Soccer World Cup 2010 / Australia

qualification

After Australia left the Oceanic Football Association at the end of 2005 , the team qualified for the first time through the AFC qualifying games, the qualifying games of the Asian Football Association , for the World Cup in South Africa .

Due to a bye for the first two rounds, Australia only joined the current competition from the third qualifying round. The team prevailed in Group 1 against Qatar , Iraq and China and advanced to the next round together with group runner-up Qatar.

In the fourth round, groups were played again, but the teams were only divided into two groups of five teams each. As before, Australia was again represented in the first group and clearly prevailed against Japan , Bahrain , Qatar and Uzbekistan . After eight games, Australia recorded six wins and two draws and qualified together with group runner-up Japan for the World Cup.

Third round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Australia	7: 3	10
2	Qatar	5: 6	10
3	Iraq	4: 6	7th
4th	China	3: 4	6th

February 6, 2008 : Australia - Qatar 3-0 (3-0)

March 26, 2008 : China 0-0 Australia

June 1, 2008 : Australia - Iraq 1: 0 (0: 0)

June 7, 2008 : Iraq 1-0 Australia (1-0)

June 14, 2008 : Qatar 1: 3 (0: 1) Australia

June 22, 2008 : China - Australia 0: 1 (0: 0)

Fourth round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Australia	12: 1	20th
2	Japan	11: 6	15th
3	Bahrain	6: 8	10
4th	Qatar	5:14	6th
5	Uzbekistan	5:10	4th

September 10, 2008 : Uzbekistan - Australia 0: 1 (0: 1)

October 15, 2008 : Australia 4-0 Qatar (2-0)

November 19, 2008 : Bahrain 0-1 Australia (0-0)

February 11, 2009 : Japan 0-0 Australia

April 1, 2009 : Australia - Uzbekistan 2-0 (0-0)

6 June 2009 : Qatar 0-0 Australia

June 10, 2009 : Australia - Bahrain 2-0 (0-0)

June 17, 2009 : Australia - Japan 2: 1 (0: 1)

Australian contingent

National coach Pim Verbeek originally nominated 31 players, in addition to the 30 players on the provisional entry list, Eugene Galekovic was also part of the training squad as reserve keeper. One day after the friendly against New Zealand on May 25, Verbeek cut three players with Scott McDonald , Nick Carle and Jade North , while the remaining 28 players flew to South Africa to prepare.

As the last of the 32 participating teams, Australia announced the final squad on June 2, next to Galekovic, the perspective players James Holland and Tommy Oar , whom Verbeek had only given outsider chances, as well as Shane Lowry and due to injury Rhys Williams were not called into the final squad. While Williams immediately returned to his club in England for further treatment, the remaining four players remained with the national team until the start of the tournament. On June 6, substitute goalkeeper Brad Jones left South Africa and canceled his tournament participation a short time later after his son became aware of cancer. Following special approval from FIFA, Galekovic was appointed to the squad for him.

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Mark Schwarzer	Fulham FC	06.10.1972	3	0	0	0	0
12	Adam Federici	Reading FC	January 31, 1985	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Eugene Galekovic	Adelaide United	06/12/1981	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Lucas Neill	Galatasaray SK	03/09/1978	3	0	1	0	0
3	Craig Moore	Without Club	12/12/1975	2	0	2	0	0
6th	Michael Beauchamp	al-Jazira Club	03/08/1981	1	0	1	0	0
8th	Luke Wilkshire	FK Dynamo Moscow	10/02/1981	3	0	1	0	0
11	Scott Chipperfield	FC Basel	12/30/1975	3	0	0	0	0
20th	Mark Milligan	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	08/04/1985	0	0	0	0	0
21st	David Carney	FC Twente Enschede	11/30/1983	2	0	0	0	0
midfield player
4th	Tim Cahill	Everton FC	December 6, 1979	2	1	0	0	1
5	Jason Culina	Gold Coast United	08/05/1980	3	0	0	0	0
7th	Brett Emerton	Blackburn Rovers	02/22/1979	3	0	1	0	0
10	Harry Kewell	Galatasaray SK	09/22/1978	1	0	0	0	1
13	Vince Grella	Blackburn Rovers	05/05/1979	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Brett Holman	AZ Alkmaar	03/27/1984	3	2	0	0	0
15th	Mile Jedinak	Antalyaspor	08/03/1984	1	0	0	0	0
16	Carl Valeri	US Sassuolo Calcio	08/14/1984	3	0	1	0	0
22nd	Dario Vidosic	MSV Duisburg	04/08/1987	0	0	0	0	0
23	Mark Bresciano	US Palermo	02/11/1980	2	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Joshua Kennedy	Nagoya Grampus	08/20/1982	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Nikita Rukavytsya	FC Twente Enschede	06/22/1987	2	0	0	0	0
19th	Richard Garcia	Hull City	09/04/1981	2	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Pim Verbeek		03/12/1956

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Germany	5: 1	6th
2	Ghana	2: 2	4th
3	Australia	3: 6	4th
4th	Serbia	2: 3	3

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Australian national team met in Group D against Germany , Serbia and Ghana . The Australians made a false start in their second World Cup participation in a row. With 0: 4 against group favorite Germany there was the second highest defeat of all preliminary round matches. Although they recovered against Ghana afterwards, the 1-1 draw ultimately turned out to be too little, because despite a victory in the final game against Serbia, the team came third in the table due to the poor goal difference and was eliminated.

• Sunday June 13, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Durban Germany - Australia 4: 0 (2: 0)
  

• Saturday June 19, 2010; 16:00 in Rustenburg Ghana - Australia 1: 1 (1: 1)
  

• Wednesday June 23, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Nelspruit Australia - Serbia 2: 1 (0: 0)
  

Web links

• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com
• FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: Squad Australia ( Memento from June 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Mac's Axed From Roos WC Squad (May 25, 2010)
2. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Holland Looks Beyond 2010 (May 28, 2010)
3. ↑ abc.net.au: Injured Socceroo a surprise omission (June 2, 2010)
4. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Jones Won't Be Back (June 9, 2010)