EMC 2026 | Report 011: NSW Sky 0–2 Victoria Blue Victoria Blue are through to the U16 grand final and they did it the same way they’ve done everything else this week: by defending with conviction and taking their chances when they came.

EMC 2026 | Report 011 is live.

Victoria Blue 2–0 NSW Sky: Sky had the ball, Victoria had the answers.

Match summary, observations & top performers

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Report 010 is live: NSW Sky 1–0 NSW Navy Day 4 of the CommBank Emerging Matildas Championships delivered the quarter-finals, and the first game out of the blocks was a high-quality all-FNSW contest that lived up to the occasion.

Report 010 live: NSW Sky 1–0 NSW Navy, U16s QF.

Full match breakdown + top performers.

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EMC 2026 Report 009: South Australia 0–1 Queensland Maroon Day 3 of the CommBank Emerging Matildas Championships threw up a tight Group A contest between South Australia and Queensland Maroon, one where the scoreline told only part of the story.

EMC 2026 Report 009 is live.

SA 0–1 QLD Maroon: Queensland controlled it, but there were performances on both sides worth noting.

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EMC 2026 Report 008 - Western Australia 1–0 Northern NSW Day 2 of the CommBank Emerging Matildas Championships produced a tight Group B clash with genuine finals implications.

EMC 2026 Report 008 - WA 1-0 NNSW.

Tight Group B game, settled by a set piece. Four standout performers including a keeper who was the difference on the day.

Full report: bit.ly/4vxBWYg

EMC 2026 Report 007 is out - Victoria Blue 1–1 Capital Football, U16s Day 1.

Amy Sephora off the bench with the goal of the day. Four players flagged.

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Before the First Whistle: The Matildas Monitor Guide to EMC26 Matildas Monitor

The 2026 CommBank Emerging Matildas Championships start April 9 in Melbourne.

Before a ball is kicked, Matildas Monitor already has 309 players from 4 confirmed state squads in the database. 99 of them were there last year too.

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Where Are They Now? Checking in on the Stars of EMC 2025 Matildas Monitor

Australia fell to Japan in the Asian Cup final last night. The campaign is over, but the pipeline isn't.

Where are the stars of EMC 2025 now?

Nine months on - Tarrant, Jugovic, Pantazopoulos, Pearson & more. Full check-in 👇

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Emerging Matildas Championships 2026 is weeks away, and we've been tracking these players since last year.

'Where Are They Now? - EMC 2025 Class Revisited' drops Monday.

Finishing second hurts, but this was still a genuine tournament.

Six games, home crowds, a World Cup secured.

The next chapter starts soon.

Australia 0–1 Japan. Full time.

The Matildas finish as runners-up at their home Asian Cup. Japan take the title at Stadium Australia. 👏

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AFC Women's Asian Cup Final 🇦🇺🆚🇯🇵

Stadium Australia 8pm AEDT

Japan beat Australia in both 2014 and 2018 finals. Home soil.

Time for revenge.

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We'll be watching closely tomorrow night.

Next week on Substack we revisit the 2025 Emerging Matildas Championship squads. Where are those players now?

More on that soon. matildasmonitor.com

Come on Matildas. 💛💚

🔑 What decides the game

Japan's possession game will probe Australia's press.
Win the turnover battle in Japan's half means Australia can create.

Let Japan's triangles breathe behind the midfield line will result in a long night for the Matildas.

🇯🇵 Japans players to watch

Hinata Miyazawa (Man Utd): 2023 World Cup Golden Boot winner. Dangerous in tight spaces and relentless.

Yui Hasegawa (Man City): orchestrates Japan's build-up from deep. If she dictates tempo, Japan win.

These two are the engine and the knife.

🇦🇺 Matildas to watch

Sam Kerr: 4 goals in the tournament. Australia's most dangerous player and will be integral to any success.

Kyra Cooney-Cross: her press and work rate drove the semi win vs China. She has to back up again in a bigger game.

Both in the database 👉 matildasmonitor.com

Japan beat Australia 1-0 in both the 2014 and 2018 Asian Cup finals.

The Matildas' only title was 2010.

Japan are Asia's #1 ranked team and arrive having dismantled South Korea 4-1 in the semis.

This is the toughest final Australia could have faced. And they need to be at their best.

Tomorrow night. Stadium Australia. 8pm AEDT.

🇦🇺 Australia vs Japan 🇯🇵 the AFC Women's Asian Cup final.

Here's what decides it. 🧵

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Foord's opener was a finisher's goal, but the key detail was in the run. She read Fowler's cutback early, got in front of her defender, and gave herself the finish.

Don't watch the game. Anticipate it.

Foord's DB entry > www.matildasmonitor.com

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There she is. 🏅

Emily van Egmond. Cap 170. Australia's most capped player of all time.

90+3' off the bench. Still making history.

What a career. What a player. 💛💚

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Australia are through to the final 🏆

CHN 1–2 AUS

⚽ Foord 17' (Fowler)
⚽ Zhang 26' pen
⚽ Kerr 58' (Foord)

Kerr. Foord. Job done.

The Matildas face the winner of South Korea vs Japan in the final. Saturday 21 March, 8pm AEDT, Stadium Australia, Sydney.

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🧵 4/4: Australia have the quality to win this. But it won't be open. Expect a tight, tactical semi-final. The team that takes their chance wins. 9pm AEDT, Perth Stadium. 🟡🟢

Track the players involved in our database: matildasmonitor.com

🧵 3/4: The danger: Ellie Carpenter put it plainly "With Ante as their coach, I'm sure he's instilled the belief, the grit, and a Never-Say-Die attitude in China as well. They're a great team. They have great depth." Australia can't afford to switch off for a second.

🧵 2/4: Milicic's China are structured, physical and hard to break down. They topped Group B unbeaten, 7 goals, just 1 conceded before grinding past Chinese Taipei in extra time in the quarter-final. Disciplined defensive shape, quick transitions. He'll set up to frustrate and hit on the counter.

Tonight Australia face their former coach.

Ante Milicic coached the Matildas at the 2019 World Cup. Now he's standing in their way as China PR's head coach and he knows this team better than almost anyone.

What to expect from China PR tonight 🧵

Matildas through to the semi-final. 🇦🇺

Kennedy and Kerr with the goals. Arnold with 9 saves. A hard-fought 2-1 win and a World Cup ticket punched.

Full squad in the database: matildasmonitor.com

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All 26 players in the Matildas' Asian Cup squad are in the Matildas Monitor database.

792 Australian women's footballers tracked. 353 live on the public page.

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Winonah Heatley – Deep-Lying Control on Display for the Matildas In Australia’s recent friendly win over Argentina, Winonah Heatley was deployed in an unfamiliar central midfield role — and delivered a composed, tactically mature 90-minute performance.

Winonah Heatley has been one of the Matildas' key performers at the Asian Cup.

We scouted her back in June with a B+ rating. The read was right.

With the quarter-final vs North Korea on Friday night, here's everything you need to know about how she plays: bit.ly/4s7jnbp

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