Sports in Grenada

What sports are played in Grenada?

The Grenada Olympic Committee lists sixteen affiliated bodies on its Sports and Affiliates page and prints no total. They are the Grenada Volleyball Association, Grenada Triathlon Association, Grenada Football Association, Grenada Taekwondo Association, Amateur Swimming Association, Grenada Table Tennis Association, Grenada Athletic Association, GDA Basketball Association, Bodybuilding Association, Grenada Cricket Association, Grenada Gun & Rifle, Grenada Tennis Association, Grenada Cycling Federation, Grenada Netball Association, Grenada Sailing Association and Grenada Karate Federation. The page introduces them: “These Federations support local clubs and are often responsible for National Teams. We are responsible for Grenada's participation in the Olympic Games and in the Paralympic Games respectively.”^[9]

Olympedia's narrative states that Grenada has competed at the Olympic Games in athletics, boxing, swimming and taekwondo.^[1] Cricket and football are documented below from their governing bodies' records.

What is the most popular spectator sport in Grenada?

No measured ranking of spectator sports in Grenada, and no audited attendance or television-audience figure, was retrieved. The proxies retrieved are of other kinds.

Olympic results. Every medal row Olympedia files under GRN is in athletics.^[1]

International cricket staged. ESPNcricinfo's list of Test results at the National Cricket Stadium, St George's, has five rows, from a drawn Test against New Zealand on 28 June to 2 July 2002 to a Test against Australia on 3 to 6 July 2025; that is a single secondary statistics source.^[14]

Broadcaster carriage. The sports page of the Grenada Broadcasting Network, as retrieved on 26 September 2026, carried items on the CARIFTA Games of April 2026 and on the secondary schools' inter-col championships of March 2026.^[30] These are different measures and not a ranking.

How is sport organised in Grenada?

The name. The Houses of Parliament publish the constitution as Chapter 128A, the Grenada Constitution Act, which gives its commencement as 7 February 1974; the text uses the name Grenada.^[31]

The National Sports Council. The National Sports Council Act, 2012 is Act No. 2 of 2012. The text read is the copy the Houses of Parliament publish among the Acts of 2012; its heading reads “ACT NO. 2 OF 2012” and gives assent on 5 January 2012. Section 1 provides that the Act “shall come into force on such date as may be appointed by order made by the Minister published in the Gazette.” Section 3(1) states: “For the purposes of this Act, there is established a Council to be known as the National Sports Council.” Section 4(1) opens: “The functions of the Council shall be to– (a) stimulate and facilitate the development of sports generally in Grenada; (b) develop, maintain and manage sporting facilities, including all playing fields provided by the Government for public use; save and except the Grenada National Stadium;” and its list continues through further functions, among them developing an annual national sporting calendar “to be published no later than one month prior to the start of each calendar year”.^[18] The Government Gazette, Vol. 141, No. 54, of 3 November 2023 circulated S. R. & O. No. 41 of 2023, “The National Sports Council Act (Commencement) Order, 2023.”^[19] A National Sports Council release published by NOW Grenada states that the Council “is governed by an Act of Parliament, Act 2 of 2012, and commenced on 7 November 2023”, and that it held its inaugural board meeting at the Kirani James Athletic Stadium on 10 December 2024.^[20]

The national stadium. The Grenada National Stadium Authority Act is Chapter 130E, Act No. 24 of 1999 as amended by Act No. 17 of 2008, in the consolidation the Houses of Parliament publish; the document read states no revision date. Section 3(1) establishes “a body to be known as the Grenada National Stadium Authority”. Section 4 reads, in part: “Subject to section 39, the functions of the Authority shall be to—(a) promote the maximum commercial utilisation of the national stadium;” and continues through paragraph (e). Section 2 defines the national stadium as the land known as Queen's Park, St. George's.^[17]

The Olympic committee. Olympedia states: “The Grenada Olympic Association was founded in 1982 and, after provisional International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition was granted that year, full recognition was accorded at the IOC session in Los Angeles on 25 July 1984.”^[1] The committee's own site, headed Grenada Olympic Committee, carries the first part of the same sentence.^[8] No document dating the change of name from association to committee was retrieved.

Cricket. The ICC's own history records that when the Imperial Cricket Conference met in England in 1926, “delegates from West Indies, New Zealand and India were invited to attend”, and that “West Indies played their first Test in 1928”.^[11] The Board of Directors page of Cricket West Indies lists Member Directors for six bodies: the Jamaica Cricket Association, Leeward Islands Cricket Board, Barbados Cricket Association, Guyana Cricket Board, Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control and Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board.^[12] No document of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control stating which islands it covers was retrieved. The Grenada Olympic Committee's page for the Grenada Cricket Association states: “The team is not a member of the International Cricket Council, but the Grenada Cricket Association is a member of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control, which itself is a member association of the West Indies Cricket Board, and players from Grenada generally represent the Windward Islands cricket team at domestic level and the West Indies at international level.” It adds: “Grenada has however played as a separate entity in matches which held Twenty20 status, but has not appeared in first-class or List A cricket.” The same page names the team's coach “as of November 2013”.^[10]

Football. Concacaf states: “The Grenada Football Association has been affiliated with Concacaf since 1978”.^[21] FIFA's page for the association lists it under Concacaf, with its address at the National Stadium, Queens Park.^[22]

What are the main domestic leagues and competitions?

Football. Concacaf states that the Grenada Football Association maintains “a three-tiered domestic league system and a cup competition.”^[21] The association's own site names the top division as the GFA Premier League, and its most recent season-review headline retrieved refers to the 2024 GFA Premier League.^[23]

Cricket. Cricket West Indies names the Windward Islands Volcanoes as the home team of the National Cricket Stadium, St. George's.^[13] No fixture list or competition document of the Grenada Cricket Association was retrieved.

The national calendar. Section 4(1)(d) of the National Sports Council Act gives the Council the function of developing an annual national sporting calendar.^[18]

How has Grenada performed at the Olympic Games?

All figures here are Olympedia's, from its Medals by Games and Medals by sport tables for the code GRN, read as rows. Olympedia prints no totals row under either table.^[1]

Editions. Olympedia's participation table lists Grenada at every Summer Games from 1984 to 2024. It lists no Winter Games, no 1906 row and no art-competition row; Grenada is filed as GRN throughout and nothing filed under another code is included here.^[1]

Rows, 1984 to 2008. The Medals by Games table has no row for any edition from 1984 to 2008.^[1]

Rows from 2012. In gold, silver and bronze: 2012, 1, 0, 0; 2016, 0, 1, 0; 2020, 0, 0, 1; 2024, 0, 0, 2.^[1]

By sport. The Olympic Games row in the Medals by sport table is athletics, 1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze, which agrees with the edition rows.^[1]

Youth Olympic Games. Youth Olympic Games rows are typed separately: the table carries a 2014 row of one bronze in athletics, and participation rows for 2010, 2014 and 2018. They are not included above.^[1]

Which athletes and teams are internationally recognised?

Olympic Games. Olympedia's 2012 rows list Kirani James as gold medallist in the men's 400 metres.^[2] Its 2016 rows list him as silver medallist in the same event,^[34] and its 2020 rows as bronze medallist.^[35] Its 2024 rows list Anderson Peters as bronze medallist in the men's javelin throw. They list Lindon Victor as bronze medallist in the men's decathlon.^[3]

World Athletics Championships. World Athletics reported on 30 August 2011 that Kirani James won the men's 400 metres final in Daegu, becoming “the first man from Grenada to climb the podium at this global event.”^[4] It reported that Anderson Peters won the men's javelin in Doha on 6 October 2019 with 86.89m, “to become Grenada's second world champion after one-lap star Kirani James.”^[5] It reported from Oregon on 24 July 2022, where he threw 90.46m: “Grenada's Anderson Peters won his second successive world gold medal in the event.”^[6] Its report of 26 August 2023 from Budapest lists Lindon Victor as bronze medallist in the men's decathlon with 8756 points.^[36] Its report of 18 September 2025 from Tokyo lists Peters as silver medallist in the men's javelin with 87.38m.^[7]

Football. Concacaf states that the men's team's League B group win in the Concacaf Nations League gave it entry to the Gold Cup “for the third time in history.”^[21]

What major international competitions has Grenada hosted?

Cricket World Cup 2007. The ICC's announcement of the match schedule, dated 12 July 2012 on its site, states: “The Super 8 stage of the tournament, which begins on Tuesday 27 March, will be played in four countries: Antigua, Guyana, Grenada and Barbados.”^[15] ESPNcricinfo's scorecard of the 47th match, Australia v New Zealand, places it at the National Cricket Stadium, St George's, on 20 April 2007, and records that Australia won by 215 runs.^[16]

Test cricket. ESPNcricinfo lists five Tests at the ground: against New Zealand, 28 June to 2 July 2002, drawn; against Bangladesh, 17 to 20 July 2009, won by Bangladesh; against England, 21 to 25 April 2015, won by England; against England, 24 to 27 March 2022, won by West Indies; and against Australia, 3 to 6 July 2025, won by Australia.^[14] Cricket West Indies states that the stadium was “rebuilt in 2000 on the site of the old Queen's Park”.^[13]

CARIFTA Games. World Athletics reported that the CARIFTA Games were “held from 30 March to 1 April at the Kirani James Stadium in St Georges, Grenada” in 2024.^[24] The results host for the meeting lists the 53rd CARIFTA Games 2026 on 4 to 6 April 2026 at the Kirani James Athletic Stadium, St. George's,^[25] and The New Today reported on 4 April 2026: “Grenada is this weekend hosting the 53rd CARIFTA Games at the Kirani James Athletics Stadium at Queen's Park in St. George's.”^[26] No record of the Games' organising body was retrieved.

What are Grenada's main sporting rivalries?

No named rivalry fixture was found in any governing body's record. The counts that follow come from a single secondary statistics site, 11v11, not from either federation's own record.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, men's football. 11v11 publishes Grenada's record as 8 games won, 7 drawn and 9 lost. Its earliest entry is a 2-0 Grenada win in the Caribbean Cup on 2 July 1989, and its latest a 5-1 Grenada win in a friendly on 1 October 2022.^[27]

Trinidad and Tobago, men's football. 11v11 publishes Grenada's record as 3 games won, 5 drawn and 12 lost. Its earliest entry is a 1-1 friendly on 30 July 1978, and its latest a 2-2 draw in a FIFA World Cup qualifier on 5 June 2024.^[28]

The Grenada Football Association's own site states: “Grenada's football journey began on October 13, 1934, with their inaugural international match against British Guiana, resulting in a 2–1 victory.” That match does not appear in the 11v11 rows above.^[23]

What is the role of school and university sport?

Secondary schools. The Grenada Inter-Secondary School Games site names the Grenada Secondary Schools Games Association as its organising body, and lists the 2024 Republic Bank Intercol Championship on 12 to 14 March 2024 at the Kirani James Athletics Stadium.^[29] The Grenada Broadcasting Network's sports page carried reports from the 2026 inter-col championships dated 19 March 2026.^[30] The Grenadian Voice reported on 25 January 2024 that Republic Bank was title sponsor of INTERCOL, 12 to 14 March 2024, “where 25 schools are expected to participate over three days”, and named the Grenada Association of Principals of Secondary Schools and the Grenada Secondary Schools Games Association in connection with the event.^[32]

Windward Islands schools. The Grenadian Voice reported on 20 July 2023: “More than 200 athletes from Dominica, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) are in Grenada for the 10-day CBN/WINLOTTO Windward Islands Secondary School Games.” It named track and field, basketball, netball, football and volleyball as the five sports.^[33]

The statute. The release on the National Sports Council's first board meeting quotes the minister: “The government stands firmly behind you, providing resources, guidance, and support to ensure that our priority areas for grassroots development at the primary and secondary schools and the community happen”.^[20]

No education ministry document on school sport and no university sport body's publication was retrieved.

Were any sports invented in Grenada?

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

The provisions of the National Sports Council Act, 2012 that were read, sections 3 and 4, and the Grenada National Stadium Authority Act, sections 2 to 4, name no national sport.^[18][17]