List of Australia international soccer players with over 50 caps

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Mark Schwarzer is Australia's most capped player.
This article is about male Australia national soccer team players with at least 50 appearances.
For a list of all national team players with a Wikipedia article, see the Australia international soccer players category. For the current men's national team squad, see current squad.

The Australia national soccer team represents Australia in international soccer (association football). It is fielded by Football Federation Australia (FFA), the governing body of soccer in Australia, and competes as a member of the Asian Football Confederation, having previously been a part of the Oceania Football Confederation.

Despite the first Australia international game taking place on 17 June 1922, the first player to reach 50 caps for the side was Peter Wilson, who played his 50th game against Israel on 3 November 1976. His final match, and 65th cap, was the 1–0 loss to New Zealand on 13 June 1979. Wilson's record stood for over a decade, until Paul Wade overtook his tally when he appeared for Australia against Tahiti on 20 September 1992. Wade eventually retired having amassed 84 caps, his last on 1 November 1996 also against Tahiti. Wade's record was soon broken by Alex Tobin on 2 October 1998, once again in a match against Tahiti. Tobin would only add two further appearances for Australia, the last of these coming in a friendly against United States on 6 November 1998.

Mark Schwarzer broke Tobin's record, his 88th cap coming in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup Final against Japan on 29 January 2011. Schwarzer went on to make a total of 109 appearances before retiring from international football in 2014, the last of these coming on 7 September 2013. He and Tim Cahill are the only Australian men to have made over 100 international appearances.


Players

Appearances and goals are composed of FIFA World Cup, FIFA Confederations Cup, Oceania Nations Cup, and AFC Asian Cup matches and each competition's required qualification matches, as well as numerous international friendly tournaments and matches. Players are listed by official cap number. Statistics correct as of 26 June 2018.

Key
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 Named to the national team in the past year
GK Goalkeeper
DF Defender
MF Midfielder
FW Forward
Bold Still playing competitive football


Australia national team football players with at least 50 appearances
Cap no. Name Position Caps Goals Date of debut Debut against Date of
last match		 Final match
against
191 Attila Abonyi FW 61 25 4 June 1967  Scotland 25 November 1977  Iran
216 Peter Wilson DF 65 3 4 November 1970  Iran 13 June 1979  New Zealand
223 Jimmy Rooney MF 57 3 11 November 1971  Israel 18 June 1980  Northern Ireland
259 John Kosmina FW 60 25 18 August 1976  Hong Kong 22 September 1988  Nigeria
292 Alan Davidson DF 51 2 9 February 1980  Czechoslovakia 6 February 1991  Czechoslovakia
334 Graham Arnold FW 54 19 23 October 1985  Chinese Taipei 29 November 1997  Iran
337 Paul Wade MF 84 10 3 August 1986  Czechoslovakia 1 November 1996  Tahiti
351 Alex Tobin DF 87 2 9 March 1988  Chinese Taipei 6 November 1998  United States
372 Milan Ivanović DF 59 0 30 January 1991  Czechoslovakia 15 February 1998  Japan
376 Tony Vidmar DF 76 3 6 February 1991  Czechoslovakia 7 October 2006  Paraguay
386 Zeljko Kalac GK 54 0 11 August 1992  Malaysia 7 October 2006  Paraguay
394 Stan Lazaridis MF 60 0 15 April 1993  Kuwait 7 October 2006  Paraguay
397 Mark Schwarzer GK 109 0 31 July 1993  Canada 7 September 2013  Brazil
407 Tony Popovic DF 58 8 8 February 1995  Colombia 7 October 2006  Paraguay
409 Craig Moore DF 52 3 21 June 1995  Ghana 19 June 2010  Ghana
415 Harry Kewell MF 56 17 23 April 1996  Chile 8 June 2012  Oman
421 Lucas Neill DF 96 1 9 October 1996  Saudi Arabia 19 November 2013  Costa Rica
428 John Aloisi FW 55 27 12 March 1997  Macedonia 6 February 2008  Qatar
429 Josip Skoko MF 51 9 12 March 1997  Macedonia 11 September 2007  Argentina
433 Brett Emerton MF 95 20 7 February 1998  Chile 9 December 2012  Chinese Taipei
439 Scott Chipperfield DF 68 12 25 September 1998  Fiji 23 June 2010  Serbia
456 Archie Thompson FW 54 28 28 February 2001  Colombia 8 September 2013  Brazil
461 Mark Bresciano MF 84 13 1 June 2001  France 17 January 2015  China PR
476 Tim Cahill§ FW 107 50 30 March 2004  South Africa – –
481 Luke Wilkshire DF 80 8 9 October 2004  Solomon Islands 26 May 2014  South Africa
483 Jason Culina MF 58 1 9 February 2005  South Africa 14 January 2011  South Korea
490 Brett Holman MF 63 9 22 February 2006  Bahrain 7 September 2013  Brazil
494 Mark Milligan§ MF 71 6 7 June 2006  Liechtenstein – –
498 Matt McKay MF 59 2 16 August 2006  Kuwait 27 May 2016  England
500 Carl Valeri MF 52 1 24 March 2007  China PR 8 September 2014  Saudi Arabia
509 Mile Jedinak§ MF 79 20 22 March 2008  Singapore 26 June 2018  Peru
542 Robbie Kruse§ FW 67 5 5 January 2011  United Arab Emirates – –
550 Matthew Leckie§ FW 56 8 14 November 2012  South Korea – –

References

  • Andrew Howe (12 October 2006). "The Australian Men's Football Team: Caps and Captains" (PDF). OzFootball. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  • Roberto Mamrud (8 July 2015). "Australia - Record International Players". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
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