Australia Coach Guus Hiddink says he wants his team in the same group as South Korea in next year's World Cup soccer finals.

The Australian Associated Press on Friday quoted Hiddink as saying meeting former teams is good and that it would be "great" to face South Korea because it achieved a lot in the last World Cup.

Hiddink in 1998 took the Netherlands to the World Cup semifinals and repeated the feat in 2002 with South Korea.