Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup

Organising body	Football Australia
Founded	1988
Abolished	1988; 37 years ago (1988)
Region	Australia
Number of teams	4
Related competitions	Brazil Independence Cup
Last champions	Brazil

Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Australia
Dates	6–17 July 1988
Teams	4
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (1st title)
Runners-up	Australia
Third place	Argentina
Tournament statistics
Matches played	8
Goals scored	22 (2.75 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Charlie Yankos Frank Farina Hernán Díaz Romário Geovani Majed Abdullah (2 goals)

The 1988 Australian Bicentennial Gold Cup was a one-off association football tournament to celebrate the bincentennial of first settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788. It was contested by 1988 AFC Asian Cup winners Saudi Arabia, 1986 FIFA World Cup winners Argentina, world number one-ranked side Brazil and host nation Australia.^[1][2][3]

The tournament was particularly notable for Australian fans for a remarkable extreme-long range goal scored by Charlie Yankos in Australia's unexpected 4–1 win over then World Champions Argentina.^[4] Brazil were eventual winners, beating Australia 2–0 in the final.^[5] Argentina took out 3rd place beating Saudi Arabia 2–0 in the third place match.

• Argentina
• Australia
• Brazil
• Saudi Arabia

Teams played each other once in a round robin group stage. Each team was awarded 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. The top two teams from the group played in a final and the bottom two teams played in a 3rd place match.^[6]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	5	Advance to Final
2	Australia (H)	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	4
3	Argentina	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2	Advance to Third place play-off
4	Saudi Arabia	3	0	1	2	3	9	−6	1

6 July 1988

Argentina	2–2	Saudi Arabia
Díaz 27', 50' (pen.)	Report	Majed Abdullah 41' Díaz 61' (o.g.)

Football Park, Adelaide

Attendance: 9,664

Referee: Barry Harwood (Australia)

7 July 1988

Australia	0–1	Brazil
	Report	Romario 31'

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 11,214

Referee: Richard Lorenc (Australia)

9 July 1988

Australia	3–0	Saudi Arabia
Ollerenshaw 6' Farina 42', 81'	Report

Parramatta Stadium, Sydney

Attendance: 11,396

Referee: Bill Monteverde (Australia)

10 July 1988

Brazil	0–0	Argentina
	Report

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Referee: Donald Campbell (Australia)

13 July 1988

Brazil	4–1	Saudi Arabia
Geovani 27' (pen.), 50' Jorginho 28' Edmar 40'	Report	Majed Abdullah 30'

Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 3,200

Referee: Chris Bambridge (Australia)

14 July 1988

Australia	4–1	Argentina
Wade 2' Yankos 42', 67' (pen.) Bozinovski 80'	Report	Ruggeri 31'

Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney

Attendance: 18,985

Referee: Gary Power (Australia)

16 July 1988

Argentina	2–0	Saudi Arabia
Simeone 4' Dertycia 23'	Report

Bruce Stadium, Canberra

Attendance: 2,729

Referee: Gary Power (Australia)

17 July 1988

Australia	0–2	Brazil
	Report	Romario 56' Müller 67'

Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney

Attendance: 28,161

Referee: Donald Campbell (Australia)

Australia

Brazil

GK 1 Jeff Olver RB 2 Wally Savor CB 15 Charlie Yankos CB 21 Robbie Dunn LB 3 Graham Jennings RM 4 Paul Wade CM 12 Alan Davidson (c) CM 6 Frank Farina LM 19 Oscar Crino CF 17 Graham Arnold CF 10 Scott Ollerenshaw Substitutions: MF 5 Vlado Bozinovski FW 7 Robbie Slater Manager: Frank Arok

GK 1 Cláudio Taffarel RB 13 Jorginho CB 3 Aloisio CB 14 Ricardo Gomes LB 6 Nelsinho RM 8 Andrade CM 5 Valdo LM 10 Geovani RF 7 Müller CF 9 Edmar (c) LF 11 Romario Substitutions: DF 2 Winck Manager: Carlos Alberto Silva

Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup
Brazil First title

There were 22 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 2.75 goals per match.

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

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• Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup on the RSSSF