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Gibraltarians inherited their love of football from kick about games with the British Garrison in the late 1800’s. With a genetic mix of Spanish, Italian (survivors froma shipwrecked Italian galleon who settled at Catalan Bay, on the south side of the Rock) and the Brits (who have had a large garrison there since 1704) they took to the beautiful game with passionate enthusiasm. On the isthmus, the flat area of land connecting Gib and Spain, they built a circular racetrack enclosing a grassed football pitch and had their first competitive match against the military in 1901.

From their early days with a break during WW2, the GFA grew into a well organised structure, with a number of divisions and shortly after the War’s end a new stadium was built on land close to the Airport

The Gibraltar Cup competition was introduced as an annual series of five matches between the GFA and the Combined Services team which included a number of players on the books of senior UK professional teams.

These games were fiercely contested by players and spectators alike, the stadium was usually filled to capacity and was an automatic Saturday evening draw for many of the troops.

In the 1953/54 season the Combined Services narrowly lost the series by three games to two, this was one of the most successful performances by the Combined Services in the history of the competition

Gibraltar Played its first ever recognised international at the Estadio Algarve (Faro/Loule, Portugal) drawing 0-0 with Slovakia. Since then the National Team has gone on to record its first ever victory a 1-0 win over Malta, again in the Estadio Algarve.

In July 2014 the Champions League and Europa League finally came to Gibraltar with Lincoln Red Imps and College Europa becoming Gibraltar’s first ever representatives in these tournaments.

The Gibraltar FA also organised its first ever international Women’s Development tournament in July 2014 with teams from the Algarve FA, Luxembourg and Andorra taking part. Futsal has also seen international competition too as well as clubs competing in the relevant Futsal European Club competitions