The

sport Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

is run by the Associação de Futebol de Macau. The association administers the national football team as well as the

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. The national team has never qualified for the

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or EAFF East Asian Championship. The team qualified for the

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, where they got one draw and two losses. Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, as a result the Sports and Olympic Committee of Macau, China is not recognized as a National Olympic Committee by the

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, the Macau national under-23 football team is unable to take part in the

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. In November 2016, Macau finished second in the 2016 AFC Solidarity Cup. Due to the withdraw of

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and suspension of

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, Macau qualified for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifying third round. There are three major FIFA standard 11 a side football fields in Macau, they are: * Estádio Campo Desportivo * Macau University of Science and Technology Sports Field * Lin Fong Stadium

League system

Domestic tournaments

* Taça da Associação de Futebol de Macau (Macau FA Cup) the national open cup.

Macau stadiums

References

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