By Peter Blucher Keidean Coleman is living proof that 12 months is a long time in football. This time last year, as the Brisbane Lions prepared for their second final of the Covid-interrupted 2020 season against Geelong at the Gabba,…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend In Brief If all finals football could be as good as what we saw last week, the pressure is on for the remainder of the teams competing in the Senior competition to live up to that…

Congratulations to all of our award winners from the 2021 SEQ Senior Community Football season.  QFAW DIVISION 1 2021 Leading Goalkicker: Katrina Pridmore – Surfers Paradise  2021 Best & Fairest: Alana McNabb – Surfers Paradise and Madeleine Watt – Southport…

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States of America that simply became known as 9/11. To honour the almost 3,000 victims and in particular, the 412 emergency services workers (including 343 Firefighters) who lost…

Congratulations to all of our award winners from the 2021 SEQ Senior Community Football season.  QFA DIVISION 2 NORTH SENIOR 2021 Leading Goalkicker: Jacob Knight – Hinterland Blues 2021 Nev Poppleton Medal: Joshua Wagner – Sandgate  RESERVES  2021 Leading Goalkicker:…

Congratulations to all of our Best and Fairest award winners from the 2021 McDonald’s SEQ Youth Football season.    McDonald’s U12 Division 1 North Noah Cameron Wilston Grange  McDonald’s U12 Division 1 South Taj Murray Burleigh McDonald’s U12 Division 2…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend WILSTON GRANGE v BROADBEACH Broadbeach has celebrated one of its best wins of the 2021 season with an impressive 27-point win over Wilston Grange at Redland-Victoria Point on Saturday. The Cats went into the contest as…

Fifteen-year old Queensland football representative Zimra Hussain has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution from a New Queenslander in the Queensland Government’s Multicultural Queensland Awards.  The Brisbane Lions Academy member arrived to Queensland seven years ago as a refugee from Afghanistan…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Elimination Final – 1 | Redland-Victoria Point Wilston Grange v Broadbeach In  Brief For Wilston Grange to have its Colts playing finals is a tremendous effort and reward for where the club is headed. Under the…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Elimination Final – 1 | Redland-Victoria Point Broadbeach v Maroochydore In  Brief With Labrador and Morningside controlling proceedings at the head of the ladder, the bottom half of the six created plenty of excitement. It ended…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend In Brief Who would have thought that the premiers of the last two seasons would be battling it out in an Elimination Final. The Demons went from winning a memorable Grand Final in 2019 to not…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend In Brief The Sharks and and the Roos kick off the return to QAFL football for the first time since July 24; and needless to say it has felt like an eternity. These two teams will…

Ready to take on a new challenge in 2022? A number of coaching positions are currently available through AFL Queensland club land.  Click here to see the current coaching vacancies and information on how to apply.   

Three Queenslanders have been listed in the Therabody All Australian s 40-person squad in contention for selection for the 2021 AFL All Australian Team; Aspley junior and now Port Adelaide superstar Aliir Aliir, who first picked up a Sherrin as…

Queensland State League Awards (Grogan/Zielke Medal Night) In light of the ever-changing COVID situation, the difficult decision has been made to make the 2021 AFL Queensland State League Awards night a virtual event. How fortunate we are in Southeast Queensland…

In good news for footy, the Queensland Government announced yesterday that the ban on community sport in Southeast Queensland will be lifted at 4pm, Friday 20th August. On Wednesday night, AFL Queensland held a series of meetings with club representatives…

In good news for footy, the Queensland Government announced on Wednesday that the ban on community sport in Southeast Queensland will be lifted at 4pm, Friday 20th August. Recognising that so many players across Southeast Queensland have missed out on…

Aspley Hornets Football Club has advised the AFL and AFL Queensland of its intention to join the QAFL in 2022 and withdraw its license from the VFL competition.  Aspley advised of its renewed focus on the role the club plays in…

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, AFL Queensland continues to be guided by the direction of the Queensland Government.  The health, safety and wellbeing of our football community; players, officials, supporters, volunteers and everyone involved in our game, remains our highest priority. …

Please see the direction that has been provided to AFL Queensland by Sport and Recreation Queensland – Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport, regarding community sport in relation with the current restrictions for the 11 impacted South East Queensland Local Government…

The Queensland Government has advised that community sport is not permitted for the next two weeks; from 4pm Sunday 8th August until 4pm Sunday 22nd August, 2021 in the 11 local government area in South East Queensland (SEQ). The local government…

Support for football in Queensland continues to grow with the AFL today confirming both the Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast SUNS had set new all-time club membership records in 2021. 40,289 people are members of the Lions, while the Gold Coast…

Head of AFL Queensland, Trisha Squires: “On behalf of AFL Queensland, we send our love and support to the Ferguson  family, the Palm Beach Currumbin Football Club and the wider AFL Gold Coast football community, following the passing of Les…

The Queensland Government has announced a snap three-day lockdown from 4:00pm today for 11 local government area (LGAs) in South East Queensland.  Due to the lockdown and as per advice from Queensland Health, any AFL Queensland matches that have not…

The 2021 South East Queensland community Grand Finals have been announced, with football fans able to take in games stretching from Sandgate in North Brisbane through to Bond University on the Gold Coast. Match times and admission charges will be…

With the New South Wales border zone now reinstated, the Queensland Government has declared organised sport as a permitted purpose for crossing the Queensland/New South Wales border. This means that organised junior, youth and senior football fixtures can go ahead…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Alex Sexton has come a long way from his early childhood at Reservoir in suburban Melbourne, stopping at places like via the Springwood Pumas, Europe, Gallipoli, Arizona, the MCG, Logan, Redland, Metricon Stadium and even China.…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. Bailey Scott is going to have an extraordinary story to tell his kids one day. After all, how many young kids get a chance to pick their own club. Win a Rising Star nomination on debut?…

2021 Bond University QAFLW Grand Final Match Reports and the day that was Nearly two thousand people turned out at Leyshon Park for the Bond University QAFLW Grand Finals, with thousands watching on the live stream, and all were treated…

Byron Bay is best known for its surf and music festivals but come October the beachside town turns footy-mad with a two-day AFL9s carnival. The AFL9s Byron Bay Invitational will be held at Cavanbah Centre Byron Bay, a state-of-the-art multipurpose…