Matildas and the World Cup live on SBS

It will be great to see Canberrans Sally Shipard, Caitlin Munoz, Lydia Williams and hopefully Amy Chapman live on SBS during their World Cup campaign.

MATILDAS FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN LIVE ON SBS

In 2007 it is the women’s turn to compete on the world football stage for the title of World Champions and in September SBS will broadcast the 5th FIFA Women’s World Cup LIVE from China.

After placing second to China PR in the 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup, the Matildas secured themselves a place in the 2007 tournament and Australia’s fourth showing at the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

After a missing out on qualification for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Matildas will be looking to rise from the ashes in true Australian spirit and prove they are a force in international women’s football.

Australian audiences will be able to watch ALL Matilda’s matches on free-to-air television with SBS broadcasting the group matches against Ghana, Norway and Canada plus the semi finals and final, LIVE.


SBS will broadcast the Matilda’s first match of the tournament against Ghana on Wednesday 12 September LIVE in prime-time at 7:00pm AEST. Three nights later the Australian’s will battle Norway from 10:00pm on Saturday 15th as well as their final contest of the group round against Canada on Wednesday 19th, kick off at 10:00pm.


SBS Host, Andrew Orsatti and Chief Football Analyst, Craig Foster will present the FIFA Women’s World Cup with Les Murray hosting the tournament’s highlights as the Football Feature each Sunday during the competition (16, 23 and 30 September) from 4:00-5:00pm.