Football Australia

Football Australia

AFC
Founded	1961; 63 years ago (1961) 2004[1] (current format)
Headquarters	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
FIFA affiliation	1963; 61 years ago (1963)
AFC affiliation	2006; 18 years ago (2006)
AFF affiliation	2013; 11 years ago (2013)
Chairman	Chris Nikou
Website	www.footballaustralia.com.au

Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia,^[1] headquartered in Sydney. Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only established in 1961 as the Australian Soccer Federation. It was later reconstituted in 2003 as the Australian Soccer Association before adopting the name of Football Federation Australia in 2005. In contemporary identification, a corporate decision was undertaken to institute that name to deliver a "more united football" in a deliberation from the current CEO, James Johnson. The name was changed to Football Australia in December 2020.

Football Australia oversees the men's, women's, youth, Paralympic, beach and futsal national teams in Australia, the national coaching programs and the state governing bodies for the sport. It sanctions professional, semi-professional and amateur soccer in Australia. Football Australia made the decision to leave the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), for which it was a founding member, and become a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on 1 January 2006 and ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) on 27 August 2013.^[2]