page_title: Women's field hockey in Australia
section_title: International
hierarchical_section_title: Women's field hockey in Australia / International
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context_page_description: Field hockey has been played by men in Australia since 1901. By 1907, there were clubs in several states including New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria. Women's field hockey was eventually represented by the Australian Institute of Sport, though the amount of support it received was less than the support the men received. The All Australian Women's Hockey Association was established in 1910 to govern the sport in Australia. in 2000, Women’s Hockey Australia merged with the Australian Hockey Association to form Hockey Australia. The game has been played by women on the university and school level. Interstate matches were being played by 1909. The level of play on the interstate level is very high. The Australia women's national field hockey team, established in 1914, has placed highly in many competitions.
context_section_description: the Australia women's national field hockey team (nicknamed The Hockeyroos) played its first game in 1914 against the England XI team.  This was the first international match that Australia competed in.  The English made an appearance in the country on a trip to New Zealand and played only one game.  An English representative team was the first international team to tour Australia.  They did this tour in 1927, playing three test matches, an inter-state tournament and matches in every Australian state.  England won every game they played during this 1927 tour.
  Australia played their first international match on foreign soil in 1930 when they went to South Africa and Rhodesia to compete in an Empire tournament.  At the conclusion of this tournament, the team went on a tour of the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Australia made their first appearance in a World Championship competition in 1936 in the tournament held in the United States. Australia had their first victory against England in 1953.  They beat England 2 goals to 1.  This victory occurred at the 5th International Tournament that was held in England that year. In 1959, Australia won their first international tournament: The 1959 Holland Tournament.
  In 1967, the Australian women's national team completed a tour of ten countries in a period of four months, playing thirty-one games and only losing five.  That same year, they competed in the 9th World Championship where they finished in the top four alongside national teams from South Africa, England and the Netherlands. The Australian women participated in the first Women's World Cup for field hockey that was held in 1979.  The team finished fourth.  During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Australia and New Zealand were both leading women's field hockey nations that were competitive with their European counterparts. In 1981, the Australians won the America's Cup, the first year this competition was held.  That same year, the team also competed in the 1981 version of the World Cup. They finished fourth. In 1982, the Australians competed in a New Zealand tournament featuring teams from the Netherlands, the United States, New Zealand, Canada and England.  The team finished second.  That year, the team also competed in the New Zealand Tournament.  They finished second.
  The process for qualifying for the 1984 Summer Olympics depended on a team's performance at the 1983 World Cup.  The 1983 World Cup was also a significant event for Australian women's field hockey because it was the first World Cup that was governed by the International Hockey Federation, an international governing body that for the first time represented both sexes.  The World Cup was held in April in Kuala Lumpur.  Australia was in pool A with Scotland, the United States, Wales, the Netherlands and India. Players for the team included Lorraine Wharton. Players for the team included Lorraine Wharton and Elspeth Clement.   The team was coached by  Brian Glencross.  Elspeth Clement was the second leading scorer in the tournament, scoring seven goals, three less than Jane Swinnerton of England who scored ten.  The Australians led in penalty scorners awarded in the tournament, with seventy-one, where they converted nine of them into goals.  Australia finished tied with England for first in the tournament for penalty strokes award with three.  They converted only one of those, compared to England's two. On the first day, Australia beat Wales five to zero. On the third day, Australia beat India by a score of three to two. On the fourth day, Australia tied Scotland one all. On day six, the Netherlands beat Australia one to zero. On day six, the Netherlands beat Australia one to zero.  On day seven, Australia tied the American team one all. On day ten during the semi-finals, Australia tied Canada zero to zero. Extra time was played.  The game was still a tie.  The game went to penalty strokes, which Canada won eight to five. On day twelve, Australia played in the Bronze Medal match and beat Germany by a score of three to one.   The Australian team finished 
caption: An Australian handles the ball in a match against Argentina in 2005
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