From September 25th-29th I had the absolute pleasure of attending and umpiring the 2016 Female Diversity Championships in Shepparton, Victoria with fellow Gold Coast umpire Georgia Brehmer. The Championships offered girls from across the country with a range of cultural…

For the draft crop of 2016, the National AFL Draft Combine is the first sign that their AFL dreams are a step closer to fruition. An invitation to the AFL Draft Combine means that at least five AFL clubs have…

Miami State High School Junior Female division AFL squad are on the road to the AFL Queensland Schools Cup State Finals this weekend. This young team of athletes (some had never played Australian football until this year) will take on St Monica’s…

The Queensland All-Nations and Kickstart teams have starred at the 2016 Female Diversity Championships in Shepparton. The Queensland All-Nations Team came from behind to defeat Victoria by 11 points in a thrilling decider to claim the Championship title. Queensland 5.3.33 def. Victoria…

The AFL has confirmed the selection order for the inaugural AFL Women’s Draft. GWS Giants will have the first selection. The Draft will follow a ‘snaking order’ after the first round. The first round will proceed as follows: GWS Giants Brisbane…

  By Peter Blucher. Kurt Tippett will fly the flag for Queensland football solo in Saturday’s Toyota AFL grand final. The 29-year-old Sydney Swans forward/ruckman will be the only Queenslander in action on the biggest day of the football year…

Brisbane Lions marquee player, and AFL Queensland Participation Programs Officer, Sabrina Frederick-Traub will be on hand to provide leadership advice and guidance for participants in this week’s AFL National Female Diversity Championships. More than 200 young players from indigenous and…

The Queensland Kickstart and All Nations teams have kicked off their 2016 Female Diversity Championships campaigns. This year the 2016 Female Diversity Championships encompass the National U15 Kickstart and for the first year the National U15 All Nations Cup. The week long…

By Peter Blucher. Nick Riewoldt is one good game away from de-throning Michael Voss as the Queensland King of the Brownlow Medal. At the tender age of 33 Riewoldt polled a career-best 19 votes in the 2016 Brownlow Medal on…

By Peter Blucher.         Aliir Aliir is walking an injury tightrope desperately hoping to avoid a grand final bogey that already has caught him once in his burgeoning AFL career. The Sydney Swans defender, arguably the biggest…

By Peter Blucher.     Nick Riewoldt is poised to get himself on the AFL Brownlow Medal vote list for a record 15th year in a row on Monday night. Assuming his outstanding 2016 season is worth at least one…

By Peter Blucher.   There’s something very, very special about an AFL preliminary final. It’s obviously not a grand final, which carries the totally contrasting emotions of utter joy and total devastation depending on the outcome. And it never will…

By Peter Blucher. Jake Spencer will be desperately hoping this weekend to salvage something from a year of AFL frustration. Spencer, without a game at the highest level since 30 August 2015, will turn out for the Casey Scorpions in…

The AFL Queensland Under 14 State Academy Championships are well underway, with the majority of matches to be played at Fisherman’s Rd Sporting Complex, Maroochydore, from Sunday September 18. This year’s carnival will see Brisbane South East, Brisbane South West,…

The AFL today unveiled the much anticipated ‘W’ logo for the inaugural AFL Women’s competition. The final piece in the puzzle, this bold new logo in conjunction with the recently launched name, AFL Women’s, celebrates our women players and the…

Coolangatta Tweed 5.7.37 defeated Yeronga South Brisbane 4.11.35 It was what dreams are made of, with two points deciding Saturday’s QWAFL Grand Final. It was by far the best game of 2016; physical, tight and outstanding. From the first bounce,…

Tippett a chance to play.   By Peter Blucher. All eyes will be on Sydney Swans big man Kurt Tippett ahead of the penultimate weekend of the Toyota AFL season this week. After the Swans kept their season alive with…

AFL Queensland and Associated Independent Colleges (AIC) are proud to announced that an AFL competition has been approved by the AIC Heads of Colleges as an endorsed sport for Year 5 and Year 6 in 2017. The competition will be…

    It’s been 145 days, 50 matches and 16 rounds since the 2016 QWAFL competition kicked off, and for Coolangatta and Yeronga, one final clash waits. Coolangatta-Tweed    v    Yeronga South Brisbane Saturday September 17, 5:30pm – Leyshon Park, Yeronga…

Another ‘first” for Aliir.   By Peter Blucher. The 2016 season has been an astonishing procession of “firsts” for Sydney Swans defender Aliir Aliir. Since his first AFL game in Round 6 at the Gabba, he has added one line…

Queensland’s best footballers will battle it out for the QAFL and QWAFL premierships this Saturday, September 17, at Leyshon Park, Yeronga. Labrador and Morningside open the day in the QAFL Reserves Grand Final at 11:15am, Labrador takes on Palm Beach Currumbin…

Preliminary Final 1: Coolangatta Tweed 13.4.82 defeated Zillmere Eagles 6.10.46 Red hot premiership favourite Coolangatta has stormed into the QWAFL Grand Final, downing the Eagles on the back of a five goal opening term. The Bluebirds meant business from the…

The all-defining and emotional rollercoaster that is football in September took four Queenslanders on a contrasting journey over the first weekend of the Toyota AFL finals. Hawthorn’s Brendan Whitecross, playing his first final since 2013 and his eighth game of…

  It’s do-or-die for the top four in the preliminary knockouts this Saturday at Wilston Grange. It will be a massive day for women’s football, QWAFA Grand Final headlining the day at 5:00pm. Two teams will book their spots in…

By Peter Blucher.   Brendan Whitecross will step back into the AFL finals arena Friday night after an absence of 1085 days. Whitecross took another step down a monumental comeback path Thursday night when selected in the Hawthorn side that…

If you are a fair-dinkum Queensland football fan there can be only choice to sit at the top of the all-time top 10 favorite moments in the AFL … the Brisbane Lions’ 2001 premiership. The picture of Michael Voss, favourite…

Four Queenslanders have been named in the 2016 AFL Youth Girls All-Australian Team. Zillmere’s Shaleise Law, Wilston Grange’s Tahlia Randall, and Coolangatta duo Arianna Clarke and Ruby Blair all received the nod. An initial All-Australian squad was announced after the…

The AFL is pleased to announce nominations for the inaugural AFL Women’s Draft opened today, Friday September 3. The AFL Women’s Draft will be held on Wednesday October 12 in Melbourne. The Draft order will be decided by a lottery.…

Curtain raising Saturday Night’s Bulldogs vs. Melbourne Women’s All-Stars match at Whitten oval is the NAB Youth Girls All-Stars game. To get the juice on what it is, and why we should take notice, we turned to AFL Queensland Female…

  The Gold Coast Suns investment in the club’s talent academy has paid off again, with Jesse Joyce signing a contract extension. The home grown product was a surprise packet for Rodney Eade in 2016, missing just one game since…