Alicia Ferguson

Ferguson played for Queensland Sting in the Women's National Soccer League, but the league folded in 2004. When the W-League started in 2008, Ferguson made a comeback with Brisbane Roar. She had spent a year out of football but said: "It's that plain and simple, I missed playing." She scored three goals in 10 appearances but missed the Roar's Grand Final victory after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in the semi-final win over Sydney FC. After relocating to England for work reasons, Ferguson made another playing comeback with Millwall Lionesses of the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division. She made her league debut in September 2012, assisting the first goal in a 2–0 home win over QPR.

National team coach Greg Brown brought 15-year-old Ferguson on the Matildas' tour of Europe in August 1997. She made her senior debut in the tour's second match; a 4–0 win over Hungary in Csákvár. In 1998 she accepted a residential scholarship on the Australian Institute of Sport Football Program, ahead of the following year's World Cup in the United States. At 16 she was the youngest amongst that year's inaugural intake of female players. She relocated from Brisbane to Canberra to take up her place. She was included in the squad for the 1998 OFC Women's Championship, which served as the qualifying tournament for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. She scored two goals in each of Australia's lopsided wins over American Samoa and Fiji. She was not in the team which beat rivals New Zealand 3–1 in the final to secure Australia's qualification. In a warm up match before the final tournament, against Canada in Toronto, Ferguson scored the Matildas' first goal in a 3–1 win. At the World Cup Ferguson did not feature in the first two matches, a 1–1 draw with Ghana and a 3–1 defeat by Sweden. She started the third match against China, but was sent off in the second minute, for a late, high tackle on Bai Jie. Ferguson later admitted that she had been daunted by the occasion. Twelve members of the Matildas controversially posed for a nude calendar in October 1999. At 17, Ferguson was the youngest participant. She remained happy with the final product and the original photograph was framed…

In 2013 Ferguson started working for television production company Sunset + Vine, who supplied the BBC's coverage of UEFA Women's Euro 2013 and BT Sport's FA WSL coverage. During her second spell in the national team Ferguson held jobs with both the Australian Cricket Academy and the Australian Institute of Sport.

Club

Queensland Sting Women's National Soccer League (4): 1996–97, 2000, 2002, 2004 Australian National Women's Football Tournament (1): 2005 Brisbane Roar W-League (1): 2008–09

International

Australia OFC Women's Championship (1): 1998