This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Macau women's national football team.
Macau
Nickname(s)
Selecção do Lótus (The Lotus' Team) Verdes (The Greens)
Association
Associação de Futebol de Macau
Confederation
AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation
EAFF (East Asia)
Head coach
Lázaro Oliveira
Captain
Niki Torrão
Most caps
Cheang Cheng Ieong (58)
Top scorer
Chan Kin Seng (17)[1]
Home stadium
Estádio Campo Desportivo
FIFA code
MAC
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current
186 1 (4 April 2024)[2]
Highest
156 (September 1997)
Lowest
204 (July 2014)
First international
Macau 4–2 Hong Kong (Macau; 29 March 1948)[3]
Biggest win
Macau 6–1 Northern Mariana Islands (Yona, Guam; 11 March 2009)
Biggest defeat
Macau 0–10 Japan (Muscat, Oman; 25 March 1997) Japan 10–0 Macau (Tokyo, Japan; 22 June 1997)
AFC Solidarity Cup
Appearances
1 (first in 2016)
Best result
Runners-up, (2016)
AFC Challenge Cup
Appearances
1 (first in 2006)
Best result
Group stage, (2006)
Macau national football team
Traditional Chinese
澳門足球代表隊
Simplified Chinese
澳门足球代表队
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Àomén zúqiú dàibiǎoduì
Wade–Giles
Aomen tsu-ch'iu taipiaotui
Yale Romanization
Àumén dzúchyú dàibyǎudwèi
IPA
[âʊmə̌n tsǔtɕʰjǒʊ tâɪpjàʊtwêɪ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Yùkmùhn Jeuikaùh Doihbíudeuih
Jyutping
Juk1 mun4 zeoi3 kau4 doi6 biu2 deoi6
IPA
[jʊ̂kmʊ̏n.tsɵ̄ykɐ̏u.tɔ̀ːipǐːutɵ̀y]
The Macau national football team (Chinese: 澳門足球代表隊; Portuguese: Selecção Macaense de Futebol) represents the Chinese special administrative region of Macau in international association football. The team is supervised by the Macau Football Association (Chinese: 澳門足球總會; Portuguese: Associação de Futebol de Macau). The Macau football team has a ranking 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, where they got one draw and two losses.
The team had been representing Macau in international football events before 1999 when Macau was a dependent territory of Portugal. 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" (澳門隊), while the Chinese national team is referred to as the "national team" (國家隊).
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^"The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
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^Elo rankings change compared to one year ago. "World Football Elo Ratings". eloratings.net. 27 March 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
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Global Information
1 (4 April 2024)[2]
Macau 4–2 Hong Kong 
Macau 6–1 Northern Mariana Islands 
Macau 0–10 Japan 
