Written by Thomas Esamie & Doug Butcher. For more details see credits.
| This was a World Cup Qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : February 29 | Venue : Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (AAMI Park) | |||
| Australia Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Matt Spiranovic (David Carney 82), Jade North, Sasa Ognenovski, Brett Emerton, Mark Milligan, Harry Kewell, James Troisi (Archie Thompson 62), Alex Brosque (Nick Carle 87), Marco Bresciano Goals : Brosque 43, 75, Kewell 73, Emerton 77 |
4 | - | 2 | Saudi Arabia Waleed Abdullah, Osama Hawsawi, Abdul Al Dossary, Kamel Al Mousa, Mohammad Al Shaloub (Naif Hazazi 79), Nasser Al Shamrani, Hassan Fallatah, Saud Kariri, Ahmed Al Fraidi (Ahmed Ateef 65), Taisir Al Jassam, Salem Al Dosari Goals : Salem Al Dosari 19, Nasser Al-Shamrani 45 |
| Referee : Dong Jin Kim (South Korea) Linesmen : Jeong Hae-Sang, Jang Jun-Mo (both South Korea) Attendance : 24214 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Frank Rijkaard (Saudi Arabia) | ||||
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| The Socceroos warmed up for the start of the final round of qualifications with this match against Denmark. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : June 2 | Venue : Parken Stadium, Copenhagen | |||
| Denmark Stephan Andersen, Simon Kjaer (Andreas Bjelland 45), Daniel Agger (Jores Okore 62), Simon Buskpoulsen (Daniel Wass 73), Lars Jacobsen, William Kvist (Jakob Poulsen 82), Christian Eriksen (Thomas Kahlenburg 45), Michael Krohn-Dehli (Tobias Mikkelsen 73), Dennis Rommedahl, Niklas Bendtner, Niki Zimling Goals : Agger 31pk, Bjelland 67 |
2 | - | 0 | Australia Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Archie Thompson (David Carney 65), Luke Wilkshire (Robbie Kruse 68), Harry Kewell (Tim Cahill 68), Jade North, Mile Jedinak (Mark Milligan 65), Matthew McKay, Alex Brosque, Matthew Spiranovic, Mark Bresciano (Neil Kilkenny 73) |
| Referee : Antonio Damato (Italy) Linesmen : Elenito di Liberatore, Mauro Tonolini (both Italy) Attendance : 15888 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Morten Olsen (Denmark) | ||||
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| The final stage of qualifying began with a draw in typically hot conditions and as you'd expect from the scoreline the two goalkeepers were the stars of this match. The Australian one complaining of lasers being shone in his eyes during the match, I guess even the home crowd doesn't think their team is good enough. This was a World Cup Qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : June 8 | Venue : Sultan Qaboos Stadium, Muscat | |||
| Oman Ali Abdullah Harib Al Habsi, Mohammed Saleh Ali Al-Musalami, Mohamed Albalushi, Raeed Ibrahim Saleh, Mohammed Eid Al Farsi (Ali Hilal Saud Al-Jabri 71), Saad Suhail Juma Al Mukhaini, Obaid Al Mahajiri, Abdul Sallam Amur Juma Al Mukhaini, Ismail Sulaiman Ashoor Al Ajmi, Amad Ali Sulaiman Al Hosni (Waleed Abdallah Al-Saadi 83), Juma Darwish Juma Al-Maashari (Hussain Ali Farah Al Hadhri 66) |
0 | - | 0 | Australia Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Sasa Ognenovski, Luke Wilkshire (Robbie Kruse 82), Harry Kewell (Archie Thompson 58), David Carney, Jade North, Carl Valeri, Matthew McKay, Alex Brosque, Mark Bresciano |
| Referee : Faghani Alireza (Iran) Linesmen : Hassan Kamranifar, Reza Sokhandan (both Iran) Attendance : 11000 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Paul Le Guen (Oman) | ||||
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| Having gone berko in their first 2 matches Japan are held to a draw and sit on 7 points from 3 games while the Socceroos are 2 points from 2. This was a World Cup Qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : June 12 | Venue : Lang Park, Brisbane | |||
| Australia Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Tim Cahill, Sasa Ognenovski, Luke Wilksire (Robbie Kruse 90), David Carney, Jade North, Carl Valeri, Matthew McKay (Nikita Rukavytsya 64), Alex Brosque, Marco Bresciano (Mark Milligan 13 (sent off 56)) Goal : Wilkshire 70pk |
1 | - | 1 | Japan Eiji Kawashimi, Keisuke Honda, Yuto Nagatomo, Atsuto Uchida (Hiroki Sakai 73), Yasuhito Endo, Shinji Okazaki (Hiroyoshi Kiyotake 87), Shinji Kagawa (Masahiko Inoha 90), Yasuyuki Konno, Yuzo Kurihara (sent off 89), Makato Hasebe, Ryoichi Maeda Goal : Kurihara 65 |
| Referee : Khalil Ibrahim Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia) Linesmen : Attendance : 40189 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Alberto Zaccheroni (Japan) | ||||
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| This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : August 15 | Venue : Easter Road Stadium, Edinburgh | |||
| Scotland Allan McGregor (Matthew Gilks 22), Alan Hutton (Russell Martin 68), Danny Fox (Charlie Mulgrew 70), Christophe Berra, Gary Caldwell (Ian Black 87), Andy Webster, Robert Snodgrass, Steven Naismith, Jordan Rhodes (Ross McCormack 67), Charlie Adam, James Morrison (Shaun Maloney 27) Goals : Rhodes 28, Davidson 63og, McCormack 76 |
3 | - | 1 | Australia Mark Schwarzer (Adam Federici 46), Lucas Neill, Rhys Williams, Sasa Ognenovski (Ryan McGowan 79), Luke Wilkshire, David Carney (Jason Davidson 60), Brett Holman (Scott McDonald 46), Carl Valeri, Robbie Kruse, Alex Brosque (Archie Thompson 85), Marco Bresciano (Mile Jedinak 46) Goal : Bresciano 18 |
| Referee : Tom Harald Hagen (Norway) Linesmen : Dag Roger Nebben, Magnus Lundberg (both Norway) Attendance : 11110 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Craig Levein (Scotland) | ||||
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| This match was moved from Sports City Stadium due to "a virus in the grass". The Lebanese lineup information is a bit sketchy in terms of who replaced whom, a definitive source would be nice. This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : September 6 | Venue : Saida Municipal Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon | |||
| Lebanon Abbas Hassan, Mootaz Al Jounaidi, Hassan Maatouk, Mohamed Haidar (Mahmoud El Ali 71), Abbas Atwi, Akram Moghrabi (Philippe Paoli 58), Haitham Faour (Mohamad Chamass 68), Bilal Najjarine, Walid Ismail (Hussein Dakik 74), Roda Antar (Nader Matar 63), Hassan Mezher (Ali Hamam 46) |
0 | - | 3 | Australia Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Tim Cahill (Archie Thompson 52), Sasa Ognenovski, Luke Wilkshire (Jade North 65), Robbie Kruse (Brett Holman 59), David Carney, Matthew McKay, Alex Brosque (Adam Sarota 71), Nikita Rukavytsya (James Holland 78), Marco Bresciano Goals : Cahill 20, McKay 23, Thompson 88 |
| Referee : Christos Nicolaides (Cyprus) Linesmen : Sotiris Viktoros, Georgios Papathomas (Cyprus) Attendance : ~9000 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Theo Buecker (Lebanon) | ||||
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| Australia now with 2 points from 3 games and looking shaky to make it through with Japan all but securing first place already. This was a World Cup Qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : September 11 | Venue : King Abdullah International Stadium, Amman | |||
| Jordan Amer Shafi, Mohammed Al Dmeiri (Saeed Murjan 46), Abdulelah Al Hanahneh, Amer Deeb, Mohammad Mustafa Hassan Ali, Odai Al Saify (Anas Hijah 73), Ahmad Hayel, Shadi Abu Hashhash, Basem Fathi, Hasan Abdel Fattah (Hamza Al Dardour 84), Anas Bani Yaseen Goals : Hasan Abdel Fattah 50pk, Amer Deeb 73 |
2 | - | 1 | Australia Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Tim Cahill, Sasa Ognenovski (Matthew Spiranovic 14), Luke Wilkshire, Robbie Kruse, David Carney, Brett Holman (Archie Thompson 74), Matthew McKay, Alex Brosque, Mark Bresciano (Mile Jedinak 46) Goal : Thompson 86 |
| Referee : Abdullah Baloushi (Qatar) Linesmen : Salem Rashid Al-Naimi, Taleb Salem Al-Marri (both Qatar) Attendance : 16000 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Adnan Hamad (Jordan) | ||||
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| This was a World Cup Qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : October 16 | Venue : Al Arabi Stadium, Doha, Qatar | |||
| Iraq Sabri Abbas Noor, Ibrahim Ahmed, Khaldoon Ibrahim Mohammed, Akram Nashat (Shafee Osamah 84), Hammadi Ahmed Abdullah (Kareem Mustafa 60), Younis Mahmoud, Ahmed Yaseen Gheni, Shaker Salam, Saeed Samal, Husam Kadhim Jebur Al-Shuwaili, Khalid Muthana Salih (Abdulzehra Ala'a 64) Goal : Ala'a 72 |
1 | - | 2 | Australia Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Tim Cahill (James Holland 89), Luke Wilkshire, Robbie Kruse (Tommy Oar 79), Brett Holman, Mile Jedinak, Carl Valeri, Matthew McKay, Alex Brosque (Archie Thompson 75), Matthew Spiranovic Goals : Cahill 80, Thompson 84 |
| Referee : LEE MIN HU (South Korea) Linesmen : Lee Jung Min, Kwang Yeol (South Korea) Attendance : 2183 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Arthur Antunes Coimbra {aka Zico} (Iraq) | ||||
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| This was a Friendly match. | ||||
| Played : November 14 | Venue : Hwaseong Stadium, Hwaseong | |||
| South Korea Young-Kwang Kim, In-Whan Jung (Jae-Soo Choi 46), Ki-Hee Kim, Dae-Sung Ha (Myong-Jin Koh 46), Jong-Woo Park, Gi-Seung Lee, Jin-Sung Hwang, Keun Ho Lee (Hyeung-Bum Kim 28 (Shin-Wook Kim 59)), Young-Gwon Kim (Chang-Soo Kim 46), Kwang-Hoon Shin (Seok-Ho Hwang 46), Dong-Gook Lee Goal : Dong-Gook Lee 12 |
1 | - | 2 | Australia Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Tommy Oar, Ryan McGowan, Michael Thwaite, Archir Thompson (Tom Rogic 68), Robert Cornthwaite, James Holland, Calr Valeri (Aziz Behich 56), Alex Brosque (Matthew Leckie 89), Nikita Rukavytsya (Eli Babalj 83) Goals : Rukavytsya 44, Cornthwaite 88 |
| Referee : Wang Zhe (China) Linesmen : Han Wei, Zheng Weixiang (China) Attendance : 21618 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Choi Kang-Hee (South Korea) | ||||
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| The teams that will participate in the EAFF East Asian Cup for men are Japan, Korea Republic & China with a fourth team determined by a qualification process which is the one documented here. Australia were invited to participate and announced the acceptance of the invitation on August 30. This was a East Asian Cup 2013 qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : December 3 | Venue : Mong Kok Stadium, Hong Kong | |||
| Hong Kong Hung-Fai Yapp, Chi Ho Lee, Kwan-Yee Lo, Wai-Ho Chan, Kin Pong Kwok, He Bai, Yang Huang, Man Fai Chan (Siu-Ki Chan 46), Siu-Kei Chu, Wai Lim Lee (Hong Lim Lee 84), Jaimes McKee (Hok Hei Lam 88 (sent off 90)) |
0 | - | 1 | Australia Eugene Galekovic, Aziz Behich, Mark Milligan, Robbie Cornthwaite, Ivan Franjic, Matt Smith, Brett Emerton (Terry Antonis 90), Matt McKay, Richard Garcia (Tom Rogic 82), Michael Thwaite, Archie Thompson (Adam Taggart 71) Goal : Emerton 85 |
| Referee : Jumpei Iida (Japan) Linesmen : Hung Ping Lee (Taiwan), Musi Ala (China) Attendance : 4160 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), KIM Pan Gon (Hong Kong) | ||||
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| This was a East Asian Cup 2013 qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : December 5 | Venue : Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong | |||
| North Korea Myong-Guk Ri, Kuk-Chol Kang, Kwang-Ik Jon, Nam-Chol Pak, Kwang-Hyok Ri, Nam-Chol Pak, Yong-Gi Ryang, Song-Chol Pak, Il-Gwan Jong, Il-Bom An (Tae-Song So 24 (Myong-Jun Ri 46 ( Myong-Ho Choe 79))), Yong-Hak An Goal : Yong-Hak An 65 |
1 | - | 1 | Australia Matt Ryan, Aziz Behich, Mark Milligan, Robert Cornthwaite, Ivan Franjic, Matt Smith, Brett Emerton, Matt McKay, Richard Garcia (Tom Rogic 66), Michael Thwaite, Archie Thompson (Adam Taggart 79) Goal : Thompson 4 |
| Referee : Mongkolchai Pechsri (Thailand) Linesmen : Sumate Saiwaew (Thailand), Hung Ping Lee (Taiwan) Attendance : 989 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Yun Jong-Su (North Korea) | ||||
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| This was a East Asian Cup 2013 qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : December 7 | Venue : Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong | |||
| Guam Douglas Herrick, Shawn Nicklaw, Micah Paulino, Joshua Borja (Dylan Naputi 12 (Marcus Lopez 86) Jonahan Romero, Ian Adamos (Mark Chargualaf 60), Thaddeus Atalig, Dominic Gadia, Zachary DeVille, Jason Cunliffe, Christian Schweizer |
0 | - | 9 | Australia Eugene Galekovic, Michael Marrone, Dino Djulbic, Mark Milligan, Matt Smith, Scott Jamieson, Matt McKay (Richard Garcia 86), Tom Rogic (Aziz Behich 76), Eli Babalj (Archie Thompson 56), Terry Antonis, Aaron Mooy Goals : Mooy 14, Babalj 21, 56, Marrone 44, Thompson 59, 62, 68pk, Milligan 74, Barcia 86 |
| Referee : Wong Zhe (China) Linesmen : Hung Ping Lee (Taiwan), Chan Shiu Hung (Hong Kong) Attendance : 2315 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Gary White (Guam) | ||||
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| This was a East Asian Cup 2013 qualifying match. | ||||
| Played : December 9 | Venue : Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong | |||
| Taiwan Kun-Chi Lu, Pei-Lun Wei, Chao-Hsun Yang, Wei-Min Huang, Hao-Wei Chen (Han Chang 82), Chi-An Lo, Che-Hao Hsu, Ming-Han Chiang, Chih-En Lo, Po-Hao Chen, Chih-Hao Wen (Hsien-Tang Tsai 61) |
0 | - | 8 | Australia Matt Ryan, Aziz Behich (Terry Antonis 74), Dino Djulbic, Robbie Cornthwaite, Ivan Franjic, Scott Jamieson, Brett Emerton, Richard Garcia (Archie Thompson 57), Michael Thwaite, Aaron Mooy, Adam Taggart (Matt McKay 67) Goals : Garcia 11, Cornthwaite 18, Taggart 20, 30, Behich 34, 57, Mooy 47, Chao Hsun Yang 82og |
| Referee : Kim Dae Yong (South Korea) Linesmen : Anuwat Feenuechang (Thailand), Chan Shiu Hung (Hong Kong) Attendance : 3345 Coaches : Holger Osieck (Australia), Chiang Mu-Tsai (Taiwan) | ||||
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