Australian national futsal team
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| Nickname (s) | Futsalroos | ||
| Association | Football Federation Australia | ||
| confederacy | AFC | ||
| FIFA code | OUT | ||
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| Balance sheet | |||
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| 171 games 99 wins 14 draws 58 losses |
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First international match Australia 1-1 United States ( Amsterdam , Netherlands ; January 6, 1989 ) |
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Biggest win Samoa 1:23 Australia ( Port Vila , Vanuatu ; August 4, 1996 ) |
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Biggest defeat Italy 13-1 Australia ( Singapore ; November 28, 2001 ) |
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| Successes in tournaments | |||
| World Championship | |||
| Participation in the finals | 6 ( first : 1989 ) | ||
| Best results | 6 × preliminary round | ||
| Asian Championship | |||
| Participation in the finals | 7 ( first : 2006 ) | ||
| Best results | 4th place 2012 | ||
| Oceania Championship | |||
| Participation in the finals | 4 ( first: 1992 ) | ||
| Best results | Oceania champions 1992 , 1996 , 1999 , 2004 |
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| (As of March 2016) | |||
The Australian national futsal team is a representative sample of Australian futsal players . The team represents the Australian Football Association in international matches. The team won the first four OFC Futsal Championship and participated in five world championships . After the association joined the Asian Football Confederation , the team has been competing in the Asian Cup since 2006 .
Performing in tournaments
In 1985 and 1988 an Australian team took part in the world championships of the futsal association FIFUSA and reached the second group stage as hosts in 1988. At the invitation of FIFA, the Australian Football Association sent a team to the first Futsal World Cup in the Netherlands in 1989 . There the Futsalroos failed , as in the subsequent four World Cups, in the preliminary round. In 1996, 2000 and 2004 they also stayed without winning points.
While futsal was dominated in the Oceanic Association and won the first four continental tournaments from 1992 to 2004 (which also served as qualification for the World Cup), they missed one for the first time in 2008 with a 2-5 defeat in the quarter-finals at the Asian Cup against Thailand World Cup finals. The quarter-finals were also the final destination for the Australian futsal team in the three other participations in 2006, 2007 and 2010.
Futsal World Cup
- 1989 - preliminary round
- 1992 - preliminary round
- 1996 - preliminary round
- 2000 - preliminary round
- 2004 - preliminary round
- 2008 - did not qualify
- 2012 - preliminary round
- 2016 - qualified
OFC Futsal Championship
- 1992 - Oceania Champion
- 1996 - Oceania Champion
- 1999 - Oceania Champion
- 2004 - Oceania Champion
- since 2006 member of the AFC
Futsal Asian Cup
- until 2005 member of the OFC
- 2006 - quarter-finals
- 2007 - quarter-finals
- 2008 - quarter-finals
- 2010 - quarter-finals
- 2012 - 4th place
- 2014 - quarter-finals
- 2016 - 5th place