{"id":40245,"date":"2026-06-28T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/40245\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:58:08","slug":"socceroos-to-play-brazil-at-lang-park-in-first-home-game-after-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/40245\/","title":{"rendered":"Socceroos to play Brazil at Lang Park in first home game after World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queensland will host the Socceroos’ homecoming series against Brazil in September.<\/p>\n

The first of the two friendlies will be at Brisbane’s Lang Park on September 25, and the second at Townsville on September 29.<\/p>\n

Premier David Crisafulli said the state was eager to host the Socceroos’ first home games after the World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Traditionally these games after a World Cup happen in Sydney or Melbourne, and we’re making a push to be the events capital of the country and things like this make a really big difference,” he told ABC’s 612 program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is the second coup for the venue, after the state government announced the Wallabies and All Blacks would play a Bledisloe Cup Test at Lang Park on Anzac Day next year<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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World Cup fever has gripped Australia, with live sites going up around the country.\u00a0 (ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter)<\/p>\n

It will be the first Anzac Day match in the 123-year history between the teams. Lang Park will host the fixtures in 2027, 2029 and 2031.<\/p>\n

Mr Crisafulli said events like these helped build up the state’s reputation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I do feel we’re getting momentum,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think people are looking what they used to call north of the border and saying, ‘things are happening.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We’ve got challenges but we’ve also got big opportunities, and I see events [as] a big part of that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland will host the Socceroos’ homecoming series against Brazil in September. The first of the two friendlies will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3708,99,3014,29674,211,212,79,4721,261,7060],"class_list":["post-40245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-brazil","tag-brisbane","tag-football","tag-lang-park","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-soccer","tag-socceroos","tag-sport","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}