managing Belize. From 1995 to 1996, Winston Michael was appointed as Belize's first ever manager.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!Manager
!Period in charge
!Played
!Won
!Drawn
!Lost
!Win %
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|1995–1996
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|1999–2000
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2001
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2003
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2003–2006
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Antonio Carlos Vieira
|2006–2007
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2008
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2008
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2008–2009
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| José de la Paz Herrera
|2010–2012
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Leroy Sherrier Lewis
|2012–2013
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Charlie Slusher
|2013
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2013–2014
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Leroy Sherrier Lewis
|2014–2015
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Jorge Nunez
|2015–2016
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Richard Orlowski
|2016–2018
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2018–2019
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|
|2019–2020
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Dale Pelayo Sr.
|2020–2021
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| David Perez Asensio
|2022–2024
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Charlie Slusher
|2024-2025
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| Philip Marin
|2025-present
|}
Players
Current squad
The following players were called up for the 2025–26 CONCACAF Series friendly matches against Sint Maarten and Guyana on 27 and 30 March 2026, respectively.
Caps and goals correct as of 30 March 2026, after the match against Guyana.
Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up within the past 12 months.
<!--Sorted by position, most recent call-up, caps, goals and last name.-->
Records
:Players in bold are still active with Belize.
thumb|120px|[[Woodrow West has played 52 games for Belize]]
Most appearances
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!width=30px|Rank
!width=150px|Player
!width=50px|Caps
!width=50px|Goals
!width=100px|Career
|-
| 1 ||align=left| Deon McCaulay|| 63 || 28 || 2007–2022
|-
| 2 ||align=left| Elroy Smith || 61 || 6 || 2004–2019
|-
| 3 ||align=left| Ian Gaynair || 57 || 2 || 2007–2022
|-
| 4||align=left| Evral Trapp || 55 || 0 || 2010–2024
|-
| 5 ||align=left| Woodrow West || 52 || 0 || 2008–present
|-
| rowspan=2|6 ||align=left| Dalton Eiley || 41 || 0 || 2005–2019
|-
|align=left| Daniel Jiménez || 41 || 2 || 2008–2019
|-
| 8 ||align=left|Harrison Róchez || 40 || 5 || 2004–2019
|-
| 9 ||align=left| Krisean Lopez || 38 || 5 || 2018–present
|-
| 10 ||align=left| Trevor Lennan || 37 || 1 || 2005–2019
|}
Top goalscorers
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!width=30px|Rank
!width=150px|Player
!width=50px|Goals
!width=50px|Caps
!width=50px|Ratio
!width=100px|Career
|-
| 1 ||align=left| Deon McCaulay || 28 || 63 || || 2007–2022
|-
| 2 ||align=left| Carlos Bernárdez || 7 || 21 || || 2019–present
|-
| rowspan=3|3 ||align=left| Elroy Kuylen || 6 || 33 || || 2009–2019
|-
|align=left| Jordy Polanco || 6 || 36 || || 2015–present
|-
|align=left| Elroy Smith || 6 || 61 || || 2004–2019
|-
| rowspan=4|6 ||align=left| Desmond Wade || 5 || 5 || || 2021–present
|-
|align=left| Dion Frazer || 5 || 8 || || 2000–2008
|-
|align=left| Krisean Lopez || 5 || 38 || || 2018–present
|-
|align=left| Harrison Róchez || 5 || 40 || || 2004–2019
|-
| rowspan=4|10 ||align=left| Norman Nuñez || 3 || 11 || || 1995–2005
|-
|align=left| Vallan Symms || 3 || 20 || || 2000–2011
|-
|align=left| Pele Martínez || 3 || 23 || || 2022–present
|-
|align=left| Michael Salazar || 3 || 23 || || 2013–present
|-
|}
Competitive record
FIFA World Cup
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!colspan=10|FIFA World Cup record
!rowspan=16|
!colspan=6|Qualification record
|-
!Year
!Round
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!Squad
!
!
!
!
!
!
|-
| 1930 to 1978||colspan=9|Part of
|colspan=6|Part of
|-
| 1982 and 1986||colspan=9|Not a FIFA member
|colspan=6|Not a FIFA member
|-
| 1990 and 1994||colspan=9|Did not participate
|colspan=6|Declined participation
|-
| 1998||colspan=9 rowspan=8|Did not qualify
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 2
| 6
|-
| 2002
| 4
| 0
| 1
| 3
| 2
| 10
|-
| 2006
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 8
|-
| 2010
| 4
| 1
| 1
| 2
| 4
| 11
|-
| 2014
| 8
| 4
| 1
| 3
| 17
| 13
|-
| 2018
| 6
| 2
| 3
| 1
| 7
| 6
|-
| 2022
| 3
| 1
| 0
| 2
| 5
| 5
|-
| 2026
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 4
| 1
| 10
|-
| 2030||colspan=9 rowspan=2|To be determined
|colspan=6 rowspan=2|To be determined
|-
| 2034
|-
!Total!!—!!0/8!!colspan=7|—
!33!!8!!6!!19!!38!!69
|}
CONCACAF Gold Cup
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!colspan=10|CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup record
!rowspan=22|
!colspan=6|Qualification record
|-
!Year
!Round
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!Squad
!
!
!
!
!
!
|-
|1963 to 1981||colspan=9|Part of
|colspan=6|Part of
|-
|20px 1985||colspan=9|Not a CONCACAF member
|colspan=6|Not a CONCACAF member
|-
|1989 to 1993||colspan=9|Did not participate
|colspan=6|Did not participate
|-
| 1996||colspan=9 rowspan=4|Did not qualify
|colspan=6 rowspan=4|Copa Centroamericana
|-
| 1998
|-
| 2000
|-
| 2002
|-
| 2003
|colspan=9|Did not participate
|colspan=6|Did not participate
|-
| 2005||colspan=9 rowspan=4|Did not qualify
|colspan=6 rowspan=7|Copa Centroamericana
|-
| 2007
|-
| 2009
|-
| 2011
|-
| 2013
|Group stage
|12th
|3
|0
|0
|3
|1
|11
|Squad
|-
| 2015
|colspan=9 rowspan=6|Did not qualify
|-
| 2017
|-
| 2019
|4
|2
|0
|2
|6
|3
|-
| 2021||colspan=6 rowspan=2|CONCACAF Nations League
|-
| 2023
|-
| 2025
|8
|5
|1
|2
|14
|16
|-
!Total!!Group stage!!1/16!!3!!0!!0!!3!!1!!11!!—
!57!!10!!6!!41!!48!!116
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;"
|-
!colspan=2|CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup history
|-
!First match
| 1–6 <br>(9 July 2013; Portland, United States)
|-
!Biggest win
|—
|-
!Biggest defeat
| 1–6 <br>(9 July 2013; Portland, United States)
|-
!Best result
|rowspan=2|Group stage (2013)
|-
!Worst result
|}
CONCACAF Nations League
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!colspan=22|CONCACAF Nations League record
|-
!colspan=11|League phase
!rowspan=8|
!colspan=10|Final phase
|-
!Season
!
!Group
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!Finals
!Round
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
|-
|2019−20
|B
|A
|12th||6||2||0||4||6||12||
| 2021||colspan=9 rowspan=5|Ineligible
|-
|2022–23
|B
|D
|16th||6||0||1||5||2||10||
| 2023
|-
|2023–24
|B
|C
|11th||6||2||1||3||5||7||
| 2024
|-
|2024–25
|C
|B
|2nd||4||4||0||0||9||0||
| 2025
|-
|2026–27
|B||colspan=9|To be determined
|2027
|-
!colspan=4|Total!!22!!8!!2!!12!!22!!29!!—
!Total!!colspan=9|—
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;"
|-
!colspan=2|CONCACAF Nations League history
|-
!First match
| 3–0 <br>(5 September 2019; Cayenne, French Guiana)
|-
!Biggest win
| 0–4 <br>(7 September 2024; Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands)
|-
!Biggest defeat
| 4–0 <br>(10 October 2019; Belmopan, Belize)
|-
!Best result
|12th – League B (2019–20)
|-
!Worst result
|Relegation League C (2023–24)
|}
Copa Centroamericana
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!colspan=9|Copa Centroamericana record
|-
!Year
!Round
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
|-
|1991 and 1993||colspan=8|Did not participate
|-
| 1995||Group stage||6th||2||0||0||2||1||5
|-
| 1997||Preliminary round||7th||2||0||1||1||1||2
|-
| 1999||rowspan=2|Group stage||6th||2||0||0||2||1||12
|-
| 2001||6th||2||0||1||1||3||7
|-
| 2003||colspan=8|Did not participate
|-
| 2005||rowspan=4|Group stage||7th||3||0||0||3||0||7
|-
| 2007||7th||3||0||0||3||3||7
|-
| 2009||7th||3||0||1||2||3||7
|-
| 2011||7th||3||0||1||2||3||8
|- style="background:#9acdff;"
| 2013||Fourth place||4th||5||1||1||3||2||4
|-
| 2014||rowspan=2|Group stage||7th||3||0||0||3||1||6
|-
| 2017||6th||5||0||1||4||2||10
|-
!Total
!Fourth place
!11/11
!30
!1
!6
!23
!19
!69
|}
Belize's international debut in the 1995 UNCAF Nations Cup.
Head-to-head record
Updated on 18 November 2025 after match against Saint Kitts and Nevis
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Opponent !! P !! W !! D !! L !! GF !! GA !! GF
|-
|- style="background:#CCFFCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|2||2||0||0||2||0||+2
|-
|- style="background:#CCFFCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|1||1||0||0||4||0||+4
|-
|- style="background:#CCFFCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|2||1||1||0||1||0||+1
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|2||0||1||1||1||2||−1
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|5||0||1||4||1||14||−13
|-
|- style="background:#FFFACD"
|style="text-align:left"|
|2||0||2||0||1||1||0
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|8||0||0||8||2||32||−30
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|3||1||0||2||3||9||−6
|-
|- style="background:#FFFACD"
|style="text-align:left"|
|4||2||0||2||5||5||0
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|10||0||0||10||6||29||−23
|-
|- style="background:#FFFACD"
|style="text-align:left"|
|8||4||2||2||10||7||+3
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|5||2||0||3||11||11||0
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|13||0||4||9||10||23||−13
|-
|- style="background:#FFFACD"
|style="text-align:left"|
|2||1||0||1||4||3||+1
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|1||0||0||1||0||2||–2
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|10||1||0||9||4||24||−20
|-
|- style="background:#FFFACD"
|style="text-align:left"|
|1||0||1||0||2||2||0
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|2||0||0||2||0||9||−9
|-
|- style="background:#CCFFCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|4||2||0||2||8||5||+3
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|13||4||3||6||19||25||–6
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|7||0||2||5||3||12||−9
|-
|- style="background:#CCFFCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|3||2||1||0||5||1||+4
|-
|- style="background:#CCFFCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|1||1||0||0||1||0||+1
|- style="background:#CCFFCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|5||3||1||1||11||8||+3
|-
|- style="background:#FFFACD"
|style="text-align:left"|
|6||2||2||2||6||7||–1
|-
|- style="background:#CCFFCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|3||3||0||0||12||0||+12
|- style="background:#FFFACD"
|style="text-align:left"|
|2||0||2||0||0||0||0
|-
|- style="background:#FFCCCC"
|style="text-align:left"|
|1||0||0||1||1||6||−5
|-
|- class="sortbottom"
!Total !! 124 !! 33 !! 22 !! 69 !! 132 !! 234 !! −102
|}
References
External links
- of the Football Federation of Belize
- Belize at FIFA.com (archived 4 June 2007)