- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Mark Bresciano
Mark (Marco) Bresciano is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder, who currently plays for Palermo in Italy's Serie A.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eddie Thomson
Eddie Thomson (February 25, 1947-February 21, 2003) was a football (soccer) player and coach. Born in Rosewell, Scotland, he played 162 games for Heart of Midlothian F.C. from 1966 to 1973, before moving to Aberdeen F.C. and playing a further 91 games with them. After a brief stint with the San Antonio Thunder of the NASL, he moved to Australia and Sydney City in 1977 for the inaugural National Soccer League season. He won two championships with this side as a player, …
- Joel Griffiths
Joel Griffiths (born August 21, 1979) is an Australian football (soccer) player. A right sided attacking midfielder, he currently plays for Newcastle United Jets in his native Australia. He made this transfer on July 31st 2006 for an undisclosed fee after a brief spell in England with Leeds United, having signed from Swiss club Neuchatel Xamax on January 17, 2006. He only managed two substitute appearances for Leeds, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Attila Abonyi
Attila Abonyi (born August 16, 1946) is a former football (soccer) player. Born in Hungary, he took up soccer after immigrating to Australia at age 10. Attila played started playing professional club football for Melbourne Hungaria between 1962 and 1968, St. George-Budapest between 1969 and 1976 and Sydney Croatia between 1977 and 1979.
- Scott Chipperfield
Scott Chipperfield (born December 30, 1975 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian football (soccer) fullback, who currently plays for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League wearing the number 11 shirt. He is a regular member of the Australian national team and previously played for the Wollongong Wolves in Australia, at which time he also worked as a bus driver.
- David Mitchell
David "Dave" Mitchell (born 1962 in Scotland) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He moved to Australia as a teenager. He began his professional career with Adelaide City in 1981, and made his Australia debut against Taiwan that same year. He made 44 appearances for the national team, scoring 13 goals. In a journeyman career, Mitchell played for clubs in England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Malaysia and Hong Kong, …
- Peter Wilson
Frederick Peter Wilson (born September 15, 1947 in Felling, England) is a former football (soccer) player. He was the captain of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany. His nickname is "Big Willie" and his position was sweeper. Often regarded as one of the toughest defenders in the modern era, Wilson was a dominating figure in the Australian team in the decade from 1970.
- Paul Okon
Paul Okon (born April 5, 1972 in Sydney) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who retired after playing with Australian side Newcastle United Jets. Okon grew up in the Sydney suburb of Bossley Park. He previously captained the Australian National Team and has represented Australia Olympic Football Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Okon's career began at Marconi Stallions in the old NSL in Australia.
- 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.
- Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
is a Japanese soccer player. He currently plays for Red Bull Salzburg but spent his career to date at Gamba Osaka in the J.League. As a centre back, he served as captain for Japan in the 2002 World Cup, after an injury to Morioka, who had begun the tournament as captain. He then continued to captain his country through the 2004 AFC Asian Cup and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Born in Osaka, Miyamoto played football for Ikuno High School and Doshisha University before turning professional.
- 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.
- 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.
- Essam Abd el Fatah
Essam Abd El Fatah (Arabic: عصام عبد الفتاح is an Egyptian football (soccer) referee. Abd El Fatah has been a referee since 2001; his first international game was between Morocco and Sierra Leone in 2003. He was the referee for the match between Australia and Japan in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. A controversial decision resulted in Japan's only goal, a decision which Australian media claimed that he later admitted was in error..
- Ufuk Talay
Ufuk Talay (born March 26, 1976 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Turkish descent who currently plays in the central midfield for Sydney FC in the A-League.
- Norman Conquest
Norman Conquest (born 1916) was an Australian football (soccer) player who played as a goalkeeper. Conquest played for a number of teams in New South Wales, including Abedare, Grace Bros and North Shore, and also represented both the New South Wales state team and the Australian national team. He is best known for being the Australian goalkeeper in a 1951 match between Australia and an English FA representative side at the Sydney Showground which Australia lost 17-0.
- Paul Wade
Paul Wade (born March 20, 1962 in Cheshire, England) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player, who is most famous for his long-term role as captain of the Socceroos, Australia's national football team.
- Gary Cole
Gary Cole is an Australian football (soccer) player, who played for the Australia national football team 40 times and scored 20 goals between 1975 and 1984. He is currently Football Operations Manager for A-League club Melbourne Victory FC.
- David Williams
David Williams is an Indigenous Australian football (soccer) player for Danish Superliga side Brøndby IF. He is a striker and has played for Australia at both U-17 and U-20 levels, and has been labelled as "one of the best prospects we have had in Australia since Harry Kewell."
- Ryan Griffiths
Ryan Griffiths (born on 21 August 1981 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays at Liaoning FC in China Super League. He joined Liaoning in March 2007 after a successful trial.He previously played for Rapid Bucharest,Northern Spirit and Newcastle United in the Australian NSL. His two twin brothers Joel and Adam are also professional footballers, who respectively plays for Newcastle United Jets and Brentford at present.
- Michael Thwaite
Michael Errol Thwaite is an Australian football (soccer) player from Cairns. He plays as a Defender for Polish team Wisła Kraków, whom he signed for on a Bosman transfer from FC Naţional Bucureşti in Romania's Divizia A. His career began at Sydney University in the New South Wales Winter Super League. He then spent two seasons playing for Marconi Stallions (2002-2004) in the now defunct NSL, before heading off to Romania.
- Alfio Basile
Alfio Rubén Basile, known as Coco, is an Argentine football (soccer) coach and former player. In September 2006, he became coach of the Argentina national football team, replacing José Pekerman.
- Mark Bridge
Mark Bridge (born November 7, 1985 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club Newcastle United Jets. He is currently a member of Australia U-23 national team. He was also called up to Australia senior squad for their Asian Cup qualifiers against Kuwait on August 16.
- Ange Postecoglou
Angelos Postecoglou (also Postekos) (born August 27, 1965) is a football (soccer) coach and former player. Postecoglou played 193 games from 1984 to 1993 for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League, where he was involved in their 1984 and 1990/91 titles, the latter as captain, before moving into coaching. He coached South Melbourne from 1996 until 2000, where he led South to consecutive NSL titles in 1997/98 and 1998/99, …
- Alaeddine Yahia
Alaeddine Yahia is a Tunisian football player who, as of 2006, is playing for french club Sedan. He has previously played for Stade Tunisien, Guingamp and Southampton. He was part of the Tunisian 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, finishing third in group C, behind group and gold medal winners Argentina and group runners-up Australia. On February 24, 2007 he played his first Ligue 1 match for Sedan against Rennes
- Brett Holman
Brett Holman (born March 27, 1984, in Bankstown) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a striker for the Dutch club NEC. He made his debut for Australia against Bahrain on February 22, 2006, in an Asian Cup qualifier. He scored his first international goal against China in a friendly on 24 March 2007. He previously played for Parramatta Power in Australia before moving to Dutch football club Feyenoord Rotterdam in 2002.
- Nick Ward
Nick Ward (born March 24, 1985 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as an attacking midfielder for League One side Brighton & Hove Albion, although he is on loan at the club from Q.P.R.. His efforts in the inaugural A-League season of 2005-06 resulted in him becoming the first player to win the A-League's Rising Star Award with Perth Glory, along with also winning the Perth Supporter's Player of the Year, …
- 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.
- 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, …