| Tourney Name: | Men's Football at the Island Games 1997 |
| Size: | 150px |
| Country: | Jersey |
| Dates: | 29 June – 4 July |
| Num Teams: | 9 |
| Venues: | 6 |
| Cities: | 5 |
| Champion: | Jersey |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second: | Anglesey |
| Third: | Isle of Wight |
| Fourth: | Guernsey |
| Matches: | 20 |
| Goals: | 68 |
| Top Scorer: | Eifion Williams (6 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1995 |
| Nextseason: | 1999 |
The 1997 Island Games on the island of Jersey was the 5th edition in which a men's football tournament was played at the multi-games competition. It was contested by 9 teams.
Jersey won the tournament for the second time.
| width=5 | Rank | width=200 | Nation | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | D | width=20 | L | width=20 | GF | width=20 | GA | width=20 | Pts | width=20 | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 12 | +9 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 6 | +6 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 3 | –9 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | –6 |
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| width=5 | Rank | width=200 | Nation | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | D | width=20 | L | width=20 | GF | width=20 | GA | width=20 | Pts | width=20 | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 7 | +12 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | +4 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | –3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 | –13 |
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