James Holland (soccer)

James Holland
Holland with Austria Wien in 2013
Personal information
Full name James Robert Holland[1]
Date of birth (1989-05-15) 15 May 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Position(s) Central midfielder
Youth career
2005–2006 NSWIS
2007 AIS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006 Central Coast Mariners 0 (0)
2007 AIS 24 (3)
2007–2009 Newcastle Jets 23 (3)
2009–2012 AZ 0 (0)
2011–2012Sparta Rotterdam (loan) 14 (2)
2012–2015 Austria Wien 105 (0)
2015–2016 MSV Duisburg 29 (0)
2016–2017 Adelaide United 13 (0)
2017 Liaoning Whowin 1 (0)
2017–2022 LASK 118 (8)
2022–2024 Austria Wien 35 (0)
International career
2007–2009 Australia U-20 25 (5)
2008–2012 Australia U-23 5 (0)
2008– Australia 17 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 May 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 February 2022

James Robert Holland (born 15 May 1989) is an Australian football player who most recently played as a midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.

Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Holland played youth football at the New South Wales Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Central Coast Mariners in 2006. He went on to play for the Australian Institute of Sport before spending two seasons with Newcastle Jets. He then moved to Europe, playing in the Netherlands, Germany and Austria, most notably for Austria Wien. In 2016, he returned to Australia to play for Adelaide United.

Holland debuted for the Australian national team in 2008. He has gone on to represent Australia over ten times, and was a member of the squad at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

  1. ^ "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil: List of Players: Australia" (PDF). FIFA. 14 July 2014. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2020.
  2. ^ "James Holland". socceroos.com.au. Football Federation Australia. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.