2007 Australia national soccer team season

January 2024 May 2013This page summarises the Australia national soccer team fixtures and results in 2007. Australia 2007 Graham Arnold Rob Baan Frank Lowy Chairmen E4D00A E4D00A E4D00A 008000 E4D00A _goldline 413C6F 413C6F 413C6F 413C6F 413C6F 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 Type GP W D L GF GAFriendly matches630386 2007 AFC Asian Cup412175 Total104241511 Match results Friendlies 6 February Friendly Australia 1–3 (Report) Denmark Emerton 85 5 38 Tomasson 28 Jensen Loftus Road London, England 12,476 Rob Styles (England) L 24 March Friendly China PR 0–2 (Report) Australia 8 Holman 28 Bresciano Yuexiushan Stadium Guangzhou, China 20,000 Wu Chao Jue (Hong Kong) W 2 June Friendly Australia 1–2 (Report) Uruguay Sterjovski 6 40 Forlán 77 Recoba Telstra Stadium Sydney, Australia 61,795 Roberto Rosetti (Italy) L 30 June Friendly Singapore 0–3 (Report) Australia 55 88 Viduka 76 Kewell National Stadium Kallang, Singapore 45,000 Masaaki Toma (Japan) W 11 September Friendly Australia 0–1 (Report) Argentina 49 Demichelis MCG Melbourne, Australia 70,171 Mike Dean (England) L 17 November Friendly Australia 1–0 (Report) Nigeria Carney 53 Craven Cottage London, England 11,953 Mark Clattenburg (England) W 2007 AFC Asian Cup 8 July UTC+07:00 Group A Australia 1–1 [ (Report)] Oman Cahill 90+1 31 Al-Maimani Rajamangala Stadium Bangkok, Thailand 5,000 Eddy Maillet (Seychelles) D 13 July UTC+07:00 Group A Iraq 2004 3–1 [ (Report)] Australia Akram 22 Mohammed 60 Jassim 86 47 Viduka 2 42 90+3 Neill Rajamangala Stadium Bangkok, Thailand 6,000 Jasim Karim (Bahrain) L 16 July UTC+07:00 Group A Thailand 0–4 [ (Report)] Australia 20 Beauchamp 80 83 Mark Viduka 90 Harry Kewell Rajamangala Stadium Bangkok, Thailand Kwon Jong-Chul (South Korea) W 21 July UTC+07:00 Quarter-final Japan 1–1 [ (Report)] Australia Takahara 72 69 Aloisi 0 75 Grella Mỹ Đình National Stadium Hanoi, Vietnam 25,000 Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli (Kuwait) D Nakamura Endō Komano Takahara Nakazawa 4–3 Kewell Neill Cahill Carle Carney Goal scorers Player Friendlies AFC Asian Cup Total goals Viduka235 Kewell112 Aloisi-11 Beauchamp-11 Bresciano1-1 Cahill-11 Carney1-1 Emerton1-1 Holman1-1 Sterjovski1-1 References 2007 Category:Australia men's national soccer team results Category:2006–07 in Australian soccer Category:2007–08 in Australian soccer Category:2007 national football team results