2007 Australia national soccer team season

Australia
2007 season
Chairmen	Frank Lowy
Manager	Graham Arnold; Rob Baan
Home colours	Away colours
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This page summarises the Australia national soccer team fixtures and results in 2007.

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	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)

16 July Group A	Thailand	0–4	Australia	Bangkok, Thailand
UTC+07:00		[ (Report)]	20' Beauchamp 80', 83' Mark Viduka 90' Harry Kewell	Stadium: Rajamangala Stadium Referee: Kwon Jong-Chul (South Korea)

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