Sports in Dominica

What sports are played in Dominica?

No retrieved body publishes a count of the sports organised in Dominica, and the Dominica Olympic Committee's own site did not resolve, so no list of its member federations was read.

School championships. The Government Information Service reported that approximately two hundred awards were given to students from primary and secondary schools and other learning institutions at the 28th Annual School Sports Awards on 10 July 2021, and named table tennis, basketball, track and field, football, volleyball, netball and cricket among the sports.^[1] In 2011 Dominica News Online listed the Sports Division's end-of-year schools championships in cricket, netball, football and table tennis.^[2]

Olympic sports. Olympedia's narrative states that Dominica has been represented at the Summer Games “in track & field athletics and swimming”, and records a cross-country skier at the 2014 Winter Games.^[3]

Current coverage. The sports archive of DBS Radio, the Dominica Broadcasting Corporation's station, carried items between July and September 2026 on athletics, cricket, volleyball and beach volleyball, football, basketball and cycling.^[4] Dominica News Online's sports listing, read on 26 September 2026, carried items dated 31 August to 25 September 2026 on basketball, football, cricket and athletics.^[5]

What is the most popular spectator sport in Dominica?

No measured ranking of spectator sports in Dominica was retrieved: no attendance figure, audience measurement or broadcaster ratings were found from any body. The proxies retrieved are structural.

International cricket at the national stadium. Cricket West Indies' page for Windsor Park, Roseau, prints team records at the ground for Test matches from 2011 to 2023, One Day Internationals in 2009 and 2010, and Twenty20 Internationals from 2014 to 2022.^[6] The Government Information Service reported on 14 August 2025 that the Government had begun an EC$13.8 million project, funded by the Dominica National Lottery Commission, to restore and upgrade the stadium's lighting, and quoted the minister, Oscar George, saying that it includes lighting systems “consistent with ICC specifications”.^[7]

Football. The Dominica Football Association runs a Premier League and a Division One, and its Premier League listing carries items from April 2023 to November 2024.^[8] Q95FM reported on 25 September 2026 that Dominica's men opened their 2026 Concacaf Nations League campaign with a 0–0 draw against the Cayman Islands at Windsor Park.^[9]

These are different measures and not a ranking.

How is sport organised in Dominica?

The state. The Government of Dominica's web portal, which styles the government “Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica”, lists a Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports and Community Development.^[10] The portal's laws register covers the Revised Laws of Dominica 1990 and the Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders of 1991 to 2009, and serves its results only through a search form whose results could not be read; no sports act was located in it.^[11]

Policy and the Sports Council. The Government Information Service reported on 16 January 2023 that the ministry would develop a sports policy, quoting Oscar George, Minister of State with specific responsibility for Youth and Sports: “We at the Ministry of Sports will also be taking steps to develop a Sports Policy. I believe that this is something that has been outstanding for a very long time”.^[12] Dominica News Online reported on 19 July 2024 that a Sports Council chaired by Billy Doctrove, head of the Dominica Olympic Committee, “was officially formed last month”, and quoted Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit: “Some of the functions and the responsibilities of the council is to look at the legislation. The legislation is an outdated one and we have assigned a draft person who will work with the council to redraft new legislations to bring in, to effect the new legislation.” It reported Mr Doctrove as saying that the council's purpose is to act as an advisory council to the minister and the Ministry of Sports.^[13] The report does not name the existing legislation, and no such statute was retrieved.

The Olympic committee. Olympedia states: “After a steering committee was formed in 1986, the Dominica National Olympic Committee was founded in 1987, and recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in September 1993, at the IOC session in Monte Carlo.”^[3] The IOC is the recognising body. Commonwealth Sport lists the body as the Dominica Olympic Committee and states that it “was formed in 1987 and formally recognised during 1993.”^[14] ANOC's directory records Billy Doctrove as president, elected on 18 May 2017 and re-elected on 16 December 2021 and 23 July 2025.^[15]

Cricket. Dominica does not field its own team in Test or One Day International cricket. CARICOM's page on the West Indies Cricket Board, the body now named Cricket West Indies, states that “The WICB's membership includes the six territorial cricket associations of the various countries and territories which contest the West Indies first-class and limited-overs competition in the Caribbean”, and that “The WICB has been a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1926.”^[16] Cricket West Indies named the six full-member shareholders present at its special meeting of shareholders on 9 February 2025, among them the Windward Islands Cricket Board.^[17] Its report of 5 July 2022 records the Windward Islands board organising an under-19 tournament for Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.^[18] Cricket West Indies' board page names Clement Marcellin as the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control's director and states: “Mr. Marcellin presently serves as the President of the Dominica Cricket Association (DCA) and Vice President at the Windward Islands Cricket Board.”^[19] No site of the Windward Islands board or of the Dominica Cricket Association was retrieved. The international body is the ICC.

Football. Concacaf states: “The Dominica Football Association has been a member of Concacaf since 1994 after spending four years as an associate member.”^[20] The association's own site gives its foundation as 1970, its FIFA affiliation as 1994 and its sub-confederation as “CFU (Caribbean)”.^[21] FIFA's page lists it under Concacaf and names Glen Etienne as president.^[22]

What are the main domestic leagues and competitions?

Football. The Dominica Football Association reported on 26 November 2024: “CCCUL Dublanc FC are the 2024 DFA Premier League Champions.” The same item names Valvoline WE United as the side “close behind”.^[23] Its Premier League listing, read on 26 September 2026, carries no later item.^[8] Concacaf names the league as the “Dominica Premier League”.^[20]

Cricket. Dominica's cricketers play for the Windward Islands in the West Indies first-class and limited-overs competitions that CARICOM's page describes.^[16] Cricket West Indies lists the Windward Islands Volcanoes as the home team at Windsor Park.^[6] Cricket West Indies reported on 5 July 2022 that Dominica was hosting the Winlott Windward Islands Under 19 tournament at Windsor Park Stadium in Roseau and Benjamin's Park in Portsmouth, as the selection event for the Windward Islands squad.^[18] The island's own competition is run by the Dominica Cricket Association: Dominica News Online reported on 24 September 2026 that the association would resume the 2026 Maxroy Trading Ltd. DCA Intermediate League on Saturday 26 September, with five matches across four venues.^[24]

Basketball. Dominica News Online reported on 1 September 2026 that Falcons Basketball had been crowned the 2026 Dominica Amateur Basketball Association (DABA) Premier Division National Champion, beating the 767 SC Dominators 77–68 in Game 5.^[25]

How has Dominica performed at the Olympic Games?

All figures here are Olympedia's, from its tables for the code DMA, read as rows. Olympedia prints no totals row.^[3]

Editions. Olympedia's participation table lists Dominica, as “Dominica”, at the Summer Games of 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024, and at the 2014 Winter Games. Its first row is 1996; it lists no 1906 row and no row under another name, and it carries no art-competition row.^[3] Its narrative states: “The country made its Olympic début in 1996, when five track & field athletes and one swimmer competed at the Atlanta Olympics.”^[3]

Medal rows. Olympedia's Medals by Games table lists 2024 Summer Olympics: 1 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze, and no other edition. Its Medals by sport table lists athletics: 1, 0, 0, and no other sport. The two tables agree.^[3] Olympedia's page for Dominica at the 2024 Games lists Thea LaFond as gold medallist in the women's triple jump, alongside entries in the men's 800 metres and the men's and women's 50 metres freestyle.^[26]

Narrative. Olympedia's narrative, which does not mention the 2024 medal, describes Jerome Romain's qualification for the final round of the triple jump in 1996 as the best performance by a Dominican Olympian. It records that at Tokyo 2020 Thea LaFond also qualified for the triple jump final, and that in 2014 “Dominica first appeared at the Olympic Winter Games, with cross-country skier Gary di Silvestri, although there was controversy concerning his qualifying status.” This page uses the table rows.^[3]

Youth Games. Olympedia lists Youth Olympic Games entries for 2010, 2014 and 2018, which are typed separately and are not included above.^[3]

Which athletes and teams are internationally recognised?

Olympic Games. World Athletics reported on 3 August 2024, under the headline “LaFond becomes Dominica’s first Olympic medallist with triple jump gold in Paris”, that Thea LaFond won the women's triple jump at the Olympic Games with 15.02m.^[27] Olympedia's 2024 rows list the same gold.^[26]

World Indoor Championships. World Athletics reported that LaFond won the women's triple jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 on Sunday 3 March 2024 with 15.01m, and stated: “It was a historic occasion for Dominica, as LaFond became her nation's first female global medallist and first global champion in athletics.”^[28]

World U20 Championships. World Athletics reported on 8 August 2026 from the World Athletics U20 Championships in Oregon: “Addison James got bronze, throwing a national record of 73.89m to become Dominica's first ever world U20 medallist.” The event was the men's javelin.^[29]

What major international competitions has Dominica hosted?

International cricket at Windsor Park. Cricket West Indies' page for Windsor Park, Roseau, prints these team rows. Test matches: West Indies 6 (2011–2023), won 1, lost 4, drawn 1; India 2 (2011–2023), won 1, drawn 1; Australia 2 (2012–2015), won 2; Zimbabwe 1 (2013), lost 1; Pakistan 1 (2017), won 1. One Day Internationals: West Indies 4 (2009–2010), lost 4; Bangladesh 2 (2009), won 2; South Africa 2 (2010), won 2. Twenty20 Internationals: West Indies 4 (2014–2022), won 2, lost 1, no result 1; New Zealand 2 (2014), won 1, lost 1; Bangladesh 2 (2022), lost 1, no result 1. Women's One Day Internationals: West Indies Women 3 (2013), won 2, no result 1; South Africa Women 3 (2013), lost 2, no result 1. Women's Twenty20 Internationals: West Indies Women 2 (2012), won 2; India Women 2 (2012), lost 2. Cricket West Indies prints no total of matches staged.^[6]

2023 Test. Cricket West Indies announced on 23 June 2023 that the first Test between West Indies and India would be played at Windsor Park, Dominica, on 12–16 July 2023, as part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship.^[30]

Football. Q95FM reported on 25 September 2026 that Dominica's first match of the 2026 Concacaf Nations League, a 0–0 draw with the Cayman Islands, was played at Windsor Park, and that Dominica's next match, against Puerto Rico, was to be played there on the following Sunday; that match had not been played on 26 September 2026.^[9]

Regional youth cricket. Cricket West Indies reported on 5 July 2022 that Dominica was hosting the Windward Islands Cricket Board's under-19 tournament, at Windsor Park and Benjamin's Park.^[18]

Hurricane damage and restoration. The ICC reported that on 31 May 2018 West Indies beat an ICC World XI by 72 runs at Lord's in a Twenty20 International played to “raise funds to rebuild cricket facilities across the Caribbean that were damaged by last year's hurricanes”.^[31] Sky Sports, a single secondary source for the venues named, reported that the funds were to rebuild and restore five Caribbean venues “damaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria”, and listed “Windsor Park Stadium in Dominica” among those “in need of repair”.^[32] The Government Information Service reported on 14 August 2025 that phase one of the EC$13.8 million lighting restoration at Windsor Park had begun that day; it gave no completion date.^[7]

What are Dominica's main sporting rivalries?

No retrieved federation, league or statistics body names a rivalry for Dominica or publishes a head-to-head count for one.

The Windward Islands. The documented recurring fixtures are within the Windward Islands cricket structure. Cricket West Indies' report of 5 July 2022 lists Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as the teams in the Windward Islands under-19 tournament, used to select the Windward Islands under-19 team for the West Indies tournament.^[18] No head-to-head record from the board was retrieved.

Football. The Dominica Football Association is a member of Concacaf and of the Caribbean Football Union by its own statement; no head-to-head record from either body was retrieved.^[21][20]

What is the role of school and university sport?

The Sports Division. Dominica News Online reported on 29 June 2011: “As the 2010/11 School Academic year ends, the Sports Division is also in the culmination stages of its Schools Championships.” It listed the final of the 2011 Quenchi Soft Drink Primary School Cricket Championship at Pointe Michel, the Primary Schools Netball Championships, the NBD Primary Schools Football Championship at Benjamin's Park in Portsmouth, the Primary Schools Table Tennis Championships in Roseau and the 19th Schools Sports Awards.^[2]

Awards. The Government Information Service reported that the 28th Annual School Sports Awards, held on 10 July 2021, gave approximately two hundred awards to students from primary and secondary schools and other learning institutions, and quoted the Sports Coordinator, Trevor Shillingford: “We were pleased with the response received on the return of sporting activities by our students”.^[1]

No publication on school or university sport from the education ministry was retrieved.

Were any sports invented in Dominica?

No federation, government instrument or standard reference retrieved claims that a sport was invented or codified in Dominica.

No declared national sport was found. The government laws register could be searched only through a form whose results could not be read, and the reports on the Sports Council and the sports policy retrieved name no national sport.^[11][13][12]