Macao national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Greens |
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| Association | Macau Football Association |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | EAFF (East Asia) |
| Head coach | Tam Iao San |
| Captain | Cheang Cheng Ieong |
| Most caps | Cheang Cheng Ieong (44) |
| Top scorer | Chan Kin Seng (17) |
| Home stadium | Estádio Campo Desportivo |
| FIFA code | MAC |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 184  (1 June 2017)
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| Highest | 156 (September 1997) |
| Lowest | 204 (July 2014) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 218 (27 April 2017) |
| Highest | 182 (13 February 2000) |
| Lowest | 226 (23 May 2014) |
| First international | |
 Macau 1–5 South Korea  (Macau; 25 January 1949) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Macau 6–1 Northern Mariana Islands  (Yona, Guam; 2009) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
Macau 0–10 Japan  (Muscat, Oman; 25 March 1997) Japan 10–0 Macau (Tokyo, Japan; 22 June 1997) |
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| Macau national football team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 澳門足球代表隊 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 澳门足球代表队 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Àomén zúqiú dàibiǎoduì |
| Wade–Giles | Aomen tsu-ch'iu taipiaotui |
| Yale Romanization | Àumén dzúchyú dàibyǎudwèi |
| IPA | [âumə̌n tsǔtɕʰjǒu tâipjàutwêi] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Yùkmùhn Jeuikaùh Doihbíudeuih |
| IPA | [jʊ̂kmʊ̏n.tsɵ̄ykɐ̏u.tɔ̀ːipǐːutɵ̀y] |
| Jyutping | Juk1 mun4 zeoi3 kau4 doi6 biu2 deoi6 |
The Macau 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 refer to the team as Macau, China.
The national team has never qualified to the AFC Asian Cup or EAFF East Asian Championship. The team qualified to 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 the People's Republic of China in 1999. This team is separate from the China PR 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 as the "Macau team" (Chinese: 澳門隊), while the China PR national football team is referred as the "national team" (Chinese: 國家隊).
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