Written by Thomas Esamie.
| The 5th Australia Cup kicked off with a solid win against the South Koreans for the home team. Saddly the match never really concluded and was abandoned after an altercation between match officials and members of the Korean delegation. In the other match Sweden and Mexico played out an unexpected 1-1 draw with Mexico probably adapting better to the hot conditions. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : January 26 | Venue : Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra | |||
| Australia Claire Nichols, Sacha Wainwright, Rhian Davies, Thea Slatyer, Heather Garriock, Tal Karp (Bryony Duus 65), Olivia Hohnke (Cheryl Salisbury 46), Joanne Peters, Danielle Small (Gillian Foster 46), Kelly Golebiowski, April Mann (Hayley Crawford 71) Goals : Golebiowski 10, 76 |
2 | - | 0 | South Korea (starting lineup)Jung Ho Jung, Park Kyung Sook, Jin Suk Hee, Cha Sung Mi, Hwang In Sun, Song Ju Hee, Lee Ji Eun, Jung Jung Suk, Han Jin Sook, Kim Yoo Mi, Yoo Young Sil |
| Referee : Tammy Ogston (Australia) Attendance : Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Jong Goan An (South Korea) | ||||
| Squads | Match Report by ASA | |||
| 2 games, 2 2-0 wins. Go Aussies. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : January 29 | Venue : Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra | |||
| Australia Claire Nichols, Cheryl Salisbury, Sacha Wainwright (Pam Grant 46), Thea Slatyer, Rhian Davies, Heather Garriock, Joanne Peters, Olivia Hohnke (Tal Karp 65), Bryony Duus (Danielle Small 66), Kelly Golebiowski (Kristyn Swaffer 88), April Mann (Hayley Crawford 77) Goals : Mann 9, 45 |
2 | - | 0 | Mexico Jennifer Molina, Elizabeth Gomez, Susana Mora, Monica Gonzalez, Monica Vergara, Dioselina Valderrama, Fatima Leyva, Maribel Dominguez, Patricia Perez, Laura Maravillas (Janeth Siordia 47), Yanet Antunez (Guadalupe Worbis 54) |
| Referee : Tammy Ogston (Australia) Attendance : Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Leonardo Cuellar (Mexico) | ||||
| Squads | Match Report by ASA | |||
| Sadly for Australia the loss meant that Sweden became the Australia Cup Champions. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : February 1 | Venue : Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra | |||
| Australia Claire Nichols (Cassandra Kell 77), Cheryl Salisbury (Pam Grant 46), Kristyn Swaffer, Thea Slatyer, Heather Garriock, Joanne Peters, Olivia Hohnke (Hayley Crawford 85), Tal Karp (Bryony Duus 65), Rhian Davies, Kelly Golebiowski, April Mann (Danielle Small 68) Goal : Golebiowski 38 |
1 | - | 3 | Sweden Sofia Lundgren, Karolina Westberg, Jane Tornqvist, Kristin Bengtsson, Malin Andersson (Linda Fagerstrom 60), Hanna Ljungberg (Victoria Svensson 71), Anna-Maria Eriksson, Therese Sjogran (Frida Nordin 90), Anna Sjostrom, Sara Call, Salina Olsson (Ulrika Bjorn 81) Goals : Olsson 40, Tornqvist 49, Bengtsson 73 |
| Referee : Tammy Ogston (Australia) Attendance : Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Marika Domanski Lyfors (Sweden) | ||||
| Squads | Match Report by ASA | |||
| A good start really. The other game has PNG defeat the Cook Islands 5-1 and the Kiwis get the bye. This was a World Cup qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : April 5 | Venue : Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra | |||
| Australia Melissa Barbieri, Sacha Wainwright (Heather Garriock 62), Dianne Alagich (Taryn Rockall 75), Cheryl Salisbury (Gillian Foster 51), Rhian Davies, Kelly Golebiowski, April Mann, Joanne Peters, Thea Slatyer, Bryony Duus, Danielle Small Goals : Peters 4, 35, 50, 80, Golebiowski 15, 42, 46, 61, Davies 18, Small 41, 57, 78, Mann 52, 58, 86, 88, Wainwright 55, Slatyer 56, Garriock 72 |
19 | - | 0 | Samoa Tina Feagaiga, Henifa Bruce, Ruby Folau, Hilda Hellesoe-Taualapini, Lynetta Laumea, Semeatu Lemana, Tanya Seiuli (Toese Tafafa 69), Diana Sooialo (Marylynn Williams 62), Leti Talai, Tufa Vaigalu, Emily Young (Luisa Tagomoa 80) |
| Referee : Rajendra Singh (Fiji) Attendance : 750 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), unknown (Samoa) | ||||
| Squads | Match Report by ASA | |||
| Poor old Samoa had a 15-0 pasting against New Zealand in the other game, though the Cook Islands fared little better against Australia. This was a World Cup qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : April 7 | Venue : Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra | |||
| Australia Cassandra Kell, Sacha Wainwright (Gillian Foster 46), Dianne Alagich, Rhian Davies (Heather Garriock 46), Kelly Golebiowski, Olivia Hohnke, Thea Slatyer (Danielle Small 58), Pamela Grant, Tal Karp, Amy Wilson, Hayley Crawford Goals : Crawford 8, 17, Davies 11, Alagich 34, 62pk, Karp 37, 81, Hohnke 59, Small 65, Wilson 71, 82 |
11 | - | 0 | Cook Islands Sharlina Viking, Maine Daniel (Ngarangievaru Koronui 73), Maggie Purea, Julina Matakino, Mii Piri, Melanie Rakei, Moeroa Mamanu, Anna Raina (Tupou Patia 67), Julieanne Westrupp, Oakirangi Jim Mare (Marjorie Boaza 67), Tereapii Charlene Moeara |
| Referee : Salaiau Sosongan (Papua New Guinea) Attendance : 600 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), unknown (Cook Islands) | ||||
| Squads | Match Report by ASA | |||
| If you ever wanted to know why Australia playing in Oceania was not very good for either Australia or the rest of the teams ponder the 43-0 F-A record over 3 matches. Sigh. This was a World Cup qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : April 9 | Venue : Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra | |||
| Australia Melissa Barbieri, Gillian Foster, Sacha Wainwright, Dianne Alagich (Pamela Grant 55), Cheryl Salisbury, Rhian Davies, April Mann (Kelly Golebiowski 55), Joanne Peters (Heather Garriock 55), Bryony Duus, Taryn Rockall, Danielle Small Goals : Mann 5, 41, 49, 55, Peters 17, Salisbury 29, 81pk, Alagich 46, Golebiowski 59, 71, Garriock 60, 78, 89 |
13 | - | 0 | Papua New Guinea Roxanne Komeng, Judith Michael, Wanting Yagum, Josephine Waiwai (Jocelyn Komeng 68), Miriam Lanta, Priscilla Konalalai, Glenda Matthies, Neilen Limbai, Tracey Kigg (Lydia Banabas 74), Julie Alau, Nakere Nombe |
| Referee : Rajendra Singh (Fiji) Attendance : 600 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), unknown (Papua New Guinea) | ||||
| Squads | Match Report by ASA | |||
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At least you can count on New Zealand to provide some spirited opposition,
good thing they also know to lose in the end (wink). With this result
Australia qualified for the World Cup to be held in | ||||
| Played : April 13 | Venue : Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra | |||
| Australia Melissa Barbieri, Gillian Foster, Sacha Wainwright, Dianne Alagich, Rhian Davies, April Mann (Amy Wilson 60), Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock (Tal Karp 81), Thea Slatyer, Bryony Duus, Danielle Small Goals : Peters 23, Small 48 |
2 | - | 0 | New Zealand Yvonne Vale, Jane Simpson, Priscilla Duncan, Teresa McCahill (Hayley Moorwood 35), Michele Keinzley (Rachel Doody 65 (Wendi Henderson 75)), Maia Jackman, Nicola Smith, Simone Ferrara, Kelly Jarden, Rebecca Smith, Zarnia Cogle |
| Referee : Rajendra Singh (Fiji) Attendance : 2200 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Sandy Davie (New Zealand) | ||||
| Squads | Match Report by ASA | |||
| Australia were taking part in a 3 nation tournament in preparation for the World Cup. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : July 25 | Venue : Sendai Stadium, Miyagi, Japan | |||
| Australia Melissa Barbieri, Sacha Wainwright, Cheryl Salisbury, Dianne Alagich, Rhian Davies, Gill Foster (Pam Grant 90), Bryony Duus (Tal Karp 60), Danielle Small (Thea Slatyer 60 (Hayley Crawford 65)), Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock, Kelly Golebiowski (Amy Wilson 84) |
0 | - | 0 | South Korea |
| Referee : Sachiko Baba (Japan) Attendance : 1000 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), unknown (South Korea) | ||||
| Squads | Match Report by ASA | |||
| Stark contrast in these games to the qualifiers earlier in terms of goals scored.. Japan won the tri-nations thanks to a 5-0 win in the match against the Koreans This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : July 27 | Venue : Sendai Stadium, Miyagi, Japan | |||
| Japan |
0 | - | 0 | Australia Cassandra Kell, Sacha Wainwright (Danielle Small 77), Cheryl Salisbury, Dianne Alagich, Rhian Davies, Gill Foster, Joanne Peters (Bryony Duus 90), Tal Karp (Taryn Rockall 90), Heather Garriock, April Mann (Hayley Crawford 77), Kelly Golebiowski |
| Referee : Kyung-Hwa Han (South Korea) Attendance : 1768 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), unknown (Japan) | ||||
| Match Report by ASA | ||||
| Australia were taking the scenic route to the World Cup. First stop China. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : August 28 | Venue : Shandong Sport Centre Stadium, Jinan | |||
| China Li Jie (Xie Huilin 78), Fan Yunjie, Zhao Lihong (Chen Jinyu 52), Bi Yan (Zhang Ouying 65), Liu Yali (Yu Weimin 75), Pan Lina, Zhao Yan, Wang Liping, Teng Wei (Meng Jun 68), Han Duan, Qu Feifei (Xie Cuixia 78) Goals : Teng Wei 15, Pan Lina 52 |
2 | - | 0 | Australia Cassandra Kell, Gill Foster (Amy Wilson 46), Sacha Wainwright, Dianne Alagich, Cheryl Salisbury, Bryony Duus (Taryn Rockall 63), April Mann (Hayley Crawford 46), Heather Garriock, Pam Grant (Karla Reuter 78), Tal Karp, Danielle Small |
| Referee : Attendance : 5000 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), unknown (China) | ||||
| Australian squad | Match Report by ASA | |||
| The Matildas are certainly a consistent bunch. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : August 31 | Venue : Qingdao | |||
| China Han Wenxia, Sun Rui (Yu Weimin 79), Gao Hongxia, Fan Yunjie, Pu Wei, Sun Wen (Han Duan 56), Xie Caixia (Zhang Ouying 65), Pan Lina, Wang Liping, Teng Wei (Liu Ying 85), Qu Feifei (Chen Jinyu 85) Goals : Xie Caixia 4, Teng Wei 82 |
2 | - | 0 | Australia Melissa Barbieri, Gillian Foster, Sacha Wainwright, Dianne Alagich, Cheryl Salisbury, Rhian Davies, April Mann (Hayley Crawford 36), Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock, Tal Karp, Danielle Small (Kelly Golebiowski 27) |
| Referee : Attendance : 10000 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), unknown (China) | ||||
| Australian squad | Match Report by ASA | |||
| Losing to the Poms always hurts that little bit more. Amazingly we've only ever played them once, so far (and for a few years hence). To have them score in the first seconds they play Australia.. well Ouch! Also Yankey plays for Arsenal's womens team. Arsenal sucks. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : September 4 | Venue : Turf Moor, Barnley | |||
| England Rachel Brown, Leanne Champ, Rachel Unitt, Katie Chapman, Casey Stoney, Mary Phillip, Kristy Moore (Jody Handley 46), Vicky Exley (Rachel McArthur 60), Carmaine Walker (Kelly McDougall 70), Kelly Smith (Amanda Barr 46), Rachel Yankey (Sue Smith 67) Goal : Yankey 1 |
1 | - | 0 | Australia Cassandra Kell, Gillian Foster (Pam Grant 57), Sacha Wainwright, Cheryl Salisbury, Rhian Davies (Hayley Crawford 89), Kelly Golebiowski (April Mann 71), Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock, Karla Reuter, Tal Karp (Bryony Duus 61), Danielle Small (Taryn Rockall 71) |
| Referee : Attendance : 4349 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Hope Powell (England) | ||||
| Australian squad | Match Report by ASA | |||
| This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : September 6 | Venue : City Stadium, Livingston | |||
| Scotland Claire Johnstone, Megan Sneddon, Stacey Cook, Amanda Burns, Julie Smith, Suzanne Robertson (Kirsty McBride 46), Joanne Love, Mhairi Gilmour, Suzanne Grant (Marlene Pearson 77), Julie Fleeting, Pauline Hamill (Debbie McWhinnie 57) |
0 | - | 1 | Australia Melissa Barbieri, Gillian Foster, Sacha Wainwright (Amy Wilson 77), Cheryl Salisbury, Rhian Davies, Kelly Golebiowski (April Mann 66), Bryony Duus, Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock, Karla Reuter (Pamela Grant 82), Tal Karp (Taryn Rockall 56) Goal : Salisbury 5 |
| Referee : Ian Frickleton (Scotland) Attendance : 220 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Vera Pauw (Scotland) | ||||
| Australian squad | Match Report by ASA | |||
| This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : September 14 | Venue : Richardson Stadium, Kingston | |||
| Canada Karina LeBlanc (Taryn Swiatek 83), Christine Latham (Christine Sinclair 46), Andrea Neil, Sharolta Nonen, Kristina Kiss (Isabelle Morneau 76), Rhian Wilkinson, Charmaine Hooper, Kara Lang (Sasha Andrews 76), Brittany Timko, Silvana Burtini (Diana Matheson 57), Tanya Dennis Goals : Hooper 71, Wilkinson 73 |
2 | - | 0 | Australia Cassandra Kell (Melissa Barbieri 46), Gillian Foster, Sacha Wainwright, Cheryl Salisbury (Pamela Grant 88), Rhian Davies, Bryony Duus (Danielle Small 77), April Mann (Kelly Golebiowski 77), Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock, Karla Reuter, Tal Karp (Taryn Rockall 74) |
| Referee : Attendance : 10068 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Even Pellerud (Canada) | ||||
| Australian squad | Match Report by ASA | |||
| Always a good thing to win your first up game, or at least not lose however as it stood Australia were now going to have to be superexcellent to make the quarterfinals. This was a World Cup Finals match. | ||||
| Played : September 21 | Venue : Home Depot Center, Los Angeles, USA | |||
| Australia Cassandra Kell, Gillian Foster, Sacha Wainwright (Bryony Duus 46), Dianne Alagich, Cheryl Salisbury, Rhian Davies, Kelly Golebiowski, Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock, Tal Karp (April Mann 90), Danielle Small Goal : Golebiowski 38 |
1 | - | 2 | Russia Alla Volkova, Tatiana Zaytseva, Marina Burakova, Marina Saenko, Galina Komarova, Tatiana Egorova (Tatiana Skotnikova 68), Natalia Barbachina, Olga Letyushova, Elena Fomina, Oxana Shmachkova, Anastassia Pustovoitova (Vera Stroukova 67) Goals : Alagich 39og, Fomina 89 |
| Referee : Bola Abidoye (Nigeria) Attendance : 15239 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Yuri Bystritskiy (Russia) | ||||
| Australian squad | Match Report by ASA | |||
| While this was an excellent result, it needed to be more excellent. This was a World Cup Finals match. | ||||
| Played : September 25 | Venue : Home Depot Center, Los Angeles, USA | |||
| Australia Cassandra Kell, Gillian Foster, Dianne Alagich, Cheryl Salisbury, Rhian Davies, Kelly Golebiowski, Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock, Karla Reuter, Tal Karp, Danielle Small (Bryony Duus 76) Goal : Garriock 28 |
1 | - | 1 | China Yan Zhao, Jie Li, Yunjie Fan, Lihong Zhao (Feifei Qu 85), Jie Bai (Wei Teng 90), Ouying Zhang (Liping Ren 74), Wen Sun, Ying Liu, Wei Pu, Yali Liu, Liping Wang Goal : Jie Bai 46 |
| Referee : Katriina Elovirta (Finland) Attendance : 13929 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Liangxing Ma (China) | ||||
| Australian squad | Match Report by ASA | |||
| Russia would need to beat China and Australia would need to beat Ghana, neither of those things happened. This was a World Cup Finals match. | ||||
| Played : September 28 | Venue : PGE Park, Portland | |||
| Australia Melissa Barbieri, Gillian Foster (April Mann 43), Dianne Alagich, Cheryl Salisbury, Rhian Davies, Kelly Golebiowski, Joanne Peters, Heather Garriock, Karla Reuter (Pamela Grant 90), Tal Karp (Bryony Duus 33), Danielle Small Goal : Garriock 61 |
1 | - | 2 | Ghana Memunatu Sulemana, Mavis Danso (Yaa Avoe 75), Patience Sackey, Florence Okoe, Genevive Clottey, Adjoa Bayor, Gloria Foriwa (Myralyn Osei Agyemang 67 (Akua Anokyewaa 90)), Elizabeth Baidu, Alberta Sackey, Lydia Ankrah, Mavis Dgajmah Goals : Sackey 34, 39 |
| Referee : Xonam Agboyi (Togo) Attendance : 19132 Coaches : Adrian Santrac (Australia), Oko Aryee (Ghana) | ||||
| Australian squad | Match Report by ASA | |||