2007 Australia national soccer team season

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This page summarises the Australia national soccer team fixtures and results in 2007.

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Australia
2007 season
Chairmen Frank Lowy
Manager Graham Arnold
Rob Baan
  2006
2008  

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

TypeGPWDLGFGA
Friendly matches 630386
2007 AFC Asian Cup 412175
Total104241511

Match results

Friendlies

6 February Friendly Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg1–3Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark London, England
Emerton Soccerball shade.svg85' (Report) Soccerball shade.svg5', 38' Tomasson
Soccerball shade.svg28' Jensen
Stadium: Loftus Road
Attendance: 12,476
Referee: Rob Styles (England)
24 March Friendly China  Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg0–2Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Guangzhou, China
(Report) Soccerball shade.svg8' Holman
Soccerball shade.svg28' Bresciano
Stadium: Yuexiushan Stadium
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Wu Chao Jue (Hong Kong)
2 June Friendly Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg1–2Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay Sydney, Australia
Sterjovski Soccerball shade.svg6' (Report) Soccerball shade.svg40' Forlán
Soccerball shade.svg77' Recoba
Stadium: Telstra Stadium
Attendance: 61,795
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
30 June Friendly Singapore  Flag of Singapore.svg0–3Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Kallang, Singapore
(Report) Soccerball shade.svg55', 88' Viduka
Soccerball shade.svg76' Kewell
Stadium: National Stadium
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Masaaki Toma (Japan)
11 September Friendly Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg0–1Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina Melbourne, Australia
(Report) Soccerball shade.svg49' Demichelis Stadium: MCG
Attendance: 70,171
Referee: Mike Dean (England)
17 November Friendly Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg1–0Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria London, England
Carney Soccerball shade.svg53' (Report) Stadium: Craven Cottage
Attendance: 11,953
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

2007 AFC Asian Cup

8 July Group A Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg 1–1 Flag of Oman.svg  Oman Bangkok, Thailand
UTC+07:00 Cahill Soccerball shade.svg90+1'[ (Report)]Soccerball shade.svg31' Al-Maimani Stadium: Rajamangala Stadium
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
13 July Group A Iraq  Flag of Iraq (2004-2008).svg 3–1 Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Bangkok, Thailand
UTC+07:00 Akram Soccerball shade.svg22'
Mohammed Soccerball shade.svg60'
Jassim Soccerball shade.svg86'
[ (Report)]Soccerball shade.svg47' Viduka
Yellow card.svg 42' Yellow-red card.svg 90+3' Neill
Stadium: Rajamangala Stadium
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Jasim Karim (Bahrain)

Goal scorers

PlayerFriendliesAFC Asian CupTotal goals
Viduka 235
Kewell 112
Aloisi -11
Beauchamp -11
Bresciano 1-1
Cahill -11
Carney 1-1
Emerton 1-1
Holman 1-1
Sterjovski 1-1

References