Northern Mariana Islands national football team

Northern Mariana Islands

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	Blue Ayuyus
Association	Northern Mariana Islands Football Association
Head coach	Jason Higgins
Top scorer	Mark McDonald, 2 goals, 2007
Home stadium	Oleai Sports Complex
FIFA code	MNP
First colours
First international
Yap 0 - 8 Northern Marianas Islands (Koror, Palau; July ???, 1998)
Biggest win
Northern Marianas Islands 13 - 0 Pohnphei File:FM-ponah.gif (Koror, Palau; July 1998)
Biggest defeat
Guam 9 - 0 Northern Marianas Islands (Hagåtña, Guam; April 1, 2007)
Appearances	(first in -)
Best result	-
Appearances	(first in -)
Best result	-

The Northern Marianas Islands national football team is an international team from the Northern Mariana Islands. However it is not a member of FIFA, and is just an associate member of the OFC, and is therefore not eligible to enter either the World Cup or OFC Nations Cup. They participated as a guest team in the U-14 East Asian Football Federation Youth Festival in July 2006 in Beijing. The results - DPR Korea 0-6, Korea 0-16, China 0-11, Mongolia 0-5, Japan 0-12, Guam 0-6 and 0-12, Taiwan 0-13. In December 2006, the EAFF admitted the Northern Mariana Islands as a provisional member.

The first team mainly competes in the East Asian Football Association and annual Marianas Cup versus Guam.

Recently, they participated as a provisional member in the East Asian Cup 2008 Preliminary Competition Play-offs, but lost both matches to Guam.

Selected internationals

Date	Venue		Opponent	Score
Apr 1 2007	Guam	Northern Marianas	Guam	0 - 9
Mar 25 2007	Northern Marianas	Northern Marianas	Guam	2 - 3
Jun 12 1999	Micronesia	Northern Marianas	Micronesia	0 - 7
Aug 3 1998	Palau	Northern Marianas	Guam	3 - 0
Aug 2 1998	Palau	Northern Marianas	Palau	12 - 1
Jul 30 1998	Palau	Northern Marianas	Guam	1 - 2
Jul 1998	Palau	Northern Marianas	Pohnpei	13 - 0
Jul 1998	Palau	Northern Marianas	Yap	8 - 0

• EAFF admission