Manchukuo national football team

Manchukuo

1939–1942
Association	Football Association of the Manchukuo
Home stadium	Changchun Stadium
First colours Second colours
First international
Manchukuo 0–6 Japan  (Xinjing, Manchukuo; 3 September 1939)
Last international
Manchukuo 3–1 R.N.G. of China (Xinjing, Manchukuo; 10 August 1942)
Biggest win
Manchukuo 10–1 Mengjiang (Xinjing, Manchukuo, 8 August 1942)
Biggest defeat
Japan 7–0 Manchukuo  (Tokyo, Japan; 7 June 1940)

The Manchukuo national football team (pinyin: Mǎnzhōuguó Guójiā Zúqiú Duì) 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 able to participate in 1938 World Cup. And Knocked out in Group stage by Japanese national team 1-0 Manchuria played seven international matches all against Japan during the late 1930s, losing each one of them, conceding 16 goals and scoring 5 goals.

The first two matches were held in September 1936 as part of the "Championship Games of Amity with Japan, Manchukuo, and China" ( Nichi-Man-Ka Kokan Kyogikai ), 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 ( Toa Taikai ), 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.