Monaco national football team

Summary

The Monaco national football team is a national side that represents Monaco in association football. The team is controlled by the Monégasque Football Federation, the governing body for all football in Monaco. Monaco is not a member of FIFA or UEFA, and therefore cannot enter the FIFA World Cup nor the UEFA European Championship. Monaco was a founding member of the N.F.-Board in 2003, and finished second in the 2006 VIVA World Cup inaugural edition. However, due to political opposition, Monaco severed ties with the organization in 2010.[3]

Monaco
Shirt badge/Association crest
AssociationFédération Monégasque de Football
ConfederationConIFA (Former)
Head coachThierry Petit
Most capsÉric Fissore
Yohan Garino (7)
Top scorerOlivier Lechner (6)
Home stadiumStade Louis II
Stade Didier Deschamps
FIFA codeMON[1]
First colours
First international
 Gibraltar 5–0 Monaco 
(Gibraltar; 11 June 2000)
Biggest win
 Monaco 13–1 Chechnya 
(Cap-d'Ail, France; 18 February 2006)
Biggest defeat
 Sápmi 21–1 Monaco 
(Hyères, France; 24 November 2006)
VIVA World Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2006)
Best resultRunners-up (2006)

History edit

Beginnings edit

After the foundation of the Monégasque Football Federation in April 2000, Monaco played its first match in June of the same year against Gibraltar, losing 5–0. After this match, Monaco would return to play a match a year later against Tibet, in Freiburg, in Germany, winning 2–1.

Overview edit

Since 2001, Monaco has participated in twenty-seven games, winning eight, drawing six, and losing thirteen. The team competes against local clubs, nations, unrecognized states, people groups, and territories. Monaco is managed by Martino López, and competes at the Stade Didier Deschamps in Cap-d'Ail, France.[4] According to Elo Ratings, Monaco is ranked 200th in the world as of November 2020.[5]

The team's roster is composed of roughly sixty men; only five offer professional experience, since the team is mainly made up of civil servants and employees of the Société des bains de mer de Monaco. [6]

Last squad edit

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
16 1GK Anthony Minioni 2  
1 1GK Thierry Vatrican (1975-08-19) 19 August 1975 (age 48) 5  
2DF Marc Vassallo (1999-11-28) 28 November 1999 (age 24)  
2DF John Landau  
2DF Eric Fissore  
2DF Julien Sirio  
2DF Jean-Paul Pennacino  
3MF Romain Armita  
3MF Anthony Rinaldi  
3MF Fabien Gallis  
3MF Remy Rinaldi  
3MF Olivier Pasquier  
3MF Anthony Houry  
3MF Benoît Biancheri (2000-11-28) 28 November 2000 (age 23)  
4FW Guy Platto  
4FW Olivier Lechner  
4FW Sergio Bonnaventura (2000-11-28) 28 November 2000 (age 23)  

Competitive record edit

VIVA World Cup
Year Result Position GP W D L GS GA Squad
  2006 Runners-up 2nd 4 2 0 2 7 37 Squad
  2008 Did not enter
  2009
  2010
  2012
ConIFA World Football Cup
  2014 Did not enter
  2016
  2018
Total Runners-up 1/9 4 2 0 2 7 37

Complete international results edit

2000s edit

11 June 2000 Friendly Gibraltar   5–0   Monaco Gibraltar
  ?' [Report] Stadium: Victoria Stadium
Note: Monaco fielded players from the Monaco league, some of them French nationals[7]
14 July 2001 Friendly Monaco   2–1   Tibet Freiburg, Germany
Damien Choisit   ?'
Serge Turuan   ?'
[8]   ?' Stadium: Dreisamstadion
18 February 2002 Friendly Monaco   2–2   Gibraltar Cap-d'Ail, France
[9] Olivier Pasquier   25'
Jean-Paul Pennacino   47'[10]
Report Dylan Moreno   15' (pen.)
Lee Casciaro   70' (pen.)
Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail
23 November 2002 Friendly Vatican City   0–0   Monaco Albano Laziale, Italy
[11] Stadium: Stadio Pio XII
12 February 2005 Friendly Occitania   0–0   Monaco Béziers, France
[12] Stadium: Stade Raoul-Barrière
17 May 2005 Friendly Monaco   1–1   Occitania Cap-d'Ail, France
[13] Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail
27 May 2005 Friendly Gibraltar   4–0   Monaco Gibraltar
[14] Stadium: Victoria Stadium
17 December 2005 Friendly Monaco   2–1   Occitania Cap-d'Ail, France
[15] Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail
18 February 2006 Friendly Monaco   13–1   Chechnya Cap-d'Ail, France
Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail
22 April 2006 Friendly Monaco   1–7   Kosovo Cap-d'Ail, France
  ?' Report Haxhi Zeka   15'
Uliks Emra   17', 65'
Dukagjin Gashi   29'
Sunaj Keqi   75'
Isuf Llumnica   82'
Shpëtim Idrizi   83' [16]
Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail
20 November 2006 2006 VIVA World Cup Monaco   3–0   Ambazonia Costebelle, France
13:30 CET walkover
[17]
Stadium: Stade Gaby Robert
Note: [18]
21 November 2006 2006 VIVA World Cup Monaco   3–2   Occitania Hyères, France
15:30 CET Olivier Lechner   20'
Guy Platto   53'
Anthony Houry   59'
(Report) Patric Léglise   51'
Sebastian Rojas   72'
Stadium: Stade L’Ayguade
23 November 2006 2006 VIVA World Cup Monaco   0–14   Sápmi Hyères, France
15:30 CET (Report) Trond Olsen   5', 17', 45', 50'
Steffen Nystrøm   12', 16', 23', 28'
Magnus Andersen   26'
Olav Råstad   40'
Eirik Lamøy   57'
Espen Bruer   66'
Tom Høgli   77'
Jonas Johansen   83'
Stadium: Stade L’Ayguade
24 November 2006 2006 VIVA World Cup Monaco   1–21   Sápmi Hyères, France
15:30 CET Romain Armita   50' (Report) Trond Olsen   5'
Tom Høgli   7', 20', 40'
Eirik Lamøy   32', 39', 51', 55'
Steffen Nystrøm   35'
Olav Råstad   38', 45' (pen.)
Espen Bruer   59', 81'
Jonas Johansen   62', 65', 88'
Leif Arne Brekke   72' (pen.)
Torkil Nilssen   76', 78'
Espen Minde   84'
Matti Eira   87'[19]
Stadium: Stade L’Ayguade
8 November 2008 Friendly Occitania   2–2   Monaco Caraglio, Italy
  ?' [20]   ?'
20 December 2008 Friendly Monaco   2–3   Provence Cap-d'Ail, France
  ?' [21]   ?' Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail

2010s edit

3 April 2010 Friendly Monaco   1–5   Occitania Saint Dalmas-de-Tende, France
  ?' [22]   ?'
3 May 2011 Friendly Vatican City   1–2   Monaco Albano Laziale, Italy
Alessandro Quarto   ?' [23]   ?' Stadium: Stadio Pio XII
11 June 2011 Friendly Monaco   1–3   Croatia Amateurs Cap-d'Ail, France
  ?' [24]   ?' Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail
6 October 2012 Friendly Monaco   1–2   Raetia Beausoleil, France
  ?' [25]   ?' Stadium: Stade des Moneghetti
13 February 2013 Friendly Provence   6–1   Monaco Saint-Zacharie, France
  ?' [26]   ?' Stadium: Stade François Coulomb
22 June 2013 Friendly Monaco   2–0   Vatican City Cap-d'Ail, France
Morgan Escarras   9'
Eric Fissore   34'
[27] Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail
10 May 2014 Friendly Vatican City   0–2   Monaco Rome, Italy
[30]   ?' Stadium: Campo Pio XI
27 April 2017 Friendly Vatican City   0–0   Monaco Rome, Italy
[31] Stadium: Campo Pio XI

Head-to-head record edit

As of 27 April 2017

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD WPCT
  Ambazonia 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 100.00
  Chechnya 1 1 0 0 13 1 +12 100.00
  Croatia Amateurs 1 0 0 1 1 3 −2 0.00
  Ellan Vannin 1 0 0 1 0 10 −10 0.00
  Gibraltar 3 0 1 2 2 11 −9 0.00
  Kosovo 1 0 0 1 1 7 −6 0.00
  Occitania 6 2 3 1 9 11 −2 33.33
  Provence 2 0 0 2 3 9 −6 0.00
  Raetia 1 0 0 1 1 2 −1 0.00
  Sápmi 2 0 0 2 1 35 −34 0.00
  Tibet 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 100.00
  Vatican City 5 3 2 0 6 1 +5 60.00
Total 25 8 6 11 42 91 −49 32.00
Source: Results

Unofficial results edit

21 June 2004 Friendly AS Marsa   0–0   Monaco Tunis, Tunisia
28 May 2005 Friendly Amateur Alliance FA   4–0   Monaco Gibraltar
  ?' Stadium: Victoria Stadium
8 September 2007 Friendly HNK Orijent 1919   1–2   Monaco Rijeka, Croatia
  ?'   ?'
7 June 2008 Friendly Monaco   2–3   HNK Orijent 1919 Cap-d'Ail, France
  ?'   ?' Stadium: Stade Municipal Cap-d'Ail
26 September 2009 Friendly FC Lucciana   2–5   Monaco Lucciana, France
  ?'   ?'
5 June 2010 Friendly Monaco   3–2   Callas Beausoleil, France
  ?'   ?' Stadium: Stade des Moneghetti
14 April 2012 Friendly Monaco   4–3   Piacenza Calcio 1919 Nice, France
  ?'   ?'

Honours edit

VIVA World Cup runner-up: 2006

See also edit

References edit

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  17. ^ This result - and those of all of Southern Cameroons' matches - was declared a 3–0 walkover when Southern Cameroons were unable to show, due to visa problems
  18. ^ Walkover. This result - and those of all of Southern Cameroons' matches - was declared a 3–0 walkover when Southern Cameroons were unable to show, due to visa problems
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