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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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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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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.
Recent call-ups
The following players were called up to the squad within the last 12 months and still remain eligible for selection.
- Notes
- 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.
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Win Draw Loss Fixture
2024
23 August Friendly | Nigeria ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() | Bogotá, Colombia |
--:-- UTC−5 | Report | Stadium: Club Banco de la República |
31 August 2024 World Cup GS | Colombia ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() | Bogotá, Colombia |
18:00 UTC−5 | Report | Stadium: Estadio El Campín Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia) |
3 September 2024 World Cup GS | Mexico ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() | Bogotá, Colombia |
17:00 UTC−5 | Report | Stadium: Estadio El Campín |
6 September 2024 World Cup GS | Australia ![]() | 0–2 | ![]() | Bogotá, Colombia |
17:00 UTC−5 | Report |
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Stadium: Estadio El Campín Referee: Natalie Simon (United States) |
2025
19 February PacificAus Sports Four Nations Tournament | Australia ![]() | 9–0 | ![]() | Canberra |
15:00 UTC+11 |
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Report | Stadium: Viking Park |
22 February PacificAus Sports Four Nations Tournament | Australia ![]() | 12–0 | ![]() | Canberra |
18:30 UTC+11 | Report | Stadium: Viking Park |
25 February PacificAus Sports Four Nations Tournament | Australia ![]() | 5–2 | ![]() | Canberra |
18:30 UTC+11 | Report |
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Stadium: Deakin Stadium |
6 August AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers | Australia ![]() | 14–0 | ![]() | Dushanbe, Tajikistan |
22:00 UTC+5 | Report | Stadium: Pamir Stadium Referee: Dong Fangyu (China) |
8 August AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers | Palestine ![]() | 0–3 | ![]() | Dushanbe, Tajikistan |
19:00 UTC+5 | Report |
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Stadium: Pamir Stadium Referee: Haruna Kanematsu (Japan) |
10 August AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers | Australia ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() | Dushanbe, Tajikistan |
19:00 UTC+5 |
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Report | Stadium: Pamir Stadium Referee: Dong Fangyu (China) |
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Competitive record
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
OFC U-20 Women's qualifying tournament
AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup
AFF Women's Championship
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Honours
OFC Women's U-20 Qualifying Tournament
- Third place: 2006
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