At the FIFA Confederations Cup, Australia have been drawn into Group A with hosts Germany, followed by 2002 FIFA World Cup winners Portugal, with the group wrapping up with African champions Tunisia. Group B sees European Champions Greece, Copa America Champions Brazil, CONCACAF Gold Cup...

Australia were able to turn the tables back over Tahiti after their shock first leg loss, to record a 3-2 victory on aggregate to win the 2004 OFC Nations Cup. As winners of the OFC Nations Cup, the Socceroos will also go on to represent the OFC at the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in Germany...

Hmmm... given how I've seen some of squadi play out for NNSW this year, I may have to actually bite the bullet and count some (if not all) the club splits that are in NNSW Australia Cup preliminaries as fact (Eg, Mayfield United Juniors and Seniors being two separate clubs) - would mean updating...

https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/can-a-senator-move-to-the-house-of-representatives-and-potentially-become-prime-minister But, in your defence, that is an entirely different scenario

Did any of them play before that restructure down to 3 tiers? Or is that one of those restructures where it's just less leagues, but same amount of clubs?

Australia finished atop the table of the OFC Nations Cup, which included a 4-1 victory over Tahiti - but Tahiti surprised the world with a 2-1 victory in Pirae. Australia must win their home leg in Sydney, but crucially have an away goal in their pocket. The winner of the OFC Nations Cup Final...

Last group game yet to come, but the final of the OFC. Actions Cup is set, with the first leg away to Tahiti 15 April @ 11am AEST

I mean, Canberra isn't that big. It only took 2-3 days to reschedule opening round of NPL because of the rain. I'm not sure why there was a month between the first games scheduled for round 4 of the cup, and that one.

https://greenandgoldfc.com/threads/the-unofficial-australian-football-club-database-pyramid.128/post-130888

Wow doing the cup on this is intriguing. I've gone back to the inception of the Federation Cup in ACT (what is used for Capital Football's Australia Cup preliminaries), and marked who (To the best of records found) has taken part in which years (back to 1962), and in a separate doc I've gone...

“Teams are put together by agents, even the national team. When I was coaching the Under 21, they came to me with a bag full of money: it's yours, they told me, if you call up who we say. I told them to get lost, otherwise I'd call the carabinieri. In the end, they got rid of me. If you're not a...

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ApTnGtsoM/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Why did share that in here? Hahahaha

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AUCYUzNcp/?mibextid=wwXIfr

As per the Women's NST thread, I've decided to start a second database following the Women's Pyramid - have currently done the A-League Womens / W-League, and ACT/Capital Football dating back to 2016 (including for the Men's update as outlined underneath the spreadsheet below). Also taking an...

Yep, will be including them at the highest levels they are found at. Also taking an opportunity to expand the mens one as much as I can too: Australia Cup will have it's own sheet within the document now - I will list under each year a state, which will mean they've entered the Australia Cup...

Am starting from scratch using a blank version of the men's template - it's easier to delete select clubs, than to add everything from scratch

Question out of curiosity - I'm going to try and tier the community level / non-competitive adult levels. I'm thinking 3 tiers, essentially: 01. Competitive Youth 02. Masters 03. Miniroos EDIT - Actually, lets make that 4 tiers, using Capital Football as its example: 01. Competitive Youth (NPL...

Alright, fine you twisted my leg

NORWAY DEFEATS ENGLAND IN PENALTY SHOOTOUT It's not coming home again! Top 10 Golden Boot (if tied on goals, sorted alphabetically by Country, then by player first name) Erling Haaland - Norway - 9 Harry Kane - England - 6 Marko Arnautovic - Austria - 5 Marco Pasalic - Croatia - 5 Petar Musa -...

New Zealand out after a 2-0 defeat to Belgium in the Quarter Finals - here's the bracket as it stands - I will now background sim the rest of the tournament, and put together the Golden Boot

ok, going live with the quarter final now

Wow what a match that was - NEW ZEALAND IN THE QUARTER FINALS

Round of 16 sim time

I'm actually very tempted to make the same database I've been doing, but for the womens teams

I've decided to make the call this year that Albury-Wodonga Football Association and it's leagues are part of the NSW pyramid officially. Their website states they are an affiliate of FNSW, and no clubs (other than Murray United - the representative club of the Association) entered into the...

Like I said, guess that means Christian Vieri is too. He was eligible to play for Italy, probably held or holds an Australian passport/citizenship (based off this article back in 2002 suggesting there was talks of him playing Joeys -...

Fun fact from my database travels - it seems to be the most common full club name in Australia (with 5 different clubs!)

I still can't get over the premise of Barnstoneworth United 🤣

Vieri was very much eligible to play for Australia should he have chosen to - he held Australian citizenship and even cited Allan Border as his childhood hero during the 1998 World Cup (and of course, his brother ended up playing for Australia). I personally wouldn't count him as Australian...

I still stand by what I said. If we are counting him, then we should be counting other dual nationals that didn't play for Australia (Vieri, Simunic, Dorigo, etc) It's not as if he wasn't selected. He actively chose not to play for Australia.

Could have potentially made the semis in 2002 or even won in 2006 👀

As Johnston is English then

https://map11.net/about so once they approve my latest updates - I think I have every league that has so far announced draws for 2026 added in (not assigned to each club, but assigned to at least one so that it's easy to add leagues to clubs now) just missing at the moment: NSW - Lachlan...

In that case, why no Vieri?

3 things I would do on first glance: 1. Bresciano above Emerton 2. Remove Craig Johnston - if you refuse to play for Socceroos, you're not Australian. 3. Needs more Grella

I think Lions will definitely get there, but I'm hoping that whoever wins out of Shepparton and Albury somehow shock the state.

Well, that’s what I mean - FIFA don’t count an appearance until you’ve actually been on the field. That’s why the Marianas Islands match was interesting as they aren’t a FIFA member, so I’m not sure if it’s official. Otherwise it will be if she gets game time during the Asian Cup

I think we just need to bookmark his post so we don’t keep losing it hahaha

Round of 16: Ecuador v Norway Mexico v Japan Croatia v Austria United States v South Korea Brazil v France Czech Republic v England Argentina v Belgium New Zealand v Colombia

I'm trying to remember the rules that we decided were accurate - any football, at any level after a switch locks in, yeah? Tyra has definitely played Junior Matildas since in Asian Cup qualifiers - although the kicker is, she played in a match against Northern Mariana Islands (AFC member, but...

Ahhhhh this is making me want to watch Carl Barron now

Wow, Socceroos out to Belgium - but ALL WHITES THROUGH AGAINST THE SWISS?! Late scare, but they get the 2-1 victory, and will face Colombia or Jordan in the Round of 16

I’ve seen them do it the other way round too - I’m pretty sure Tonga did a congratulations post for Tyra Bagiante when she switched from Tonga to play for the Young Matildas

Wow what a draw! Albury v Shepparton!

Dang well that's a bummer. Let's see how All Whites fare against Switzerland then

Alrighty - coming up live shortly for the Round of 32

Good - Canberra is fucking weird for this - maybe this is why they wanted to get rid of Yoogali. They compromised in the NPL seasons that Yoogali gets Sunday home games in Griffith, but Saturday away games

Good to know - I must have been thrown off by a combo of Altona Magic's webpage, FV Gameday, and Google Maps. By what you're saying, the yellow numbers are correct (which means PAOK move from SJ to 3, and Magic stay where they are)? Reason I had the above version, is Magic's website lists Pitch...

I was gonna share the whole map of NPL NSW (only counting Sydney though) as a screenshot, but work IT has blocked a couple logos, so some aren't showing on the map (but are still clickable)

I didn't count clubs with lower division teams competing - but good shout!

I thought I did somewhere - but no, was just me sharing the same link you did https://greenandgoldfc.com/threads/match-stats-analysis-for-recent-socceroo-games.64/post-90746

I think I have a clean version of these stats somewhere here - will have to find it

Yep - that's the one! For some reason I thought it was 3 clubs in the vicinity, but it is just the two - just 212m apart from the kick-off points. Once this map is updated, will be nice and easy and good to do that full closest/furthest distances in each league now (which given this new shared...

Whoops - the logos overlapped and I completely missed that one! Updated: ACT: Queanbeyan City and Monaro Panthers (Queanbeyan / Riverside Derby) @ 350m NNSW: Adamstown and Newcastle Olympic @ 986m - although Broadmeadow Magic and Kahibah also 1017m apart VIC: Green Gully and St Albans Saints...

Have added closest in venues in each NPL now. By closest to shortest: ACT Nth NSW NSW SA WA QLD VIC TAS

if it's on a weekend, will that even really change anything?

Yeah there'd be quite a few like that across divisions in Victoria - if I recall correctly, there's 3 different Altona clubs in the space of 300 or so metres (4 fields all next to eachother south of the golf course)

Using the NPL only (as the crow flies, centre circle to centre circle, and not counting shared ground derbys): ACT: Queanbeyan City and Monaro Panthers (Queanbeyan / Riverside Derby) @ 350m NSW: Marconi and Sydney United @ 1470m VIC: Dandenong City and Dandenong Thunder @ 5320m Others will...

The Socceroos' quest to Germany begins in Adelaide with the OFC Nations Cup - with the opening round doubling as the main qualification stage for Oceania towards the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Australia face New Zealand first, with Tahiti, Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands to follow - in a single...

Following Australia's defeat to Ireland in a London friendlly, and the release of the Crawford Report, Soccer Australia has been wound up, with the newly formed Australian Soccer Association (ASA) now the governing body for soccer in Australia. Along with this, the ASA have been able to sign a...

it took me way too long to realise what the trophy meant hahaha. I think my favourites will always be Tricolore (mainly because of first world cup for me), Teamgeist (because I think that's a ball that fundamentally changed football in a positive way for the first time in probably 35 years...

Tried it with a mod and it just feels like magnet feet again - don’t like how it does that

Get a PC - use Football Life/PES, and then can do an emulator PS2 for better graphics too

Australia have been hammered by Argentina in the Third Place Playoff for the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup With Oceanian qualifiers beginning shortly for Australia, Soccer Australia has arranged friendlies with Ireland, South Africa, and Turkey in the lead-up. However, there are rumblings...

I know I like Fawkner, but well done Murray United!

I wonder that their numbers are like if we take the ice hockey route (where it’s like a goal counts as one, and an assist counts as 0.5)

The Socceroos face Argentina in the third place playoff of the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup - a rematch of their 2002 FIFA World Cup semi-final, that saw Argentina emerge victorious.

Alrighty, so final group standings below - we were so close to a Socceroos v All Whites Round of 32 match (and unfortunately, still miss out on Iran!) THIRD PLACE RANKINGS SCORERS LIST Before I get to the knockout bracket - I'll address all the tied standings in the groups: Morocco v...

On the flip side of the coin about wins mattering - New Zealand guaranteed of at least 3rd in the group (as they defeated Egypt), however need to win this match to advance as runner up.

Wow so with these sim results - Australia advance in second due to head to head of beating Turkey. However, are tied on goal difference, goals scored, etc etc, so would have gone down to disciplinary history under the usual tie-breakers. If that was tied as well, Turkey would get the runner up...

This scenario alone shows how important wins will be given the head to head. I know this would be played at the same time, but essentially the difference between a draw and a loss could be 2nd place, or going home

Turkey and USA ends in a 0-0 draw, which means a draw for Australia against Paraguay will be enough for them to advance as runners up, and a loss to Paraguay will see Australia knocked out in 4th place of the group.

Ahead of the final day simulation: https://greenandgoldfc.com/threads/simulations-2026-fifa-world-cup.954/post-128859 Will share YouTube link for Australia v Paraguay sim when I get to it (Turkey v USA comes first on it, but I will add the result too)

OK so here is where things stand heading into Matchday 3. I haven't looked at the overall 3rd places yet. Specifically for Australia and New Zealand (since they are the two groups I'm really looking at - considering 2nd in those groups play each other - plus it has Aus and NZ) On standard...

Seriously, fuck them for gaslighting me like this - I'm going even more full force now. https://greenandgoldfc.com/threads/the-football-australia-thread.625/post-128780

at least now I can get screenshots of what I said in the month prior (according to my activity log)

yeah one of these games was his debut

ok I finally have an update I received this on Wednesday morning (it went to Spam, so I only saw it today) -- Good morning Nicholas Thank you for your email. As the owner and operator of its digital platforms, Capital Football reserves the right to manage participation across those...

Heads up - the dev team behind this mod is focusing their next patch 2.2 on National Teams - so I expect there to be updated kits in time for the full Pre-World Cup Simulation once all the squads are announced at the end of May

Belgium v Egypt

I have no issue with the way Rugari said that in the clipping above

You know - I'm going to have to boot it up again soon - I have a feeling that was a switchable setting!

Table for Australia after Matchday 2 - interestingly, because the table is set to sort the traditional way - we'd actually be second in the group at this point, on account of defeating Turkey on Matchday 1 I'm going to sim the first 2 matchdays from New Zealand's group to view now (and...

what do you think about the one Juve did? They just made the sponsors really small and moved up to the top stripe for their anniversary game

Table for Australia after Matchday 2 - interestingly, because the table is set to sort the traditional way - we'd actually be second in the group at this point, on account of defeating Turkey on Matchday 1 I'm going to sim the first 2 matchdays from New Zealand's group to view now (and...

Such a fun game that was - but 2010 is my go to for that Did 2006 World Cup in my rewriting history with a FIFA 16 mod (it has every World Cup up to 2018, and euros up to 2016) - now that’s really something else

Turkey v Paraguay

I hate these style kits

USA v Australia

oh wow same result for USA v Paraguay on the re-run Australia v Turkey next

ok scratch that - it froze and didn't save ffs Will set up again and post links to the live YouTube for each match once it's ready - otherwise if it's live/streaming, will also be on Twitch player below Will post an update on all groups after Matchday 2, and then after the group stage is...

Alrighty - time for me to start the sims Confirming the Socceroos squad in use for this simulation (as they are registered in game): GOALKEEPERS Izzo Beach Ryan DEFENDERS Circati Souttar Degenek Rowles Behich Burgess Bos Behich Geria MIDFIELDERS O'Neill Balard Yazbek Hrustic Robertson Irvine...

Yep - CPL was disbanded and shifted clubs either (mostly) into NPL, so of the 16 clubs that were in either division last year: Yoogali (kicked out from Capital Football completely - senior players have mostly joined Griffith City FC in the Wagga league and recently won the Riverina Knockout...

But in seriousness - Australia Cup matches are on this weekend instead

Because it's Easter

Some clubs are entering multiple teams - ladder is showing 7 teams from 5 clubs (two teams for ANU and Weston). Griffith league is doing something similar (8 teams from 7 clubs, but some of them are essentially third grade teams as firsts and reserves would be playing in Wagga - such as Yoogali...

These players probably won’t be moved on until after the Asian Cup I think

Muscat has the potential to surprise me like Arnie I reckon

Most leagues for the year have been announced now too, so the spreadsheet database has been updated

wow

https://soccer-map.nobrega.me/ All Australian clubs added now (only Name, Logo and Location for all clubs were added), but we can now also add leagues, the tier it is (up to tier 6), rivalries, year founded, and a few other things

The Socceroos progressed through to the semi finals of the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup with their victory over Saudi Arabia, and now face African champions Cameroon, with France facing Argentina in the other semi final.

when you say 'lived there', do you mean, lived in the other country (not Netherlands)?

I should do a pic of my wardrobe... hahha

Eh, that's right - if anything, Italy's Euro 2020 win is more of an underdog story than Greece's in hindsight ;)

ok - will probs get this mostly done over the long weekend - confirming will do viewed simulations of all of Group D and Group G. As I'll be setting up two simulations to run the sets of groups, will essentially be manually recording results into a spreadsheet to determine the 3rd places, etc -...

I don't think they have to release them - so no, I daresay They would bring 30-35 to Florida and then cull from there

8 groups - top 2 qualify - most simple way. Assuming Russia is back and in a non-hosting year for UEFA, that would mean 7 groups of 6, and 1 group of 7 (10 games for most groups, 12 for the group of 7), and if this world cup's qualifying had used that system, the pots would have been: Spain...

They don't wanna do a double Italy

True - I'm actually surprised not wearing the fluoro yellow actually - that's supposed to be the primary ref colour here. I didn't see if the keepers also wearing that colour as well, that might be why

Yes CONMEBOL's process is straight forward CONCACAF's current one works too - I presume that when the next World Cup rolls around, it will be the top 2 from each group qualifying, rather than just the group winners. OFC's... I don't hate the full process - however they should be playing home...

Have noticed across the playoffs that they've been quite pro-underdogs

AND AS I SAY THAT IRAQ SCORES OFF THE RESULTING CORNER

what a save that was

If it didn't in 2022, I can't see why it would now

again - should have just been 8 groups with the top 2 qualifying, then no need for playoffs - but hey, UEFA gotta spin it to justify the Who Cares Cup every two years. I could poke holes in every qualification method this year, except for probably CONCACAF and CONMEBOL (method, not the amount...

Iraq wearing green - I didn't have that on my bingo card

you saw them blow full time early too? ;)

I think Italy’s Euro win in hindsight is the biggest minnow underdog story in history. Even bigger than Greece in 2004. I mean, hey at least Greece then qualified for 2010 and 2014 World Cups