The Gold Coast SUNS are proud to announce that it will hold a Toyota AFL Premiership match in Cairns in early 2018. The game forms part of a part of a deal announced today by Tourism and Major Events Minister…

  DAY 3 ALL NATIONS Match 15 VIC defeated NT Final Score: VIC – 8.10.58 NT – 0.0.0 VIC Goal Kickers: Amanda Ling (3), Melanie Hope (2), Nyakoat Doijoik (2) and Tarrah Delgado (1) VIC Best Players: Nyakoat Doijoik, Amanda…

Charlie Dixon has capped a career-best season in the AFL by finishing a close second in the Port Adelaide best & fairest award. In his second season at Port Dixon polled 234 votes to finish just seven behind All-Australian ruckman…

The Under 15 Queensland All-Nations team will be under the leadership of Brisbane Lions AFLW player, Sabrina Frederick-Traub, when they take to the field at next week’s National Diversity Championships in Byron Bay. The All-Australian player said she has found…

The NAB AFL Draft Combine is underway and Queensland’s best and brightest stopped to have a chat about how it’s all going.   Brayden Crossley It’s an exciting week for all of the prospects attending the combine and ‘Goober’ Crossley…

Dynamite Adelaide forward Charlie Cameron is the closest thing to a Queenslander playing in Saturday’s AFL grand final at the MCG. Like sporting greats Greg Norman, Pat Rafter and Simon Black, Cameron was born in Mt.Isa. He attended primary school…

Brisbane Lions captain Dayne Beams has pipped teammate Dayne Zorko to top the Queensland vote in the 2017 Brownlow Medal as retiring St.Kilda great Nick Riewoldt finished his career the leading Queensland vote-getter all-time. Beams polled 17 votes in a…

Get set Queensland. The Gold Coast SUNS have successfully obtained an AFLW licence for the 2020 season. The GC SUNS successful bid for a women’s licence was announced following a meeting of the AFL Commission. GC SUNS Chief Executive Mark Evans said the establishment of an AFLW…

Geelong ruckman Zac Smith will fly the Queensland flag solo in week 2 of the Toyota AFL finals. Probably. Smith, set to lead the Geelong ruck against Sydney at the MCG Friday night, was the only Queenslander named in the…

Football can be such a cruel, cruel business. Just ask Charlie Dixon. Having waited 106 games to play his first AFL final on Saturday night he produced arguably the best performance of his career and walked off Adelaide Oval absolutely…

Inspirational Brisbane midfielder Ben Keays capped off his season with dominant performance earning the young gun the Andrew Ireland Medal for best-on-ground in the NEAFL Grand Final on Saturday night at the SCG. After being selected with pick 24 in…

“It’s been a tough few years for the club, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” The Brisbane Lions have pulled off an astounding 2017 NEAFL Grand Final win over the Sydney Swans, tormenting the minor premiers…

Aliir Aliir has had arguably the AFL’s most costly sleep-in. He paid for it 16 weeks in a row during the home-and away season, and did likewise last night when the Sydney Swans selected their team for the start of…

Shaun Hampson, the forgotten man of Queensland football, has launched a late bid to play in the upcoming AFL finals series after his 2017 campaign was destroyed by a back injury. Hampson, who hasn’t played at AFL level this year,…

Dayne Zorko has joined Queensland football ‘gold class’ with selection in the 2017 AFL All-Australian team. Zorko defied the Brisbane Lions’ position at the bottom of the AFL ladder to become the sixth Queenslander to be recognised in this fashion.…

Who has been the best-performed Queenslander in the AFL this year? Dayne Zorko? Charlie Dixon? Or Dayne Beams? It’s probably a three-way contest between the Brisbane Lions’ dynamic Dayne duo or Zorko and Beams, and Dixon, the Port Adelaide key…

Applications are now open for the  2018 Jim Stynes Scholarship application process. The Jim Stynes Scholarships are named after Jim Stynes in recognition of his outstanding efforts not only as a professional Australian Football player and administrator, but also as a…

It is getting harder and harder for AFL players to back up week after week after week. The challenges which face them in so many different forms these days make it a significant achievement to complete a full season without…

Footy fans will be thanked for their support during the 2017 Toyota AFL Premiership Season at Round 23 matches this weekend through an assortment of activities including kids in free at selected matches. For the second consecutive year and an…

Ask an AFL coach what is the most important statistic in a game, give him three choices, and the odds are he’ll include contested marking somewhere in his answer. A key forward who can bust upon a pack and clunk…

  $800,000 upgrade of Morningside Panthers Football Club now complete New facilities aim to increase female sports participation The Coalition Government invested $250,000 towards the project Cheers erupted today from Jack Esplen Oval, home of the Morningside Panthers, as the…

Two Queenslanders are opposite ends of their career will play in Round 22 of the Toyota AFL premiership this weekend with the massive lure of a finals berth on the line. Sydney’s Kurt Tippett, a 176-game veteran in his 10th…

Thirty possessions in an AFL game is a good day’s work. Toss in two goals and it’s special. Three goals and it’s extra special. But four goals? That’s a truly extraordinary performance. It’s a bit like a triple century in…

Three of the forgotten men of Queensland football have reached contrasting points in their AFL career this week. Jesse White has retired, Shaun Hampson is set to make a long-awaited VFL comeback after a freak injury, and David Armitage has…

Jarrod Harbrow will take something of a heavy heart into his 200th AFL game in Q-Clash 14 at the Gabba on Saturday afternoon. Rodney Eade, a constant in Harbrow’s outstanding 11-year career, will not be there. Eade coached the former…

The AFL is pleased to announce the second episode in the collaboration with Thomas & Friends has been released tonight. In an international first between the two brands, four short episodes have been produced and centre around Thomas and his…

Josh Thomas knows all about long waits. Really long waits. But right now it’s a thing of the past for the 25-year-old Collingwood midfielder. He is just loving every minute of life. Thomas waited 1,221 days from when he was…

  Friday, 13 July, 2001. Black Friday. A bad day for Malcolm Blight but a wonderful day for football and Nick Riewoldt. An 18-year-old Riewoldt made his AFL debut for St.Kilda to begin a remarkable 17-year journey in the AFL…

The AFL, all 18 AFL Clubs and the Australian Government, through the Organ and Tissue Authority, are pleased to announce a partnership to support DonateLife Week 2017 and organ donation. In an industry first, the AFL and all 18 AFL…

Possessions are definitely not everything when it comes to assessing the contribution of a player to his team’s performance.  But generally speaking you can never have too many of them. And certainly not if you are Brisbane Lions captain Dayne Beams.  On Sunday in…