| Palau | |
| Badge: | File:Seal of Palau.svg |
| Badge Size: | 170px |
| Association: | Palau Football Association |
| Confederation: | None |
| Coach: | Lukeson Sifix |
| Most Caps: | Stephen Stefano (6) |
| Top Scorer: | Stephen Stefano (5) |
| Fifa Trigramme: | PLW |
| Elo Max: | 222 |
| Elo Max Date: | August 1998 |
| Elo Min: | 239 |
| Elo Min Date: | September 2019 |
| Home Stadium: | PCC Track and Field Stadium |
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| First Game: | 6–2 (Adelaide, Australia; 27 March 1987) |
| Largest Win: | 7–1 (Koror City, Palau; 27 July 1998) 7–1 (Koror City, Palau; 28 July 1998) |
| Largest Loss: | 2–15 (Koror City, Palau; 1 August 1998) |
| 2Ndregional Name: | Micronesian Games |
| 2Ndregional Cup Apps: | 3 |
| 2Ndregional Cup First: | 1998 |
| 2Ndregional Cup Best: | Runners-up (2014) |
The Palau national football team represents Palau in international football. The team is not affiliated with FIFA or a local confederation. The team play their home games at the PCC Track and Field Stadium in the town of Koror City. Currently, the side is ranked as the worst national team in the world by the Elo rating system.
Palau hosted and competed in the Micronesian Games in 1998, in which they finished third. In the tournament, teams were 9-a-side and the matches were 80 minutes in duration and were played on a pitch which was below regulation size. In addition to their first team, Palau also fielded a team consisting of Bangladeshis living on the island.[1] They reached the final in the Micronesian Games in 2014,[2] where the team's trip was partly covered by internet crowd funding.[3]
The Palau national football team was affiliated with OFC between 2007 and 2009. It is currently not a member of OFC.
| " colspan=9 | OFC Nations Cup record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | |||||||
 1973 | Not a member of the OFC | ||||||||
 1980 | |||||||||
| 1996 | |||||||||
 1998 | |||||||||
| 2000 | |||||||||
| 2002 | |||||||||
| 2004 | |||||||||
| 2008 | Did not enter | ||||||||
 2012 | Not a member of the OFC | ||||||||
 2016 | |||||||||
| 2020 | Cancelled | ||||||||
 2024 | Not a member of the OFC | ||||||||
| Total | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Micronesian Games record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | |||||||
 1998 | Third place | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 40 | |
| 2001 | Did not enter | ||||||||
| 2014 | Runners-up | 2nd | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | |
| 2018 | Third place | 3rd | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
 2026 | To be determined | ||||||||
| Total | Runners-up | 3/3 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 39 | 53 | |
Palau's score is shown first in each case.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponents | Score | Competition | class=unsortable | Palau scorers | Att. | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide (N) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 2–6 | Friendly | Unknown | – | [4] | |||
| 2 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | align=center bgcolor=#ddffdd | 7–1 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | ||||
| 3 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | align=center bgcolor=#ddffdd | 7–1 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | ||||
| — | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 3–8 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | ||||
| 4 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 1–12 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | [5] | |||
| 5 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 2–15 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | ||||
| — | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | align=center bgcolor=#ddffdd | 6–3 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Stefano (5), unknown goal | – | ||||
| 6 | PICS Field & Track, Palikir (A) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 1–3 | 2014 Micronesian Games | Mitchell | – | ||||
| 7 | PICS Field & Track, Palikir (N) | align=center bgcolor=#ddffdd | 5–0 | 2014 Micronesian Games | Bishop Jr., Miah, Nicolescu, Canseco, unknown (o.g.) | – | ||||
| 8 | PICS Field & Track, Palikir (N) | align=center bgcolor=#ffffcc | 2–2 | 2014 Micronesian Games | Canseco, Mitchell | – | ||||
| 9 | PICS Field & Track, Palikir (A) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 1–3 | 2014 Micronesian Games | Mitchell | – | ||||
| 10 | Yap Sports Complex, Gagil (N) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 1–2 | 2018 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | [6] | |||
| 11 | Yap Sports Complex, Gagil (N) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 0–1 | 2018 Micronesian Games | – | |||||
| 12 | Yap Sports Complex, Gagil (A) | align=center bgcolor=#ffdddd | 1–2 | 2018 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | ||||
| 13 | Yap Sports Complex, Gagil (N) | align=center bgcolor=#ddffdd | 2–0 | 2018 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – |
Up to matches played on 23 July 2018.
| scope=col | Opponent | scope=col width=30 | scope=col width=30 | scope=col width=30 | scope=col width=30 | scope=col width=30 | scope=col width=30 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | |||||||
| scope=row | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 15 | |||||||
| scope=row | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |||||||
| scope=row | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 11 | |||||||
| scope=row | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | |||||||
| scope=row | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||||
| scope=row | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | |||||||
| Total | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 41 | 59 |
See List of Palau international footballers.
Charles Reklai Mitchell - played for Cal State Northridge Matadors 
[7] [8]| +Most appearances | |||||||
| width=20px | Rank | Name | width=40px | Caps | width=40px | Goals | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Stefano | 6 | 5 | 1998 | |||
| 2 | Armando Canseco | 4 | 2 | 2014 | |||
| Charles Reklai Mitchell | 3 | 2014 | |||||
| Christian Etpison Nicolescu | 1 | 2014 | |||||
| Mohoshin Miah | 1 | 2014 | |||||
| Robert Victor Bishop Jr. | 1 | 2014 | |||||
| +Top goalscorers | |||||||||
| width=20px | Rank | Name | width=40px | Goals | width=40px | Caps | width=40px | Ratio | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Stefano | 5 | 6 | 1998 | |||||
| 2 | Charles Reklai Mitchell | 3 | 4 | 2014 | |||||
| 3 | Armando Canseco | 2 | 4 | 2014 | |||||
| 4 | Christian Etpison Nicolescu | 1 | 4 | 2014 | |||||
| Mohoshin Miah | 4 | 2014 | |||||||
| Robert Victor Bishop Jr. | 4 | 2014 | |||||||
