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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 ...
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.
The Young Matildas finished fifth, the highest finish place in a FIFA sanctioned competition of any Australian women's national soccer team ever. [24] The Mini Matildas are Australia's women's national under-17 team. [31] The team was established when FIFA announced that the U-17 Women's World Cup would be launched in 2008. Australia has yet to ...
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 ]
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The Home of the Matildas is an association football stadium in Bundoora, Melbourne, Australia.It is the home base of the Australia women's national soccer team, and the home of Melbourne Victory in the A-League Women, Melbourne Victory FC Youth in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, and the Melbourne Victory Afghan Women's Team in the Football Victoria Women's State League 2 South-East.
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On 4 June 2024, Cooney-Cross was named in the Matildas team which qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics, her second Olympic games selection. [25] Later that year, she scored her debut goal for Australia during her 50th international game in a 1-2 win against Germany on 28 October in Duisburg , Germany. [ 26 ]