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Australia women's national under-20 soccer team

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The Australian women's national under-20 soccer team represents Australia in international women's under-20 soccer. The team is controlled by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Australia (FA), which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) since leaving the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in 2006. The team's official nickname is the Young Matildas.

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History

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The Australia women's national under-20 soccer team (later nicknamed Young Matildas) were established in the early 1990s.[1] Initially they were organised as an under-19 team,[2]:16 which played a three-match series against New Zealand U19 in Australia in September 1991.[3] Another squad U19 toured Netherlands in 1998.[4] As a member of Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) the Young Matildas participated in the 2002 OFC Women's Under 19 Qualifying Tournament, held in Tonga from 23 April to 3 May. After winning their group matches against Tonga (hosts) 0–16 and Cook Islands (0–15) they defeated Samoa (13–0) in the semi-final and New Zealand (0–6) in the final. With that victory Australia U19 qualified for the 2002 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship (predecessor to U-20 Women's World Cup).[2]:16 That tournament was held in Canada in August–September,[2]:16 and the Young Matildas finished fifth. This is the highest finishing place in a FIFA sanctioned world-wide competition of any Australian women's national soccer team until the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, when the senior Matildas reached fourth.[2]:16

Young Matildas became a U-20 team when FIFA changed the upper age limit for its top women's age-grade competition from 19 to 20 effective in 2006.

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Coaching staff

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Players

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Current squad

The following 23 players were called up for the AFC U-20 Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers on 6–10 August 2025.[6][7]

Caps and goals are current as of 10 August 2025 after the match against Chinese Taipei.

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Recent call-ups

The following players were called up to the squad within the last 12 months and still remain eligible for selection.

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  • PRE Preliminary squad / on stand-by.
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Recent results and fixtures

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The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixture

2024

23 August Friendly Nigeria  2–1  Australia Bogotá, Colombia
--:-- UTC−5 Report Stadium: Club Banco de la República
31 August 2024 World Cup GS Colombia  2–0  Australia Bogotá, Colombia
18:00 UTC−5
Report Stadium: Estadio El Campín
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)
6 September 2024 World Cup GS Australia  0–2  Cameroon Bogotá, Colombia
17:00 UTC−5 Report
  • Toko Njoya 45+4'
  • Eto 61'
Stadium: Estadio El Campín
Referee: Natalie Simon (United States)

2025

19 February PacificAus Sports Four Nations Tournament Australia  9–0  Vanuatu Canberra
15:00 UTC+11
  • Saveska 13', 17'
  • Kuilamu 30'
  • Allan 34'
  • Caspers 44'
  • Breier 50'
  • Lobo 63'
  • Stanic-Floody 72', 90+4'
Report Stadium: Viking Park
22 February PacificAus Sports Four Nations Tournament Australia  12–0  Solomon Islands Canberra
18:30 UTC+11
  • McMahon 9', 23'
  • Trimis 27', 48', 65'
  • Collins 40', 51', 69'
  • Tallon-Henniker 54', 90+1'
  • Lobo 73'
  • Saveska 89'
Report Stadium: Viking Park
25 February PacificAus Sports Four Nations Tournament Australia  5–2  Thailand Canberra
18:30 UTC+11
  • Saveska 10', 27' (pen.), 77'
  • ? 70' (o.g.)
  • Tallon-Henniker 90+4'
Report
  • Casteen 19', 34'
Stadium: Deakin Stadium
6 August AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers Australia  14–0  Tajikistan Dushanbe, Tajikistan
22:00 UTC+5
  • Halmarick 3', 7', 20', 42'
  • Breier 22'
  • Caspers 28'
  • Ochildieva 31' (o.g.)
  • Fuller 48'
  • Prakash 50' (pen.), 72'
  • Saveska 58', 82', 90+4'
  • Luchtmeijer 89'
Report Stadium: Pamir Stadium
Referee: Dong Fangyu (China)
8 August AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers Palestine  0–3  Australia Dushanbe, Tajikistan
19:00 UTC+5 Report
  • Trimis 8'
  • Luchtmeijer 68'
  • Lobo 80'
Stadium: Pamir Stadium
Referee: Haruna Kanematsu (Japan)
10 August AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers Australia  3–0  Chinese Taipei Dushanbe, Tajikistan
19:00 UTC+5
  • Lin Szu-ying 37' (o.g.)
  • Halmarick 64', 76'
Report Stadium: Pamir Stadium
Referee: Dong Fangyu (China)
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Competitive record

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

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OFC U-20 Women's qualifying tournament

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AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

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AFF Women's Championship

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Honours

OFC Women's U-20 Qualifying Tournament

AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup

2025 Pacific Women's Four Nations Tournament

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