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…

ANZAC Day holds a special place on the AFL Queensland calendar and is recognised each year by our state-wide leagues and clubs. Anzac round matches pay tribute to the sacrifice of the servicemen and women of Australia and New Zealand…

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…

Meet Tay from Jindalee Jags NAB AFL Auskick Program. She is in her third year as an Auskick Coordinator and is doing an amazing job on the southside ensuring her Auskickers are enjoying themselves and learning about Aussie Rules! Thanks…

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…

Brisbane Lions defender and NAB AFLW Grand Final Best on Ground, Kate Lutkins, has been named in the 2021 Virgin Australia AFL Women’s All-Australian Team at tonight’s W Awards. It’s the third honour as an All-Australian player (2018, 2020) for…

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…

For the first time ever, QAFL and Bond University QAFLW games can be watched from the comfort of living rooms right around Australia.  From this weekend, NITV will air a weekly match on Sunday mornings, giving the Queensland men’s and…

It’s been an extraordinary start to the Bond University Bull Sharks 2021 QAFLW campaign,  with a win on the weekend making it five from five after round six. It was at the hands of reigning premiers Yeronga, that the  Bull…

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,…

Meet Paul from Mayne Tigers JAFC NAB AFL Auskick Program. He is in his third year as an Auskick Coordinator and is doing an amazing job on the northside ensuring his Auskickers are enjoying themselves and learning about Aussie Rules!…

AFL Queensland is so proud to support the mighty Brisbane Lions as they head into this weekend’s NAB AFLW Grand Final. It comes as participation in girls and women’s football in Queensland continues to soar to new heights. A stunning…

Tigerland is buzzing after a sensational off-season in recruitment on and off the field. The biggest off-field recruit for Labrador being new Head Coach Nick Malceski. The Premiership Swan and 2014 All-Australian joins the Tigers having been the NEAFL Coach…

Mixing experience and youth will be the focus for the Demons in 2021 as they look to put season 2020 behind them and return to the form that saw them raise the flag in 2019. “The team is excited. From…

New Senior Coach Tony Lynn has seamlessly returned to Dittmer Park after captaining the Vultures premiership team to victory against Southport in the 2002 QAFL Grand Final. “It’s exciting to be back at Mt Gravatt, I have fond memories playing…

There’s still quite a buzz around Jack Esplen Oval after the Panthers 2020 QAFL premiership glory. Coming into the match as the underdogs, Morningside walked away the champions of the QAFL for the 10th time after they overpowered the Broadbeach…

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…

It’s been 25 years since Broadbeach won their last premiership. A victory over match favourites Labrador at Merrimac Oval in 1996 in the then GCAFL. Fast forward to 2021 and the Cats will host the Tigers at home in round…

The 2021 season welcomes the inclusion of the Redland-Victoria Point Sharks into the QAFL; a merger between the Victoria Point Sharks and Redland Bombers, with the latter having competed in the NEAFL since 2011. The Sharks will be eager to…

Competition newcomers Maroochydore made history in their debut season last year by becoming the first Sunshine Coast team to make state league finals. They now enter season 2021 with confidence after only falling five points short in an elimination-final against…

Sherwood had a solid season last year, making it to the preliminary final after an impressive come from behind win in the qualifying final against Maroochydore. The club has had some significant changes in personnel over the off-season, though, on…

They’ll go into Round 1 as the underdogs, facing off against reigning premiers Morningside, but for Palm Beach Currumbin coach Russell Moloney it’s a challenge the team is up for. “We’ll find out exactly where we are at coming up…

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…