Sports in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

What sports are played in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?

The St Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee lists its affiliates on its own site, without a total: athletics, aquatics, basketball, cricket, cycling, football, gymnastics, karate, netball, rugby, sailing, squash, table tennis, tennis and volleyball.^[3]

Olympedia's narrative states that besides track and field athletics the country's Olympic committee “has also competed in one other sport: swimming.”^[1]

The schools' programme for 2026/27, as Searchlight reported it on 18 September 2026, runs competitions in cross country, football, netball, table tennis, road relay, cricket, track and field and 3X3 basketball.^[26] In late August and September 2026 iWitness News reported national championships in swimming, youth sailing and archery.^[27][28][29]

What is the most popular spectator sport in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?

No attendance figure, broadcast audience or other measured ranking of spectator sports in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was retrieved. What was retrieved is structural.

Football. Searchlight reported on 23 January 2026 that the Vincy Soccer Premier League, the flagship division of the federation's National Club Championships, was launched with ten clubs, set to kick off on 30 January 2026 and play 90 matches over six months.^[21]

Cricket. The ICC's fixture list scheduled five matches of its 2024 men's T20 World Cup at Arnos Vale.^[15] The island association lists its own divisions and a T10 tournament.^[12]

Carriage. As retrieved on 26 September 2026, the sports page of the public radio broadcaster, NBC Radio, listed items dated from 3 September 2025 to 5 March 2026 on netball, football, table tennis and the national CARIFTA athletics trials.^[30] These are different measures and not a ranking.

How is sport organised in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?

The name. The 1979 Constitution, in the text published by the Constitute Project, states that Saint Vincent, as it defines the islands, “is henceforth to be styled Saint Vincent and the Grenadines”. It uses no longer form.^[4]

The National Sports Council. The Council states: “The National Sports Council was established in the year 1988.” It lists its functions as “To Stimulate and facilitate the development of sports generally in St.Vincent and the Grenadines”, “To Develop, maintain and manage sporting facilities, including all playing fields and/or stadiums (Other than Victoria Park) provided by the Government for public use”, and “To Administer the funds of the Council and all Government grants allotted to sporting organizations.”^[5] Its home page lists events scheduled at the Arnos Vale stadium and gives its own address as Arnos Vale.^[6] The Council's own pages do not name the Act that establishes it. An article by Keith Joseph published by Team Athletics SVG on 4 September 2026 states: “The NSC was established by an Act of Parliament.” It refers to “The Sports Council Act of St Vincent and the Grenadines” and gives no number or year.^[31] The Government's portal links Acts and Bills to the House of Assembly, whose Acts page serves annual volumes from 1993 to 2025 as PDF files, without titles or a search function; its volumes begin after the Council's stated establishment in 1988, and no sports council act was found, so no statute is quoted here.^[7][8]

The Olympic committee. Olympedia's narrative states that the country “formed its National Olympic Committee in 1982 which was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 17 May 1987 at the IOC Session in Istanbul.”^[1] Olympedia's organisation record names it the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee (SVGOC), “Previously known as St. Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Association”.^[2] It is recognised by the IOC, not a member of it.

Cricket. At the top sits the ICC, whose member page for the West Indies, headed West Indies Cricket Board, gives 1926 as the year of joining and a postal address in St John's, Antigua.^[9] Cricket West Indies stated on 14 March 2025 that its Breakout League would “feature teams representing the six territorial boards that comprise Cricket West Indies”, one of them the Windward Islands Infernos.^[10] The territorial board states: “Windwards Cricket Inc is the official body responsible for cricket in the Windward Islands, which consists of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent & the Grenadines.” It adds: “We are a full member of Cricket West Indies Inc and owns the Windwards Volcanoes franchise.” Its address is the Arnos Vale Sporting Complex.^[11] Its report of its annual general meeting of 17 May 2025 in Grenada uses the name Windward Islands Cricket Board (WICB) and lists a secretary and a treasurer from Saint Vincent for 2025–27.^[13] The island body states: “The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association was officially formed in 1946.” It states that it “was incorporated in 2015”, that it is “the official body of control for cricket in St. Vincent and the Grenadines”, and that it “is subsidiary of Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control, which is a full member of Cricket West Indies Inc.”^[12]

Football. Concacaf states: “The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation became a Concacaf member in 1986”.^[16] FIFA's association page lists the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation under Concacaf and gives www.svgff.org as its website.^[17] On 26 September 2026 that site served only software error messages, so nothing is quoted from the federation itself.

What are the main domestic leagues and competitions?

Football. Searchlight reported that the Vincy Soccer Premier League (VSPL) is “the flagship division of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation's National Club Championships”, run by a Local Organising Committee, and that it was launched on 20 January 2026 with ten clubs.^[21] It reported on 29 May 2026 that Spring Village United had won the Tier Two title of the 2025/2026 National Club Championships, beating Sparta FC 2–1.^[22] It reported that North Leeward Predators, “Premier Division winners of the 2024/2025” National Club Championships, entered the Caribbean Football Union's Club Shield, which opened in Trinidad and Tobago on 24 July 2026.^[23]

Cricket. The association's site lists an NLA Premier Division, an NLA First Division and a VPL T10 among its competitions.^[12] Searchlight reported a First Division match of the “2026 SVG Cricket Association Inc. 50 over competition” at the Arnos Vale One Playing Field on 6 September 2026.^[14] Above the island, Windwards Cricket Inc lists the Winlott Inc. Windwards U19 Championship and the Winlott Inc. Windwards U15 Super50 Tournament.^[11]

Other sports. iWitness News reported that the Blue Marlins Swim Club won the National Swim Championships of 27 to 30 August 2026, its sixth straight win, and that the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sailing Association ran the KGroup National Youth Championships 2026 at Calliaqua Bay.^[27][28]

How has Saint Vincent and the Grenadines performed at the Olympic Games?

All figures here are Olympedia's, from its country page for the code VIN, read as rows. The page carries no medal table, and its narrative states: “The nation has not yet won any Olympic medals.”^[1]

Editions and code. Olympedia's participation table lists the country, as “Saint Vincent and the Grenadines”, at every Summer Games from 1988 to 2024 and at no Winter Games. Its narrative states that the country “first competed at Seoul 1988, when it was represented by six track & field athletes – five male and one female.” Olympedia records no earlier appearance under another name or code, and lists no 1906 row and no art-competition row.^[1]

Rows, men, women and total, as Olympedia prints them. 1988, 5, 1, 6; 1992, 4, 2, 6; 1996, 7, 1, 8; 2000, 2, 2, 4; 2004, 2, 1, 3; 2008, 1, 1, 2; 2012, 2, 1, 3; 2016, 2, 2, 4; 2020, 1, 2, 3; 2024, 2, 2, 4.^[1] The rows all fall after 1987; there are no pre-war rows.

Best result, as Olympedia states it. Olympedia's narrative names a semi-final place in the men's 400 metres in 1996 as “the best Olympic result to date by a Vincentian Olympian.”^[1]

Youth Olympic Games rows are typed separately: Olympedia lists the country at the Summer Youth Olympics of 2010, 2014 and 2018, which are not Olympic Games rows and are not included above.^[1]

Which athletes and teams are internationally recognised?

Football. Concacaf states: “Vincy Heat, the men's national team, notched a second-place finish in the 1995 Caribbean Cup to earn a spot at the 1996 Concacaf Gold Cup.” It adds that “That tournament remains SVG's only appearance at the continental championship”, and that a second-place finish in its League B group of the 2019-20 Concacaf Nations League earned a place in the Gold Cup Prelims.^[16] Searchlight reported that Vincy Heat's League B, Group D campaign in the 2026–27 Concacaf Nations League, a route to the 2027 Gold Cup, was to open against French Guiana in Belmopan on 26 September 2026.^[24]

Volleyball. Searchlight reported that Saint Vincent and the Grenadines won the 2026 Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association senior men's title on 16 August 2026 in Tortola, beating Saint Lucia after losing the first set 17–25 and winning the next three 25–17, 25–13 and 25–22.^[25]

Olympic Games. Olympedia records no Olympic medal for the country.^[1]

What major international competitions has Saint Vincent and the Grenadines hosted?

ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024. The ICC announced on 5 January 2024 that the tournament would use three venues in the USA and six in the Caribbean, St. Vincent among them, and scheduled five matches there: Bangladesh v Netherlands on 13 June, South Africa v Nepal on 14 June and Bangladesh v Nepal on 16 June in the first round, and two Super Eight matches on 22 and 24 June 2024.^[15] The ICC's media information of 15 June 2024 placed the Bangladesh v Nepal Group D match at “the Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St. Vincent.”^[18] The ICC reported on 24 June 2024 that Afghanistan beat Bangladesh in St Vincent to reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.^[19] The ICC's venue guide for the ground names the Frank Thomas and Michael Findlay stands.^[20]

Scheduled. Searchlight reported that Vincy Heat's return Nations League matches are scheduled for November 2026 at the Arnos Vale Playing Field.^[24] They had not been played on 26 September 2026.

What are Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' main sporting rivalries?

No head-to-head record from a federation was retrieved for any fixture.

Saint Lucia, volleyball. Searchlight's report of the 2026 Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association final described Saint Lucia as “arch rivals”; that is the newspaper's word. It reported the final of 16 August 2026 as a win for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines after Saint Lucia took the first set 25–17.^[25]

The Windward Islands, cricket. Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are the four territories of Windwards Cricket Inc, which runs under-19 and under-15 championships among them.^[11]

What is the role of school and university sport?

Searchlight reported on 18 September 2026 that four new competitions were added to the 2026/27 schools' sports programme at a media launch at Arnos Vale on 14 September 2026: a six-a-side female football festival, a one-day 3X3 basketball festival, a female talent identification cricket festival and an inter-primary school road relay. It quoted Roxell John, Coordinator of Sports and Physical Activity, on the additions.^[26]

The same report gives early registrations: “Within secondary schools' football, there are already 18 junior teams and 14 senior division teams registered, alongside 20 primary school football teams; while in netball, there are 17 junior and 10 senior secondary teams, plus 16 primary school teams registered.” Its calendar runs from inter-schools cross country on 24 September 2026 to primary cricket in May and June 2027.^[26] No published figure for university sport was retrieved.

Were any sports invented in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?

No federation, government instrument or standard reference retrieved claims that a sport was invented or codified in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

No statute declaring a national sport was found. The House of Assembly's Acts page, reached from the Government's portal, lists annual volumes from 1993 to 2025 without titles or a search function, so a title search was not possible.^[7][8]