Submitted by Peter Blucher. Lachy Keeffe walked off Giants Stadium in Sydney on Saturday afternoon pretty content with his football lot after the GWS Giants had posted a heart-stopping two-point win over Essendon. And rightly so. Having signed a contract…

The littlest SUNS of the Gold Coast Sky warmed up the Metricon Stadium pitch on Saturday, as the first ever AFL Queensland under nine girls competition was officially launched. With the SUNS team song blaring from the speakers, fans in…

More people are playing footy in Queensland than ever before, but everyone knows a footy game can’t be played without the umpires. To tackle the issue head on, AFL Queensland has put the call out for retired footballers, ex-umpires, students…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. It’s no secret that Harris Andrews is not just an outstanding young footballer but an outstanding young man. It’s part of why he is the Brisbane Lions captain in-waiting. But if you’ve been late to the…

Round Seven of the 2021 Toyota AFL Premiership Season celebrates Community Umpiring Week with the aim to encourage people to get involved in umpiring Australian Football at the community level. To mark Community Umpiring Week in Queensland we’re shining a…

Story and picture by Gold Coast SUNS Media. One of the Gold Coast SUNS biggest fans from afar, has had his second opportunity to meet his Gold Coast SUNS heroes for 2021, but this time it was at Metricon Stadium.…

Under the bright lights of the Gabba, ahead of a blockbuster clash between the Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide, three local league umpires from South East Queensland will pull on the lime green uniform and be a part of the…

Submitted by Peter Blucher.  It is a grossly premature to start putting Eric Hipwood into a conversation with the all-time Queensland football greats, but he has certainly posted an impressive 100-game deposit on a five-star career and already made the…

The AFL has released its updated guidelines for the management of concussion in Australian football at all levels of the game outside of the AFL and AFLW competitions for 2021. In considering the best practice management of sport-related concussion, the…

The first all-Queensland VFL derby will take place at 1pm tomorrow with the Southport Sharks at home against the Aspley Hornets. The two teams last clashed 595 days ago in the 2019 NEAFL Preliminary Final, with the Sharks claiming a…

By SUNS Media.  Kids around the country are lacing up their boots as tens of thousands of boys and girls across Australia return to NAB AFL Auskick. Gold Coast Suns Senior Coach Stuart Dew will now be one of those…

Local footy clubs in Queensland are being encouraged to sign up to the Tackle Your Feelings program, which aims to provide community coaches with the tools to understand, recognise and manage their response to signs of mental health in their…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Dayne Zorko added another line to his impressive AFL career record last weekend as he reminded AFL fans across the country what a bargain pick-up he has been for the Brisbane Lions. The Lions skipper became…

The AFL has today confirmed the group of AFL talent representing the NAB AFL Academy against Geelong VFL on Saturday April 24 at GMHBA Stadium. The intake includes a selection of the best 17 and 18-year-olds across the country who…

By AFL Players Association Brisbane’s premiership celebrations just got a little sweeter, with the Lions the equal-most represented club in the AFL Players’ Association’s AFLW 22Under22 side, proudly supported by Torrens University Australia. Three Lions were named in the final team,…

The AFL welcomes the Queensland Government’s decision to make the Gabba the centrepiece stadium of the state’s Olympic Games should Queensland host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan said the GABBA had been an iconic ground…

By Brendan Rhodes – AFL Media THE NEAFL was supposed to have been a vastly inferior competition to the VFL. One round might be an impossibly small sample size to make a true judgment on that belief, but it took just…

By AFL Media. The 2021 VFL Premiership Season kicks off tonight with four Queensland teams joining the expanded 22-team competition. It’s a new era for the league, with the AFL announcing overnight it had reached an agreement on a historic…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. If you’d been asked pre-season to forecast the standout Queensland player in the 2021 AFL season who would you have tipped? Maybe Dayne Zorko, Harris Andrews, Eric Hipwood or Charlie Cameron at the Lions? Lachie Weller,…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Ben Keays will play his 50th AFL game this weekend two years after it was a milestone that seemed impossible. The now 24-year-old Morningside junior has become a poster boy for the League’s “second-chance club”, turning…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Thirty-three years after he was crowned the king of Queensland football Andrew Martyn is set to enjoy an even greater thrill when he watches his son make his AFL debut on Friday night. Will Martyn, a…

By AFL Media. It’s that time of year again… tell the kids to lace up their boots and get a drink bottle ready, the 2021 NAB AFL Auskick season has commenced nationwide. For some Queensland kids, the season has already…

With an astounding 834 professional games between them, five former AFL players will go head to head in this year’s Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL). As Head Coaches, Craig O’Brien, Nick Malceski, Tony Lynn, Brent Moloney and Adrian Fletcher bring…

For the first time coaches of junior footballers aged 7-12 can access a dedicated program of resources, with the AFL launching its Junior Coaching Curriculum.  The comprehensive program has been designed by industry experts to support coaches of young girls…

We spoke with Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast SUNS Academy teams to compile the list of the top talent coming through the Queensland ranks: Brisbane 1. Jaspa Fletcher Club: Sherwood Son of Adrian. He plays inside, wing or forward. Possesses…

Brisbane Lions’ Tahlia Hickie has been rewarded with the Round Nine NAB AFL Women’s Rising Star nomination after a consistent season of football where she has been a key player in driving the Lions to a finals appearance.     …

AFL Queensland is pleased to announce 23 female community football teams have received funding for uniforms designed specifically for females through the 2021 Toyota Good for Footy Gear Grants Program. Held annually, the Toyota Good for Footy Gear Grants Program…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Remember exactly what you were doing on Friday 27 November 2015? Paul Hunter does. And he’ll never forget it. The then Redland NEAFL ruckman, inaugural winner of the NEAFL Rising Star Award in 2014 and one…

Thousands of aspiring junior footballers throughout Queensland have had their dreams come true following the conclusion of the annual Gold Coast SUNS Macca’s Junior Draft. The SUNS junior footy initiative has been held over the last four years and aims…

The AFL has today released Rounds One and Two of the 2021 VFL Premiership Season, which will see the largest second-tier football competition in Australia return to Victoria, NSW, and Queensland after a COVID-19 affected 2020 campaign.   The home-and-away…