Football Australia is saddened to hear of the passing of highly-respected administrator and Hall of Fame member Peter Gray following a long battle with illness.
Born in Australia in 1942, Gray spent 41 years in Australian football as a player and administrator.
During the 1960s he played nine years as a goalkeeper for a number of NSW Soccer Federation (Football NSW) clubs.
Elected Soccer Australia Commissioner in 1995, Gray took part in more than 100 official appearances involving the national teams.
He was head of football at the Atlanta Olympic Games and tour or delegation leader at…
The Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports (COMPPS) today announced that David Gallop AM, the CEO of Football Federation Australia, will become the new Chairperson of COMPPS, effective immediately, with James Sutherland stepping down as the current Chairperson following his resignation as CEO of Cricket Australia.
James Sutherland has held the position of Chairperson since COMPPS was formed in 2009, and has been CEO of Cricket Australia since 2001. He will officially vacate his role as CEO of Cricket Australia at their Annual General Meeting later this month.
Futsalroos Head Coach Miles Downie has named a 14-player squad for the Continental Futsal Championship Thailand 2025, as preparations ramp up for the AFC Futsal Asian Cup™ Indonesia 2026 Qualifiers. The squad features a dynamic mix of returning internationals and exciting new faces, selected to build depth, chemistry, and match fitness ahead of next year’s continental campaign. Australia has been drawn in Group B and will face Belarus, Saudi Arabia, and Zambia during the group stage from Tuesday 29 July to Thursday 31 July, with the Final to be held on Sunday 3 August. The…
Football Australia has been informed by the Papua New Guinea Football Association (PNGFA) that their senior national women’s team is unable to field a team for the final fixture of the Pacific Four Nations Tournament.
PNGFA advised Football Australia they have diagnosed six players as unfit to play for medical reasons, meaning Papua New Guinea is unable to field a squad for tomorrow’s match against the CommBank Young Matildas on Sunday 13 November.
Football Australia understands the advised position and would like to wish the players a speedy recovery as well as thank the PNGFA…
Football Australia’s latest domestic transfer system modernisation and transformation efforts took another step forward today with the official launch of the FIFA Domestic Transfer Matching System (DTMS).
The implementation of FIFA DTMS in Australia will be utilised for the domestic transfer of any male or female player who is registering with their new club as a professional.
Launched in parallel to the opening of the first men’s transfer window of 2023, the use of FIFA DTMS will yield benefits for the entire professional game, with clubs now having a valuable tool to verify, review and…
The CommBank Young Matildas will learn their group stage opponents for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Colombia 2024™ when the draw takes place on Thursday, 6 June at 1am (AEST) and can be followed live on FIFA+.The event will take place at Hall 74 Centro de Eventos in the Colombian capital and start at 10:00 local time. The draw will define the group-stage matchups and subsequent pathways at the tournament’s 11th edition, the first to feature 24 teams, up from the 16 at previous tournaments.Watch HereAustralia qualified for the tournament after finishing as top four team in the recent AFC U-…
Australian coach Kevin Muscat has been appointed manager of J.League side Yokohama F. Marinos.
Just as he did with A-League side Melbourne Victory, Muscat will succeed compatriot Ange Postecoglou in the role.
Muscat, Socceroo cap #406, spent six years with Victory as a coach, winning Championships in 2015 and 2018, before most recently coaching in Europe at Belgian club Sint-Truidense V.V.
Yokohama currently sit in second place in the J.League after 20 games, and will be hoping Muscat can emulate the success of now-Celtic boss Postecoglou in helping the club secure…
Australia’s U-20 Women’s National Team will face Guam and hosts Kyrgyz Republic in Group C of the Round 1 Qualifiers with the group winner progressing to Round 2 in June 2023.
Players and staff departed Australia for the Kyrgyz Republic on 3 March 2023, with the CommBank Young Matildas beginning training ahead of their opening match.
The match can be streamed live and free in Australia below.
2024 AFC U-20 WOMEN'S ASIAN CUP | ROUND 1 QUALIFIERS | GROUP C
Guam v Australia
Date: 7 March 2023
Time: 1:00 am AEDT
Venue: Dolen Omurzakov Stadium, Bishkek
A late goal from Nattatida Tirapalika has denied the CommBank Junior Matildas a winning end to 2025, with coach Mike Cooper’s side instead forced to settle for a 1-1 draw with Thailand’s U16 side in Gosford on Friday afternoon. After falling to a 2-0 defeat to the Thais in Western Sydney earlier in the week, it took less than three minutes for Alara Turkkan to provide an Australian riposte in the second and final game of a series celebrating ASEAN-Australia Football Week.But as the Thais laid siege to the hosts' penalty area late, they eventually found a breakthrough against their…
Chief Executive Officer James Johnson has advised the Board of his decision to resign.Mr Johnson’s decision concludes his 5½-year tenure as CEO of the sport’s governing body having overseen, along with the Board and with the support of the Football Australia team and the Australian football community, one of the most successful periods in Australia football history.During this time, Mr Johnson guided Australian football through the COVID-19 pandemic, with the sport now enjoying all-time high participation numbers. Under Mr Johnson's leadership, Football Australia established the 15-year…
The seeding for the highly-anticipated AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023™ Final Draw, which will take place on May 11, 2023, 2:00pm local time in Doha, Qatar (9:00 PM AEST), has now been confirmed following the release of the latest FIFA World Ranking.
As with the previous editions of Asia’s crown jewel, Qatar have been allocated the first position in Pot 1 ahead of the draw to be held at the Katara Opera House to ensure that the host nation commences the tournament with the opening match scheduled for January 12, 2024.
Joining the hosts and defending champions in Pot 1 are the teams ranked from…
The Australia U-23's and Westfield Matildas have learned when they will compete at the Tokyo Olympic games after the International Olympic Committee (IOC), The Government Of Japan and the event’s stakeholders agreed the new dates on Monday.
The earlier announcement by the IOC last week outlined the importance of rescheduling the event due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The rescheduled games will commence from the 23rd July and will close on the 8th August 2021.
The IOC has confirmed all athletes and quota places already assigned for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020…
Football Australia has confirmed the match schedule for the Australia Cup 2023 Round of 32, with several exciting clashes across five match days, as Australia’s largest annual knockout sporting competition enters its Final Rounds.
With the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023TM running throughout July and August, the Australia Cup 2023 Round of 32 games have been scheduled on the tournament’s rest days, giving football fans and those new to the game an opportunity to attend matches in their respective states.
The Australia Cup 2023 Final Rounds will get underway in Northern…
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has teamed up with creative agency Saatchi & Saatchi and media agency Starcom as part of a fresh approach to growing attendances and broadcast audiences across Football, including the Hyundai A-League.
A number of high profile agencies were involved in a competitive selection process that began in February.
FFA’s Head of Commercial, Digital & Marketing, Luke Bould, said the arrival of the new agencies would complement a range of initiatives for the next Hyundai A-League and Westfield W-League seasons aimed at increasing attendances and viewership…
Football Federation Australia (FFA) today acknowledged the retirement of former Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak, who has called time on his professional playing days having last helped Aston Villa gain promotion from the Championship to the Premier League in 2019.
Jedinak, who retired from the international arena in late 2018 having captained the Socceroos at the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018™ – his third involvement with Australia on that grand stage – has now officially hung up his boots following a career that took him from the Central Coast Mariners to Crystal Palace, Antalyaspor to Aston…
