Written by Thomas Esamie, Greg Stock, Jean-Michel Cazal and Frank Scicluna. For more details see credits.
| Australia were invited to play in the Kirin Cup in Japan, and played their first game against the host nation in Hiroshima. This was a friendly match. | ||||
| Played : May 22 1994 | Venue : Big Arch Stadium, Hiroshima, Japan | |||
| Japan Kazuya Maekawa, Koji Kondo, Masami Ihara, Yoshihiro Natsuka, Teruo Iwamoto, Masakiyo Maezono (Kenta Hasegawa 30), Tetsuji Hashiratani, Masaaki Sawanabori, Tetsuya Asano (Hajime Moriyasu 83), Yoshiaki Sato (Takafumi Ogura 46), Kazuyoshi Miura Goal : Asano 10' |
1 | - | 1 | Australia Robert Zabica (Zeljko Kalac 36), Tony Vidmar, Mehmet Durakovic, Milan Ivanovic, Alex Tobin, Ned Zelic, Aurelio Vidmar, Paul Wade (c), Carl Veart, Robbie Slater, Jason van Blerk Goal : A Vidmar 67' |
| Crowd : 27350 Referee : Pirom Un-Prasert (Thailand) Coach : Eddie Thomson (Australia), Roberto Falcao (Japan) | ||||
| Match Report by Thomas Esamie | ||||
| Australia's second game in the Kirin Cup was against the French national side in Kobe. Kalac saved a penalty from Papin but was caught by a looping header from Cantona. This was a friendly match. | ||||
| Played : May 26 1994 | Venue : Universade Memorial Stadium, Kobe, Japan | |||
| France Fabien Barthez, Jocelyn Angloma, Emmanuel Petit, Laurent Blanc, Eric Di Meco, Christian Karembeu, Jean-Michel Ferri, Christophe Dugarry (Corentin Martins 74'), Jean-Pierre Papin, David Ginola (Reynald Pedros 74'), Eric Cantona Goal : Cantona 43' |
1 | - | 0 | Australia Zeljko Kalac, Tony Vidmar (Jason Polak 71'), Mehmet Durakovic, Milan Ivanovic, Alex Tobin, Ned Zelic, Aurelio Vidmar, Paul Wade (c) (John Markovski 83'), Carl Veart, Robbie Slater, Jason van Blerk |
| Coach : Eddie Thomson (Australia),
Aime Jacquet Crowd : 16743 Referee : Masayoshi Okada (Japan) | ||||
| Match Report by Thomas Esamie | ||||
| The South African national side toured Australia in June 1994 and played two games against the Socceroos. The first match was played in Adelaide and Australia again suffered an injury to their goalkeeper (as did Zabica against Japan) this time to a broken collarbone. This was a friendly match. | ||||
| Played : June 8 1994 | Venue : Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia | |||
| Australia Zeljko Kalac (Mark Schwarzer 76'), Tony Vidmar, Mehmet Durakovic, Milan Ivanovic, Alex Tobin, Paul Okon, Aurelio Vidmar, Paul Wade (c), Mark Viduka, Damian Mori (John Markovski 76'), Stan Lazaridis Goal : A Vidmar 11' |
1 | - | 0 | South Africa Steve Crowley, Sizwe Motaung, Steve Khomphela, Andrew Tucker, Gardiner Searle, Mark Fish, Neil Tovey, Eric Tinkler (Eric Ramasike 85'), John Moshoeu, Philomon Masinga, Brendon Augustine (Marks Maponyani 68') |
| Crowd : 10203 Referee : Gerry Connolly Linesmen : Michael Parry, Steve Vatkovic Coach : Eddie Thomson (Australia), Clive Barker (South Africa) | ||||
| Match Report by Thomas Esamie | ||||
| The second match was played in Sydney. This was a friendly match. | ||||
| Played : June 12 1994 | Venue : Sydney Football Stadium, Australia | |||
| Australia Mark Schwarzer, Tony Vidmar, Mehmet Durakovic, Milan Ivanovic, Alex Tobin, Jason Polak (Steve Horvat 75'), Aurelio Vidmar, Paul Wade (c), Mark Viduka, Damian Mori (John Markovski 60'), Stan Lazaridis Goal : Polak 38' |
1 | - | 0 | South Africa Steve Crowley, Sizwe Motaung, Steve Komphela, Andrew Tucker, Gardiner Searle (Eric Tinkler 46'), Neil Tovey, John Moshoeu, Theophilus 'Doctor' Khumalo, Mark Fish, Daniel Mudau (Grant Young 65'), Philemon Masinga |
| Crowd : 17769 Referee : Richard Lorenc Linesmen : Gordon Dunster, John Bowdler Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia), Clive Barker (South Africa) | ||||
| The Socceroos travelled to Japan in September to play a friendly match there. On the way the played a friendly game against the Kuwait national team at the unlikely venue of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. This was a friendly match. | ||||
| Played : September 24 1994 | Venue : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | |||
| Kuwait (Lineup unavailable) |
0 | - | 0 | Australia Zeljko Kalac, Tony Vidmar (Kevin Muscat 67'), Mehmet Durakovic, Milan Ivanovic, Alex Tobin, Milan Blagojevic (Ross Aloisi 57'), John Markovski (Gabriel Mendez 60'), Paul Wade (c), Damian Mori (Warren Spink 70'), Alistair Edwards, Stan Lazaridis |
| Coach : Eddie Thomson (Australia) | ||||
| Australia played a one off friendly against Japan in Tokyo. This was a friendly match. | ||||
| Played : September 29 1994 | Venue : National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Japan Shinkichi Kikuchi, Yoshiro Moriyama (Akira Narahashi 74), Masami Ihara, Yoshihiro Natsuka, Masahiro Endo (Naoto Otake 81), Takahiro Yamada, (Tsuyoshi Kitazawa 73), Tetsuji Hashiratani, Masaaki Sawanabori, Teruo Iwamoto, Masakiyo Maezono, Nobuhiro Takeda |
0 | - | 0 | Australia Zeljko Kalac, Tony Vidmar, Mehmet Durakovic, Milan Ivanovic, Alex Tobin, Ross Aloisi, John Markovski (Warren Spink 74'), Paul Wade (c), Damian Mori (Gabriel Mendez 83'), Alistair Edwards, Stan Lazaridis |
| Coach : Eddie Thomson (Australia),
Roberto Falcao (Japan) Crowd : 44253 (double header with womens international) | ||||