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The Australia national under-17 soccer team, known as the Joeys or Subway Joeys for sponsorship reasons, [1] represents Australia in men's international under-17 soccer.The team is controlled by the governing body for Football in Australia, Football Australia (FA), which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) since ...
Brad Maloney and Football Australia named the first squad for the under-17 team in April 2024. The training camp, which followed after 12 months of scouting from Maloney and Football Australia, was in preparation for a squad to participate in the 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
AAS, then known as Socceroos Active Support (SAS), was founded in January 2015 as an independent group, [122] who uses social media to organise and keep in touch. This replaced the former active support group Terrace Australis , [ 123 ] who were founded by Football Federation Australia and fans in 2013, during Australia's 2014 World Cup ...
Subway sponsored the Subway Super Series ice hockey tournament from 2009 to 2014. [citation needed] In September 2022, Subway secured a three-year partnership deal with Football Australia for the naming rights of the men's national football teams as the Subway Socceroos, Subway Olyroos, Subway Young Socceroos, and Subway Joeys.
The next day, Nestory Irankunda was named as one of eight A-League Men players to feature in the Socceroos' squad for their final second round World Cup qualifiers against Bangladesh and Palestine. [14] This was Irankunda's first official call-up to the squad, having previously joined as a train-on player in March 2023.
In the game, Luke Brattan made his first senior international appearance, making him the oldest debutant for the Socceroos. [25] The following month, Australia hosted Saudi Arabia at AAMI Park in a match which ended in a scoreless draw, despite the visitors seemingly scoring in injury time, only for the goal to be overruled as offside.
The national team had been nicknamed "the Socceroos" by journalist Tony Horstead on a 1967 tour to South Vietnam. [22] FFA chairman Frank Lowy commented "It has been commonly used and is a much loved name but we may see it fade out as evolution takes place", and suggested few national football teams had nicknames. [21]
The 2024 Australia Cup Final was an association football match played between A-League Men sides Melbourne Victory and Macarthur FC at AAMI Park in Melbourne on 29 September 2024 to determine the winners of the 2024 Australia Cup. [2]