The Macau national football team (; pt, Selecção Macaense de Futebol) represents the
Chinese special administrative region of
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...
in international association football. The team is supervised by the
Macau Football Association
The Macau Football Association ( Pinyin: Àomén zúqiú zǒng huì; pt, Associação de Futebol de Macau) is the governing body of association football in Macau, China.
History
The Hong Kong–Macau Interport tournament, jointly organized by ...
(; Portuguese: ''Associação de Futebol de Macau''). The Macau football team has a
ranking
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second.
In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of ...
that is one of the lowest among the
FIFA members. Although usually known as simply ''Macau'', the
EAFF refers to the team as ''Macau, China''.
The national team has never qualified for the
AFC Asian Cup or
EAFF East Asian Championship. The team qualified for the
2006 AFC Challenge Cup
The 2006 AFC Challenge Cup was held between 1 and 16 April 2006 in Bangladesh. Sixteen teams were split into four groups, the top two in each group qualifying for the quarterfinals, and from then on a straight knockout contest. There was no qual ...
, where they got one draw and two losses.
The team had been representing
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...
in international football events before 1999 when Macau was a
dependent territory of
Portugal
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. It continues to represent Macau even after Macau was
handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal and became a
special administrative region of China in 1999. This team is separate from the
China national football team, as the
Basic Law and the principle of "
one country, two systems" allows Macau to maintain its own representative teams in international sports competitions. In Macau, the Macau football team is colloquially referred to as the "Macau team" ( zh, c=澳門隊, labels=no), while the
Chinese national team is referred to as the "national team" ( zh, c=國家隊, labels=no).
FIFA suspension
In 2005 Macau was temporarily barred by
FIFA from entering any international matches because of alleged undue influence of the government in forming the committee of its football association. The suspension was lifted after rectification by Macau.
Recent results and fixtures
2023
Coaching staff
Coaching history
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João dos Santos (1996–1998)
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Masataka Imai (2003–2004)
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Masanaga Kageyama (2006–2008)
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Leung Sui Wing (2008–2015)
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Tam Iao San (2015–2017)
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Chan Hiu Ming
Chan Hiu Ming (; born 19 March 1975) is a Hong Kong professional football manager who is currently the head coach of Hong Kong Premier League club Lee Man.
He holds an AFC Pro License and is also a coaching and fitness instructor for the As ...
(2017–2018)
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Iong Cho Ieng
Iong Cho Ieng (; born 1 September 1973) is a football coach, currently managing Macau.
Managerial career
In 2005, Iong joined the coaching staff for the Macau national football team. In 2016, Iong was appointed head coach of the Macau's under-18 ...
(2018–2019)
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Lázaro Oliveira (2020–present)
Players
Current squad
The following 23 players have been selected to the final squad for the
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against
Sri Lanka on 6 June 2019 and 11 June 2019.
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''Caps and goals correct as of 6 June 2019, after the match against
Sri Lanka.''
Recent call-ups
The following players have also been called up to the Macau squad recently.
Records
:''Players in bold are still active with Macau.''
Most appearances
Top goalscorers
Competition records
World Cup record
AFC Asian Cup
East Asian Cup record
AFC Challenge Cup record
AFC Solidarity Cup record
References
{{National sports teams of Macau
Asian national association football teams