International Football
Monaco is unique amongst sovereign European states as it is not a UEFA member and doesn't have a national team competing in UEFA Euro qualifiers or FIFA World Cup qualifiers. The cause of this may be the historically close ties to France, but this is also true of Andorra, while they have their own separate team. It may be purely because Monaco have never applied to join UEFA, despite fulfilling all the required criteria. In recent years, there has reportedly been more interest in achieving this status.
The Monaco national team instead tend to play small-scale matches against non-FIFA members. They play their matches at the 18,500 seat Stade Louis II stadium named for a former Prince.
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