The 2021–22 season was the 53rd season of national competitive association football in Australia and 139th overall.

National teams

Men's senior

Friendly

The following is a list of friendlies played by the men's senior national team in 2021–22.

FIFA World Cup qualification

=AFC third round Group B

=AFC Fourth-round play-off

=Inter-Confederation play-offs

Men's under 23

Friendlies

The following is a list of friendlies played by the men's under 23 national team in 2021–22.

Olympic Games

AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification

AFC U-23 Asian Cup

Women's senior

Friendlies

The following is a list of friendlies played by the women's national team in 2021–22.

Olympic Games

AFC Women's Asian Cup

Women's under-20

Australia was to host one of the groups in the first round of qualification for the

2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup The 2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup was originally to be held as the 11th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organi ...

, between 14 and 22 August 2021 in

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, Victoria. However, in July 2021, the

Asian Football Confederation The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries and territories in Asia. The AFC was formed in 1954. It has 47 members. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation ( ...

confirmed that the competition was cancelled due to the

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Friendlies

The following is a list of friendlies played by the Women's U-20 team in 2021–22.

Women's under-17

Australia was to host one of the groups in the first round of qualification for the 2022 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup, between 18 and 26 September 2021 in

Cessnock, New South Wales Cessnock () is a city in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, about by road west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle. It is the administrative centre of the City of Cessnock Local government in Australia, LGA and was named afte ...

. However, in July 2021, the

confirmed that the competition was cancelled due to the

AFC competitions

AFC Champions League

Qualifiers: * Melbourne City as 2020–21 A-League regular season premiers *

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory ...

2021 FFA Cup The 2021 FFA Cup was the eighth season of the FFA Cup, the main national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. Thirty-two teams contested the competition proper from the round of 32, including 10 of the 12 A-League teams (with two teams ...

winners *

Sydney FC Sydney Football Club, commonly known as Sydney FC, is a professional association football, soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They compete in the top-tier men's league in Australia, the A-League Men. Established in 2004, ...

as 2020–21 A-League regular season runners-up Melbourne Victory were eliminated in the play-off round.

Group stage

=Group G

=Group H

Men's football

A-League Men

;Finals

National Premier Leagues

The Final Series was not held.

Cup competitions

FFA Cup

A-Leagues All Stars Game

Women's football

A-League Women

;Finals

Deaths

* 3 January 2022: Ulysses Kokkinos, 74, former South Melbourne Hellas, Fitzroy United, Hakoah Eastern Suburbs, Melbourne Juventus, West Adelaide Hellas, Western Suburbs, and

Floreat Athena Floreat Athena Football Club is a soccer club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club competes in the National Premier Leagues Western Australia. The club's founders were of Greek heritage. Floreat Athena has been crowned the Western Austr ...

forward. * 23 February 2022: Jim Milisavljevic, 70, former

Footscray JUST Footscray Jugoslav United Soccer Team, commonly referred to as J.U.S.T, Footscray or simply JUST, was an association football club from Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia. The club was established by Yugoslavs, Yugoslav migrants in 1950, ...

and Carlton Serbia goalkeeper. * 14 March 2022: Colin Kitching, 88, former Bundamba, Blackstone United, St Helens United, Hellenic, and

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

forward.

Retirements

* 14 September 2021: Wayne Brown, 33, former

Newcastle Jets Newcastle United Jets Football Club, commonly known as Newcastle Jets, is an Australian professional soccer club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from the Australi ...

midfielder. * 19 September 2021: Christine Nairn, 30, former

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and

midfielder. * 24 September 2021:

Lisa De Vanna Lisa Marie De Vanna (born 14 November 1984) is an Australian former professional Association football, soccer player who played as a Forward (association football), forward. She played for Adelaide Sensation, Western Waves, Doncaster Rovers Bel ...

, 36, former

, Adelaide Sensation, Western Waves,

Perth Glory Perth Glory Football Club is an Australian professional Association football, soccer club based in Perth, Perth, Western Australia. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under Professional sports league organi ...

Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland. competing in Australia's premier men's competition, A-League Men, which is the top tier Australia's football pyramid. When Queensland Lions F.C. were ...

, Melbourne City, North Shore Mariners,

Canberra United Canberra United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Founded in 2008 by Capital Football, the club was an inaugural member of the W-League and the only club not affiliated with ...

South Melbourne South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. South Melbourne recorded a population of 11,548 at the 2021 ...

, and

forward. * 28 September 2021: Steven Taylor, 35, former

Wellington Phoenix Wellington Phoenix Football Club is a professional football club based in Wellington, New Zealand. It competes in the Australian A-League Men, under licence from Football Federation Australia. Phoenix entered the competition in the 2007–08 ...

defender. * 30 September 2021: Ronald Vargas, 34, former

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and

forward. * 15 October 2021: Simon Cox, 34, former

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

and

Western Sydney Wanderers Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, Wanderers, or simply as WSW) is an Australian professional association football club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in t ...

forward. * 23 October 2021:

Adam Federici Adam Jay Federici (born 31 January 1985) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Federici began his senior career at Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2003, but was only there briefly and soon switched to Torres. A ...

, 36, former

and

Macarthur FC Macarthur Football Club is an Australian professional association football, soccer club based in South Western Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in Australia's premier soccer competition, the A-League, under Professional sports league organi ...

goalkeeper. * 28 October 2021:

Daniel Georgievski Daniel Georgievski (; born 17 February 1988) was a professional footballer who last played as a full-back for Australian side Inter Lions. Born in Australia, he plays for the North Macedonia national team. Daniel is an ambassador for the char ...

, 33, former

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, and Melbourne City defender. * 12 November 2021:

Joe Ledley Joseph Christopher Ledley (born 23 January 1987) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He started his career with then Championship side Cardiff City where he spent six years. He helped the club to the F ...

, 34, former

Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...

and

midfielder. * 27 January 2022:

Besart Berisha Besart Selim Berisha (born 29 July 1985) is a Kosovan professional football coach and former player who is the current assistant manager of Kosovo Superleague club Prishtina. Club career Youth and Hamburger SV Berisha began his youth career at ...

, 36, former

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, and

Western United Western United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club. The club is based in the western Melbourne suburb of Tarneit, the club aims to represent western Victoria, incorporating the western suburbs of Melbourne; the regional ci ...

forward. * 9 March 2022: Zac Anderson, 30, former

Gold Coast United 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 ...

Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League Men, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The Mar ...

, and Olympic FC defender. * 30 April 2022:

Andy Keogh Andrew Declan Keogh (born 16 May 1986) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for semi-professional side East Perth FC. Born in Dublin, Keogh played the first several years of his professional career playing for a number o ...

, 35, former

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and

forward. * 7 May 2022: Bobô, 37, former

forward. * 20 May 2022: Louis Fenton, 29, former

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

and

defender. * 22 May 2022: Joseph Mills, 32, former

defender.

Comebacks

* 23 November 2021:

Ashleigh Sykes Ashleigh Sykes (born 15 December 1991) is an Australian international football player who last played in 2022 for Canberra United FC of the A-League Women and has previously played for Portland Thorns FC in the U.S.'s National Women's Soccer Lea ...

, 28, former

international forward who retired in 2018 and signed with

. * 25 November 2021:

, 36, former

international forward who retired in September 2021 and signed with

References

External links

Football Australia official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:2021-22 in Australian soccer Seasons in Australian soccer

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