Vatican City national football team

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Vatican City

Association

LCCV

Head coach

Gianfranco Guadagnoli (as of 2002)

Most caps

Top scorer

FIFA code

VAT

FIFA ranking

Elo ranking

221





Home kit





Away kit

First international

Monaco 0 - 0 Vatican City

(November 23, 2002)

Largest win
No victories over international teams

Worst defeat
No losses to international teams

The Vatican City national football team is the football team that plays for the Vatican City. They are one of only eight fully-recognised sovereign states whose national team is not a FIFA member. Others are Monaco, Montenegro, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Micronesia, Nauru, Marshall Islands and Palau.

Vatican City and SV Vollmond before game, 2006

Vatican City have played only one international game, against Monaco on November 23, 2002 in Italy, ending in a 0-0 draw. [1]

The Vatican City recently played a match against a Swiss Club team, SV Vollmond on a small field just outside of the Vatican; Vatican City prevailed 5-1.

The Vatican City squad consists of the Swiss Guards (voluntary military force drawn from male Swiss citizens), members of the Papal council and museum guards (Italian citizens). Since only members of the Swiss Guard can get the citizenship of the Vatican and they cannot be amassed in large numbers for a long time, the national team can play only a few rare international matches often drawing a fair amount of interested press.

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