Australia’s men’s football team will take on New Zealand in an international friendly prior to the commencement of the Tokyo 2020 Men’s Football Tournament this month.
The international friendly, which will be played in front of a capped crowd of 1,500 spectators at the ZA Oripri Stadium in Ichihara City, will be held on Monday, 12 July 2021 with kick-off at 6pm local time (7pm AEST).
The game between Australia and New Zealand will not be broadcast or live streamed, however regular social media updates will be made available via socceroos.com.au and the official Socceroos Twitter handle.
A national series of Community Football Summits kicked off with the first meeting in Brisbane at the weekend with National Premier Leagues, player pathways and referee development at the centre of the conversation.
Members of the Queensland football community gathered at Suncorp Stadium to quiz representatives from Football Federation Australia (FFA) including Chair Chris Nikou and Chief Executive David Gallop AM, together with Football Queensland (FQ) chair Ben Richardson and Chief Executive Richard Griffiths.
They fielded questions on a wide range of subjects during a lively two-hour…
Football Australia has confirmed the slot allocations for the Final Rounds of the Australia Cup 2022.
Member Federations around the nation have been advised of the allocations for this year’s Round of 32, with one Member Federation (Football Victoria) awarded one additional slot when compared to the FFA Cup 2021.
The National Premier Leagues (NPL) Finals Series was unfortunately not held in 2021 due to COVID-19, meaning that there was one additional slot was available to be assigned to a Member Federation for the Australia Cup 2022.
The CommBank Junior Matildas will host AFC compatriots the Korea Republic in a three-match international series at Kingscliff Soccer Club and Burleigh Heads FC.
The second match in the three-match international series kicks off tonight at 8:00 pm AEDT, with fans able to watch the CommBank Junior Matildas live and for free on the Football Australia YouTube Channel.
All matches will be open to the public with free entry.
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Football Australia has today announced that it will formally recognise the achievements of 42 former Australian women’s representative players including members of the 1975 team which participated in the first AFC Women’s Asian Cup™.
Following extensive research undertaken by Football Australia’s historians and the recent release of the first-ever AFC Women’s Asian Cup™ History Book, the Football Australia Board has endorsed the recommendation to celebrate the legacy and contributions of the identified players from the period of 1975 - to 2013.
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has this afternoon confirmed that football matches scheduled for this weekend, 13/14/15 March 2020, can proceed as planned.
This includes Hyundai A-League and Westfield W-League matches, National Premier League Men’s and Women’s, FFA Cup, and community football matches.
A National COVID-19 Working Committee, established to address the increasing threat of COVID-19 to football in Australia, comprising representatives from FFA, the Hyundai A-League and Westfield W-Leagues, Member Federations and Professional Footballers Australia, took the decision in…
The opening match of the Commonwealth Bank Matildas international series with New Zealand will be a historic encounter in Townsville, Queensland on Friday, 8 April at QCB Stadium.
This home international will be the first time the Australian women’s national team has ever played in Townsville, with the match set to be the first football fixture to be played at world-class QCB Stadium since it opened in 2020.
Football Australia CEO, James Johnson, said:
“Football Australia is delighted to be bringing Australia’s favourite sporting team, the…
Football Federation Australia (FFA) is saddened to learn that former Socceroo (#176), Billy Cook, passed away on Sunday evening (2 July 2017) after a period of illness.
Born in Galston Scotland in 1940, Billy Cook was a defender who played at Galston Amateurs and Winton Rovers juniors, from where he joined Kilmarnock aged 17.
After turning professional with Kilmarnock in 1959 he made ten appearances in Scotland's top tier before moving to Melbourne four years later.
He played at Slavia from 1963 until being forced to retire in 1969 with a back injury. He assisted Slavia to victory in the…
Football Australia will be standing up an Australian Women’s National Futsal Team to contest the AFC Women’s Futsal Asian Cup China 2025™ Qualifiers in January.With the Philippines – from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) – set to host the maiden FIFA Futsal Women’s World Cup™ in late 2025, it presents an opportunity for Football Australia to embark on its own journey of firsts and enter a national team into the AFC Women’s Futsal Asian Cup™ Qualifiers.In all, 19 teams – featuring nine debutant nations including Australia – will compete in the Qualifiers as they aim to earn places in the…
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has released the second in a series of webinars discussing the establishment of a modern Domestic Transfer System (DTS), the benefits and challenges of the system, and the potential for reform and evolution in Australia.
In the second webinar, available here or via the video player above, Mel McLaughlin is joined by Patrick Stewart, General Counsel at Manchester United, and Lina Souloukou, General Manager at Olympiakos, to discuss the transfer system strategies of two of European football’s biggest clubs.
The 2025 CommBank Emerging Matildas Championships are underway at Valentine Sports Park in Sydney, bringing together the nation’s top young female footballers for a week of high-level competition and development.From the first whistle, there was no shortage of sharp passing, brave defending and moments of individual brilliance across both the Under 15 and Under 16 Age Groups.
Despite the brisk winter conditions in Glenwood, the energy on the field was palpable. Spectators filled the sidelines, creating a lively atmosphere as families, scouts…
Football Federation Australia today presented details of funding for the Hyundai A-League/Westfield W-League clubs for 2017-18.
This is part of the broader distribution of funds which also includes Member Federations, programs for the grassroots football community and our national teams as we head into a World Cup year.
In common with most national sporting organisations, the demand for funding from stakeholders is greater than the funds available.
FFA is making significant cuts to its own costs in order to make greater distributions to stakeholders.
A trailblazer for women match officials, Jenny Bray, was inducted into the Football Australia Hall of Fame on Thursday night at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.READ MORE: Pioneers, leaders and visionaries inducted into Hall of FameBray has devoted 40 years of her life to refereeing and making refereeing accessible for other women. She set the original path for future Australian women referees through her distinguished career as a national and international referee, helping raise awareness of the calibre of Australia’s women referee talent pool at FIFA, and the Oceania and Asian Football…
CommBank Young Matildas head coach Leah Blayney will today kick off the new U-20 Women’s National Team cycle with a six-day training camp in Blacktown, Sydney.
Blayney has assembled a 31-player squad featuring returning players who participated in August’s FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Costa Rica 2022™, members of the 2022 AFF U-18 Women’s championship-winning side and some fresh faces in the new national team set-up.
“It is tremendously exciting to start a new cycle with the CommBank Young Matildas,” said Blayney. “The performances of the…
Subway Olyroos’ Head Coach Tony Vidmar has named an exciting and highly talented 23-player squad for the prestigious Maurice Revello Tournament in France next month.
The players will first assemble at the AIS European Training Centre in Varese, Italy on May 26 for a six-day camp in preparation for the Maurice Revello Tournament to be played at six venues across Aix-en-Provence. The tournament will feature twelve U-23 national men’s teams from five confederations, where Australia will play at least four matches from 6 – 18 June, providing ideal tournament preparation for September’s AFC U-23…
The Subway Socceroos will take on reigning World Champions, Argentina, in Beijing, China next month in a much-anticipated rematch following their Round of 16 encounter at last year’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
The international friendly will take place at The Workers’ Stadium on Thursday 15 June at 8.00pm local / 10.00pm AEST, and it will be the first time the two sides have met since their much talked about encounter at Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, where Argentina claimed a 2-1 victory.
Football Australia CEO James Johnson said that this match is historic on so many levels: “To secure a match…
The CommBank Pararoos will open Football Australia’s 2023 calendar of international football with an international friendly against world number four, the United States of America, at Cromer Park, NSW.
It will mark the CommBank Pararoos’, Australia’s senior men’s national football team for athletes with cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury, or symptoms acquired from stroke, first home international since 2019 when COVID- 19 resulted in a halt to international football.
Played at the home of Manly Warringah Football Association (MWFA) and Manly United FC, the international friendly will see…
Football Australia has confirmed the introduction of new Player Roster Principles for National Premier League Senior Men’s competitions across Australia from 2026.The current Player Points System (PPS) will be phased out over the next 12-months and replaced by the Player Roster Principles (PRP) in time for the 2026 National Premier League (NPL) Senior Men’s season.Football Australia’s XI Principles for the Future of Australian Football, outlines the importance of alignment in the Australian football pyramid, which is connected through optimised and consistent competition structures, as well…
Subway Young Socceroos have one foot in the AFC U-20 Asian Cup China 2025™ quarter-finals after overcoming Qatar 3-1 in Shenzhen to accrue their second consecutive win at the tournament.Coach Trevor Morgan made five changes to the side that defeated Kyrgyz Republic on Wednesday evening, showcasing the depth of the Young Socceroos squad, as Joshua Inserra, Tiago Quintal, Zach Lisolajski, Frans Deli, and Dean Bosnjak all made their starting debuts at the tournament.The Young Socceroos would almost make the perfect start in the fifth minute with Sydney FC star Quintal darting past a number of…
The extraordinary life and career of former Socceroos and National Soccer League (NSL) Head Coach Rale Rasic OAM will be celebrated at 2pm AEST throughout a special live stream that will be shared on the Socceroos’ and FFA official Facebook page.
From 2pm AEST today, football fans across the nation and around the world will be able to tune in to the stream which has been organised by Harry Michaels OAM – a long-serving contributor to Australia’s football media, as well as TV director and actor.
CLICK HERE to watch the live tribute on Facebook and hit "Get Reminder"…
