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Australia Women's National Under-17 Soccer Team
The Australian women's national under-17 soccer team represents Australia in international women's under-17 soccer. The team is controlled by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Federation Australia (FFA), which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) since leaving the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in 2006. The team's official nickname is the ''Junior Matildas''. History The first Australian women's national under-17 team was assembled in 2007 following Australia's entry into the Asian Football Confederation. Coaching staff Players Current squad The following 23 players were named to the squad for the 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup in Bali, Indonesia. ''Caps and goals correct as of 13 May 2024 after the match against Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Federation Australia
Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia, headquartered in Sydney. Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only established in 1961 as the Australian Soccer Federation. It was later reconstituted in 2003 as the Australian Soccer Association before adopting the name of Football Federation Australia in 2005. In contemporary identification, a corporate decision was undertaken to institute that name to deliver a "more united football" in a deliberation from the current CEO, James Johnson. The name was changed to Football Australia in December 2020. Football Australia oversees the men's, women's, youth, Paralympic, beach and futsal national teams in Australia, the national coaching programs and the state governing bodies for the sport. It sanctions professional, semi-professional and amateur soccer in Australia. Football Australia made the decision to leav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Coast United FC
Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian Association football, soccer club based in Gold Coast, Queensland. The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach. The first era of Gold Coast United senior teams competed in the Brisbane leagues until the club disbanded after the 1979 season, allowing Broadbeach United S.C., Broadbeach United Soccer Club to form its first senior team in 1980 at the same grounds. Twenty-eight years later the club was revived and was officially announced as a professional expansion team for the A-League's A-League 2009-10, 2009–2010 season on 28 August 2008. It was the second bid accepted by the league, with an unrelated bid known as Gold Coast Galaxy FC preceding it. The club was owned by Clive Palmer (businessman), Clive Palmer, the wealthiest man in Queensland, until the FFA took over the club's A-League licence in February 2012. In their first two A-League seasons Gold Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A-Leagues
The Australian Professional Leagues, officially abbreviated to the APL, and sometimes referred to as the A-Leagues, are the governing body for the A-League Men, A-League Women, A-League Youth and E-League. Since their formation, they have been mostly independent of Football Australia, but remain under their umbrella. The APL has rebranded various aspects of the professional leagues, including renaming and redesigning the logos for the men's, women's, and youth leagues. However, the decision to host the 2023, 2024, and 2025 grand finals in Sydney was met with backlash from fans, former players, and active support groups, with some clubs stating their preference to host grand finals at their home grounds. History Unbundling and rebranding On 31 December 2020, Football Australia announced that the Australian Professional Leagues (APL) would be separated from the governing body. APL will assume responsibility for operational, commercial, and marketing activities, while Football Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manly United FC
Manly United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in the Northern Beaches (Sydney), Northern Beaches area of Sydney. The club competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW and their home ground is Cromer Park, in the suburb of Dee Why, New South Wales, Dee Why, approximately 15 minutes away from Manly. Its main grandstand is named after former Australia men's national soccer team, Socceroo captain Lucas Neill, who played for the club as a junior before playing overseas at Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United. Manly United Football Club Ltd. was officially formed in 2004 by the Manly Warringah Soccer Association. However, there have been many representative teams competing for the association prior to this date. Notably, the previous club was called Manly Warringah Dolphins, that formed from the merger of Manly-North Shore United and Warringah Freshwater at the close of the 1991 National Premier Leagues NSW, NSW Division 1 season for the start of the upcoming 1992 NSW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney FC (A-League Women)
Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional women's association football club based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They compete in the A-League Women, the top tier of women's soccer in Australia. History Establishment The formation of the W-League (Australia), W-League in October 2008 saw the league composed of eight teams. Seven of the eight clubs were directly affiliated with the A-League clubs, Sydney FC being one. The women's team shares the men's club name and colours. Inaugural season The inaugural W-League season was played over 10 rounds, followed by a finals series. During Sydney's season opener, the squad defeated Perth Glory 4–0 with a brace scored by Leena Khamis and two goals from Danielle Small and Heather Garriock. Captained by Australia women's national soccer team, Australian international Heather Garriock Sydney's first season saw mixed results. The club made it to the top four to qualify for the finals, however lost out to eventual champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Sydney Wanderers FC (A-League Women)
Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club is an Australian women's football club based in the western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 2012, it is the affiliated women's team of the A-League team Western Sydney Wanderers. The team currently competes in the A-League Women, the top tier of women's soccer in Australia. History On 4 April 2012, the creation of Western Sydney Wanderers FC was announced by then CEO of Football Federation Australia Ben Buckley. It was also announced soon after that an associated women's team would compete in the W-League. On 5 July 2012, Stephen Roche was announced as the inaugural head coach for the team. On 17 July 2014, Norm Boardman was appointed as head coach for the team. On 20 May 2016, Richard Byrne was appointed as head coach, with Leah Blayney appointed as assistant coach and Davide Del Giovine as goalkeeping coach. On October 2017, former Western Sydney Wanderers player Catherine Cannuli and Ryan Doidge joined Byrne a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide United FC (A-League Women)
Adelaide United Football Club is an Australian Women's association football, women's soccer team based in Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 2008, it is the affiliated women's team of Adelaide United FC, Adelaide United. The team competes in the country's premier women's soccer competition, the A-League Women. History Establishment Adelaide United's women's team was formed in 2008 with the inception of the W-League, becoming one of the founding eight teams. The inaugural set up saw North Eastern MetroStars coach Michael Barnett (footballer), Michael Barnett take charge with ex-Adelaide United player Richie Alagich take up the assistant coach role and Australia women's national soccer team, Matildas stalwart Dianne Alagich named as captain. 2008–2011 Adelaide's first game was on 25 October 2008 against Brisbane Roar FC W-League, Queensland Roar at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre, which ended in a 4–1 loss with Sharon Black getting the consolation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne City FC (A-League Women)
Melbourne City Women's Football Club, also known as the Melbourne City Women or simply as City, represents Melbourne City in the A-League Women, the top division soccer league in Australia. Founded in 2015, the club has its training and administration based at the City Football Academy in Melbourne and plays matches at Casey Fields in Casey and at AAMI Park in Melbourne. The current manager of the team is Michael Matricciani. History Following on from their purchase of and investment into Manchester City in England, City Football Group turned their eyes to investment into the women's game as well, funding a serious overhaul of the Manchester club's female affiliate. Only months after their takeover of the men's team Melbourne City FC, they followed likewise on the women's side, contacting the FFA regarding entering a team into the W-League to be affiliated to the men's Melbourne side. After a year of negotiations, their involvement was sealed with an announcement that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football NSW
Football NSW is the governing body for soccer in the Australian state of New South Wales, with the exception of the northern regions of NSW (the governing body for which is Northern New South Wales Football). Football NSW is a member of the national governing body, Football Australia. Football NSW's premier football competition is the National Premier Leagues NSW. The premier futsal competition is the Futsal Premier League. Prior to 1 April 2007, Football NSW was known as Soccer NSW. History The first soccer association was founded in New South Wales in 1882 as the "South British Football Soccer Association". It was succeeded in 1898 by the "New South Wales British Football Association" and eventually in 1921 by the "Australian Soccer Football Association". The first state league in New South Wales was formed in 1928 and by 1943 a new association was formed to oversee the game in New South Wales specifically, called "New South Wales Soccer Football Association". This was formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane Roar FC (A-League Women)
Brisbane Roar Women Football Club, formerly known Queensland Roar Women, is an Australian professional women's soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland (founded in 2008). The Roar competes in the country's premier women's soccer competition, the A-League Women. History Early years Brisbane Roar (then Queensland Roar) were a founding member of the W-League in 2008. The team was initially coached by Welshman Jeff Hopkins, who had played his football career predominantly in England, as well as representing Wales at the international level. The playing roster featured a mix of youth and veterans, including founding captain and Matilda's stalwart, Kate McShea, and up-and-coming goalkeeper Casey Dumont. Home ground Brisbane Roar plays their home games at Perry Park. Previous home grounds have included the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre, Suncorp Stadium, A.J. Kelly Park, Kayo Stadium, Lions Stadium, Stockland Park and Cleveland Showgrounds. Players First-team squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Academy Of Sport
The Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) is an elite sports institute set up in 1991 by the Queensland Government to support athletes in the state of Queensland. Its headquarters are currently located at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre in Nathan, Queensland. The Academy was opened in May 1991 to rival the other states' institutes of sport and has thirteen squads over ten sports. These programs include athletics, canoeing, cycling, gymnastics (men and women), hockey (men and women), netball, rowing, sailing, swimming, and water polo (men and women). Also QAS has many partnership programs with other team sports ranging from the Queensland Baseball Academy, to the Queensland Academy of Sport Soccer Program. . ''Queensland Academy of Sport''. Accessed 7 August 2009. Notable alumni [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
