Soccer World Cup 2019 / Australia

Football Women's World Cup 2019 : Australia
Trainer	Ante Milicic
captain	Sam Kerr
Qualified as	Second in the 2018 Asian Cup
Tournament result	Round of 16
Games won	2
Games tie	1
Games lost	1
Gates	9: 6

This article covers the Australia women's national soccer team at the 2019 women's soccer world cup in France . Australia took part in the finals for the seventh time. In the round of 16, the Australians failed on penalties to ex-world champions Norway

qualification

As before, the Asian Cup , which was held in Jordan in 2018, served as qualification for the World Cup finals for the Asian teams . As runner-up in the previous event, Australia was automatically qualified.

National coach Alen Stajcic nominated for the championship 23 players, including 16 players who were already part of the squad for the 2015 World Cup.

The Australian team only had a goalless draw against South Korea in their first game . This was followed by an 8-0 win against Vietnam and a 1-1 draw in the last game against defending champions Japan . This meant that Australia was the group winners in the semi-finals due to the more goals they had scored against Vietnam and had qualified for the World Cup finals. The opponent in the semifinals was Thailand . The Australians took the lead in the 17th minute with an own goal by a Thai defender, but received the equalizer three minutes later and fell behind in the 63rd minute. It was only in the first minute of stoppage time that Alanna Kennedy managed to equalize in the majority - a Thai woman received a yellow-red card in the 72nd minute . After a goalless overtime there was a penalty shoot-out , in which Emily van Egmond and record scorer Lisa De Vanna missed, but since three Thai women failed to score either, Australia won the penalty shoot-out 3-1. In the final there was a new edition of the final against Japan in 2014 and, like four years earlier, the East Asians won 1-0, with Elise Kellond-Knight unable to convert a penalty to the Australian lead in the 14th minute.

Eighteen players were used in the tournament, but only Emily van Egmond , Alanna Kennedy Samantha Kerr , Chloe Logarzo and Kyah Simon took part in all five games.

The Australian players scored a total of 10 goals and also benefited from an own goal by a Thai in the semi-finals. The most goals for the Australian team were scored by Samantha Kerr (3), Alanna Kennedy and Hayley Raso (2 each). A total of six Australian players scored in the tournament.

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Australia	3	1	2	0	009: 100	+8	05
2.	Japan	3	1	2	0	005: 100	+4	05
3.	South Korea	3	1	2	0	004-000	+4	05
4th	Vietnam	3	0	0	3	000:160	−16	00

04/07/2018	Amman	Australia	-	South Korea	0-0
04/10/2018	Amman	Vietnam	-	Australia	0: 8 (0: 5)	Kerr (2), Raso (2), van Egmond , Kennedy , Logarzo , Simon
04/13/2018	Amman	Australia	-	Japan	1: 1 (0: 0)	Kerr; Sakaguchi

Semifinals

04/17/2018

Amman

Australia

-

Thailand

2: 2 a.d. , 3: 1 in E. (2: 2, 1: 1)

Kanjanaporn Saengkoon (own goal), Kennedy; Kanjana Sung-Ngoen, Rattikan Thongsombut

final

April 20, 2018

Amman

Japan

-

Australia

1: 0 (1: 0)

Yokoyama

preparation

At the end of July / beginning of August 2018, the Australians took part as defending champions in the Tournament of Nations in the USA, where they won two wins against Brazil (3: 1) and Japan (2: 0) and a draw against the USA (1: 1) took second place behind the USA. At the beginning of October, the Australians traveled to Europe, where they lost 2-0 to World Cup hosts France and scored 1-1 in England . In November 2018 they received World Cup newcomers Chile , against whom they had never played before, for two games. After losing 3-2 in the first game, they won the second game 5-0. National coach Stajcic was dismissed on January 19, 2019. At the end of February / beginning of March 2019, the Australian Association held the Cup of Nations for the first time . The Australians secured the title with victories against World Cup participants Argentina (3: 0), New Zealand (2: 0) and South Korea (4: 1). On April 5, 2019 (April 4, local time), the Australians lost 3: 5 to the USA in Commerce City . On June 1, the Australians lost 3-0 to European champions Netherlands in Eindhoven .

Squad

The squad for the World Cup was announced on May 14th. Kyah Simon and Kyra Cooney-Cross will be on standby in France. On June 6, the injured Laura Alleway was replaced by Karly Roestbakken .

No.	Player	birth date	debut	society	Country games	Country goals	Last use	World Cup games, goals	World Cup 2019
									Sp.
goal
18th	Mackenzie Arnold	02/25/1994	2012	Brisbane Roar	023	00	03.03.2019	0 (2015)
12	Teagan Micah	10/20/1997		UCLA	000	00
1	Lydia Williams	05/13/1988	2005	Melbourne City FC	078	00	06/01/2019	5 (2007, 2011, 2015)	4th
Defense
23	Teigen Allen	02/12/1994	2010	Melbourne Victory	040	00	03/06/2019	1 (2011)
07th	Steph Catley	01/26/1994	2012	Reign FC	072	02	06/01/2019	5 (2015)	4th
14th	Alanna Kennedy	01/21/1995	2012	Orlando Pride	078	07th	06/01/2019	5 (2015)	4th				1
04th	Clare Polkinghorne	02/01/1989	2006	Houston Dash	117	09	06/01/2019	5 (2007, 2011, 2015)	2
05	Karly Roestbakken	01/17/2001		Canberra United	000	00			3
midfield
21st	Ellie Carpenter	04/28/2000	2016	Portland Thorns FC	032	01	06/01/2019		4th
19th	Katrina Gorry	08/13/1992	2012	Brisbane Roar	074	14th	06/01/2019	5 (2015)	2
22nd	Amy Harrison	04/21/1996	2015	Washington Spirit	010	00	03/06/2019		1
8th	Elise Kellond-Knight	08/10/1990	2007	Reign FC	106	01	04/04/2019	9 (2011, 2015)	3	1
06th	Chloe Logarzo	12/22/1994	2013	Washington Spirit	038	06th	06/01/2019		4th	1
03	Aivi Luik	03/18/1985	2010	Levant UD	021st	00	03/06/2019		1
02	According to Simon	07/19/1990	2014	Newcastle United Jets	011	00	04/04/2019
10	Emily van Egmond	07/12/1993	2010	Orlando Pride	086	18th	06/01/2019	8.1 (2011, 2015)	4th		1
13	Tameka Yallop	06/16/1991	2007	Klepp IL	079	10	06/01/2019	5 (2011, 2015)	3
attack
11	Lisa De Vanna	11/14/1984	2004	Sydney FC	148	47	06/01/2019	13.7 (2007, 2011, 2015)	2		1
09	Caitlin Foord	11/11/1994	2011	Portland Thorns FC	072	16	06/01/2019	8 (2011, 2015)	4th	1
17th	Mary Fowler	02/14/2003	2018	Bankstown City Lions FC	004th	00	04/04/2019
15th	Emily Gielnik	05/13/1992	2012	Melbourne Victory	029	07th	06/01/2019		3
20th	Sam Kerr	09/10/1993	2009	Chicago Red Stars	077	31	06/01/2019	8 (2011, 2015)	4th	5
16	Hayley Raso	09/05/1994	2012	Portland Thorns FC	035	03	06/01/2019	0 (2015)	4th
Coaching staff
Head coach	Ante Milicic	04/04/1974	2018	FFA
Assistant coach	Gary van Egmond	06/29/1965	2015	FFA
Assistant coach	Ivan Jolic			FFA
Remarks: ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list ↑ As of May 2019 ↑ a b As of June 1, 2019 ↑ As Tameka Butt

draw

Grenoble (VR) Montpellier (VR) Valenciennes (VR) Nice (AF)

Australian team venues

For the World Cup group draw that took place on December 8, 2018, Australia was allocated Pot 1 based on its placement in the FIFA world rankings of December 7, 2018. The team could not meet world champions USA, Germany or hosts France. Because of the mode, she could not meet any of the four other teams of the Asian association. Australia became head of group C. Brazil, Italy and Jamaica were drawn.

There have been 18 games against Brazil so far with nine wins, one draw (lost on penalties) and eight defeats. Australia won all of the last four games. At world championships there have been three games with one win and two losses. There have been seven games against Italy so far with two wins, two draws (one lost on penalties) and three defeats, but no World Cup game yet. Jamaica has never been an opponent of the Australians.

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Italy	3	2	0	1	007: 200	+5	06th
2.	Australia	3	2	0	1	008: 500	+3	06th
3.	Brazil	3	2	0	1	006: 300	+3	06th
4th	Jamaica	3	0	0	3	001:120	−11	00

Sun 9 June 2019 in Valenciennes
Australia	-	Italy	1: 2 (1: 0)
Thursday, June 13, 2019 in Montpellier
Australia	-	Brazil	3: 2 (1: 2)
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 in Grenoble
Jamaica	-	Australia	1: 4 (0: 2)

Knockout round

Sat., June 22, 2019 at 9:00 p.m. (CEST) in Nice
Norway	-	Australia	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0), 4: 1 i. E.

Awards

• Chloe Logarzo : Player of the game against Brazil
• Sam Kerr : Player of the game against Jamaica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ the-afc.com: Matilda's name final squad for Jordan 2018
2. ↑ fifa.com: Stajcic leaves Matildas
3. ↑ footballaustralia.com: Cup of Nations
4. ↑ matildas.com: Ante Milicic confirms Westfield Matildas squad for France 2019
5. ↑ matildas.com: From Canberra United to the Matildas: Roestbakken's rise to FIFA Women's World Cup squad
6. ↑ fifa.com: Pot allocation for World Cup draw according to the latest world rankings