The Australia women’s national soccer team is overseen by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Australia, 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) in 2006.
The team’s official nickname is “the Matildas” (from the Australian folk song “Waltzing Matilda“), having been known as the “Female Socceroos” before 1995.[2]
Australia is a three-time OFC champion, one-time AFC champion and one-time AFF champion, and became the first ever national team to win in two different confederations (before the men’s team did the same in 2015 AFC Asian Cup). The team has represented Australia at the FIFA Women’s World Cup on seven occasions and at the Olympic Games on four, although it has won neither tournament. Immediately following the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Australia was ranked eleventh in the world by FIFA.[3]
Australia will co-host the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup along with New Zealand, so the Matildas automatically qualify for this event as co-hosts.[4]
