Everyone in football has their own memories and stories. Steve Russ, a one-time South Melbourne player turned Morningside and Queensland stalwart, is no different. Except he has one story that captivated the football world in 1989 that only a handful…

In 1983-84-85 the ‘Mighty Maroons’ played nine games that changed the face of Queensland football forever. Three years in a row they won a round-robin series against NSW, ACT and Tasmania to clinch the ultimate reward – an AFL side…

Ex-Aspley tearaway Oskar Baker has ridden the highs and the lows of the AFL in the past month, but has peaked on a big ‘high’ this week, signing a two-year contract extension with the Western Bulldogs. The 25-year-old redhead, dropped…

‘Play with pride’ is the message from AFL Queensland to all players, coaches, umpires, and volunteers ahead of the fourth annual Eximm Sport Pride Round this weekend. Pride Round will see players across Queensland don colourful jumpers, fields decorated with…

Todd Featherstone is a jockey-sized one-time junior rugby league player from Sydney turned Labrador great and adopted favourite son of Queensland football who did it with a style and grace that underlines everything good about the game. Featherstone in a…

History was made on Sunday when the Allies’, a team comprising of players from Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory and Tasmania, defeated Vic Country to take out their inaugural Under 18 Boys National Championships. Six Queenslanders including Jed Walter,…

By Chris “Yeendy” Yeend    Round 15 of the QAFL Senior Men’s competition produced a stunning weekend of matches that turned the entire competition on its head. Sherwood has cracked through for its maiden win of the 2023 season with…

The AFL has launched the third annual ‘Women’s Coaching Month’, supported by BHP, to take place throughout July.   Women’s Coaching Month presents an opportunity to celebrate the contribution of current women and girls in coaching roles across the country…

Ask Andrew Raines about the biggest crowd he ever played in front of, and he’ll tell you 86,468 for his 50th game for Richmond against Essendon at the MCG in 2007, just ahead of 87,043 against Carlton at the MCG…

It’s often said in football that it’s not about the destination but about the journey. Michael Osborne’s 168-game AFL career at Hawthorn was exactly that. It was about persistence. If at first you don’t succeed, then try and try again.…

David Hale walked off the MCG on 3 October 2015 a triple premiership player. A flag in each of his last three years. After 13 years and 237 games in the AFL with North Melbourne and Hawthorn it was the…

Geoff Pemberton is a typical true-blue Cairns boy. Born-and-bred in the North Queensland ‘capital’, he loves fishing and camping, and the easy-going lifestyle of the north but loves Australian football more. This is why he’s a super-stalwart of the code…

by Daniel Viles BOND UNIVERSITY v ASPLEY Saturday 8 July 2023, 2pm at Bond University Oval, Robina Live stream with commentary on YouTube Head-to-Head: Played 9 – Bond University won 7; Aspley won 2 Head-to-Head at Bond University Oval: Played…

Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend With just six rounds to go until finals, each game over the next three weeks will go a long way to determine who makes the top six. Teams over the next two weeks will either see their…

Danny Craven watched it rain eight weeks in a row through the winter of 1992 in Melbourne and decided there had to be a better way. A pocket-sized rover from Chiltern via Wangaratta and St.Kilda, he tossed up the sunshine…

By Peter Blucher. Saturday afternoon 2 April 2011 at the Gabba. On centre wing, Stanley Street side of the ground, Michael Rischitelli kicked on the bounce to Jared Brennan. He gathered beautifully and went by hand to Brandon Matera, who…

Howard Kennedy was a key figure in the growth of Australian football across North Queensland as a player, coach, and administrator for more than 60 years. He began a lifetime love affair with the game in the 1920s at a…

Saturday 27 November 2022. A capacity crowd of 8,000-plus packed the new Brisbane Lions headquarters at Springfield for the AFLW grand final against Melbourne. If Bree Brock had a moment to spare, she might have thought to herself “how good…

AFL Queensland proudly unveiled Yowogurra, a Yarning Circle, in front of distinguished guests, indigenous trailblazers of footy in Queensland and AFL, Gold Coast SUNS and Brisbane Lions staff. The Yarning Circle, which is located at the AFL Queensland grounds in…

Josh Drummond is a triumph for perseverance. Overlooked in no less than eight drafts before finally getting his chance, he forged an excellent 94-game career with the Brisbane Lions that was more impactful than it was long and catapulted him…

Daniel Merrett is a triumph for AFL Queensland’s Talent Identification Program. He grew up playing rugby league, cricket, volleyball, and touch football and finished a 200-game AFL player with the Brisbane Lions. It all changed one Saturday afternoon in mid-2001…

Ben Hudson was an almost an accidental footballer. First and foremost, he was a basketballer studying physiotherapy while living on campus at the University of Queensland in 2000. For a bit of fun and exercise, and a little pocket money,…

David James was a Southport great through the early 2000’s. He played 211 games in 11 years and was as good as anyone at the club through that era. And more than a decade on his legacy lives long and…

Ten Queenslanders have been named as part of the Woomeras and Medleys squads named by the AFL today.  More than 75 of the country’s most promising 16-and-under girls footballers with Indigenous or multicultural backgrounds will come together on the Gold…

Paul Shelton was a Morningside man through and through, starting his football career in the red, white and black as a four-year-old and finishing it 26 years later when he was chaired from the ground a senior premiership captain in…

By Peter Blucher. Tom Hickey now holds two Queensland AFL records. He shares with Ben Hudson the distinction of being the State’s only four-club AFL players, and now among 197 Queenslanders to play in the AFL he boasts the biggest…

Saturday 1 July marks the first time in over a decade that Queensland and Tasmania’s men’s and women’s football teams have played an interstate rep clash against each other. The afternoon’s football double header at the infamous North Hobart Oval…

Darren O’Brien was a Mildura boy who travelled far and wide living the football dream and headed to Queensland in 2003 for one year. Twenty years on he is not only still here but is one of Queensland football’s greats.…

Southport was a long-time powerhouse club of Gold Coast football before stepping up to the QAFL in 1983. The Magpies turned Sharks became a QAFL powerhouse before climbing to the NEAFL in 2011 and the VFL in 2021. They have…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend. Aspley continued its impressive defense of its premiership title; Redland Victoria Point fought hard against Sherwood; Broadbeach made it four wins on the trot; Wilston Grange tasted victory against Noosa; Surfers Paradise pipped a determined Labrador…