Redefining the Game: Australia's Landmark Year in Football - A Look Inside CEO James Johnson's 2023 Report | Football Australia
From 20 July to 20 August, Australia hosted 32 of the world’s best women’s national football teams, with Spain eventually crowned World Champions.
The CommBank Matildas created history as the team recorded its best performance at a FIFA Women’s World Cup™, reaching the Semi-Finals against England. The CommBank Matildas’ performance also represented the best performance by any Australian senior National Team at a FIFA tournament, forever writing the CommBank Matildas into the annals of Australian football folklore, alongside the likes of the ’74, ’06 and ’22 Subway Socceroos.
Australia has a long and successful history of hosting global sporting events, and the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023™ further enhanced Australia’s reputation as an ideal candidate to host future global football tournaments.
The tournament itself welcomed millions of people to Australia and provided a timely boost to the domestic economy as Australia continues to respond successfully to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When building a vision for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023™, we believed that not only could Australia be a great host of global international tournaments, we also wanted to prove that people would visit to watch matches and stadiums would be full, or tune in from the largest broadcast markets throughout Asia, Europe and the United Kingdom.
Following the conclusion of the tournament, the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, hailed it as the best edition of any FIFA Women’s World Cup™ ever, surpassing all targets, with nearly two million people attending matches (compared with 1.1 million in 2019). Australia hosted a total of 35 matches, attracting 1,269,531 spectators at an
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