VETERAN Socceroo Mark Schwarzer on Wednesday confirmed he would quit Fulham after the London club signed Dutch keeper Maarten Stekelenburg.

But Schwarzer won't be returning to the A-League.

Schwarzer, who is 41 in October, wants the top job at club level ahead of the 2014 World Cup but Stekelenburg's $6.4 million transfer from Roma puts that in jeopardy.

"That's what I've heard (Stekelenburg's signing) and I've been hearing that for a while so it's no great surprise and I'll be looking for another club," he said.

"Nothing has been sorted at the moment, the Japan game was the most important thing on the agenda so I'm worried about the Australia games now."

Asked if the A-League was an option, he said: "Not at this stage, no. My family's settled and the kids are in school and I wouldn't (move) my family anyway.

"And when you talk about the length of season it's never ideal when it finishes in April, so as far as I'm concerned I'll try and stay in Europe for as long as possible and England would be ideal."

Though frustrated he couldn't save Keisuke Honda's stoppage time penalty, Schwarzer was delighted with the Socceroos' performance and said the return of key players may have explained the contrast from the Oman performance last March.

"There was personnel differences. You brought back in experience with Sasa (Ognenovski) playing and I thought he was outstanding, Lucas (Neill) was outstanding, Bresh (Mark Bresciano) playing the full 90 was brilliant, he's such an important player to us.

"And they're probably three players in itself that are vitally important to the side and that proved it tonight.

"It leaves it in our own hands, we've always said that coming away with a point in japan would be a bonus for us.

"But even if we beat Japan we'd have to win our home games and we expect to win games at home and off the back of that we're going to demand that we continue the momentum and performance."

Originally published as Mark Schwarzer set to move on