2006 Australia national soccer team season

Australia

2006 season

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The Australia national soccer team results in 2006.

Record

Type	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
Friendly matches	5	2	3	0	7	4
World Cup	4	1	1	2	5	6
Asian Cup qualifiers	4	3	0	1	7	3
Total	13	6	4	3	19	13

Goal scorers

Player	Friendlies	FIFA World Cup	AFC Asian Cup qual.	Total goals
Aloisi	2	1	1	4
Cahill	1	2	-	3
Skoko	1	-	1	2
Bresciano	-	-	1	1
Dodd	-	-	1	1
Elrich	-	-	1	1
Kennedy	1	-	-	1
Kewell	-	1	-	1
Moore	-	1	-	1
Popovic	1	-	-	1
Petrovski	-	-	1	1
Sterjovski	1	-	-	1
Thompson	-	-	1	1

Match results

Friendlies

Australia  v  Greece

25 May Friendly	Australia	1 – 0	Greece	Melbourne, Australia
	Skoko  16'	(Report)		Stadium: MCG Attendance: 95,103 Referee: Mike Riley

Netherlands  v  Australia

4 June Friendly	Netherlands	1 – 1	Australia	Rotterdam, Netherlands
	van Nistelrooy  9'	(Report)	54' Cahill	Stadium: De Kuip Attendance: 49,000 Referee: Mike Dean

Liechtenstein  v  Australia

8 June Friendly	Liechtenstein	1 – 3	Australia	Ulm, Germany
	Neill  8' (o.g.)	(Report)	20' Sterjovski  75' Kennedy  83' Aloisi	Stadium: Donaustadion Attendance: 5,872 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

Australia  v  Paraguay

7 October Friendly	Australia	1 – 1	Paraguay	Brisbane, Australia
	Popovic  88'	(Report)	90+2' (o.g.) Beauchamp	Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 47,609 Referee: Joji Kashihara

Australia  v  Ghana

14 November Friendly	Australia	1 – 1	Ghana	London, England
	Aloisi  25' (pen)	(Report)	75' Agogo	Stadium: Loftus Road Attendance: 14,379 Referee: Mark Clattenburg

World Cup

Australia  v  Japan

12 June Group Stage	Australia	3 – 1	Japan	Kaiserslautern, Germany
15:00 CEST	Cahill  84', 89' Aloisi  90+2'	(Report)	26' Nakamura	Stadium: Fritz Walter Stadion Attendance: 46,000 Referee: Essam Abd El Fatah

Brazil  v  Australia

18 June Group Stage	Brazil	2 – 0	Australia	Munich, Germany
18:00 CEST	Adriano  49' Fred  90'	(Report)		Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 66,000 Referee: Markus Merk

Croatia  v  Australia

22 June Group Stage	Croatia	2 – 2	Australia	Stuttgart, Germany
21:00 CEST	Srna  2' N. Kovač  56' Šimić  32', 85' Šimunić  61'  90', 90+3' (Note^1)	(Report)	38' (pen.) Moore  79' Kewell Emerton  81', 87'	Stadium: Gottlieb Daimler Stadion Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Graham Poll

Italy  v  Australia

26 June Round of 16	Italy	1 – 0	Australia	Kaiserslautern, Germany
17:00 CEST	Totti  90+5'	(Report)		Stadium: Fritz Walter Stadion Attendance: 46,000 Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo

Note ¹: Šimunić was given three yellow cards in the match: the referee (Graham Poll) failed to send him off the pitch after the second yellow, and was only red carded after the third yellow.

Asian Cup qualifiers

Bahrain  v  Australia

22 February Group Stage	Bahrain	1 – 3	Australia	Manama, Bahrain
	Ali  35'	[ (Report)]	54' Thompson  79' Skoko  88' (pen.) Elrich	Stadium: National Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh

Australia  v  Kuwait

16 August Group Stage	Australia	2 – 0	Kuwait	Sydney, Australia
	Dodd  75' Petrovski  86'	[ (Report)]		Stadium: Sydney Football Stadium Attendance: 32,622 Referee: Junjie Huang

Kuwait  v  Australia

6 September Group Stage	Kuwait	2 – 0	Australia	Kuwait City, Kuwait
	Al Mutairi  55' Al-Mutwa  60'	[ (Report)]		Stadium: National Stadium Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Toru Kamikawa

Australia  v  Bahrain

11 October Group Stage	Australia	2 – 0	Bahrain	Sydney, Australia
	Aloisi  17' Bresciano  23'	[ (Report)]		Stadium: Sydney Football Stadium Referee: Fareed Ali Mohamed Al Marzouqi

References