Queensland’s best-performing senior footballers will once again have the opportunity to represent their state in 2023 with the return of senior men’s and women’s interstate representative football. The selected teams will take on Tasmania on the famous North Hobart Oval…

By Josie Fielding  We often hear the success stories of Queensland players who have made it big when they ventured down to Victoria to do our state proud. Jason Dunstall, Tayla Harris, Katie Brennan and Dayne Beams to name a…

The AFL, in partnership with NAB, is pleased to announce the AFLW Premiership Cup will hit the road this month, as part of the inaugural 2022 NAB AFLW Premiership Cup Tour Season Seven which will commence from November 11-24. The…

The 2022 StreetSmarts AFLQ Schools Cup champions will be crowned from Friday October 14th – Sunday October 16th in a three-day footy bonanza at Maroochydore Multi Sports Complex. Since March 2022, 613 teams and more than 12,000 students from primary and secondary…

AFL Queensland will be holding a Level 2 Coaching Course on Saturday, November 19th at Brisbane South State College. Registrations are now open for all head coaches and assistant coaches who facilitate both male and female programs to attend the…

Submitted by Chris Yeend.  The Aspley Hornets tasted Senior Men’s premiership success in the QAFL on Saturday at Giffin Park when it conquered undefeated reigning premiers Broadbeach by 45-points. The Hornets led for 114.5 minutes of the 119.5-minute contest to…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Ben Keays, a one-time Queensland Under 18 captain and former Brisbane Lions player who has reinvigorated his career magnificently with the Adelaide Crows, topped the Queensland vote in the 2022 Brownlow Medal vote count last Sunday…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Football journeyman Tom Hickey will become the 27th Queenslander to play in a Toyota AFL Grand Final when he caps a remarkable career with the Sydney Swans against Geelong at the MCG on Saturday. In one…

AFL Queensland has awarded Moranbah’s Abbey Rankin the 2022 Troy Clarke Scholarship, named after the late Brisbane Bears player and AFL Queensland Development Manager Troy Clarke. The scholarship is designed to support a young person from regional Queensland who displays…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. There is no award for the player who tops the Queensland vote-count in the Brownlow Medal each year. So, in the countdown to Monday night’s 2022 count, let’s pretend there is one. We’ll call it the…

On Monday September 19th, through to Thursday 22 September, hundreds of emerging AFL players will have the opportunity to play in the inaugural AFL Club Academies Development Carnival at Maroochydore and Bond University, Gold Coast. The matches will feature men’s…

Submitted by Peter Blucher.  The Lions historic win at The G It was the Lions’ first win at the MCG under coach Chris Fagan, and a massive turnaround after the four previous games against Melbourne had brought four disappointing losses.…

At this Saturday’s QAFL Grand Final between the Broadbeach Cats and Aspley, the Joe Grant Medal will be awarded to the Best on Ground player.   Joe Grant was Queensland’s first full-time football administration. Originally from Pyramid Hill in central…

Submitted by Peter Blucher.  Is it any wonder Tom Hickey was fending off in tears on national television last night Friday night? It was the culmination of the week from hell and the biggest and best moment of his football…

AFL Queensland congratulates the following 2022 TOYOTA AFL National Volunteer Awards Queensland recipients:  Category Winners Name Winners Club/League Toyota AFL Community Football Volunteer Bruce Bell Hinterland AFC Club  AFL Disability Inclusion Ambassador of the Year Cheryl Haack Queensland State Program …

AFL Grand Finals excitement will take over the Darling Downs region this Saturday, for AFL Grand Final Day.  Rockville Park will host four grand finals; Under 12s, Under 14s, Senior Womens and Senior Mens.  In the Senior Women’s, it’s a…

Queenslanders in AFL Finals, A History Submitted by Peter Blucher Noah Cumberland is a Sunshine Coaster who grew up dreaming of playing AFL football at the Gabba. Especially finals football. It’s a dream that will become a reality on Thursday…

Submitted by Chris Yeend PALM BEACH CURRUMBIN is through to the QAFL Senior Men’s Semi-Finals after defeating Labrador by five-points at Cooke-Murphy Oval on Saturday. After trailing by as much as 23-points at the 18.5-minute mark of the third term;…

This weekend will see many teams in the QFA Division 1 HART Sport Cup, QFA Division 2 North Alpha Sport Premiership and many others in various QFA and QFAW competitions book their spots into Grand Finals.   QFA Division 1…

This weekend will be a Grand Final bonanza in South East Queensland, with more than 1,600 kids playing for premiership glory across three days and three venues. AFL Queensland will be overseeing 43 Grand Finals to be played at Leyshon…

Submitted by Peter Blucher Brisbane Lions defender Keidean Coleman is flying the flag for Queensland football in the 2022 AFLPA 22Under22 Team of the Year. The Indigenous 22-year-old, from the Wynnum Vikings via Morningside and the Lions Academy, was effectively…

Submitted by Chris Yeend LABRADOR v NOOSA Labrador has motored into the finals as one of the most in-form teams of the competition when it took down Noosa at home on Saturday. Labrador had won five of its six previous…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Alex Sexton will go into the AFL off-season one very motivated person after emerging from 140 days of football exile to deliver a goal-kicking exhibition bettered by only two players in Gold Coast Suns history. Sexton…

Submitted by Peter Blucher.  If it’s possible at 195cm and 96kg to sneak under the radar Caleb Graham has done just that. And done it very well. So well that the now 21-year-old Cairns junior turned Gold Coast SUNS key…

The pointy end of the season has arrived, with teams across southeast Queensland now commencing their finals campaign! QFA Division 1 Hart Sport Cup Seniors and Reserves and QFA Division 3 Seniors start their finals campaigns this weekend. QFA Division…

Submitted by Peter Blucher.  Buddy to Brisbane? How good would that be! The Queensland AFL ‘family’ went crazy. All but one. Sydney Swans ruckman Tom Hickey was the outlier. He didn’t want to lose his teammate. In a crazy week…

Submitted by Peter Blucher.  Twenty-six Queenslanders have now kicked five or more goals in an AFL game? Can you name them? And who have been quickest to kick a handful? It’s a topical question this week after two more Queensland…

 PRELIMINARY FINAL Bond University v Southport Sharks Saturday July 29th, 1pm Bond University, Robina Hearts will be racing during tomorrow’s Bond University QAFLW Preliminary Final between Bond and Southport, with both teams only one win away from a Grand Final…

1,800 KIDS PLAYING IN 43 GRAND FINALS ACROSS THREE DAYS AND THREE LOCATIONS AFL Queensland will host 43 Youth Grand Finals across August 26-28 with 1,800 kids vying for their chance of Grand Final glory on the Gold Coast, Sunshine…

The AFL Queensland U17 Futures team has been selected ahead of their clash against VIC Metro on Sunday 14 August in Melbourne.   Twenty-four of the state’s most talented 17-year-old footballers will assemble in Brisbane for a short training program…