The Vatican national football team is the football team that plays for the Vatican and represents it in international matches. As you may know, Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the world and therefore has its national football teams. However, the Vatican national football team is one of the seven national football teams that are not FIFA members (the others are Monaco, Palau, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, and the Federated States of Micronesia).
The only people eligible to play for the Vatican national football team are the Swiss Guards and the museum guards; this indicates that the players of the Vatican national football team have very limited time to train because of their responsibilities. Security is needed at all times and therefore it is very difficult and challenging for the players to find the time to improve their football skills. They can go for many days without training. It is basically because of these reasons that the Vatican national football team plays very few international games. The calendar of the Vatican national football team is very much disadvantaged.
From the several games Vatican national football team has played, their performance has not been very good. The team normally plays with other local teams in Rome in friendly matches but winning has always been a problem for it.