Just four days ahead of the scheduled Grenada Football Association (GFA) leadership elections, a dissident candidate slate has taken the organization’s electoral body to court over claims of systemic procedural unfairness that have blocked their path to contest the poll. Team Duncan, led by principal claimants Roger Duncan and former GFA Technical Director Trevor McIntosh, lodged its application for an interim injunction with the Grenada High Court on Tuesday, 5 May 2026, setting up a last-minute legal showdown that will be heard on 8 May, one day before the vote is set to go ahead.
At the heart of the legal challenge is a dispute over the GFA’s decision to call an Extraordinary General Congress with just 37 days’ notice, 8 days shorter than the 45-day minimum notice period required under the association’s normal electoral rules. This compressed timeline shrank the window for candidates to assemble their slates and secure mandatory endorsements to just seven days, a disadvantage Team Duncan says was entirely intentional and unreasonable.
The slate’s court filing outlines multiple additional failures in the electoral process that directly led to their disqualification for failing to meet endorsement requirements. First, the GFA failed to distribute an official register of eligible voting member clubs to competing candidates, leaving Team Duncan unable to clearly identify which clubs were eligible to provide endorsements. Second, endorsement rules required signatures from sitting club presidents, but a number of member clubs have expired leadership terms, drastically reducing the number of valid available endorsers. Third, the GFA provided no explanatory guidance or summary of its governing electoral statutes alongside the initial election notice, leaving candidates unclear on compliance requirements. Finally, Team Duncan says it was given no opportunity to correct deficiencies in its submission after raising concerns about the process with the GFA Secretariat and Electoral Committee.
As a result of the disqualification, only one slate – that of incumbent president Marlon Glean – has been deemed eligible to contest the election, setting the stage for an uncontested poll that would see the current leadership returned to office automatically without any opposing challenge.
Team Duncan is asking the High Court to intervene to restore basic fairness to the electoral process. The legal remedies it is seeking include an injunction to delay the scheduled 9 May election, an extended deadline for candidates to submit slates and collect endorsements, the mandatory disclosure of the full official register of eligible voting members, and court declarations that the entire process as conducted violates both the GFA’s own internal statutes and core principles of natural justice.
In a statement accompanying the legal filing, Team Duncan emphasized that the long-term health and governance of football in Grenada depends on a transparent, inclusive electoral process that gives all eligible candidates a fair chance to participate. The group reaffirmed its commitment to advancing the development of the sport across the country and upholding core values of accountability, fairness and transparent governance in football administration.