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The team's official nickname is "the Matildas" (from the Australian folk song "'Waltzing Matilda"; officially known as the CommBank Matildas for sponsorship reasons [2]); they were known as the "Female Socceroos" before 1995. [3] Australia is a three-time OFC champion, one-time AFC champion and one-time AFF champion.
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 February 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 February 2025 Laini Freier (born 24 July 2001) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays for A-League Women 's club Brisbane Roar [ 2 ] and for the Australia women's national team (the Matildas).
The Matildas automatically qualified as co-host, and the Matildas ... This page was last edited on 7 February 2025, at 09:12 (UTC).
Most importantly, the Matildas are now relatively well-funded after going on strike over equal pay following the 2015 Women’s World Cup, in which they became the first Australian team to win a ...
The best run this women’s national soccer team has ever had in the World Cup was back in 2007, losing in the quarterfinals to Brazil. Sixteen years later, during the Matildas’ quarterfinal ...
The Australian women's national under-20 soccer team represents Australia in international women's under-20 soccer.The team is controlled by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Federation Australia (FFA), which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) since leaving the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC ...
Nigeria come from behind to beat Australia and leave the co-hosts facing a battle to qualify for the last 16 of the Fifa Women's World Cup.
Some media outlets used the terms Matildas fever to describe the community spirit on display, [2] [3] and Matildas effect to express the team's impact. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Throughout the tournament, more kits representing the Australian women's team were sold than for the national men's team ("the Socceroos"), for the first time. [ 6 ]