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Harry Kewell 56 caps · 17 goals · Leeds United, LiverpoolStuttgart, 79 minutes gone on 22 June 2006, and Aloisi flicked on Bresciano's cross for Kewell to drive in the 2-2 with Croatia that carried Australia into a World Cup knockout round for the first time. He was the first Australian to win the European Cup, on the pitch for Liverpool's 2005 final in Istanbul, and added the 2006 FA Cup, PFA Young Player of the Year, and a Leeds semi-final run in the 2001 Champions League.
CAM2001–06
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Tim Cahill 108 caps · 50 goals · Millwall, Everton · Hall of Fame 2021Australia had never scored at a World Cup until 12 June 2006, when he forced one in against Japan with six minutes left, struck a second four minutes later and turned a 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 win. The 2015 Asian Cup came at home, and he finished as Australia's record scorer with 50 goals in 108 caps, five at World Cups, plus 56 Premier League goals for Everton and a 2004 FA Cup final with Millwall.
CM2004–15
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Mark Viduka 43 caps · 11 goals · GNK Dinamo Zagreb, Leeds UnitedLiverpool led 2-0 at Elland Road on 4 November 2000 before he scored on 24 minutes, again after the break, then twice inside two minutes on 73 and 75 to finish it 4-3. He captained Australia at the 2006 World Cup, won three Croatian titles at Dinamo Zagreb, took the Scottish League Cup and was Scotland's Footballer of the Year in 1999-2000, reached the 2006 UEFA Cup final with Middlesbrough and was Oceania Footballer of the Year in 2000.
ST1999–2006
Mark Schwarzer 109 caps · Marconi Stallions, Middlesbrough · Hall of Fame 2009On 16 November 2005 at Telstra Stadium, with Australia's 32-year wait for a World Cup on the line, he saved two Uruguayan penalties in the shootout and John Aloisi buried the last kick. He played 109 times for Australia across two World Cups, won the 2004 League Cup that remains Middlesbrough's only major trophy, reached the 2010 Europa League final with Fulham and made 514 Premier League appearances, the first player from outside Britain and Ireland past 500.
GK2004–10
Mile Jedinak 79 caps · Sydney United, Crystal PalaceEverything Australia needed in the Honduras second leg on 15 November 2017 came off his boot: a free kick that clipped the wall on 54 minutes and two penalties for a 3-1 win and a fourth straight World Cup. He captained Australia to the 2015 Asian Cup, scored 20 goals in 79 caps, two of them at World Cups, led Crystal Palace up through the 2013 playoff final and went up again with Aston Villa in 2019.
CDM2013–19
Lucas Neill 96 caps · Millwall, Blackburn RoversIn the last seconds against Italy at Kaiserslautern on 26 June 2006, Neill slid across in front of Fabio Grosso, Grosso went over the top of him, and Totti converted the penalty that put Australia out. He captained his country a record 61 times in 96 caps, led the side at the 2010 World Cup and to the 2011 Asian Cup final, and was part of the Blackburn squad that won the League Cup in 2002.
CB2002–11
Mark Bresciano 84 caps · 13 goals · Empoli, Parma Calcio 1913Thirty-five minutes into the Uruguay playoff in Sydney on 16 November 2005, the ball dropped to Bresciano six yards out and he put it into the roof of the net, then stood dead still with his fists clenched while Telstra Stadium came apart. The 2015 Asian Cup came a decade later, along with the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, a runners-up medal from the 2011 final, and 84 caps with 13 goals, sixth on Australia's all-time list.
CM2004–15
Mathew Ryan 101 caps · Central Coast Mariners, Club Brugge K.V.Ryan was winning his hundredth cap in Jeddah on 10 June 2025 when he beat out Salem Al-Dawsari's penalty in the 84th minute, and Australia held on to win 2-1 and reach a sixth straight World Cup. He won the 2015 Asian Cup at home and its Golden Glove, the Belgian Cup with Club Brugge, the A-League double with Central Coast in 2013, and kept two clean sheets in Qatar, a Socceroos record at a World Cup.
GK2013–25
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Brett Emerton 95 caps · 20 goals · Feyenoord Rotterdam, Blackburn RoversThe Olyroos went into their home Olympics in Sydney in September 2000 with Emerton, 21, wearing the armband. The UEFA Cup came in 2002, a booking against Inter keeping him out of the final Feyenoord won in their own stadium, and he added OFC Nations Cups in 2000 and 2004, Oceania Footballer of the Year in 2002, eight seasons at Blackburn and 95 caps with 20 goals.
CM2000–04
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Vince Grella 46 caps · Empoli, Parma Calcio 1913Nineteen years old and a few months into Italian football, Grella made his Empoli debut at the Stadio delle Alpi in October 1998 with one job, stay close to Zinedine Zidane, and Juventus were held to 0-0. He held the middle of the pitch through Australia's run to the last 16 in 2006, captained Parma in Serie A, won the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, and made 46 appearances for his country before injury stopped him at 33.
CDM1998–2006
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Scott Chipperfield 68 caps · Wollongong Wolves, FC BaselThree goals down at half time in the 2000 NSL grand final, Chipperfield scored on 56 minutes, Wollongong drew level by the 89th and won the shootout, and he walked off Subiaco Oval with the Joe Marston Medal as best on ground. Basel then kept him for eleven years and 486 games, seven Swiss titles and six cups, and he started all four Australian matches at the 2006 World Cup.
LB2000–06
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Luke Wilkshire 80 caps · Bristol City, FC TwenteIn Brisbane in June 2012, Australia were a man down after Mark Milligan's second yellow and Japan had just scored, so Wilkshire drilled the 70th-minute penalty down the middle to save a 1-1 draw. Eighty caps carried him to the 2011 Asian Cup final and through two World Cups, in 2006 and 2010; he also won the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, spent six seasons at Dynamo Moscow, and took an A-League premiership and FFA Cup at Sydney FC.
RB2004–12
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Brett Holman 63 caps · 9 goals · Excelsior Rotterdam, N.E.C.His 25-yard drive against Serbia in Nelspruit on 23 June 2010 swerved late and made it 2-0 in the 73rd minute, four days after he had opened the scoring against Ghana from a rebound. The Eredivisie title with AZ Alkmaar in 2009 stands first among his honours, then the Dutch Super Cup that year, the 2011 Asian Cup final, a UAE league and cup double with Al Nasr in 2015, and Australia's Footballer of the Year in 2012.
RM2009–15
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Johnny Warren 42 caps · 7 goals · Bankstown Berries, St. George Saints Football Club · 2× Hall of Fame (2002–2002)When Australia played its first World Cup match in Hamburg on 14 June 1974, he started in midfield wearing number nine, and he spent the next three decades insisting it would not be the last. He won 42 caps and captained the side, took three New South Wales grand finals with St George Budapest, an MBE in 1974 and FIFA's Centennial Order of Merit in 2004, and gave his name to the medal the A-League's best player collects.
CAM1974–2004
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Archie Thompson 54 caps · 28 goals · Gippsland Falcons, Carlton S.C.Thirteen goals in one international, against American Samoa on 11 April 2001 in a 31-0 win, remains the world record, and he walked off the pitch not knowing his own count. He then scored five in the 2007 A-League grand final, a 6-0 win over Adelaide that brought the Joe Marston Medal, and finished with three championships at Melbourne Victory, the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, and club records of 97 goals in 262 games.
RM2001–07
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Trent Sainsbury Central Coast Mariners, PEC ZwolleInside three minutes of the 2015 Asian Cup semi-final in Newcastle, he headed Massimo Luongo's corner in at the far post to start a 2-0 win over the United Arab Emirates. Four days later he was man of the match in the final as Australia beat South Korea to win the Asian Cup, and made the team of the tournament; before that came an A-League double with Central Coast Mariners and Oceania Footballer of the Year in 2013.
CB2013–15
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David Zdrilic 31 caps · 20 goals · Sydney United, SSV Ulm 1846Eight of the goals in Australia's 31-0 win over American Samoa on 11 April 2001 were his, and that still only made him second best on the day behind Archie Thompson's thirteen. The tally is still the second highest by any player in an international since the First World War, and he left with the 2000 and 2004 OFC Nations Cups, third place at the 2001 Confederations Cup, Sydney FC's first A-League championship, and 20 goals in 30 caps.
LM2000–04
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