Manchukuo national football team


The Manchukuo National Football Team was an international football team from Manchukuo and Japanese-occupied eastern Inner Mongolia, created by former Qing Dynasty officials with help from Imperial Japan in 1932. Due to the Non-Recognition Policy of the United States and other countries towards Manchukuo, the team was not permitted to join FIFA, and was therefore not eligible to enter the World Cup.
Manchuria played three international matches all against Japan during the late 1930s, losing each one of them, conceding 16 goals and scoring no goals.
The first two matches were held in September 1939 as part of the "Championship Games of Amity with Japan, Manchukuo, and China", a Japanese-organized successor to the Far Eastern Championship Games which had fallen into dysfunction with the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The third match took place at the East Asian Games, which were held to both celebrate the 2600th Anniversary of the Japanese Empire, but also to celebrate the start of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

List of games played by Manchukuo

All Scores lists Manchuria's goal tally first
OpponentScoreVenueDateCompetition
0-6Xinjing, Manchukuo3 September 19393 Nations Games
Republic of ChinaUnknownXinjing, Manchukuo? September 19393 Nations Games
0-7Meiji Jingu Stadium, Tokyo, Japan7 June 19402600th Anniversary Tournament
1–1Koshien South ground, Nishinomiya, Japan16 June 19402600th Anniversary Tournament
Republic of China1-0Osaka, Japan19 June 19402600th Anniversary Tournament
MengjiangUnknownXinjing, Manchukuo8 August 1942Manchuria 10th Anniversary Tournament
1-3Xinjing, Manchukuo9 August 1942Manchuria 10th Anniversary Tournament
Republic of ChinaUnknownXinjing, Manchukuo10 August 1942Manchuria 10th Anniversary Tournament