List of Australian national soccer team captains

The following is a list of captains of the Australia national soccer team.

The first Australia captain was Alex Gibb: he captained Australia in the first ever international match, against New Zealand on 17 June 1922. He went on to captain Australia on six further occasion, all against New Zealand during 1922 and 1923. Gibb also captained Australia in their first international on home soil, 9 June 1923, and was the first international captain to win a match. Lucas Neill has the record together with Peter Wilson for most captaincies of Australia, with 61.

This list contains only players who have started full international matches as captain.

Bold denotes the incumbent captain.

Updated 18 November 2015 (v Bangladesh)

#	Name	First captaincy	Last captaincy	Caps as captain
1	Alex Gibb	17 June 1922	30 June 1923	6
2	Judy Masters	7 June 1924	26 July 1924	5
3	William Maunder	28 June 1924	28 June 1924	1
4	George Smith	5 June 1933	24 July 1933	3
5	Alec Cameron	4 July 1936	18 July 1936	3
6	Bill Coolahan	3 September 1938	1 October 1938	3
7	Jack Evans	10 September 1938	10 September 1938	1
8	Jimmy Osborne	24 September 1938	24 September 1938	1
9	Alec Heaney	10 May 1947	7 June 1947	2
10	Reg Date	24 May 1947	14 June 1947	3
11	Cec Drummond	14 August 1948	11 September 1948	4
12	Bob Lawrie	14 June 1950	23 July 1950	6
13	Tom Jack	14 August 1954	10 September 1955	2
14	Kevin O'Neill	28 August 1954	1 October 1955	3
15	Joe Marston	3 September 1955		4
16	Bob Bignall	24 September 1955	23 August 1958	4
17	Les Scheinflug	21 November 1965	8 December 1965	3
18	Pat Hughes	26 November 1965	4 June 1967	7
19	Johnny Warren	5 November 1967	1 December 1970	24
20	Stan Ackerley	31 March 1968	23 November 1969	3
21	Peter Wilson	11 November 1971	13 June 1979	61
22	Jimmy Rooney	24 October 1976	31 May 1980	9
23	Gary Marocchi	11 June 1978	14 June 1978	2
24	Murray Barnes	18 June 1978	14 August 1981	9
25	Eddie Krncevic	26 February 1980	26 February 1980	1
26	Tony Henderson	11 June 1980	2 December 1980	5
27	Peter Raskopoulos	30 August 1981	6 September 1981	2
28	John Kosmina	6 October 1982	9 March 1988	25
29	David Ratcliffe	23 October 1985	23 October 1985	1
30	Joe Watson	10 August 1986	10 August 1986	1
31	Charlie Yankos	25 August 1986	16 April 1989	30
32	Alan Davidson	12 October 1988	12 October 1988	1
33	Paul Wade	25 August 1990	1 November 1996	46
34	Graham Arnold	6 June 1993	23 March 1996	5
35	Alex Tobin	11 February 1995	6 November 1998	30
36	Frank Farina	18 June 1995	18 June 1995	1
37	Aurelio Vidmar	21 June 1995	28 February 2001	7
38	Paul Okon	9 October 1996		24
39	Milan Ivanović	15 February 1998	15 February 1998	1
40	Craig Foster	15 February 2000	15 February 2000	1
41	Željko Kalac	4 October 2000	7 October 2000	2
42	Kevin Muscat	9 April 2001		5
43	Tony Vidmar	9 June 2001		6
44	Steve Horvat	15 August 2001		5
45	Mehmet Durakovic	12 July 2002	12 July 2002	1
46	Craig Moore	18 February 2004		13
47	Mark Schwarzer	21 May 2004		10
48	Josip Skoko	6 June 2004		3
49	Mark Viduka	3 August 2005		17
50	Lucas Neill	7 October 2006	19 November 2013	61
51	Vince Grella	14 November 2006	14 November 2006	1
52	Brett Emerton	6 February 2007	9 December 2012	5
53	Harry Kewell	22 March 2008		6
54	Jason Culina	3 March 2010	3 March 2010	1
55	Matt McKay	7 December 2012	28 July 2013	2
56	Mark Milligan	20 July 2013	8 October 2015	4
57	Mile Jedinak	5 March 2014	17 November 2015	19
58	Tim Cahill	26 May 2014	8 September 2015	3

References

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