This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Vatican City women's national football team.
Vatican City
Association
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica
Head coach
Massimiliano Strappetti[1]
Most caps
Antonino Gart Pablo Enrique Amaro Marcello Rosati (5)
Top scorer
Alessandro Quarto Antonino Gart Marco Pouti Nicolò Busincu (1)
Home stadium
Campo Pio XI
First colours
First international
Unofficial Vatican City 3–0 Austrian journalists (1985) Official Vatican City 0–0 San Marino Amateurs (Rome, Italy; 22 November 1994)
Biggest win
Unofficial Vatican City 9–1 Station Carabinieri of Rome (Rome, Italy, 3 February 2011) Official Vatican City 4–3 China U23 (Rome, Italy; 25 October 2008)
Biggest defeat
Unofficial Borussia Mönchengladbach 21–4 Vatican City (Mönchengladbach, Germany; 13 August 2016) Official Palestine 9–1 Vatican City (al-Khader, Palestine; 12 June 2011)
The Vatican City national football team (Italian: Selezione di calcio della Città del Vaticano) is the football team that represents Vatican City under the control of the Vatican Amateur Sports Association, headquartered in the Vatican's Cortile di San Damaso.[3] The Vatican City football association was founded in 1972. Its current president is Domenico Ruggiero.[4][5] Massimiliano Strapetti, an Italian, is the current head coach.[4]
The team played its first match in 1985, a 3–0 victory against a representative of Austrian journalists.[6] In 2018, the Vatican also created a women's representative team.[7]
^"Chi siamo". Sport in Vaticano. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
^Elo rankings change compared to one year ago. "World Football Elo Ratings". eloratings.net. 27 March 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
^Nuti, Nicola. "Vaticano: 7 squadre per il campionato di calcio" (in Italian). News Cattoliche. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
^ abMontague, James (12 May 2014). "A Friendly Game for a Beatific State". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
^"Vaticano". fedefutbol.net. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
^Ferrera, Elena. "VATICANO NEL PALLONE CON SQUADRE PAPALI" (in Italian). altrenotizie.org. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
^Wimmer, Anian Christoph. "Abortion, LGBT activists disrupt Vatican women footballers' debut". catholicherald.co.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
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