Australia women's national soccer team

The **Australia women's national soccer team** represents Australia in international women's soccer. It is currently governed by Football Australia and has been a member of the Asian Football Confederation official site at www and website for football club website at www at the club page at the bottom right corner since 2006, when Australia left the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). The team is officially nicknamed the "**Matildas**" (after the Australian folk song and bush ballad "Waltzing Matilda"), but was referred to as the "**Female Socceroos**" until 1995.

## Players

The following 23 players were named to the final squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

_Caps and goals are current as of 19 August 2023 after the match against Sweden._

## Related pages

- Australia men's national soccer team (nicknamed the "Socceroos")

## Infobox (national football team)

- **type**: Women
- **name**: Australia
- **nickname**: Matildas, Tillies
- **badge**: Australia national football team badge.svg
- **badge size**: 180px
- **association**: Football Australia
- **confederation**:
Asian Football Confederation, AFC (Asia): 2006–present
- **sub-confederation**: ASEAN Football Federation, AFF (Southeast Asia)
- **coach**: Tony Gustavsson
- **captain**: Sam Kerr
- **most caps**: Clare Polkinghorne (163)
- **top scorer**: Sam Kerr (68)
- **fifa trigramme**: AUS
- **fifa max**: 4
- **fifa max date**: December 2017
- **fifa min**: 16
- **fifa min date**: October 2003 – June 2004; September 2005
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- **first game**: 2–2
(Sydney; 6 October 1979)
- **largest win**: 21–0
(Auckland, New Zealand; 9 October 1998)
- **largest loss**: 9–1
(Ambler, Pennsylvania, Ambler, United States; 5 June 1997)
- **world cup apps**: 8
- **world cup first**: 1995
- **world cup best**: Fourth place (2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2023)
- **regional name**: Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games
- **regional cup first**: Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2000
- **regional cup apps**: 4
- **regional cup best**: Fourth place (Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2020)
- **2ndregional name**: AFC Women's Asian Cup, Asian Cup
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 7
- **2ndregional cup first**: 1975 AFC Women's Championship, 1975
- **2ndregional cup best**: **Champions** (2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup, 2010)
- **3rdregional name**: OFC Women's Nations Cup, Oceanian Cup
- **3rdregional cup apps**: 7
- **3rdregional cup first**: 1983 OFC Women's Championship, 1983
- **3rdregional cup best**: **Champions** (1994 OFC Women's Championship, 1994, 1998 OFC Women's Championship, 1998, 2003 OFC Women's Championship, 2003)
- **4thregional name**: AFF Women's Championship, Southeast Asian Cup
- **4thregional cup apps**: 1
- **4thregional cup first**: 2008 AFF Women's Championship, 2008
- **4thregional cup best**: **Champions** (2008 AFF Women's Championship, 2008)
- **website**: [https://www.matildas.com.au/ Official website]