Soccer World Cup 2006 / Australia

This article covers the Australian national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Australia	21: 3	13
2	Solomon Islands	9: 6	10
3	New Zealand	17: 5	9
4th	Fiji	3:10	4th
5	Tahiti	2:24	4th
6th	Vanuatu	5: 9	3

	Australia - New Zealand		1: 0 (1: 0)
	Australia - Tahiti		9: 0 (3: 0)
	Australia - Fiji		6: 1 (2: 1)
	Vanuatu - Australia		0: 3 (0: 1)
	Solomon Islands - Australia		2: 2 (1: 0)

Play-off

	Australia - Solomon Islands		7: 0 (3: 0) / 2: 1 (1: 0)
	Uruguay - Australia		1: 0 (1: 0) / 0: 1 n.V. (2: 4 on account)

Australian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Mark Schwarzer	Middlesbrough FC	06.10.1972	3	0	0	0	0
12	Ante Covic	Hammarby IF	06/13/1975	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Zeljko Kalac	AC Milan	December 16, 1972	1	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Lucas Neill	Blackburn Rovers	03/09/1978	4th	0	0	0	0
3	Craig Moore	Newcastle United	12/12/1975	4th	1	1	0	0
6th	Tony Popovic	Crystal Palace	07/04/1973	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Scott Chipperfield	FC Basel	12/30/1975	4th	0	0	0	0
16	Michael Beauchamp	Central Coast Mariners	03/08/1981	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Mark Milligan	Sydney FC	08/04/1985	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
4th	Tim Cahill	Everton FC	December 6, 1979	4th	2	2	0	0
5	Jason Culina	PSV Eindhoven	08/05/1980	4th	0	1	0	0
7th	Brett Emerton	Blackburn Rovers	02/22/1979	3	0	2	1	0
8th	Josip Skoko	Stoke City	December 10, 1975	0	0	0	0	0
10	Harry Kewell	Liverpool FC	09/22/1978	3	1	0	0	0
11	Stan Lazaridis	Birmingham City	08/16/1972	0	0	0	0	0
13	Vince Grella	AC Parma	05/05/1979	4th	0	2	0	0
20th	Luke Wilkshire	Bristol City	10/02/1981	2	0	1	0	0
21st	Mile Sterjovski	FC Basel	May 27, 1979	3	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Mark Viduka	Middlesbrough FC	10/09/1975	4th	0	0	0	0
15th	John Aloisi	Deportivo Alavés	02/05/1976	4th	1	1	0	0
17th	Archie Thompson	PSV Eindhoven	10/23/1978	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Joshua Kennedy	Dynamo Dresden	08/20/1982	2	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Guus Hiddink		11/08/1946

Crew quarters

The team moved into their quarters in the Wald- und Schlosshotel Friedrichsruhe in Zweiflingen . The training ground was in Öhringen .

Games of Australia

Preliminary round

• Monday, June 12, 2006, 3 p.m. in Kaiserslautern Australia - Japan 3: 1 (0: 1)
    
• Sunday, June 18, 2006, 6 p.m. in Munich Brazil - Australia 2: 0 (0: 0)
    
• Thursday, June 22, 2006, 9 p.m. in Stuttgart Croatia - Australia 2: 2 (1: 1)
    

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / Group F

Round of 16

• Monday, June 26, 5 p.m. in Kaiserslautern Italy - Australia 1: 0 (0: 0)
    

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / Round of 16

Special

The Australian national soccer team qualified for the first time for the round of 16 of a soccer world championship.