Australia Tickets

Australia is one of the thirty two teams that have qualified for the FIFA World Cup to be held in 2014. Brazil will host this year's tournament, in twelve amazing stadiums located in twelve different cities. The Australian national soccer team, dubbed the Socceroos, is a member of the Football Federation of Australia and the sub–confederation AFF, made up of South–East Asian teams.

It is part of the Asian Football Confederation and has Ange Postecoglou as its head coach. Lucas Neill is the team's captain and Mark Schwarzer holdss the record for most international caps by an Australian player, with one hundred and nine. Australia tickets are already available for the team's many matches, including those that will be part of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Australia’s top scorer is Tim Cahill, who has scored thirty one goals so far. Australia's soccer team has been ranked in the top fifteen in the FIFA rankings and is in the top ten according to the Elo rankings, making it one of the most successful teams in the world.

The first international match Australia's soccer team played in was against New Zealand in 1922. Its biggest win so far was against the American Samoa national soccer team, which it defeated by a mind boggling 31–0 score line. This is the World Record for the biggest defeat suffered by any team in the world in international matches.

Since 1974, Australia has played in four different FIFA World Cups and has made it as far the sixteenth round of the tournament. Similarly, the team has played in two different Asian Cups since 2007 and emerged as the runners–up in 2011. Australia has also played six times in the OFC Nations Cup since 1980 and has won four Cups to date, the last two of which were won in 2000 and 2004. The team has also made three FIFA Confederations Cup appearances since 1997 and has emerged as the runners–up once. The team has also won the AFC National Team of the Year award, given to the best team in Asia by the continent's governing soccer body.

Since the national soccer team's founding in 1922, it has played against some of the best teams in the world, and defeated them. The Socceroos have a long standing rivalry with neighbors New Zealand and the rivalry is part of the greater sporting rivalry that these two countries share. They also have a fierce rivalry with Japan, after meeting them in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. If you want to catch the Soccerroos live in action at the World Cup, then purchase Australia tickets now and watch as the team takes on the world’s soccer elite on the biggest stage of them all, the World Cup.