Chagos Islands national football team

Chagos Islands

Association	Chagos Football Association
Confederation	World Unity Football Alliance
First colours Second colours
First international
Chagos Islands 6–1 Raetia  (Crawley, England; 4 December 2011)
Biggest win
Chagos Islands 6–1 Raetia  (Crawley, England; 4 December 2011)
Biggest defeat
Ellan Vannin 14–0 Chagos Islands  (London, England; 13 August 2017)
ConIFA World Football Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2016)
Best result	12th, 2016

The Chagos Islands national football team is a football team representing the territory of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. However, this area, which falls under the administration of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is uninhabited save for the presence of a US military base on the island of Diego Garcia, after the United Kingdom evicted the local population between 1967 and 1973. As a consequence, the team in fact represents the Chagossian diaspora around the world. They were led by Sussex-based manager Jimmy Ferrar, who has previously managed at Oakwood, Crawley Down and Alfold where he won the Southern Combination Div 1 for season 2018/19 until June 2024 when a number of players expressed a desire to play under the British Indian Ocean Territory name leading to a split and two separate teams under different names representing the territory.