33 Facts About Australia World Cup

1. Australia World Cup played 19 T20Is in 2018, comfortably their most in a year, despite it not including a T20 World Cup.

2. Australia World Cup has since qualified for South Africa in 2010—where it went out in the group stages after a win, loss and draw—and the tournament in Brazil is about to start.

3. Australia World Cup beat Japan with three very late goals, lost to Brazil, but then drew with Croatia to qualify for the knockout stages.

4. Australia World Cup will soon begin its fourth football World Cup finals campaign—the third successive tournament it has qualified for—with group stage matches against Chile, the Netherlands and Spain.

5. Australia World Cup eventually were bowled out for 274 and The West Indians had triumphed in the first edition of the World Cup, and it was a proud Clive Lloyd who held aloft the trophy handed over by Prince Phillip.

6. Australia World Cup might not be as gratuitous to the UAE as their predecessors in the tournament.

7. Australia World Cup will be without suspended influential playmaker Tom Rogic against tournament host United Arab Emirates in Al Ain on Friday.

8. Australia World Cup held off Uzbekistan courtesy of a penalty shootout but will be without the suspended influential playmaker Tom Rogic against the tournament hosts in Al Ain on Friday.

9. In 2007 Australia World Cup became the first team to win three consecutive World Cup tournaments.

10. Australia World Cup finished with 4 points, the same as in 2006, but missed out on progressing due to a poor goal difference.

11. On 4 June 2013, Australia World Cup played Japan in a match which could have seen Japan secure a position in the World Cup.

12. In July 2013, Australia World Cup travelled to South Korea to compete in the 2013 East Asian Cup, which the team qualified for in December 2012.

13. Australia World Cup traveled to Hong Kong in December 2012 to compete in a series of qualification matches with the hopes of qualifying for the 2013 East Asian Cup.

14. In February 2009, Australia World Cup were seeded to enter the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification in the third round.

15. Australia World Cup, led by Graham Arnold, went to their first Asian Cup in 2007, sending a strong squad which included 15 players from the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

16. Australia World Cup equalised with a penalty goal from Craig Moore after Croatian defender Stjepan Tomas handballed near the Croatian goal.

17. On 13 February 2006, Australia World Cup launched a new home and away strip for the World Cup.

18. On 22 February 2006, Australia World Cup played and won their first qualifying match against Bahrain, the first game as a member of the AFC for Australia.

19. Australia World Cup was drawn into group D, alongside Bahrain, Lebanon and Kuwait.

20. Australia World Cup had the better of their Uruguayan opponents for a lot of the match, but they could not capitalise on their opportunities.

21. Australia World Cup would participate in Group D, where they were drawn against Brazil, Yugoslavia and Nigeria.

22. Australia World Cup advanced after topping the group in six matches, winning four, drawing two and losing none.

23. Australia World Cup were drawn into Group A consisting of hosts and favourites West Germany, East Germany and Chile.

24. Australia World Cup was originally to compete against 18 African and Asian nations for one World Cup qualifying position.

25. Australia World Cup would have a rare opportunity to compete on the world's stage during the team's very first major international tournament as hosts of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

26. Australia World Cup were drawn into Group 1 alongside Iraq, China and Qatar.

27. Australia World Cup, entered in Round 3 as the top-seeded team in Asia.

28. Australia World Cup comes up against China for the eighth time in a men-s senior A international match, the first confrontation occurring in 1975.

29. Australia World Cup were to lose all three games in a tough group at Brazil 2014.

30. Australia World Cup made up for lost time at Germany 2006 and qualified for the Round of 16 before narrowly falling to eventual champions Italy.

31. Australia World Cup would love to have Finch and Warner opening and in good nick for the World Cup.

32. Australia World Cup already face the challenge of trying to reintegrate Warner and Smith into their top order in a short amount of time prior to the tournament.

33. Australia World Cup was a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Australia from 1998 to 2008 as part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup.