The team has overcome gaping inequalities in Australia’s game to find success, those in the sport say.
Just 50 years ago, Australia was so indifferent to its first national women's football team that only recently did it actually begin figuring out who was in it.
A green and gold sea of more than 80,000 cheering fans filled the Sydney stadium, while almost two million more were glued to their screens across the country. "The Matildas' success is definitely despite the structures and environments that exist here in Australia, not because of them," Samantha Lewis - one of Australia's top football journalists - told the BBC.Former Matilda Sarah Walsh, who is now the head of women's football at the national governing body, says the women's game has been suffering from a century of neglect.
But female participation has become the fastest growing area of the game - expected to spike even more thanks to the Women's World Cup - and Football Australia wants to achieve gender parity by 2027.
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