| Macau | |
| Badge: | Flag of Macau.svg |
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| Sub-Confederation: | EAFF (East Asia) |
| Confederation: | AFC (Asia) |
| Association: | Associação de Futebol de Macau |
| Coach: | Kwok Kar Lok |
| Captain: | Chan Man |
| Most Caps: | Cheang Cheng Ieong (58) |
| Top Scorer: | Chan Kin Seng (17) |
| Home Stadium: | Estádio Campo Desportivo |
| Fifa Trigramme: | MAC |
| Fifa Max: | 156 |
| Fifa Max Date: | September 1997 |
| Fifa Min: | 204 |
| Fifa Min Date: | July 2014 |
| Elo Max: | 182 |
| Elo Max Date: | 13 February 2000 |
| Elo Min: | 229 |
| Elo Min Date: | March 2015 |
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| First Game: | (Macau; 29 March 1948) |
| Largest Win: | (Yona, Guam; 11 March 2009) |
| Largest Loss: | (Muscat, Oman; 25 March 1997) 10–0 (Tokyo, Japan; 22 June 1997) |
| Regional Name: | AFC Solidarity Cup |
| Regional Cup Apps: | 1 |
| Regional Cup First: | 2016 |
| Regional Cup Best: | Runners-up, (2016) |
| 2Ndregional Name: | AFC Challenge Cup |
| 2Ndregional Cup Apps: | 1 |
| 2Ndregional Cup First: | 2006 |
| 2Ndregional Cup Best: | Group stage, (2006) |
| Showflag: | stp |
| T: | 澳門足球代表隊 |
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| Ci: | ōumǔːn.tsʊ́k̚kʰɐ̏u.tɔ̀ːipǐːutɵ̌y |
The Macau national football team (; pt|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 (; 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" (Chinese: c=澳門隊|labels=no), while the Chinese national team is referred to as the "national team" (Chinese: c=國家隊|labels=no).
Macau participated in the inaugural 2006 AFC Challenge Cup held in Bangladesh being grouped with Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan but lost all of their match against their opponent.
Macau then participated in the inaugural 2016 AFC Solidarity Cup held in Kuching, Malaysia being grouped with Laos, Mongolia and Sri Lanka. In the first match, Macau won Mongolia 2–1 with captain, Niki Torrão scoring a brace. The following match, Macau won Laos 4–1 before eventually drawing to Sri Lanka 1–1 which see Macau advanced to the semi-finals as group leaders. Macau faced Brunei which Leong Ka Hang rescued Macau from a one goal deficit to level the match at 1–1 seeing both sides off to extra time however the match goes on to penalties shoot out with Macau advancing to their first even international cup final. On 15 November 2016, Macau faced Nepal however in the 29' minute of the match, Nepalese Sujal Shrestha break the deadlock and Nepal ended up winning the 2016 AFC Solidarity Cup at the Sarawak Stadium. Leong Ka Hang is given the tournament 'Most Valuable Player' and Niki Torrão as the top joint goal scorer with 4 goals.
During the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification against Sri Lanka in which they won the first tie 1–0, they forfeited the second tie which awarded Sri Lanka was awarded as a 3–0 victory to Sri Lanka after Macau did not send their team for the match due to safety reasons following the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. After a 4 years hiatus from the COVID-19 pandemic, On 26 March 2023, Macau play their first ever international matches at their own ground,Estádio Campo Desportivo against Singapore in a 1–0 defeat. On 19 June 2023, Macau travelled to Dalian, China to face Myanmar in a friendly match. Since their returned to international football, Macau mostly played against Southeast Asian country like Cambodia and Brunei.
In August 2024, all non-Chinese nationals listed to play for the Macau Football Association became ineligible for the team under FIFA Congress's adoption to a rule amendment made in 18 September 2020. The players affected include Vitor Almeida, Iuri Capelo, captain Nicholas Torrão, and Filipe Duarte, as well as a fifth player who was about to join up.[1]
In September 2024, Macau signed a deal with Adidas in preparation for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup qualification – play-off round ending their 10-years partnership with Nike. It will also see the team back in Adidas since 2004.
See also: Hong Kong–Macau Interport.
The Hong Kong–Macau rivalry has been contested by Hong Kong Football Association and Macau Football Association since 1937.
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.
See main article: Macau national football team results. The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
| Position | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Team Manager |  Zhang Liqun | |
| Head coach |  Kwok Kar Lok | |
| Assistant coaches | Pedro Simões Lai Yong Luo Wei Xing Cai Cheng Zhang < | -- Raimundo Ng Francisco Lai Filipe Chiang--> |
| Doctor | Liu Zhi Liang | |
| Staff |  Lok Chong-keong < | --- Cheang Hou Chi---> |
| Technical director | Iong Cho Ieng---> |
João dos Santos (1996–1998)
Eiji Ueda (2000–2002) Masataka Imai (2003–2004) Masanaga Kageyama (2006–2008) Leung Sui Wing (2008–2015) Chan Hiu Ming (2017–2018)
Lázaro Oliveira (2020–2024) Kwok Kar Lok (2024–)The following players are selected for the matches against Brunei on 6 and 10 September 2024.
Caps and goals correct as of 10 September 2023, after the match against Brunei.
The following players have also been called up to the Macau squad within the previous 12 months.
RET Player retired from international football
Players in bold are still active with Macau.
| width=30px | Rank | Player | width=50px | Caps | width=50px | Goals | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheang Cheng Ieong | 58 | 0 | 2005–2018 | |||
| 2 | Ho Man Fai | 45 | 0 | 2011–present | |||
| 3 | 43 | 0 | 2006–2019 | ||||
| 4 | Che Chi Man | 34 | 6 | 1996–2013 | |||
| Pang Chi Hang | 34 | 1 | 2012–present | ||||
| 6 | Geofredo Cheung | 33 | 3 | 2001–2011 | |||
| 7 | Chan Man | 32 | 2 | 2011–present | |||
| 8 | Lei Ka Him | 31 | 1 | 2010–2019 | |||
| 9 | Lam Ka Seng | 30 | 6 | 2014–present | |||
| Lao Pak Kin | 30 | 1 | 2005–2017 | ||||
| Leong Ka Hang | 30 | 12 | 2010–2021 | ||||
| width=30px | Rank | Player | width=50px | Goals | width=50px | Caps | width=50px | Ratio | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chan Kin Seng | 17 | 29 | 2006–2013 | |||||
| 2 | Leong Ka Hang | 12 | 30 | 2010–2021 | |||||
| 3 | Niki Torrão | 9 | 21 | 2011–present | |||||
| 4 | Lam Ka Seng | 6 | 30 | 2014–present | |||||
| Che Chi Man | 6 | 34 | 1996–2013 | ||||||
| 6 | Ho Man Hou | 5 | 19 | 2006–2015 | |||||
| 7 | Carlos Leonel | 4 | 8 | 2017–2018 | |||||
| Pelé | 4 | 9 | 1996–1997 | ||||||
| 9 | Filipe Duarte | 3 | 13 | 2016–2023 | |||||
| Chong In Leong | 3 | 24 | 2001–2011 | ||||||
| Geofredo Cheung | 3 | 33 | 2001–2011 | ||||||
| FIFA World Cup | Qualification | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | |||||||||||||
| 1930 to 1978 | Not a FIFA member | Not a FIFA member | |||||||||||||
 1982 | Did not qualify | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | ||||||||
 1986 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 15 | |||||||||
 1990 | Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||
 1994 | Did not qualify | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 46 | ||||||||
 1998 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 28 | |||||||||
| 2002 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 31 | |||||||||
 2006 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
 2010 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 13 | |||||||||
 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | |||||||||
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
 2022 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
 2026 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||
 2030 | To be determined | To be determined | |||||||||||||
 2034 | |||||||||||||||
| Total | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 39 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 17 | 173 | ||
| AFC Asian Cup | width=1% rowspan=39 | AFC Asian Cup qualification | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | ||||||||||||||
| Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||||||||||
 1964 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1968 | ||||||||||||||||
 1972 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | ||||||||||||||||
 1980 | Did not qualify | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||
 1984 | Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Did not qualify | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
 1996 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 12 | ||||||||||
 2000 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
 2004 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Did not qualify | AFC Challenge Cup | ||||||||||||||
 2015 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 20 | ||||||||||
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 2027 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Total | – | 0/19 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 28 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 23 | 64 | ||
| East Asian Football Championship Finals | Preliminary competition | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | ||||||||||||||
| East Asian Football Championship | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Did not qualify | 3rd | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| 2005 | Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Did not qualify | 4th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
| 2010 | 3rd | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | |||||||||
| EAFF East Asian Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Did not qualify | 2nd | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||
| 2015 | 2nd | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| EAFF E-1 Football Championship | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Did not qualify | 3rd | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||
| 2019 | 2nd | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||
| 2022 | Did not participate | Not held | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
| Total | – | 0/9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 36 | |
| AFC Challenge Cup record | Qualification record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | |||||||||||||
 2006 | Group stage | 15th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | No qualification | ||||||
 2008 | Did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||
 2010 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |||||||||
 2012 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||
 2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Total | Group stage | 1/5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 29 | |
| AFC Solidarity Cup | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | ||||||
 2016 | Runners-up | 2nd | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 |
| 2020 | Cancelled | |||||||
| Total | Runners-up | 1/1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 |
As of 10 September 2024 after match against
| Opponents | First | Last | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Confederation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1970 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | −9 | AFC | ||
| 2009 | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | AFC | ||
| 2023 | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | AFC | ||
| 1985 | 2024 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | AFC | ||
| 2008 | 2023 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 18 | −11 | AFC | ||
| 1978 | 1999 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 26 | −23 | AFC | ||
| 1992 | 2016 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 36 | −24 | AFC | ||
| 2003 | 2018 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | AFC | ||
| 1982 | 2017 | 39 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 28 | 121 | −93 | AFC | ||
| 2017 | 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | AFC | ||
| 2001 | 2001 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | −13 | AFC | ||
| 1980 | 2000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 26 | −26 | AFC | ||
| 2001 | 2001 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | UEFA | ||
| 1980 | 2007 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | −11 | AFC | ||
| 1949 | 1993 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | −9 | AFC | ||
| 1993 | 1993 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 18 | −17 | AFC | ||
| 2013 | 2017 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | −5 | AFC | ||
| 2016 | 2017 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | AFC | ||
| 1993 | 2016 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 | −14 | AFC | ||
| 2018 | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | CAF | ||
| 1993 | 2018 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 14 | +4 | AFC | ||
| 2009 | 2023 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 26 | −22 | AFC | ||
| 1997 | 2016 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 16 | −9 | AFC | ||
| 1975 | 1975 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | OFC | ||
| 2009 | 2018 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | +10 | AFC | ||
| 1997 | 1997 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | AFC | ||
| 2003 | 2013 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | AFC | ||
| 1975 | 1975 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | CONCACAF | ||
| 1978 | 2012 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 14 | −7 | AFC | ||
| 1993 | 1993 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | −14 | AFC | ||
| 2000 | 2023 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | −4 | AFC | ||
| 2018 | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | −3 | OFC | ||
| 2016 | 2019 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | AFC | ||
| 2006 | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | −7 | AFC | ||
| 2007 | 2007 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 15 | −13 | AFC | ||
| 2011 | 2011 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | −12 | AFC |