Adelaide United are through to the FFA Cup 2021 Quarter Finals and the Cup experts have added another record to their collection.
With their 1-0 victory over Adelaide Olympic on Sunday at VALO Football Centre, United are into the last eight of the competition for the fourth time in a row.
The three-time Winners of the FFA Cup have now extended their winning streak in the competition to 12 in a row, breaking the all-time record of consecutive wins in Australia National Cup competitions.
Adelaide's 3-1 win over Floreat Athena in the Round of 32 in September saw them equal…
The second Semi Final of the FFA Cup 2021 will be played at GMHBA Stadium in Geelong on Saturday, 29 January 2022.
Melbourne Victory FC and Wellington Phoenix FC will battle it out to reach the FFA Cup Final 2021, with kick-off at 4.30pm AEDT (6:30pm NZDT).
The winner of next Saturday’s FFA Cup Semi Final between Victory and Phoenix will meet Central Coast Mariners FC in the decider, after the Gosford-based outfit defeated Sydney FC 1-0 in the first Semi Final held at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium in Kogarah last night.
Tickets for Melbourne Victory FC vs. Wellington Phoenix in the second…
A new cycle of U17 female players is set to commence their national team journey as head coach Rae Dower has called up a 30-player provisional squad for the CommBank Junior Matildas' upcoming October training camp.
Held on the Gold Coast from 25 October to 5 November 2022, it will mark the first assembly for the U17 Women’s National Team since their success at the AFF U18 Women’s Championships.
Dower, who has guided a generation of talented national team footballers since 2017, is enthused about the prospects for this new group.
Football Federation Australia (FFA) today announced that it had convened a National Bushfires Working Group to coordinate football’s response to the emergency and raise funds for the long-term rebuilding of affected communities.
The Working Group will bring together key football stakeholder groups with a unified, national approach, and comprise representatives from State/Territory Member Federations, Leagues, Association of Australian Football Clubs, Professional Footballers Australia and FFA.
FFA Chief Executive James Johnson said he was delighted with the response football has made so far…
Australia’s two most popular national sporting teams, the CommBank Matildas and Subway Socceroos, have launched TikTok accounts thanks to a new collaboration partnership between Football Australia and TikTok.
In what will be the most exciting 12-months for Australian football in the sport’s history, with both senior national teams competing in their respective FIFA World Cups, these TikTok accounts complement the teams’ existing digital and social media offerings and provide an opportunity to create fresh and unique content for fans, including exclusive before behind-the-scenes access.…
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.
MATCH DETAILS
CommBank Junior Matildas v Korea Republic U15 WNT
Date: Wednesday, 2…
Australia's national powerchair football team, the Poweroos, have completed their final selection camp in Sydney last weekend in preparation for the 2023 FIPFA Powerchair Football World Cup. The event is the second football World Cup to be hosted on Australian shores in 2023, being held in Sydney between Sunday 15th and Friday 20th October. The Australian team are highly rated on the international stage having finished 4th at the third powerchair World Cup in Florida, USA in 2017. Over 80 players from 15 clubs across six states and territories participate in competitive…
During National Refugee Week (Sunday June 14 to Saturday June 20), Football Federation Australia will be sharing stories of refugees who have made Australia home and have enriched our game. Thomas Deng shares his story below.
They say football is a universal language and Thomas Deng’s journey from South Sudanese refugee to Socceroo proves exactly that.
As Australia celebrates National Refugee Week, the Urawa Red Diamonds defender opened up on how football was invaluable in overcoming the challenges he and his family faced after they first settled in South Australia in 2004.
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…
