List of Australia international soccer players (4–9 caps)
The Australia national football team represents the country of Australia in international association football. It is fielded by Football Federation Australia, the governing body of soccer in Australia, and competes as a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which encompasses the countries of Asia.
Australia have competed in numerous competitions, and all players who have played between four and nine, either as a member of the starting eleven or as a substitute, are listed below. Each player's details include his usual playing position while with the team, the number of caps earned and goals scored in all international matches, and details of the first and most recent matches played in. The names are initially ordered by date of debut, and then by alphabetical order. All statistics are correct up to and including the match played on 14 November 2019.
Key
- Player
- Position
- Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. Thus the change in the names of defensive and midfield positions reflects the tactical evolution that occurred from the 1960s onwards.
- Caps and goals
- Caps and goals comprise those in the FIFA World Cup, OFC Nations Cup, AFC Asian Cup, their associated qualification matches and international friendly tournaments and matches.
Pre-1960s | 1960s– | ||
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GK | Goalkeeper | ||
FB | Full back | DF | Defender |
HB | Half back | MF | Midfielder |
FW | Forward |
Players
Player | Pos. | Caps | Goals | Debut | Last or most recent match | Refs. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date | Opponent | Date | Opponent | |||||
William Maunder | FW | 9 | 6 | 17 June 1922 | New Zealand | 12 July 1924 | Canada | [2] |
Harry Robertson | FW | 9 | 2 | 14 June 1950 | Rhodesia | 4 September 1954 | New Zealand | [2] |
Pat Hughes | DF | 9 | 0 | 21 November 1965 | North Korea | 3 June 1967 | Scotland | [3] |
Nigel Shepherd | DF | 9 | 0 | 21 November 1965 | North Korea | 3 June 1967 | Scotland | [4] |
Dick van Alphen | DF | 9 | 0 | 5 November 1967 | New Zealand | 4 April 1968 | Japan | [5] |
Martyn Crook | GK | 9 | 0 | 27 November 1979 | Taiwan | 27 February 1983 | New Zealand | [6] |
Gary van Egmond | DF | 9 | 0 | 20 September 1988 | Brazil | 16 April 1989 | Israel | [7] |
Gabriel Mendez | MF | 9 | 0 | 24 September 1994 | Kuwait | 12 June 2000 | Paraguay | [8] |
Goran Lozanovski | MF | 9 | 0 | 10 February 1996 | Japan | 4 October 1998 | New Zealand | [9] |
Bruce Djite | FW | 9 | 0 | 22 March 2008 | Singapore | 11 August 2010 | Slovenia | [10] |
Andrew Nabbout * | FW | 9 | 2 | 23 March 2018 | Norway | 30 December 2018 | Oman | [11] |
Tom Thompson | 8 | 0 | 17 June 1922 | New Zealand | 26 July 1924 | Canada | [2] | |
Lex Gibb | 8 | 0 | 10 September 1938 | India | 14 August 1948 | New Zealand | [2] | |
Jim Cunningham | 8 | 6 | 10 May 1947 | South Africa | 11 September 1948 | New Zealand | [2] | |
Ron Hughes | 8 | 0 | 24 May 1947 | South Africa | 11 September 1949 | New Zealand | [2] | |
Bill Wilson | 8 | 0 | 24 May 1947 | South Africa | 24 September 1955 | South Africa | [2] | |
Bob Bignall | 8 | 0 | 28 August 1954 | New Zealand | 12 December 1956 | India | [2] | |
Cliff Sander | 8 | 0 | 28 August 1954 | New Zealand | 12 December 1956 | India | [2] | |
Frank Loughran | 8 | 2 | 3 September 1955 | South Africa | 23 August 1958 | New Zealand | [2] | |
Jimmy Fraser | GK | 8 | 0 | 18 February 1973 | Bulgaria | 13 November 1973 | South Korea | [12] |
Alan Niven | 8 | 0 | 26 June 1981 | Fiji | 27 February 1983 | New Zealand | [13] | |
Dominic Longo | 8 | 0 | 30 May 1993 | New Zealand | 4 October 1998 | New Zealand | [14] | |
Joe Spiteri | 8 | 2 | 24 June 1995 | Ghana | 6 June 1998 | Croatia | [15] | |
Mark Babic | 8 | 0 | 18 January 1997 | New Zealand | 4 October 1998 | New Zealand | [16] | |
Luke Casserly | 8 | 0 | 18 January 1997 | New Zealand | 15 August 2001 | Japan | [17] | |
Eugene Galekovic | 8 | 0 | 28 January 2009 | Indonesia | 25 July 2013 | Japan | [18] | |
Mitchell Langerak * | 8 | 0 | 11 October 2013 | France | 13 June 2017 | Brazil | [19] | |
Roy Crowhurst | 7 | 2 | 5 June 1933 | New Zealand | 24 September 1938 | India | [2] | |
Jimmy Osborne | 7 | 0 | 24 June 1933 | New Zealand | 24 September 1938 | India | [2] | |
Jim Wilkinson | 7 | 3 | 4 July 1936 | New Zealand | 1 October 1938 | India | [2] | |
Frank Parsons | 7 | 15 | 14 August 1947 | New Zealand | 22 July 1950 | South Africa | ||
Billy Cook | 7 | 0 | 24 November 1965 | North Korea | 31 May 1967 | Scotland | [20] | |
Danny Walsh | 7 | 0 | 20 July 1969 | Greece | 14 December 1969 | Israel | [21] | |
Chris Kalantzis | 7 | 1 | 3 August 1986 | Czechoslovakia | 21 June 1987 | South Korea | [22] | |
Alan Hunter | 7 | 0 | 6 August 1986 | Czechoslovakia | 23 March 1988 | New Zealand | [23] | |
Vlado Bozinovski | 7 | 1 | 7 July 1988 | Brazil | 21 June 1992 | Uruguay | [24] | |
Robert Enes | 7 | 0 | 28 October 1996 | Tahiti | 17 June 1997 | Solomon Islands | [25] | |
Chris Coyne | 7 | 0 | 7 June 2008 | Iraq | 10 June 2009 | Bahrain | [26] | |
Oliver Bozanic * | 7 | 0 | 15 October 2013 | Canada | 30 March 2015 | Macedonia | [27] | |
Alex Gibb | 6 | 0 | 17 June 1922 | New Zealand | 30 June 1923 | New Zealand | [28] | |
Dave Ward | 6 | 5 | 17 June 1922 | New Zealand | 26 July 1924 | Canada | [2] | |
Judy Masters | 6 | 5 | 30 June 1923 | New Zealand | 26 July 1924 | Canada | [2] | |
Alec Cameron | 6 | 6 | 5 June 1933 | New Zealand | 18 July 1936 | New Zealand | [2] | |
Jack Hughes | 6 | 10 | 17 June 1933 | New Zealand | 1 October 1938 | India | [2] | |
Jock Parkes | 6 | 0 | 5 June 1933 | New Zealand | 24 September 1938 | India | [2] | |
George Smith | 6 | 16 | 5 June 1933 | New Zealand | 18 July 1936 | New Zealand | [2] | |
Eric Hulme | 6 | 4 | 14 June 1950 | Rhodesia | 22 July 1950 | South Africa | [2] | |
Bob Young | 6 | 0 | 14 June 1950 | Rhodesia | 22 July 1950 | South Africa | [2] | |
Bill Henderson | 6 | 0 | 28 August 1954 | New Zealand | 12 December 1956 | India | [2] | |
Jack Lennard | 6 | 1 | 28 August 1954 | New Zealand | 12 December 1956 | India | [2] | |
Les Scheinflug | 6 | 4 | 21 November 1965 | North Korea | 4 April 1968 | Japan | [29] | |
Frank Micic | 6 | 1 | 5 November 1967 | New Zealand | 21 November 1971 | Israel | [30] | |
Dave Todd | 6 | 1 | 21 November 1965 | North Korea | 8 December 1965 | Malaysia | [31] | |
Roy Blitz | 6 | 0 | 24 November 1965 | North Korea | 4 April 1968 | Japan | [32] | |
Hamilton McMeechan | 6 | 0 | 26 November 1965 | Cambodia | 31 March 1968 | Japan | [33] | |
Roger Romanowicz | 6 | 0 | 5 November 1967 | New Zealand | 21 November 1971 | Israel | [34] | |
Willie Rutherford | 6 | 1 | 20 October 1969 | South Korea | 14 December 1969 | Israel | [35] | |
Jim Cant | 6 | 1 | 12 June 1983 | England | 18 December 1983 | Singapore | [36] | |
Brad Maloney | 6 | 2 | 25 September 1998 | Fiji | 15 February 2000 | Bulgaria | [37] | |
Troy Halpin | 6 | 1 | 7 February 1998 | Chile | 4 October 1998 | New Zealand | [38] | |
Alvin Ceccoli | 6 | 1 | 25 September 1998 | Fiji | 16 August 2006 | Kuwait | [39] | |
Michael Petkovic | GK | 6 | 0 | 28 February 2001 | Colombia | 22 June 2008 | China PR | [40] |
Angelo Costanzo | 6 | 1 | 28 February 2001 | Colombia | 14 July 2002 | New Zealand | [41] | |
Ante Milicic | 6 | 5 | 6 July 2002 | Vanuatu | 29 March 2005 | Indonesia | [42] | |
Tom Pondeljak | 6 | 0 | 6 July 2002 | Vanuatu | 5 March 2009 | Kuwait | [43] | |
Max Vieri | 6 | 0 | 21 May 2004 | Turkey | 9 February 2005 | South Africa | [44] | |
Ljubo Milicevic | 6 | 0 | 29 March 2005 | Indonesia | 6 September 2006 | Kuwait | [45] | |
Brad Jones * | 6 | 0 | 2 June 2007 | Uruguay | 9 June 2018 | Hungary | [46] | |
Ben Halloran * | 6 | 0 | 26 May 2014 | South Africa | 4 September 2014 | Belgium | [47] | |
Daniel Arzani * | 6 | 1 | 1 June 2018 | Czech Republic | 15 October 2018 | Kuwait | [48] | |
Gilbert Storey | 5 | 0 | 30 June 1923 | New Zealand | 12 July 1924 | Canada | [2] | |
Reg Date | 5 | 8 | 10 May 1947 | South Africa | 14 June 1947 | South Africa | [2] | |
Charlie Stewart | 5 | 3 | 10 May 1947 | South Africa | 1 October 1955 | South Africa | [2] | |
Bruce Morrow | 5 | 0 | 27 November 1956 | Japan | 4 June 1967 | Scotland | [2] | |
Billy Rice | 5 | 0 | 21 November 1965 | North Korea | 26 July 1969 | Greece | [49] | |
Ray Lloyd | 5 | 0 | 21 November 1967 | Singapore | 26 July 1969 | Greece | ||
David Jones | 5 | 0 | 13 November 1977 | Singapore | 9 February 1980 | Czechoslovakia | ||
Jim Muir | 5 | 0 | 20 February 1980 | England | 24 August 1980 | Mexico | ||
Robert Wheatley | 5 | 0 | 10 June 1981 | Taiwan | 2 November 1986 | New Zealand | ||
Marshall Soper | 5 | 0 | 22 February 1983 | New Zealand | 10 August 1986 | Czechoslovakia | ||
Andrew Koczka | 5 | 0 | 9 March 1988 | Taiwan | 2 April 1989 | New Zealand | ||
Ryan Griffiths | 5 | 0 | 9 October 2005 | Jamaica | 22 March 2008 | Singapore | ||
Mitch Nichols * | 5 | 0 | 25 March 2009 | Kuwait | 18 November 2014 | Japan | ||
Joshua Brillante * | 5 | 0 | 28 July 2013 | China PR | 14 October 2014 | Qatar | ||
James Jeggo * | 5 | 0 | 20 November 2018 | Lebanon | 14 November 2019 | Jordan | ||
Peter Doyle | 4 | 0 | 17 June 1922 | New Zealand | 30 June 1923 | New Zealand | ||
Tommy Oliver | 4 | 0 | 7 June 1924 | Canada | 26 July 1924 | Canada | ||
Harry Spurway | 4 | 0 | 14 June 1924 | Canada | 26 July 1924 | Canada | ||
Ray Bryant | 4 | 1 | 4 July 1936 | New Zealand | 24 September 1938 | India | ||
Alec Heaney | 4 | 0 | 10 May 1947 | South Africa | 24 September 1938 | India | ||
Ken Hough | 4 | 0 | 14 August 1947 | New Zealand | 11 September 1948 | New Zealand | ||
George Sanders | 4 | 2 | 14 June 1950 | Rhodesia | 1 September 1950 | South Africa | ||
John Pettigrew | 4 | 0 | 1 October 1955 | South Africa | 12 December 1956 | India | ||
Alwyn Warren | 4 | 0 | 1 October 1955 | South Africa | 12 December 1956 | India | ||
Gary Manuel | 4 | 0 | 10 October 1969 | Japan | 28 May 1975 | Israel | ||
George Blues | 4 | 1 | 4 November 1970 | Iran | 1 December 1970 | Mexico | ||
Mike Denton | 4 | 0 | 4 November 1970 | Iran | 1 December 1970 | Mexico | ||
John Roche | 4 | 0 | 4 November 1970 | Iran | 1 December 1970 | Mexico | ||
Alan Ainslie | 4 | 1 | 11 November 1971 | Israel | 11 August 1976 | Hong Kong | ||
Arno Bertogna | 4 | 0 | 27 November 1979 | Taiwan | 11 November 1980 | Greece | ||
John Coyne | 4 | 0 | 27 November 1979 | Taiwan | 24 August 1980 | Mexico | ||
Tommy Cumming | 4 | 1 | 27 November 1979 | Taiwan | 9 February 1980 | Czechoslovakia | ||
Jim Campbell | 4 | 1 | 27 January 1980 | Czechoslovakia | 18 December 1983 | Singapore | ||
Steve Hogg | 4 | 0 | 26 February 1980 | Papua New Guinea | 7 December 1980 | Indonesia | ||
Ange Postecoglou | 4 | 0 | 3 August 1986 | Czechoslovakia | 16 October 1988 | New Zealand | ||
Kimon Taliadoros | 4 | 0 | 25 August 1990 | Indonesia | 26 September 1993 | South Korea | ||
Abbas Saad | 4 | 0 | 11 August 1992 | Malaysia | 15 February 1998 | Japan | ||
Pablo Cardozo | 4 | 1 | 12 February 2000 | Slovakia | 23 June 2000 | Solomon Islands | ||
Clint Bolton | 4 | 0 | 12 June 2000 | Paraguay | 16 August 2006 | Kuwait | ||
Bobby Despotovski | 4 | 5 | 6 July 2002 | Vanuatu | 14 July 2002 | New Zealand | ||
Ante Juric | 4 | 1 | 8 July 2002 | New Caledonia | 14 July 2002 | New Zealand | ||
Joel Porter | 4 | 5 | 8 July 2002 | New Caledonia | 14 July 2002 | New Zealand | ||
Nikolai Topor-Stanley | 4 | 0 | 22 March 2008 | Singapore | 14 October 2014 | Qatar | ||
Scott Jamieson | 4 | 0 | 28 February 2009 | Indonesia | 9 December 2012 | Taiwan | ||
Matt Thompson | 4 | 0 | 28 February 2009 | Indonesia | 3 March 2010 | Indonesia | ||
Martin Boyle * | 4 | 0 | 17 November 2018 | South Korea | 14 November 2019 | Jordan |
References
General
- Howe, Andrew (2018). Encyclopedia of Socceroos: Every national team player. Fair Play Publishing. ISBN 978-0-648-13330-8.
- Howe, Andrew. "Official Media Guide of Australia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup" (PDF). Football Federation Australia. howe.how.
Specific
- "Players". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 19 July 2018. Use the search bar in the "Search players" section to search for players.
- "The Australian National Men's Football Team: Caps and Captains" (PDF). Football Federation Australia. ozfootball.net. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
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- "Australian Player Database – Nigel Shepherd". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Dick van Alphen". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Martyn Crook". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Gary van Egmond". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Gabriel Mendez". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Goran Lozanovski". ozfootball.net.
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- "Andrew Nabbout: Internationals". WorldFootball.net.
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- "Australian Player Database – Alan Niven". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Dominic Longo". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Joe Spiteri". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Mark Babic". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Luke Casserly". ozfootball.net.
- "Eugene Galekovic: Internationals". WorldFootball.net.
- "Mitchell Langerak: Internationals". WorldFootball.net.
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- "Australian Player Database – Danny Walsh". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Chris Kalantzis". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Alan Hunter". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Vlado Bozinovski". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Robert Enes". ozfootball.net.
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- "Chris Coyne: Internationals". WorldFootball.net.
- "Alex Gibb: Internationals". WorldFootball.net.
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- "Australian Player Database – Frank Micic". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Dave Todd". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Roy Blitz". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Hamilton McMeechan". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Roger Romanowicz". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Willie Rutherford". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Jim Cant". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Brad Maloney". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Troy Halpin". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Alvin Ceccoli". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Michael Petkovic". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Angelo Costanzo". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Ante Milicic". ozfootball.net.
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- "Australian Player Database – Max Vieri". ozfootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database – Ljubo Milicevic". ozfootball.net.
- "Brad Jones: Internationals". WorldFootball.net.
- "Ben Halloran: Internationals". WorldFootball.net.
- "Daniel Arzani: Internationals". WorldFootball.net.
- "Australian Player Database: Billy Rice". ozfootball.net.