Australian women's national soccer team

Australia
Commonwealth of Australia

Nickname (s)	Matildas
Association	Football Federation Australia
confederacy	AFC
Technical sponsor	NIKE
Head coach	Ante Milicic
captain	Samantha Kerr
Record scorer	Lisa De Vanna (47)
Record player	Cheryl Salisbury (151)
Home stadium	Changing stages
FIFA code	OUT
FIFA rank	7th (1963 points) (as of August 14, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
374 games 181 wins 65 draws 128 losses
statistics
First international Australia 2-2 New Zealand ( Sydney , Australia ; October 6, 1979 )
Biggest win Australia 21-0 American Samoa ( Auckland , New Zealand ; October 9, 1998 )
Biggest defeat USA 9: 1 Australia ( Ambler , USA ; June 5, 1997 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	7 ( first : 1995 )
Best results	Quarter-finals ( 2007 , 2011 , 2015 )
Oceania Championship
Participation in the finals	7 ( first : 1983 )
Best results	First ( 1994 , 1998 , 2003 )
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	5 ( first : 2006 )
Best results	First ( 2010 )
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	1 (as guest)
Best results	Third ( 1975 )
Olympic games Quarter finals 2004 Quarter finals 2016
(As of March 11, 2020 )

The Australian national women's football team represents Australia in international women's football . The national team reports to the Australian Football Association and has been coached by Ante Milicic since February 18, 2019 . The Australian selection won the Oceanic Championship three times. After moving to the Asian Football Confederation , they took part in the Asian Cup for the first time in 2006, where they reached the final straight away and lost to China on penalties . In 2010 the Asian Cup was won for the first time. In the final, North Korea was defeated on penalties. On the other hand, Australia does not take part in the Asian Games, in which the Asian women's senior teams participate, as Australia is not a member of the Olympic Council of Asia .

The players in the Australian selection are called "Fighting Matildas" based on the song Waltzing Matilda .

In the FIFA world rankings published on July 22, 2011 , Australia achieved a top 10 position for the first time with 9th place and was the second best team in the AFC after Japan until September 2011 . Thanks to the results of the qualifying tournament for the 2016 Olympic Games , the Australians climbed to 5th place and thus became the best team in the AFC for the first time. In December 2017, they achieved their best position to date with 4th place.

Tournament balance sheet

The "Matildas" before an international match (2009)

World Championship

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year	Result	Trainer	Most games	Most goals
1991	not qualified
1995	Preliminary round	Tom Sermanni	11 players with 3 games	3 players each 1 goal
1999	Preliminary round	Greg Brown	09 players with 3 games	Julie Murray (2)
2003	Preliminary round	Adrian Santrac	10 players with 3 games	Heather Garriock (2)
2007	Quarter finals	Tom Sermanni	08 players with 4 games	Lisa de Vanna (4)
2011	Quarter finals	Tom Sermanni	07 players with 4 games	Kyah Simon (2)
2015	Quarter finals	Alen Stajcic	11 players with 5 games	Kyah Simon (3)
2019	Round of 16	Ante Milicic	9 players with 4 games	Samantha Kerr (5)
2023	qualified as a co-host
All			Lisa de Vanna (13)	Lisa de Vanna (6)

As of April 13, 2018

Olympic games

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1996 : not qualified 2000 : preliminary round 2004 : quarter-finals

2008 : not qualified 2012 : not qualified 2016 : quarter-finals 2020 : qualified

Oceania Championship

1983 : second 1986 : second 1989 : semi-finals 1991 : second

1994 : Oceania Champion 1998 : Oceania Champion 2003 : Oceania Champion

Asian Championship

1975 : third (as guest) 2006 : second 2008 : fourth 2010 : winner 2014 : second 2018 : second

East Asian Championship

2005: not participated 2008: did not participate 2010: did not participate 2013: not qualified (participated in the qualification as a guest) 2015: not participated 2017: not participated

Algarve Cup

The national team participated for the first time in 1999 at the Algarve Cup in part and finished it in fifth place. In 2017 and 2018 , the Australians took part again and finished fourth.

Cyprus Cup

The national team took part in the Cyprus Cup twice, finishing seventh in 2014 and fifth in 2015.

Four Nations Tournaments

The Australians took part once, in spring 2005, in the tournament in the People's Republic of China and finished second. They defeated the reigning world and European champions Germany 1-0 - the only victory so far against a reigning European champion and their first victory against a reigning world champion.

In 2017 they won the Tournament of Nations in the United States , defeating world champions USA, South American champions Brazil and Asian champions Japan. In 2018 they finished second behind the USA, against which they had the worse goal difference. In March 2019 they won the Cup of Nations hosted by the Australian Association for the first time .

Squad

See also: World Cup squad

• CoN = nominated for the Cup of Nations .
• US = Nominated for the game against the US in April 2019.
• WM = nominated for the 2019 World Cup
• C19 = Nominated for two friendly matches against Chile in November 2019.
• OQ = nominated for the Olympic qualification in February and March 2020.

The items correspond to the information provided by the Australian Association and may in some cases differ from the information provided by FIFA.

No.	Player	Date of birth	society	Calls	Gates	Last use	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
goal
18th	Mackenzie Arnold	02/25/1994	Brisbane Roar	024	00	02/09/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
	Eliza Campbell	05/16/1995	Perth Glory	002	00	11/26/2017	CoN
12	Teagan Micah	10/20/1997	Melbourne Victory	000	00			US	WM		OQ
	Sarah Willacy	06/29/1995	Adelaide United	000	00					C19
1	Lydia Williams	05/13/1988	Melbourne City FC	088	00	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
Defense
	Teigen Allen	02/12/1994	Melbourne Victory	040	00	03/06/2019	CoN	US	WM
0	Laura Alleway	11/28/1989	Melbourne Victory	060	02	03/06/2019	CoN	US	(WM)
02	Ellie Carpenter	04/28/2000	Melbourne City FC	042	01	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
07th	Stephanie Catley	01/26/1994	Melbourne City FC	082	03	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
	Emma Checker	03/11/1996	Melbourne City FC	005	00	11/12/2019				C19
14th	Alanna Kennedy	01/21/1995	Sydney FC	087	07th	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
11	Jenna McCormick	09/07/1994	Melbourne Victory	004th	00	02/09/2020				C19	OQ
04th	Clare Polkinghorne	02/01/1989	Brisbane Roar	124	10	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
	Elizabeth Ralston	05/16/1995	Sydney FC	000	00			US
05	Karly Roestbakken	01/17/2001	Canberra United	006th	00	03/11/2020			WM	C19	OQ
0	According to Simon	07/19/1990	Newcastle United Jets	011	00	04/04/2019	CoN	US
midfield
	Alex Chidiac	01/15/1999	Atlético Madrid	017th	01	03/06/2019	CoN
19th	Katrina Gorry	08/13/1992	Brisbane Roar	078	15th	02/09/2020		US	WM	C19	OQ
	Amy Harrison	04/21/1996	Western Sydney Wanderers	013	00	11/12/2019	CoN		WM	C19
08th	Elise Kellond-Knight	08/10/1990	Brisbane Roar	113	02	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	(C19)	OQ
06th	Chloe Logarzo	12/22/1994	Bristol City	048	08th	03/11/2020	(CoN)	US	WM	C19	OQ
03	Aivi Luik	03/18/1985	Melbourne City FC	025th	00	02/09/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
	Teresa Polias	May 16, 1990	Sydney FC	011	00	02/28/2019	CoN
	Amy Sayer	11/30/2001	Sydney FC	003	00	09.10.2018	CoN
10	Emily van Egmond	07/12/1993	Melbourne City FC	097	23	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
13	Tameka Yallop	06/16/1991	Brisbane Roar	087	10	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
attack
	Lisa De Vanna	11/14/1984	AC Florence	150	47	06/18/2019	CoN	US	WM
9	Caitlin Foord	11/11/1994	Arsenal FC	083	20th	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
	Mary Fowler	02/14/2003	Bankstown City Lions FC	004th	00	04/04/2019		US	WM
15th	Emily Gielnik	05/13/1992	FC Bayern Munich	037	08th	07.03.2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
	Princess Ibini-Isei	January 31, 2000	Sydney FC	006th	00	03.03.2019	CoN
20th	Samantha Kerr	09/10/1993	Chelsea FC	088	42	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
16	Hayley Raso	09/05/1994	Everton FC	046	06th	03/11/2020	CoN	US	WM	C19	OQ
17th	Kyah Simon	06/25/1991	Melbourne City FC	092	26th	03/11/2020					OQ
Coaching staff
Head coach	Ante Milicic	04/04/1974	Football Federation Australia
Remarks: ↑ Numbers in the games against Vietnam ↑ As of February 2020 ↑ a b Status: March 11, 2020 after the games against Vietnam

Record players

Player	Games	position	Period
Cheryl Salisbury	151	Defense	1994-2009
Lisa De Vanna	150	attack	since 2004
Heather Garriock	130	midfield	1999-2011
Clare Polkinghorne	124	Defense	since 2006
Elise Kellond-Knight	113	midfield	since 2007
Joanne Peters	110	midfield	1996-2009
Anissa Tann-Darby	102	Defense	1988-2002

Record goal scorers

Player	Gates	Games	Quota	Period
Lisa De Vanna	47	150	0.31	2004–
Samantha Kerr	42	088	0.48	2009–
Kate Gill	41	086	0.48	2004-2015
Cheryl Salisbury	38	151	0.25	1994-2009
Sarah Walsh	32	070	0.46	2004–2012
Joanne Peters	28	110	0.25	1996-2009

Awards

• AFC Team of the Year : 2010

Games against national teams from German-speaking countries

All results from an Australian perspective.

Germany

date	place	Result	occasion
September 19, 2000	Canberra	0: 3	Olympic preliminary round
January 28, 2005	Quanzhou	1-0	Four Nations Tournament 2005
October 28, 2010	Wolfsburg	1: 2	Friendly match
August 6, 2016	São Paulo	2: 2	Olympic preliminary round

Switzerland

So far there have been no games against the Swiss selection .

Austria

April 7, 2015 in Villach : 1: 2 (friendly game)

See also

• List of internationals for the Australian national women's football team
• Australian national soccer team

References and footnotes

1. ↑ footballaustralia.com: Ante Milicic appointed Westfield Matildas Head Coach
2. ↑ Women's world rankings. In: fifa.com. FIFA , August 14, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 (teams without a place and points are provisional because no more than five games have been played or the teams have been inactive for more than 18 months). 
3. ↑ 9 games decided on penalties (4 wins, 5 losses)
4. ↑ fifa.com: Japan establishes itself in the top group
5. ↑ fifa.com: "Australia almost never, Japan falls in seventh place"
6. ↑ fifa.com: Australia almost never, USA still in first place
7. ↑ footballaustralia.com: "Matildas to compete in Algarve Cup"
8. ↑ footballaustralia.com: Ante Milicic announces Westfield Matildas squad for inaugural Cup of Nations
9. ↑ footballaustralia.com: Ante Milicic confirms Westfield Matildas squad for USA friendly
10. ↑ matildas.com: Ante Milicic confirms Westfield Matildas squad for France 2019
11. ^ Strong Westfield Matildas squad set for Chile series
12. ↑ matildas.com Westfield Matildas squad named for China challenge
13. ↑ matildas.com: Milicic maintains squad symmetry as Matildas target Tokyo
14. ↑ injured ( matildas.com: Elise Kellond-Knight ruled out of Chile series )
15. ↑ Replaced by Amy Harrison on February 25th. ( Amy Harrison to replace Chloe Logarzo in Westfield Matildas' Cup of Nations squad )

Web links

Commons : Australia Women's National Football Team  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Australian Association for the Women's National Team