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
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Summary

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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

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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

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Friendlies

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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   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

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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)
21 July Quarter-final Japan   1–1
(4–3 p)
  Australia Hanoi, Vietnam
UTC+07:00 Takahara   72' [ (Report)]   69' Aloisi
  75' Grella
Stadium: Mỹ Đình National Stadium
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli (Kuwait)
Penalties
Nakamura  
Endō  
Komano  
Takahara  
Nakazawa  
  Kewell
  Neill
  Cahill
  Carle
  Carney

Goal scorers

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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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