These statistics were written and researched for the OzSoccer archive by John Punshon, Greg Stock and Thomas Esamie. We believe them to be accurate and have taken every care to make them so. We would appreciate any correction of errors detected.
| With the Young Socceroos having qualified for the World Youth Championships in Qatar in April 1995, the side held a European based camp in the lead up. The side played three games against varying opposition in Holland before moving on to Qatar later in the month. | ||||
| Played : April 2 1995 | Venue : Netherlands | |||
| FC Twente Under 23's (HOL) (Lineup unavailable) |
1 | - | 2 | Australia Clint Bolton, Ian Pollari, Con Anthopoulos (Joe Vrkic), Mark Rudan, Richard Plesa, Paul Bilokapic, Ufuk Talay, Robert Enes, Josip Skoko (Dino Mennillo), Mark Viduka (c), Robbie Middleby (Nick Lazarevski) Goals : Middleby 60' Enes 65' |
| Played : April 4 1995 | Venue : Netherlands | |||
| FC Sparta (HOL) (Lineup unavailable) |
0 | - | 0 | Australia Les Pogliacomi, Ian Pollari (Richard Plesa), Con Anthopoulos, Mark Rudan, Joe Vrkic, Paul Bilokapic, Ufuk Talay, Robert Enes, Josip Skoko (Dino Mennillo), Mark Viduka (c), Robbie Middleby |
| Played April 7 1995 | Venue : Zeist, Netherlands | |||
| Holland Under 19's Jim van Fessem, Arno Knapen, Danny Landzaat, Mendel Witzenhausen, Tristan Ooms, Robert Gehring, Bjorn Schurink, Ron Pander, Wilfred Bouma, Pascal Boer, Dave van den Bergh Goal : Bouma |
1 | - | 0 | Australia Les Pogliacomi, Richard Plesa, Con Anthopoulos, Mark Rudan, Joe Vrkic, Paul Bilokapic, Ufuk Talay, Robert Enes, Josip Skoko, Mark Viduka (c), Robbie Middleby |
| Australia participated as Oceanias representative at the 1995 World Youth Championships in Qatar. Drawn in the same group as Costa Rica, Cameroon and Germany, Australias first opponents were the Costa Ricans. | ||||
| Played : April 13 1995 | Venue : Qatar | |||
| Costa Rica Morgan, Drummond, Sanchez, Torres (sent off ~67), Morales (Diaz 52), Rodriguez, Wauchope, Soto (Baltodano ~70), J Benneth, T Benneth, Wallace |
0 | - | 2 | Australia Les Pogliacomi, Richard Plesa, Con Anthopoulos, Mark Rudan, Joe Vrkic, Paul Bilokapic, Ufuk Talay, Robert Enes, Josip Skoko, Mark Viduka (c), Robbie Middleby Goals : Viduka 51' Enes 74' |
| Australias next group match was against the African nation of Cameroon. | ||||
| Played : April 16 1994 | Venue : Qatar | |||
| Cameroon (Lineup incomplete) Ntamag, Ndiefi, Epalle (Mgomoe 60), Essa (Halidou 68), Ngaha (sent off 82) Goals : Ntamag 52, 90, Ndiefi ~65 |
3 | - | 2 | Australia Les Pogliacomi (Clint Bolton 15), Mark Rudan, Joe Vrkic, Paul Bilokapic, Ufuk Talay, Richard Plesa, Con Anthopoulos, Robert Enes, Josip Skoko (Dino Mennillo 79), Mark Viduka (c), Robbie Middleby Goals : Viduka 10' 69' |
| Australias final group match was against Germany. With the draw Australia qualified as the runner up of the group to advance to the quarter final round. | ||||
| Played : April 20 1995 | Venue : Qatar | |||
| Germany (Lineup unavailable) |
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- | 1 | Australia Clint Bolton, Ian Pollari, Con Anthopoulos, Richard Plesa, Joe Vrkic, Paul Bilokapic, Ufuk Talay, Robert Enes (John Angelovski), Josip Skoko (Andy Vlahos), Robbie Middleby (Dino Mennillo), Mark Viduka (c) Goal : Viduka |
| In the quarter final Australia was drawn against Portugal in the quarter finals. In a very hard match the scores were locked 1-1 at the end of 90 minutes. Into extra time and the Portugese scored and under the sudden death rules advanced to the semi-final stage of the championship. | ||||
| Played April 24 1995 | Venue : Qatar | |||
| Portugal ASDET (Lineup incomplete)Dani Carvalho, Agostinho Goals : Agostinho ~65, ~98 |
2 | - | 1 | Australia ASDET Clint Bolton, Ian Pollari, Joe Vrkic, Richard Plesa, Mark Rudan, Paul Bilokapic, Ufuk Talay, Robert Enes, Josip Skoko, Mark Viduka (c), Robbie Middleby Goal : Portugal own goal ~75 |