- Mark Viduka
Mark Anthony Viduka (born October 9, 1975 in Melbourne) is an Australian striker of Croatian and Ukrainian descent, who has signed for Newcastle United in the English Premier League and also plays for the Australian national team. He is known for his strong physical presence and hold-up play. Viduka and his wife, Ivana, have two sons; Joseph, nicknamed 'Joey' (born 2002), and Lucas (born September 2006)
- Mark Bosnich
Mark Bosnich (born 13 January, 1972 in Fairfield, New South Wales), is widely regarded as one of Australia's best football (soccer) goalkeepers, representing his country on many occasions and playing for English Premier League clubs Aston Villa, Manchester United, and Chelsea.
- Stan Lazaridis
Stanley "Stan" Lazaridis (born August 16, 1972 in Perth, Australia), is an Australian football (soccer) player of Pontic-Greek descent.He plays as a left-sider though is equally at home on the wing in a deeper-lying midfield role or even at left-back. He currently plays for his home-town club, Perth Glory. His reputation as a young left-footed teenager began with Olympic Kingsway where, despite his age, he intimidated many a defender with his extraordinary change of pace.
- Tim Cahill
Timothy Joel "Tim" Cahill (born December 6, 1979 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as an attacking central midfielder for the Australian national team and Everton Football Club. He is best known internationally for scoring the first goal by an Australian at a FIFA World Cup. In 2007 he also became the first Australian player to score at an Asian Cup.
- Josip Skoko
Josip Skoko (born December 10 1975 in Mount Gambier, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Croatian descent who plays for Wigan Athletic in the Premier League. He is an Australian international and made his debut for Australia against Macedonia in 1997. Skoko has been a main-stay of the "Socceroos" side since his debut, participating in two World Cup qualifying campaigns.
- Lucas Neill
Lucas Edward Neill (born March 9, 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for West Ham United, and most often plays at right-back or centre-back. He is a regular member of the Australian national team and was a member of the Australian squad which competed in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
- Robbie Slater
Robert Slater (born November 22, 1964 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England) is a former Australian football (soccer) player. He is more commonly known as Robbie Slater. He has 44 caps for the Australian national team, including in the 1997 World Cup qualifier against Iran. His final appearance for Australia was against Saudi Arabia in the 1997 Confederations Cup. He is a member of the Football Federation Australia Football Hall of Fame.
- Mark Schwarzer
Mark Schwarzer (born October 6, 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian football (soccer) player. Schwarzer is an Australian international goalkeeper, who currently plays for English Premiership football team Middlesbrough. He is of German descent, his parents Hans-Joachim and Doris having emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. He speaks English, Spanish and German.
- Luke Wilkshire
Luke Wilkshire (born October 2, 1981 in Wollongong, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for FC Twente in the Dutch Eredivisie and is a regular for the Australian National Team. Wilkshire has also represented Australia at youth level earlier in his career, playing in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship in Argentina, and in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
- Mile Sterjovski
Mile Sterjovski (born on May 27, 1979 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Ethnic Macedonian origin, who currently plays for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League and the Australian national team. He was a member of the Australian national team at the under 20 1999 World Youth Cup finals in Nigeria and also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- Brett Emerton
Brett Michael Emerton (born February 22, 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a football (soccer) player who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers in England. He is usually a wide midfielder but has been known to play in central positions or at full back. Emerton started his career with the Olympic Sharks (now Sydney Olympic) in Sydney in August 1996, making 93 appearances and scoring 14 goals.
- Harry Kewell
Harry Kewell (born September 22,1978 in Smithfield, Sydney), is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Liverpool F.C. in the English Premier League. An exceptional dribbler on the wing also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder and as a second striker, he is often regarded within the media as "Australia's finest football export", despite his career being blighted with injury.
- John Aloisi
John Aloisi is an Australian football (soccer) striker who currently plays for Deportivo Alavés in the Spanish Segunda División and for his national team. John is the younger brother of Wellington Phoenix midfielder Ross Aloisi.
- Bobby Despotovski
Slobodan "Bobby" Despotovski (born July 14 1971 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Serbian origin. He was one of the most successful strikers in the now defunct Australian National Soccer League. Despotovski was with the Western Australian team Perth Glory for 10 years and is now the coach of Inglewood United. Despotovski holds both the game and goal scoring record for Perth Glory.
- Mark Milligan
Mark Milligan (born August 4, 1985 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Australian A-League club Sydney FC. He is a utility defender, originally known as a Right-Back, but more recently playing in both Central Defence and Central Midfield.
- Mark Bresciano
Mark (Marco) Bresciano is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder, who currently plays for Palermo in Italy's Serie A.
- Johnny Warren
John Warren MBE OAM (known as Johnny Warren) (May 17 1943 in Sydney, Australia - November 6 2004 in Sydney) was a football (soccer) player, coach, administrator, writer, promoter and legend of the game in Australia. He is a member of the Football Federation Australia - Football Hall of Fame. The Johnny Warren Medal, awarded to the Australian national league's player of the year, was named in his honour.
- Clint Bolton
Clint Bolton (born August 22, 1975 in Bundaberg, Queensland) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays for Sydney FC in the Australian A-League. He was one of the most experienced goalkeepers in the history of the National Soccer League, which preceded the A-League. He played over 300 games for Brisbane Strikers, Sydney Olympic FC and Parramatta Power.
- Sasho Petrovski
Sasho Petrovski (born March 5, 1975) is an Australian football (soccer) player with Macedonian ancestry. He is a striker who currently plays for the Central Coast Mariners in the Hyundai A-League. He has the honour for having scored the second hat trick in the A-League, one day after the first was scored. In the old National Soccer League, Petrovski played 94 games and scored 47 goals.
- Tony Vidmar
Tony Vidmar (born July 4, 1970 in Adelaide) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Slovenian-Italian origin, currently playing with the Central Coast Mariners in the Australian A-League. He was a member of the Australian national team, competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for his native country, and is currently Australia's third highest capped player. His brother Aurelio Vidmar was also an Australian football player.
- Hayden Foxe
Hayden Vernon Foxe (born June 23, 1977 in Sydney) is an Australian football (soccer) player currently playing for A-League club Perth Glory after being released from Leeds United. He has also been capped by the Australian national team, and was a member of the national squad at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Beginning his career at Sydney club Blacktown City he moved to Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam where he played from 1995-97.
- Damian Mori
Damian Mori (born July 30, 1970 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He has established a reputation as a pacy poaching goalscorer, which is remarkable for a player who started his career as a defender. He has made his mark on both the domestic and international fronts. He is currently playing for the Adelaide City in the South Australian Super League. Mori made his international debut against Solomon Islands on September 4, 1992.
- Alvin Ceccoli
Alvin Ceccoli (born August 5, 1974 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays as a left full-back for Avispa Fukuoka in the J. League. Alvin started his NSL career in Wollongong Wolves as a 21-year-old in 1995 and played 156 matches for the former NSL club, punctuated by a short stint in Greece with AEK Athens FC.
- Graham Arnold
Graham James Arnold (born August 3, 1963 in Sydney, New South Wales) is the current coach of the Australian national football (soccer) team. He was appointed to work as an assistant to Frank Farina in 2000. The two replaced Raul Blanco, who was the interim coach in charge after Terry Venables decided not to renew his contract with Soccer Australia after the failed World Cup campaign in 1997.
- John Filan
John Filan is an Australian football (soccer) player. He is currently available on a free transfer after been released by Wigan Athletic. He plans to sign for a club in his native Australia. He joined Wigan in December 2001 for £600,000 from Blackburn. He has a wealth of experience in the top-flight from his time with Rovers and with Coventry (from 1995-1997) that has proved to be priceless for the Latics.
- Travis Dodd
Travis Dodd is an Indigenous Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a right midfielder for Adelaide United in the newly-formed Hyundai A-League. He played junior soccer at Elizabeth before joining the South Australian Sports Institute in 1996. He was Adelaide City’s fourth youngest National Soccer League (NSL) player of all time (16 years 281 days), and the fifth player in NSL history to score a hat-trick after coming on as a substitute (2003, …
- Ante Milicic
Ante Milicic (born April 4, 1974 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club Queensland Roar. He is of Croatian origin. He played for a variety of sides in two stints in the National Soccer League. The first stint was played entirely for Sydney United, for whom he played as a junior, and which culminated in playing in their runner-up 1996/97 side.
- David Carney
David Carney (born November 30, 1983 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays as a right midfielder for Sydney FC in the Hyundai A-League. In 2006 Carney was an integral part of Sydney FC's inaugural A-League championship winning side, attracting the attention of clubs in Germany and Romania. Before joining the club, Carney played for Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical.
- Craig Foster
Craig Andrew Foster (born April 15, 1969) is a former Australian football (soccer) player. He currently is commentator of the sport for SBS in Australia and is currently a coach for Nerds FC.
- Ahmad Elrich
Ahmad Elrich (born May 30, 1981 in Sydney) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder who currently plays for Fulham F.C. in the English Premiership and for the Australian national team. He is of Lebanese descent and is the older brother of Newcastle Jet Tarek Elrich. Elrich signed a 3 year deal with Fulham in the Summer of 2005 from K-League club Busan I'cons. He has also previously played for Parramatta Power. He was loaned out to F.C. Lyn Oslo from April to May 2006.
- Alex Brosque
Alex Brosque (born October 12, 1983 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Uruguayan descent who currently plays for Sydney FC in the A-League competition.
- Jade North
Jade North (born January 7, 1982 in Taree, New South Wales, Australia) is an Indigenous Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a right full back for the Australian A-League club Newcastle United Jets. He is also a member of the Australian national football team. North's breakthrough came when he played every game of Australia's runner's up side at the FIFA U-17 World Championship 1999 where his country lost the final to Brazil on penalties.
- Kevin Muscat
Kevin Vincent Muscat (born 7 August 1973 in Crawley, England) is an Australian soccer player, who currently plays for, and is captain of, Melbourne Victory in the Australian Hyundai A-League. He is of Maltese descent. He is well known for his overtly aggressive and physical style of play.
- Jason Čulina
Jason Čulina is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie and for the Australian national team. Čulina is the youngest son of renowned Australian coach Branko Čulina and his family is of Croatian descent. Previous clubs he played for included Sydney United, Sydney Olympic, Ajax Amsterdam and De Graafschap.
- Danny Tiatto
Danny Tiatto (born May 22, 1973 in Werribee, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian professional football (soccer) who formerly played for Leicester City. He has signed a contract for the 2007/2008 Hyundai A-League, to play for the Queensland Roar. Tiatto won 25 caps for the Australian national team (scoring 1 goal) before his retirement from international football in October 2005. Danny also represented Australia at under 23 level when he played at the 1996 Olympic Games.
- Alex Tobin
Alex Tobin (born November 3, 1965) is an Australian football (soccer) player, the most capped player for its national team with 87 appearances including many as captain of the side. He never played away from Australia and played most of his club career as a defender with Adelaide City FC in the National Soccer League, Tobin was dumped by Adelaide City in 2000 after 16 years with the club, …
- Max Vieri
Massimiliano "Max" Vieri (born September 1, 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian-Italian football (soccer) player. He is a striker, and currently plays for Novara Calcio of Italian Serie C1. He is the son of player Roberto Vieri and brother of Italian star Christian Vieri, and made his international debut against Turkey for Australia in a friendly match in 2004.
- Simon Colosimo
Simon Colosimo (born on January 8, 1979 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian football (soccer) player. Colosimo is a cousin of Australian actor Vince Colosimo. He currently plays as a central midfielder for the Australian A-League club Perth Glory. Colosimo made his international debut for Australia in 1998 against Fiji at just 19 years of age.
- Ljubo Milicevic
Ljubo Milicevic (born 13 February, 1981 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Melbourne Victory in the Australian A-League. Milicevic is of Croatian descent. He began his professional career with Melbourne Knights in Australia playing one game before moving to Perth Glory in 1999, where he played a major role in getting the Western Australian side to its first ever NSL Grand Final in 2000.
- Craig Moore
Craig Andrew Moore (born December 12, 1975 in Sydney, New South Wales), is a defender from Australia, who plays for the Australia national football (soccer) team. Moore, a product of the Rangers youth system, became an important player in Rangers' defence up until 2004 (although he did spend most of the 1998/99 season at Crystal Palace, where he was also highly successful, despite the Eagles' relegation).