After going down to the US on the weekend<\/a>, Australia now faces Paraguay in the final match of the group stage.<\/p>\n Here is everything you need to know ahead of kick-off.<\/p>\n Who is Australia playing?<\/p>\n The Socceroos will be playing Paraguay.<\/p>\n In their first match of the World Cup, the Socceroos had a 2-0 win over T\u00fcrkiye, before losing to the United States in their second match, 0-2.<\/p>\n The Socceroos posing for photos with fans after their win over T\u00fcrkiye. (Reuters: Agustin Marcarian)<\/p>\n That leaves Australia second in the group, with the US on two wins, Australia and Paraguay on a win and a loss, and T\u00fcrkiye on two losses.<\/p>\n When is the match?<\/p>\n The game is today at 12pm (AEST).<\/p>\n Just to be clear, that’s midday, not midnight.<\/p>\n Here’s the start time for your time zone:<\/p>\n Australia’s Group D fixtures<\/p>\n Location: BC Place, Vancouver<\/p>\n Time: 2pm AEST<\/p>\n Final score: Australia 2-0 T\u00fcrkiye<\/p>\n Goals: Nestory Irankunda 27′, Connor Metcalfe 75′<\/p>\n Nestory Irankunda drew first blood in Australia’s group stage match against T\u00fcrkiye with a goal in the 27th minute. (Reuters: Agustin Marcarian)<\/p>\n Location: Seattle Stadium<\/p>\n Time: 5am AEST<\/p>\n Final score: Australia 0-2 USA<\/p>\n Location: San Francisco Bay Area<\/p>\n Time: 12pm AEST<\/p>\n Where are they playing?<\/p>\n The Socceroos will be playing in the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium<\/a>, which is more commonly known as the home of NFL team the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n Live sites<\/p>\n If you want to make a day of it, you can watch the game from live sites in every capital city.<\/p>\n University of Canberra RefectoryTumbalong Park, SydneyCathy Freeman Park, Sydney Olympic Park, SydneyParramatta Square, SydneyBlacktown Football Park, SydneyCirillo Reserve, Middleton GrangeDyin Ngurra (Merrylands Civic Square), MerrylandsNorth Bondi Park (Ramsgate Avenue)Northbridge Piazza, PerthFederation Square, MelbourneAAMI Park, MelbourneMarvel Stadium, MelbourneBroadmeadows Town Hall car park, Broadmeadows, MelbourneWhat do the Socceroos need to do to make it to the knockouts?<\/p>\n ABC Sport’s Simon Smale has put together a comprehensive explainer here<\/a> that spells it all out.<\/p>\n In a nutshell, win or draw and the Socceroos make it through to the knockout stages.<\/p>\n Lose, and it all depends on other results still to be played, and how much they lose by.<\/p>\n In terms of who they would play next, your guess is as good as ours. Finish third and they’d play the winner of either Group E, Group I, or Group K. Finish second and they play the Group G runner-up, which is still wide open and could be any of the four teams in that group \u2014 Egypt, Iran, Belgium or New Zealand.<\/p>\n Is Paraguay any good?<\/p>\n They’re not bad, but they are the lowest-ranked team in the group. They are ranked 37th in the world, behind T\u00fcrkiye at 32, Australia at 26, while the US is at 14.<\/p>\n They’ll also be without star midfielder Miguel Almir\u00f3n,who was sent off in his last game for covering his mouth while talking to an opposition player. If that’s a bit confusing, read this article to understand why it happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n How can I tune in?<\/p>\n ABC Sport is live-blogging every World Cup game, and we have extensive coverage of all the tournament’s biggest storylines here<\/a>. This blog here is carrying the early Friday games<\/a>, before we’ll have a completely new one for the Socceroos game (while also keeping an eye on the other game in the group, which is a dead rubber).<\/p>\n You can watch all Socceroos matches live on SBS and SBS On Demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Socceroos continue their World Cup campaign today as they look to qualify for the knockout stages of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,7104,42150,123391,21418],"class_list":["post-760279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-paraguay","tag-socceroos","tag-what-time","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Socceroos](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782427572_259_e30c64e1b36ad32e264f26a52cf9abe1.jpeg\")
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