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Association | Palau Football Association | ||
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Confederation | None | ||
Head coach | Lukeson Sifix | ||
Most caps | Stephen Stefano (6) | ||
Top scorer | Stephen Stefano (5) | ||
Home stadium | PCC Track and Field Stadium | ||
FIFA code | PLW | ||
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First international | |||
Vanuatu 6–2 Palau (Adelaide, Australia; 27 March 1987) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Palau 7–1 Yap (Koror City, Palau; 27 July 1998) Palau 7–1 Pohnpei (Koror City, Palau; 28 July 1998) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Palau 2–15 Guam (Koror City, Palau; 1 August 1998) |
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. They reached the final in the Micronesian Games in 2014, where the team's trip was partly covered by internet crowd funding.
Micronesian Games record | ||||||||
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Year | Result | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
1998 | Third place | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 40 |
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 |
The Palau national football team was affiliated with OFC between 2007 and 2009. It is currently not a member of OFC.
OFC Nations Cup record | ||||||||
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Year | Result | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
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 | |||||||
Total | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Palau's score is shown first in each case.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponents | Score | Competition | Palau scorers | Att. | Ref. |
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1 | 27 March 1987 | Adelaide (N) | Vanuatu | 2–6 | Friendly | Unknown | – | |
2 | 27 July 1998 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | Yap | 7–1 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | |
3 | 28 July 1998 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | Pohnpei | 7–1 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | |
— | 30 July 1998 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | Palau B | 3–8 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | |
4 | 31 July 1998 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | Northern Mariana Islands | 1–12 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | |
5 | 1 August 1998 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | Guam | 2–15 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | |
— | 2 August 1998 | Emmaus High School Field, Koror (H) | Palau B | 6–3 | 1998 Micronesian Games | Stefano (5), unknown goal | – | |
6 | 25 July 2014 | PICS Field & Track, Palikir (A) | Pohnpei | 1–3 | 2014 Micronesian Games | Mitchell | – | |
7 | 26 July 2014 | PICS Field & Track, Palikir (N) | Chuuk | 5–0 | 2014 Micronesian Games | Bishop Jr., Miah, Nicolescu, Canseco, unknown (o.g.) | – | |
8 | 28 July 2014 | PICS Field & Track, Palikir (N) | Yap | 2–2 | 2014 Micronesian Games | Canseco, Mitchell | – | |
9 | 29 July 2014 | PICS Field & Track, Palikir (A) | Pohnpei | 1–3 | 2014 Micronesian Games | Mitchell | – | |
10 | 23 July 2018 | Yap Sports Complex, Gagil (N) | Pohnpei | 1–2 | 2018 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | |
11 | 24 July 2018 | Yap Sports Complex, Gagil (N) | Chuuk | 0–1 | 2018 Micronesian Games | – | ||
12 | 25 July 2018 | Yap Sports Complex, Gagil (A) | Yap | 1–2 | 2018 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – | |
13 | 26 July 2018 | Yap Sports Complex, Gagil (N) | Chuuk | 2–0 | 2018 Micronesian Games | Unknown | – |
Up to matches played on 23 July 2018.
Opponent | P | W | D | L | GF | GA |
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Chuuk | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
Guam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
Northern Mariana Islands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
Palau B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 11 |
Pohnpei | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 |
Vanuatu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
Yap | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
Total | 15 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 41 | 59 |
See List of Palau international footballers.
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