2010 Australia national soccer team season

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2010 season
Chairmen	Frank Lowy
Manager	Pim Verbeek
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Summary

This page summarises the Australia national soccer team fixtures and results in 2010. The year started with Australia's final two qualification matches for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. Qualification was sealed by topping the group. Australia won four of eight friendlies during the year however the main event was the 2010 World Cup. With a win, draw and a loss, Australia failed to progress from the group stage on goal difference.

Record

Type	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
Friendly	8	4	1	3	7	10
World Cup	3	1	1	1	3	6
Asian Cup qualification	2	1	1	0	3	2
Total	13	6	3	4	13	18

Match results

Friendlies

Australia  v  New Zealand

24 May 2010	Australia	2 – 1	New Zealand	Melbourne, Australia
	Vidošić  57' Holman  90+4'	[ (Report)]	16' Killen	Stadium: MCG Attendance: 55,659 Referee: Ricardo Salazar

Australia  v  Denmark

1 June 2010	Australia	1 – 0	Denmark	Johannesburg, South Africa
	Kennedy  71'	[ (Report)]		Stadium: Ruimsig Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Daniel Bennett

United States  v  Australia

5 June 2010	United States	3 – 1	Australia	Johannesburg, South Africa
	Buddle  4', 31' Gomez  90+3'	[ (Report)]	19' Cahill	Stadium: Ruimsig Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Abdul Ebrahim

Slovenia  v  Australia

11 August 2010	Slovenia	2 – 0	Australia	Ljubljana, Slovenia
	Dedič  78' Ljubijankič  90+1'	[ (Report)]		Stadium: Stožice Stadium Attendance: 16,155 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento

Switzerland   v  Australia

3 September 2010	Switzerland	0 – 0	Australia	St. Gallen, Switzerland
		[ (Report)]		Stadium: AFG Arena Attendance: 14,660 Referee: Thomas Einwaller

Poland  v  Australia

7 September 2010	Poland	1 – 2	Australia	Kraków, Poland
	Lewandowski  18'	[ (Report)]	13' Holman  26' (pen.) Wilkshire	Stadium: Stadion Miejski in Kraków Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Ivan Bebek

Australia  v  Paraguay

9 October 2010	Australia	1 – 0	Paraguay	Sydney, Australia
	Carney  53'	[ (Report)]		Stadium: Sydney Football Stadium Attendance: 25,210 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

Egypt  v  Australia

17 November 2010	Egypt	3 – 0	Australia	Cairo, Egypt
	El-Zaher  28' Gedo  59' Zidan  90' (pen.)	[ (Report)]		Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Referee: Anton Genov

World Cup

Germany  v  Australia

13 June 2010 Group stage	Germany	4 – 0	Australia	Durban, South Africa
20:30 UTC+02:00	Podolski  8' Klose  26' Müller  67' Cacau  70'	Report	Cahill  56'	Stadium: Moses Mabhida Stadium Attendance: 62,660 Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez

Ghana  v  Australia

19 June 2010 Group stage	Ghana	1 – 1	Australia	Rustenburg, South Africa
16:00 UTC+02:00	Gyan  25' (pen.)	Report	11' Holman	Stadium: Royal Bafokeng Stadium Attendance: 34,812 Referee: Roberto Rosetti

Australia  v  Serbia

23 June 2010 Group stage	Australia	2 – 1	Serbia	Nelspruit, South Africa
20:30 UTC+02:00	Cahill  69' Holman  73'	Report	84' Pantelić	Stadium: Mbombela Stadium Attendance: 37,836 Referee: Jorge Larrionda

Asian Cup qualification

Kuwait  v  Australia

6 January 2010 Group B	Kuwait	2 – 2	Australia	Kuwait City, Kuwait
17:30 UTC+03:00	Bandar  40' Nasser  44'	[ (Report)]	3' Wilkshire  5' Heffernan	Stadium: Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov

Australia  v  Indonesia

3 March 2010 Group stage	Australia	1 – 0	Indonesia	Brisbane, Australia
19:00 UTC+10:00	Milligan  42'	[ (Report)]		Stadium: Suncorp Stadium Attendance: 20,422 Referee: Kenji Ogiya

Goal scorers

Player	Goals
Brett Holman	4
Luke Wilkshire	2
Tim Cahill	2
Dean Heffernan	1
Mark Milligan	1
Dario Vidošić	1
Joshua Kennedy	1
David Carney	1

References

• Australia: Fixtures and Results