Macau national football team

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.

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)
AssociationMacau Football Association
ConfederationAFC (Asia)
Sub-confederationEAFF (East Asia)
Head coachIong Cho Ieng
CaptainLa Ka Seng
Most capsCheang Cheng Ieong (49)
Top scorerChan Kin Seng (17)[1]
Home stadiumEstádio Campo Desportivo
FIFA codeMAC
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 182 (10 December 2020)[2]
Highest156 (September 1997)
Lowest204 (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
Appearances1 (first in 2016)
Best resultRunners-up, 2016
AFC Challenge Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2006)
Best resultGroup stage, 2006
Macau national football team
Traditional Chinese澳門足球代表隊
Simplified Chinese澳门足球代表队

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).

FIFA suspension

In 2005 Macau was temporarily barred by the FIFA to enter any international matches because of alleged undue influence of the government in forming the committee of its football association. The suspension was subsequently lifted after rectification by Macau.[4][5]

Competition records
See also: Macau national football team results

World Cup record
FIFA World Cup FIFA World Cup qualification
Year Result Position Pld W D* L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
1994Did not qualify 6006146
1998 6114328
2002 6006231
2006 200216
2010 2002213
2014 2002113
2018 201114
2022 210113
2026To be determined To be determined
Total–0/22–––––– 28222412144

AFC Asian Cup record
AFC Asian Cup AFC Asian Cup qualification
Year Result Position GP W D L GS GA GP W D L GS GA
1956Did not enter Did not enter
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980Did not qualify 310247
1984Did not enter Did not enter
1988
1992Did not qualify 311144
1996 3102712
2000 310214
2004 200205
2007 AFC Challenge Cup
2011 AFC Challenge Cup
2015 AFC Challenge Cup
2019 8017520
2023 210113
Total0/18––––––– 2452172255

Asian Games
Football at the Asian Games has been an under-23 tournament since 2002.
See also: Macau national under-23 football team
Asian Games Record
Year Result GP W D* L GS GA
1951-000000
1954-000000
1958-000000
1962-000000
1966-000000
1970-000000
1974-000000
1978-000000
1982-000000
1986-000000
1990-000000
1994-000000
1998-000000
2002–present See Macau national under-23 football team
Total0/0000000

East Asian Cup record
  • 2003 – Did not qualify (3rd place in Preliminary)
  • 2005 – Did not enter
  • 2008 – Did not qualify (4th place in Preliminary)
  • 2010 – Did not qualify (3rd place in Preliminary)
  • 2013 – Did not qualify (2nd place in Preliminary)
  • 2015 – Did not qualify (2nd place in Preliminary)
  • 2017 – Did not qualify (3rd place in Preliminary)

AFC Challenge Cup record

AFC Solidarity Cup record

Recent results and fixtures

2019
13 October 2019 Friendly Singapore  v  Macau Singapore
19:45 Stadium: Bishan Stadum


  Win   Draw   Loss

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players have been selected to the final squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round qualifiers against Sri Lanka on 6 June 2019 and 11 June 2019.[6]

Caps and goals as of 7 June 2019

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Ho Man Fai (1993-04-24) 24 April 1993 33 0 Monte Carlo
22 1GK Fong Chi Hang (1989-10-26) 26 October 1989 1 0 Cheng Fung
23 1GK U Wai Chon (1999-03-19) 19 March 1999 0 0 Development
2 2DF Lei Ka Him (1991-08-16) 16 August 1991 26 1 Chao Pak Kei
4 2DF Kam Chi Hou (1995-04-04) 4 April 1995 10 0 Chao Pak Kei
3 2DF Lei Chi Kin (1990-10-24) 24 October 1990 12 0 Benfica de Macau
5 2DF Lam Ka Pou (1985-07-10) 10 July 1985 15 0 Hang Sai
6 2DF Ng Wa Seng (1999-08-02) 2 August 1999 10 0 Central and Western
7 2DF Chan Man (1993-10-04) 4 October 1993 24 2 Benfica de Macau
8 2DF Vernon Wong (1989-11-19) 19 November 1989 19 1 Ka I
13 2DF Filipe Duarte (1985-03-30) 30 March 1985 9 3 Benfica de Macau
19 2DF Lei Ka Hou (1989-07-23) 23 July 1989 8 0 Benfica de Macau
20 2DF Herculano Monteiro (1983-11-05) 5 November 1983 0 0 Polícia
11 3MF Lam Ka Seng (1994-05-28) 28 May 1994 21 3 Chao Pak Kei
14 4FW Lee Keng Pan (1990-02-28) 28 February 1990 12 0 Benfica de Macau
15 3MF Cheong Hoi San (1998-06-28) 28 June 1998 10 0 Monte Carlo
16 2DF Lam Ngai Tong (1990-01-13) 13 January 1990 5 0 Happy Valley
17 3MF Kong Cheng Hou (1986-08-02) 2 August 1986 39 0 Ka I
18 3MF Ng Wa Keng (1999-08-02) 2 August 1999 3 0 Hang Sai
21 3MF Pang Chi Hang (1993-11-03) 3 November 1993 22 0 Chao Pak Kei
9 4FW Ho Ka Seng (1993-10-21) 21 October 1993 3 0 Chao Pak Kei
10 4FW Niki Torrão (1987-11-18) 18 November 1987 16 8 Benfica de Macau
12 4FW Ho Man Hou (1988-11-05) 5 November 1988 19 5 Tim Iec

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Macau squad recently.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
GK Lo Weng Hou (1996-01-31) 31 January 1996 2 0 Development EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2019 Round 1
DF Chan Pak Chun (1985-12-05) 5 December 1985 11 1 Sporting Clube de Macau EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2019 Round 1
MF Ho Chi Fung (1994-09-30) 30 September 1994 16 0 Monte Carlo EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2019 Round 1
FW Leong Ka Hang (1992-11-22) 22 November 1992 32 12 Lee Man EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2019 Round 1
FW Carlos Leonel (1987-07-28) 28 July 1987 6 4 Benfica de Macau EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2019 Round 1

Coaching staff

Goalkeeper coach - William Chu

References
  1. Mamrud, Roberto; Stokkermans, Karel. "Players with 100+ Caps and 30+ International Goals". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  2. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  3. "Macao matches, ratings and points exchanged". World Football Elo Ratings: Macao. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  4. "Macau suspended by FIFA due to political interference". ESPN. 15 February 2005. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  5. "FIFA suspends the Macau Football Association". FIFA. 15 February 2005. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  6. "2022年國際足聯卡塔爾世界盃預賽暨亞洲盃聯合預選賽第一圈事宜". Macau FA. Retrieved 3 June 2019. (in Chinese)
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