Football Australia

For the 2012 unofficial organisation, see Football Australia (defunct sporting federation).

Football Australia
AFC
Founded
  • 1961; 63 years ago (1961)
  • 2004[1] (current format)
HeadquartersSydney, New South Wales, Australia
FIFA affiliation1956-1960 and from 1963; 61 years ago (1963)
AFC affiliation2006; 18 years ago (2006)
AFF affiliation2013; 11 years ago (2013)
ChairmanAnter Isaac
Websitewww.footballaustralia.com.au Edit this at Wikidata

Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia,[1] headquartered in Sydney. Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only established in 1961 as the Australian Soccer Federation. It was later reconstituted in 2003 as the Australian Soccer Association before adopting the name of Football Federation Australia in 2005. In contemporary identification, a corporate decision was undertaken to institute that name to deliver a "more united football" in a deliberation from the current CEO, James Johnson. The name was changed to Football Australia in December 2020.

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. It sanctions professional, semi-professional and amateur soccer in Australia. Football Australia made the decision to leave the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), for which it was a founding member, and become a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on 1 January 2006 and ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) on 27 August 2013.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Who We Are". Football Australia. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ASEAN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).