Macau national football team
The Macau national football team (; ) 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" (), while  the Chinese national team is referred to as the "national team" (). 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. Recent results and fixtures. 2019. Players. Current squad. The following 23 players have been selected to the final squad for the [2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Sri Lanka on 6 June 2019 and 11 June 2019. "Caps and goals correct as of 6 June 2019, after  the match against Sri Lanka." Recent call-ups. The following players have also been called up to the Macau squad recently.