2006 FIFA WORLD CUP GERMANY PAGES

Australia's national men's football team, the Qantas Socceroos, return to the FIFA World Cup in Germany 2006 after a 32 year absence. Representing Oceania for the last time, the Socceroos defeated the Solomon Islands over two legs to win the Oceania Confederation place but had to defeat the 5th placed South American team - Uruguay - to qualify. They did this with a 0-1 loss in Montevideo and a 1-0 win in Sydney on November 16 last year. The resulting penalty shoot out, won with the famous goal by John Aloisi, reverberated across the world. Now the 23 Aussies take on the tough opponents of Group F.

• World Cup - Group F - defeated Japan 3-1 : 12 June 2006 - Kaiserslautern
  
• World Cup - Group F - lost to Brasil 0-2 : 19 June 2006 - Munich
  
• World Cup - Group F - drew with Croatia 2-2 : 23 June 2006 - Stuttgart
  Australia qualified for the second round, as runners-up, to play Italy on 27 June 2006.
  
• World Cup - Second Round (of 16) - lost to Italy 0-1 : 27 June 2006 - Kaiserslautern (SBS 12:30am)