11 Facts About Football Australia

Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia, headquartered in Sydney.

Football Australia oversees the men's, women's, youth, Paralympic, beach and futsal national teams in Australia, the national coaching programs and the state governing bodies for the sport.

Football Australia made the decision to leave the Oceania Football Confederation, for which it was a founding member, and become a member of the Asian Football Confederation on 1 January 2006 and ASEAN Football Federation on 27 August 2013.

The Australian Soccer Football Association operated for forty years, was given FIFA provisional membership in November 1954 and this was confirmed in June 1956, however in 1960, the association disbanded after being suspended from FIFA for the poaching of players from overseas.

Football Australia resigned as an OFC member in 1972 to pursue membership with the AFC, but they rejoined in 1978.

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The findings of the report were critically analysed by the board of Soccer Football Australia who believed that the recommendations contained therein were not capable of being implemented.

Football Australia hoped that the move would give Australia a fairer chance of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup and allow A-League clubs to compete in the AFC Champions League, thereby improving the standard of Australian football at both international and club levels with improved competition in the region.

In 2010, the decision was made by Football Australia to withdraw its World Cup bid for 2018, instead focusing on a bid for the 2022 tournament.

On 25 June 2020, Football Australia won the rights to co-host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup alongside New Zealand.

Soccer in Football Australia has used a federated model of national, states and territories governing bodies since the first state body was established in New South Wales in 1882.

In November 2021, Football Australia created the inaugural National Indigenous Advisory Group, an advisory body aimed at helping to foster engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and increase their participation in the game.