Australia national soccer team

The Australian national soccer team (in English: Australian national soccer team) is the representative men's team of that country for the practice of this sport. The team is managed by Football Australia, its governing association, and is affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Known as the Socceroos (a term that mixes two words in English, soccer and kangaroo, which in Spanish would be something like "soccer kangaroos"), Australia has managed to qualify for 6 world cups: in 1974 and 2006, both held in Germany, 2010 in South Africa, 2014 in Brazil, 2018 in Russia and 2022 in Qatar.

For many years, Australia led Oceania football by being a member of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) since its founding. In the tournaments organized by said confederation, Australia managed to win the OFC Nations Cup four times, achieving impressive results when competing against very low-level opponents, where only New Zealand appeared as a rival of any importance. An example of this was the massive win when they defeated the American Samoa team 31-0 on April 11, 2001. However, these results were not reflected in world football, where Australia remained a second-tier team.

Australia is a country with a broad sports culture and soccer has remained secondary to other sports such as rugby or Australian football. Many players have preferred to emigrate and join squads from countries of family origin (preferably England or Croatia), seeing that in his native country there were no opportunities to develop professionally. For this reason, Australia resigned from the OFC in 2006 and joined the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) that same year, as a way to participate in more competitive tournaments that allow their sporting development. In addition, the institution changed its name from " Australian Soccer Association» to «Football Australia» to adopt international terminology, creating the A-League to revitalize internal competition between clubs.

Since joining the AFC, the team has qualified uninterruptedly for the World Cup, twice directly, and has participated without fail in the Asian Cup, easily passing the qualifying phases, marking its debut in the edition 2007. After finishing as runner-up in 2011, they managed to be crowned champion at home in 2015, being the first team in the world (and the only one for now) to win official continental tournaments in two different confederations.

History

Step through the Oceania confederation

Australia's first national football team that toured New Zealand. The team wore light blue shirts (the color of New South Wales) with an "A" embroidered in garnet (the color of Queensland).

The Australian national team was founded in 1922, organizing various exhibition matches with countries such as New Zealand, South Africa, India and Canada. The isolation of this country with respect to the more advanced world in soccer produced a delay in the development of this sport, which spanned more than fifty years. Australia thus began to participate recently at the international level in the qualifiers for the 1966 Soccer World Cup. However, this tournament was highly focused on European and South American teams, so few places were granted to countries from other continents. Thus, Australia had to face North Korea, a country with virtually no international recognition with which it also had to face off in a country as different as Cambodia, chosen as a neutral site. Finally, and despite the pressure exerted by the oceanic, North Korea obtained the quota for England.

Australia, the only entrant with real chances from the Pacific countries, suffered constantly from a qualifying system that was not fair. The socceroos had to play play-offs with Israel (excluded from their confederation due to their problems with Arab countries, in 1970), Taiwan (in 1978), due to China's rejection of Taiwanese participation in the Asian qualifiers) and again Israel (during the Iranian Revolution for the 1982 World Cup). Finally, for the 1986 Soccer World Cup, Australia was able to face a team at least closer, New Zealand, time before the Oceania confederation, the OFC, was founded.

1974 Soccer World Cup

During all this period of ups and downs, Australia was able to qualify for the 1974 Soccer World Cup held in Federal Germany, where their luck did not change notably either: they lost to the locals and Democratic Germany and obtained a goalless draw against Chile.

Years absent from the World Cup (1978-1993)

The 1978 Soccer World Cup was held in Argentina, and Australia participated in the qualifying process. In the first phase, which consisted of a double round triangle with New Zealand and Chinese Taipei. Australia finishes first in their group with three wins and one draw. In the second round, which was a group with the five winning teams of the first phase over two legs, Australia finished fourth with seven points: three wins, one draw and four losses, failing in their attempt to qualify.

For the next edition, Australia was not going to enjoy good luck, since it was eliminated in the first phase of the classification finishing second in a group made up of New Zealand, Indonesia, Chinese Taipei, Fiji in which only the first agreed to the next round. Australia finishes second with ten points, the product of four wins, two draws and two losses (at that time two points were awarded for a win).

For the 1986 Soccer World Cup in Mexico, Australia participated in the Oceania qualifiers, with the OFC having 0.5 World Cup berths. The format consisted of a simple league between Australia itself, New Zealand, Israel and Chinese Taipei, in which only the former played a playoff against a European team, which would later be Scotland for that team. Australia, with a record of 4 wins and 2 draws, finished the group unbeaten with an impressive goal difference of +18. In the play-off against Scotland, Australia was defeated 2-0 in the first leg in Glasgow, while in the second leg, Australia said goodbye to their World Cup aspirations with a goalless draw at home in the city of Melbourne.

In the subsequent Oceania qualifiers, the OFC again had 0.5 berths. The format consisted of qualifying matches between four teams, making up two brackets, of which the winners went to the final round with the seed, which was Israel, then in the second round a full-wheel triangular game was played, accessing to the repechage the selection that occupies the first position. Australia played the first round against Fiji. In the first leg, in Nadi, Australia was defeated 1-0, but in the second leg, in the city of Newcastle, Australia came back from behind with a resounding 5-1, leaving the aggregate score at 5-2. Already in the second round, Australia defeated New Zealand 4-1 in their first game, but then Australia could not win again, obtaining two 1-1 draws against Israel (reversing the localities), and losing 2-0 against New Zealand. Zealand. Thus, Australia could not access the playoffs, which ended with Israel going, the latter finally unable to qualify for the World Cup.

The curse of the play-offs (1994-2002)

In the 1994 qualifiers, the OFC's places were reduced to 0.25. In this qualifying system, the winner of the tie played a playoff against the second place in the CONCACAF playoff, and the winner of this playoff played against the fourth place in the CONMEBOL qualifier. On the other hand, the competition format in Oceania consisted of the six participating teams being divided into two groups of three teams each, playing full circle and only the first going to the final phase, which consisted of a key of matches with round trip, only the winner accessing the intercontinental repechage.

Australia joined the group with the teams of Tahiti and Solomon Islands. Australia won all the matches: against Tahiti (0-3 and 2-0) and Solomon Islands (1-2 and 6-1), accessing the final with New Zealand, winner of group B. Australia won in Auckland by 0- 1 and at home in Melbourne 3-0, accessing the playoffs.

In the first playoff, Australia faced Canada. In the first leg, Canada won 2-1, after coming back from 0-1 down. But in the return match, in Sydney, Australia won 2-1, which led to extra time being played, and as equality was not broken, a penalty shoot-out was agreed, in which Australia won 4-1.

Being the winner of the first repechage, Australia faced Argentina, a great power in world soccer, but who had had a very weak tie and ended up agreeing to the repechage due to someone else's result. In the first leg, Australia at home in Sydney drew 1-1. Already in the second leg, Australia played a great game, but fell 1-0 in Buenos Aires, once again being eliminated from the World Cup.

For the 1998 Soccer World Cup in France, the qualifying system was changed and the OFC was assured a spot for a play-off against the AFC's fourth-ranked (in this case, Iran). Australia were the winner of the Oceania tie, winning all matches and the final against New Zealand with a 5-0 aggregate. Thus accessing the repechage. Following a 1-1 draw in Tehran and a 2-0 first-half win in Melbourne, Australia looked ever closer to returning to a World Cup final stage. However, the Iranians managed to turn the result around, leaving a 2-2 final that ranked them by the highest number of goals scored as visitors.

For South Korea and Japan 2002, Australia scored impressive wins in their qualifying process. Australia was chosen as the home country of their group, which had five members, which played a simple wheel and the winner faced the winner of the other group, which was played in the same way as group A. Australia thrashed on their debut 22-0 win over Tonga, and then Australia set a world record: the biggest win in international matches, beating American Samoa 31-0. Australia closed out their participation in the group by beating Fiji 2-0 and thrashing Samoa 11-0. Australia then faced New Zealand, Australia, like the previous three qualifiers, eliminated New Zealand, this time winning 2-0 away and thrashing 4-1 at home. In the repechage, Australia this time faced the 5th place in the Conmebol qualifier, Uruguay. Australia defeated 1-0 in Melbourne with a goal from Kevin Muscat, but the Uruguayans won a resounding 3-0 at the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo, leaving the Oceanics out of the World Cup again. Australia thus lost a repechage for the third time in a row.

Last years in the OFC (2000-2006)

For the 2006 Soccer World Cup, to be held in Germany, Australia again crushed the OFC teams in the qualifying process, and had to face Uruguay again for the passage to the final phase of the tournament. But unlike four years earlier, the 1-0 win in Montevideo and Sydney led to a penalty shootout for both teams, where the socceroos were victorious 4-2, ultimately qualifying for a World Cup after 32 years of absence.

Australia, decorated the qualification for the World Cup by winning the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, qualifying for the first final in the hexagonal and beating the Solomon Islands in the final, by 1-5 away and 6- 0 local.

Party between Australia and Germany during the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup

As OFC champions, Australia qualified for the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup. Australia was drawn into Group A with Germany, Argentina and Tunisia. Despite the fact that Australia did not add any points, they put two world power teams in trouble, such as Germany and Argentina.

In their first outing, Australia were defeated 4-3. Australia trailed 1-0 and 2-1, but managed to partially tie the game with goals from Josip Skoko and John Aloisi. Already in the second half, Germany managed to get 4-2, but with a goal in injury time from John Aloisi, forced Germany to defend in the last plays of the game. Despite the great match, Australia were defeated.

In the second match, Australia faced Argentina. Argentina dominated the first half, going two goals up at halftime. When the game was 0-3, Australia scored two goals from John Aloisi, scoring man for the Australian team, which left the game 2-3, despite the great Australian efforts to tie, they were not enough and above the end, Argentina took the victory by 4-2. This result eliminated Australia from the tournament.

In their last game, Australia, already tired from their effort in the previous two games, lost to Tunisia 2-0. Australia finished the tournament with three defeats in three games, with five goals for and ten against, and a goal difference of -5.

2006 Soccer World Cup

Picture of the match between Australia and Japan, with win for Australia by 3-1

Australia's participation in another World Cup after a long 32-year absence began as part of Group F with a 3-1 win over Japan. Despite their good performance, Australia was defeated 2-0 by Brazil, so on June 22, 2006 they had to define the classification against Croatia. Australia needed a tie and Harry Kewell in the 79th minute scored the final 2-2 that allowed Australia to qualify for the World Cup second phase for the first time in its history. In Kaiserslautern, Australia faced Italy on June 26, 2006. The socceroos managed to dominate much of the game, but failed to score. When everything was ready to start extra time, a disputed penalty by referee Luis Medina Cantalejo allowed Francesco Totti to score in the 95th minute and eliminate Australia with a final score of 0-1.

Change to the Asian Confederation

For a long time, Australian rules football officials considered his future and how to get him out of the hole that seemed to have no way out. The main conclusion that was obtained was that the low quality of teams in their confederation had prevented Australia from having a regular rhythm of international football work, as it happens in other confederations. This explained that although Australia obtained impressive records in scores (the biggest in football history, 31-0 against American Samoa in 2001 and 22-0 against Tonga, plus 17-0 against the Cook Islands a year earlier), it was not surprising that Iran, Uruguay or other teams will surpass it in decisive instances. Despite the fact that Australia had demonstrated good football quality, such as in its participation in the FIFA Confederations Cup, this was not enough to support a constant development process. Only New Zealand seemed to be a worthy rival for Australia.

Another important factor is that the OFC does not have a full quota for the Soccer World Cup, that is, the winning team of the oceanic qualifiers must play a playoff with another team from another confederation. In many cases, those teams used to be South American powers (like Argentina or Uruguay), big Asian teams (Iran, Saudi Arabia) or even weak AFC teams that, with a bit of luck in the two defining games, left Australia without opportunities. to enter the Soccer World Cup.

Recognizing these situations, the Australian Football Federation formally requested its change of confederation, from the OFC to the AFC. Australia intended in this way that its team has much stronger competition than Oceania and that allows it to improve its sporting level. On March 23, 2005, the Executive Committee of the Asian Football Confederation announced its unanimous decision to invite Australia to become part of this organization. On April 17, the OFC Executive Committee accepted Australia's departure, which was approved by FIFA on June 30. Thus, Australia officially became part of the Asian federation, on January 1, 2006 and its debut was in February, during the qualifying tournament for the 2007 Asian Cup.

Early years (2007-2010)

In the qualification for the 2007 Asian Cup, Australia finished first in their group with nine points (3 wins and one loss), with which they qualified for said tournament, where they reached the quarterfinals.

Australia participates in the AFC Qualifying for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, where it is seeded and qualifies directly for the third round, which consisted of groups of four teams and played in a two-legged league and only the The first two accessed the next instance. In the third round, Australia make up group 1, finishing first in their group with 10 points, the same number of points as Qatar, but with a higher goal difference, while Iraq and China were eliminated in third and fourth place respectively..

In the last round, the 10 teams that passed the third round participated, they were divided into two groups of five teams, where the first two entered South Africa 2010, while the third two entered a fifth round. Australia played a brilliant role from the start of the fourth round, defeating all the teams in the group: Uzbekistan (0-1 in Tashkent and 2-0 at home), Qatar (4-0), Bahrain (0-1 in visitor and 2-0 at home) and Japan (2-1). Australia only gave up points drawing with Japan and Qatar, both games 0-0 away. On June 6, 2009, the socceroos completed their first World Cup qualifying campaign in the AFC, earning their third qualification with a 0-0 draw with Qatar.

2010 Soccer World Cup

Picture of the match between Germany and Australia with Australian defeat by 4-0

Australia's participation in South Africa 2010 meant by then their third World Cup, the second in a row. Australia was in group D, along with Germany, Ghana, Serbia. On their debut, Australia were beaten 4-0 by Germany, a result that ultimately influenced the standings. In their second game, Australia drew 1-1 with Ghana, Brett Holman, in the 11th minute, scored Australia's game-winner, but Asamoah Gyan equalized from a penalty for the Africans. Thus Australia added their first point in the group. In the third match, Australia beat Serbia 2-1. After a goalless first half Tim Cahill opened the scoring for Australia on 69 minutes, a few minutes later Brett Holman extended Australia's lead on 73 minutes but Marko Pantelić scored on 84 minutes but this did not prevented the Australian triumph. However, Australia finished with four points, trailing with less goal difference than Ghana, finishing third in the group and eliminated in the first phase. In the overall table, Australia was ranked 21st.

Second and third decades of the 21st century

After the World Cup and some friendlies, Australia disputes the 2011 Asian Cup in Qatar, after passing the qualification process. In this tournament, Australia is in group C, along with India, South Korea, Bahrain. In their first outing in the city of Doha, Australia thrashed India 4-0, followed by a 1-1 draw with South Korea and a 1-0 win over Bahrain. Already in the quarterfinals, Australia takes the victory against the current champion, Iraq, eliminating it and accessing the semifinals, in that instance, Australia beats Uzbekistan 6-0, going to the final. In the final, after an intense match, Japan defeated Australia 1-0 in added time, leaving Australia on the brink of winning the regional championship.

Australia participates for the second time in the AFC Qualification for the 2014 Soccer World Cup, where it is seeded and goes to the third phase automatically, as in the previous tie, also being the qualification process the same as the previous qualifier. Australia in the third round finished first with 15 points, the product of five wins and one loss. In the last phase, Australia debuted with a 0-0 win against Oman, followed by another draw against Japan at home. Then Australia loses on their visit to Jordan 2-1. Australia achieves its first win on the following date against visiting Iraq 1-2. However, Australia began to get complicated when they drew 2-2 at home against Oman and adding Jordan's victory over Japan, Australia was third in the group. On the following date, Australia drew 1-1 against Japan, who qualified for the World Cup with that result. Australia faced the last two dates at home, first with a 4-0 win against Jordan and then, on June 18, 2013, Australia qualified for their third consecutive World Cup, defeating Iraq 1-0 in Sydney and securing the second place in the group and a place in Brazil 2014.

Australia participated in the 2014 Brazil Soccer World Cup, where it was part of a group with Spain, the Netherlands and Chile, and the 2015 Asian Cup, in which it was a local. Therefore, he did not play any type of qualifying process.

2014 Soccer World Cup

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Australia lost all 3 of their group stage matches, placing 30th out of 32 teams that participated in the event, trailing only Cameroon and Honduras. Their duels were against Chile, where they lost 3-1, against the Netherlands, who lost 3-2, and said goodbye, losing 3-0 to the current champion, the Spanish team.

Asian Cup 2015

The socceroos were designated to host the 2015 Asian Cup, following a meeting of the AFC Executive Committee held in Doha, Qatar. The announcement was made by Mohamed Bin Hammam, the then President of the Asian Football Confederation, on January 5, 2011. Hosting Australia, they did not have to play the AFC qualifier and were seeded in Pot 1.

On the day of the draw, the Australian team was drawn in Group A with South Korea, Oman and Kuwait. The first game was played by the national team on January 9 at the Rectangular Stadium in Melbourne against the Kuwait national team, they achieved a 4-1 victory in favor of the socceroos with goals from Cahill, Luongo, a penalty of the captain Mile Jedinak and James Troisi, achieving the first 3 points of the group.

In the second game, Australia faced the Omani team in Sydney with a crushing 4-0 victory in favor of the socceroos, with goals from Matt Mckay opening the scoring in the 27th minute to the Australians, in minute 3 another goal from Robbie Kruse, in the 30th minute of the first half and, to end the first half, another goal from Mark Milligan in extra time to go to halftime. Then, halfway through the second half, in the 70th minute, Tomi Juric scored the last goal for the Australians, bringing them close to the quarterfinals of the regional competition.

The last game to define the first team in group A was played in Brisbane against the South Koreans, which ended in a 0-1 victory for the latter, with a goal by Lee Jeong-Hyeop in the minute 32 of the first half, which left the Australian team second in the group, but with a guaranteed qualification for the quarterfinals.

In the quarter-final match of the Asian Cup, the socceroos met China, which ended in a 2-0 victory for the Oceanians thanks to Tim Cahill's brace on the minute 49 of the second half and in the 65, which saw Australia through to the semi-finals, where Australia played the United Arab Emirates in Newcastle, which finished in favor of the socceroos 2-0 on goals from Trent Sainsbury at the start of the game, in the 3rd minute cleared the ball into the goal of the Arabs to open the scoring, then at 14 another goal from Jason Davidson to end the rest of the game and qualify for the second time in the history to the Australian team for the final of the Asian tournament.

On the day of the grand final, 76,385 spectators had arrived at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, and the Oceanic team met again with the South Koreans who had just eliminated the Iraqis in the other semifinal. The match was refereed by the Iranian Alireza Faghani, the entire start of the match was balanced for both teams until almost the end of the first half, where Massimo Luongo appeared to open the scoring in the 45th minute and end the first half with an advantage at halftime. The second half was dominated by the Oceanians, giving their all to help Australia clinch their first title outside of Oceania until the 91st minute, when Son Heung-Min scored to level the score at 1-1 and force extra time. In the first overtime, in the 105th minute, James Troisi scored for the carelessness of goalkeeper Jung Sung-Ryong, scoring the goal that would give the Australian team a 2-1 victory over the South Korean team, crowning themselves champion of the tournament for the first time. time in its history. At the same time, becoming the first team in the world to win official continental titles in two different confederations, earning the right as Asian champion to attend the 2017 Confederations Cup.

Confederations Cup 2017

Australia as AFC champion attended the FIFA Confederations Cup for the fourth time was drawn in group B, along with world champion Germany, South American champion Chile and African champion Cameroon. In their first match, they lost 3-2 with Germany, then managed to draw 1-1 with Cameroon and closed their participation again by drawing 1-1 with Chile. Australia finished the tournament obtaining a 2-point difference, which was not enough to advance to the semifinals of the tournament.

World Cup 2018

At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Australia was drawn in group C, on June 16 they made their debut losing to France 2-1, then they drew 1-1 with Denmark and finally lost to Peru 2-0.

Australia's only two goals in that tournament were scored by Jedinak (both on penalties). The socceroos were the only AFC team without a win in the entire tournament.

Asian Cup 2019

At the 2019 Asian Cup held in the United Arab Emirates, Australia was drawn in Group B with Jordan, Syria and Palestine.

In their first game with Jordan, they lost 0-1. Then, they would beat Palestine 3-0 —with goals from Maclaren (min. 18), Mabil (min. 41) and Giannou (min. 90)—, and finally beat Syria 3-2, passing second in the group. In the round of 16, they faced the Uzbekistan team. The match ended level 0-0, and on penalties Australia prevailed 4-2. On January 25, in the quarterfinals, the Australian team lost to the hosts, the United Arab Emirates, 1-0. The Australian who scored the most goals was Awer Mabil (2).

World Cup 2022

Australia's headline in his match against France, ending with a 4-1 defeat.

At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Australia was drawn in Group D, along with France, Tunisia and Denmark.

In their first game for France, Australia lost 4-1, despite Craig Goodwin putting the socceroos ahead within 9 minutes of the game, however in the Second game against Tunisia, they achieved a narrow victory thanks to a header from Mitchell Duke in the 23rd minute, their first World Cup victory in 12 years, the last being against Serbia in the 2010 World Cup.

On the last date he faced the Denmark team. At 59 minutes they made a counterattack that ended in a goal by Mattew Leckie, the match ended with a 1-0 victory, qualifying for the second time to the round of 16, as well as being the first time to qualify for a second phase as a member of the AFC.

Finally, in the round of 16 they faced Argentina, being eliminated in that instance 2-1, the discount was due to an own goal by Enzo Fernández after a shot by Craig Goodwin at minute 77; However, the Australian team was once again among the 16 best in the World Cup, achieving the best participation in its history by finishing in tenth place in the tournament.

Uniform

Last matches and upcoming matches

Date	City	Local	Outcome	Visitor	Competition
26-11-2022	Al Wakrah	TunisiaTUN	0:1	AUSAustralia	FIFA World Cup 2022
30-11-2022	Al Wakrah	AustraliaAUS	1:0	DENDenmark	FIFA World Cup 2022
03-12-2022	Rayán	ArgentinaARG	2:1	AUSAustralia	FIFA World Cup 2022
24-03-2023	Sydney	AustraliaAUS	3:1	ECUEcuador	Friendly Party
28-03-2023	Melbourne	AustraliaAUS	1:2	ECUEcuador	Friendly Party
15-06-2023	Beijing	AustraliaAUS	-:	ARGArgentina	Friendly Party
13-10-2023	London	EnglandENG	-:	AUSAustralia	Friendly Party
13-01-2024	Rayán	AustraliaAUS	-:	INDIndia	Asian Cup 2023
18-01-2024	Doha	SyriaSYR	-:	AUSAustralia	Asian Cup 2023
22-01-2024	Doha	UzbekistanUZB	-:	AUSAustralia	Asian Cup 2023

Statistics

Soccer World Cup

World Cup Soccer
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
1930 - 1962	No.
1966	He didn't qualify.
1970
1974	Group phase	3	0	1	2	0	5
1978	He didn't qualify.
1982
1986
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006	Final Octavos	4	1	1	2	5	6
2010	Group phase	3	1	1	1	3	6
2014	Group phase	3	0	0	3	3	9
2018	Group phase	3	0	1	2	2	5
2022	Final Octavos	4	2	0	2	4	5
2026	To dispute
Total	6/23	20	4	4	12	17	36

FIFA Confederations Cup

FIFA Confederations Cup
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
1992	No.
1995
1997	Subfield	5	2	1	2	4	8
1999	He didn't qualify.
2001	Third place	5	3	0	2	4	2
2003	He didn't qualify.
2005	Group phase	3	0	0	3	5	10
2009	He didn't qualify.
2013
2017	Group phase	3	0	2	1	4	5
Total	4/10	16	5	3	8	17	25

OFC Nations Cup

• Australia left OFC by the end of 2005.

OFC Nations Cup
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
1973	No.
1980	Champion	4	4	0	0	24	2
1996	Champion	4	3	1	0	14	0
1998	Subfield	4	3	0	1	11	1
2000	Champion	4	4	0	0	26	0
2002	Subfield	5	4	0	1	23	2
2004	Champion	7	6	1	0	32	4
Total	6/7	28	24	2	2	142	13

Asian Cup

• Australia started playing at AFC since 2006.

Asian Cup
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
2007	Final rooms	4	1	2	1	7	5
2011	Subfield	6	4	1	1	13	2
2015	Champion	6	5	0	1	14	3
2019	Final rooms	5	2	1	2	6	4
2023	Classified
Total	5/5	21	12	4	5	40	14

AFC/OFC Challenge Cup

AFC/OFC Challenge Cup
Year	Round	J	G	E	P	GF	GC
2001	Subfield	1	0	0	1	0	3
2003	He didn't qualify.
Total	1/2	1	0	0	1	0	3

Players

Most games played

Updated as of December 4, 2022.

Ranger Mark Schwarzer is the player with the most appearances in the history of the Australian selection with a hundred and nine games played.

Top scorers

Updated as of November 16, 2021.

Tim Cahill is the top scorer of the Australian team with fifty goals.

Last call

Updated on 7 November 2022

List of players called up on November 7, 2022 for the 2022 Soccer World Cup.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Apa.	Goles	Club
1	1BY	Ryan, MathewMathew Ryan	8 April 1992 (31 years)	75	0	Copenhagen
12	1BY	Redmayne, AndrewAndrew Redmayne	13 January 1989 (34 years)	4	0	Sydney FC
18	1BY	Vukovic, DannyDanny Vukovic	27 March 1985 (38 years)	4	0	Central Coast Mariners
2	2DEF	Degenek, MilošMiloš Degenek	28 April 1994 (29 years)	38	1	Columbus Crew
3	2DEF	Atkinson, NathanielNathaniel Atkinson	13 June 1999 (23 years)	5	0	Hearts
4	2DEF	Rowles, KyeKye Rowles	24 June 1998 (24 years)	3	0	Hearts
5	2DEF	Karačić, FranFran Karačić	12 May 1996 (27 years)	10	1	Brescia
8	2DEF	Wright, BaileyBailey Wright	28 July 1992 (30 years)	27	2	Sunderland
16	2DEF	Behich, AzizAziz Behich	16 October 1990 (32 years)	53	2	Dundee United
19	2DEF	Souttar, HarryHarry Souttar	22 October 1998 (24 years)	10	6	Leicester City
20	2DEF	Deng, ThomasThomas Deng	20 March 1997 (26 years)	2	0	Albirex Niigata
24	2DEF	King, JoelJoel King	30 October 2000 (22 years)	4	0	OB
10	3MED	Hrustic, AjdinAjdin Hrustic	5 July 1996 (26 years)	20	3	Hellas Verona
13	3MED	Mooy, AaronAaron Mooy	15 September 1990 (32 years)	53	7	Celtic
14	3MED	McGree, RileyRiley McGree	2 November 1998 (24 years)	11	1	Middlesbrough
17	3MED	Devlin, CameronCameron Devlin	7 June 1998 (24 years)	1	0	Hearts
22	3MED	Irvine, JacksonJackson Irvine	7 March 1993 (30 years)	49	7	St. Pauli
26	3MED	Baccus, KeanuKeanu Baccus	7 June 1998 (24 years)	1	0	St Mirren
6	4OF THE	Boyle, MartinMartin Boyle	25 April 1993 (30 years)	19	5	Hibernian
7	4OF THE	Leckie, MathewMathew Leckie	4 February 1991 (32 years)	73	13	Melbourne City
9	4OF THE	Maclaren, JamieJamie Maclaren	29 July 1993 (29 years)	26	8	Melbourne City
11	4OF THE	Mabil, AwerAwer Mabil	15 September 1995 (27 years)	29	8	Cadiz
15	4OF THE	Duke, MitchellMitchell Duke	18 January 1991 (32 years)	21	8	Fagiano Okayama
21	4OF THE	Kuol, GarangGarang Kuol	15 September 2004 (18 years)	1	0	Newcastle United
23	4OF THE	Goodwin, CraigCraig Goodwin	16 December 1991 (31 years)	10	1	Adelaide United
25	4OF THE	Cummings, JasonJason Cummings	1 August 1995 (27 years)	1	1	Central Coast Mariners

Coaches

Honours of Prizes

Absolute selection

• Asian Cup (1): 2015.
  • Asian Cup Champion (1): 2011.
• OFC Nations Cup (4): 1980, 1996, 2000 and 2004.
  • UNC Cup Champion (2): 1998 and 2002.
  • AFC/OFC Challenge Cup Champion (1): 2001.
  • FIFA Cup Champion Confederations (1): 1997.
    • Third place of the FIFA Confederations Cup (1): 2001.

Friendly tournaments

• Trans-Tasman Cup (4)1986, 1988, 1991 and 1995.
  • Champion in the Trans-Tasman Cup (2): 1983 and 1987.

Youth National Team

• OFC Sub-20 Championship (12): 1978, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002 and 2005.
  • Sub-field of the OFC Sub-20 Championship (1): 1980.
    • • Fourth place in the World Cup of Football Sub-20 (2): 1991 and 1993.
  • AFC’s Sub-19 Championship subfield (1): 2010.
    • Third place of the AFC Sub-19 Championship (2): 2008 (shared with South Korea) and 2012 (shared with Uzbekistan).

Pre-youth selection

• OFC Sub-17 Championship (10): 1983, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005.
  • Sub-campion at the OFC Sub-17 Championship (1): 1997.
  • Subcampion in the World Cup of Football Sub-17 (1): 1999.
    • Third place of the AFC Sub-16 Championship (3): 2010 (shared with Japan), 2014 (shared with Syria) and 2018 (shared with South Korea).

Women's National Team

• Asian AFC Women’s Cup (1): 2010.
  • AFC's Asian Women's Cup sub-campion (3): 2006, 2014 and 2018.
    • Third place of the Asian Women's Cup of AFC (1): 1975.
      • Fourth place of the Asian Women's Cup of the AFC (2): 1979 and 2008.
    • Third place of the AFC Sub-19 Women's Championship (1): 2006.
      • Fourth place of the AFC Sub-16 Women's Championship (2): 2009 and 2019.