2007 Australia national soccer team season

This page summarises the Australia national soccer team fixtures and results in 2007.

Australia
2007 season
ChairmenFrank Lowy
ManagerGraham Arnold
Rob Baan

Summary

The Socceroos played a number of friendly fixtures throughout the year with mixed results; three wins and three losses. More importantly, 2007 was the year Australia first participated in the AFC Asian Cup. After their performance in the 2006 World Cup, Australia entered the tournament as one of the favourites. However, in the opening game against Oman it was only a late equaliser that rescued Australia a point before losing to eventual champions Iraq. It took three late goals to finally see off joint hosts Thailand and go through to the quarter finals where they would lose to Japan in a penalty shoot-out.

Record

Type GP W D L GF GA
Friendly matches 6 3 0 3 8 6
2007 AFC Asian Cup 4 1 2 1 7 5
Total 10 4 2 4 15 11


Match results

Friendlies

6 February Friendly Australia  1–3  Denmark London, England
Emerton  85' (Report)  5', 38' Tomasson
 28' Jensen
Stadium: Loftus Road
Attendance: 12,476
Referee: Rob Styles (England)
24 March Friendly China PR  0–2  Australia Guangzhou, China
(Report)  8' Holman
 28' Bresciano
Stadium: Yuexiushan Stadium
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Wu Chao Jue (Hong Kong)
2 June Friendly Australia  1–2  Uruguay Sydney, Australia
Sterjovski  6' (Report)  40' Forlán
 77' Recoba
Stadium: Telstra Stadium
Attendance: 61,795
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
30 June Friendly Singapore  0–3  Australia Kallang, Singapore
(Report)  55', 88' Viduka
 76' Kewell
Stadium: National Stadium
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Masaaki Toma (Japan)
11 September Friendly Australia  0–1  Argentina Melbourne, Australia
(Report)  49' Demichelis Stadium: MCG
Attendance: 70,171
Referee: Mike Dean (England)
17 November Friendly Australia  1–0  Nigeria London, England
Carney  53' (Report) Stadium: Craven Cottage
Attendance: 11,953
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

2007 AFC Asian Cup

8 July Group A Australia  1–1  Oman Bangkok, Thailand
UTC+07:00 Cahill  90+1' [ (Report)]  31' Al-Maimani Stadium: Rajamangala Stadium
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
13 July Group A Iraq  3–1  Australia Bangkok, Thailand
UTC+07:00 Akram  22'
Mohammed  60'
Jassim  86'
[ (Report)]  47' Viduka
 42'  90+3' Neill
Stadium: Rajamangala Stadium
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Jasim Karim (Bahrain)

Goal scorers

Player Friendlies AFC Asian Cup Total goals
Viduka 2 3 5
Kewell 1 1 2
Aloisi - 1 1
Beauchamp - 1 1
Bresciano 1 - 1
Cahill - 1 1
Carney 1 - 1
Emerton 1 - 1
Holman 1 - 1
Sterjovski 1 - 1

References

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