2007 Australia national soccer team season

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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[]

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 Goal 85' (Report) Goal 5', 38' Tomasson
Goal 28' Jensen		 Stadium: Loftus Road
Attendance: 12,476
Referee: Rob Styles (England)
24 March Friendly China PR  0–2  Australia Guangzhou, China
(Report) Goal 8' Holman
Goal 28' Bresciano		 Stadium: Yuexiushan Stadium
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: (Hong Kong)
2 June Friendly Australia  1–2  Uruguay Sydney, Australia
Sterjovski Goal 6' (Report) Goal 40' Forlán
Goal 77' Recoba		 Stadium: Telstra Stadium
Attendance: 61,795
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
30 June Friendly Singapore  0–3  Australia Kallang, Singapore
(Report) Goal 55', 88' Viduka
Goal 76' Kewell		 Stadium: National Stadium
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Masaaki Toma (Japan)
11 September Friendly Australia  0–1  Argentina Melbourne, Australia
(Report) Goal 49' Demichelis Stadium: MCG
Attendance: 70,171
Referee: Mike Dean (England)
17 November Friendly Australia  1–0  Nigeria London, England
Carney Goal 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 Goal 90+1' [ (Report)] Goal 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 Goal 22'
Mohammed Goal 60'
Jassim Goal 86'		 [ (Report)] Goal 47' Viduka
Yellow card 42' Yellow-red card 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)] Goal 20' Beauchamp
Goal 80', 83' Mark Viduka
Goal 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 Goal 72' [ (Report)] Goal 69' Aloisi
Red card 75' Grella		 Stadium: My Dinh National Stadium
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli (Kuwait)
Penalties
Nakamura Penalty scored
Endō Penalty scored
Komano Penalty scored
Takahara Penalty missed
Nakazawa Penalty scored		 Penalty missed Kewell
Penalty missed Neill
Penalty scored Cahill
Penalty scored Carle
Penalty scored Carney

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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