The AFL has released new Junior Rules with the aim of keeping thousands of young boys and girls playing Australian rules football for longer and to help clubs across the country attract and retain players to boost participation.  The new…

The AFL has announced important developments in relation to the return to play protocols in the concussion guidelines for AFL and AFLW and all levels of Australian Football, including community football.   In AFL and AFLW, where there are advanced…

Each year the AFL recognises Sir Doug Nicholls Round in May to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and its contribution to our game. Community clubs across Queensland and Northern New South Wales mark the occasion with their own…

Thousands of kids across the state will lace up their boots this weekend with the return of junior footy fixtures. This season, an extra 54 teams will compete in the South East Queensland (SEQ) Junior Competition with the under 13s…

Nearly 300 aspiring Gold Coast SUNS AFLW players have had the chance to train alongside their heroes this morning at Metricon Stadium. AFL Queensland and the Gold Coast SUNS have hosted a free female football clinic for girls aged six…

PlayHQ is here! The transition to the new competition management platform was delayed until December 1st to ensure ample data had come across in to the new system, and to allow all of our fantastic club staff the opportunity to be…

Surf, sand, sunshine and footy. Name a better combo. We’ll wait….. Introducing NAB AFL Auskick on the Beach! It’s NAB AFL Auskick as you know it but delivered on the beautiful beaches Queensland is world famous for. Nobby Beach on…

Bayview State School PE teacher Dave Beasley has been an advocate for AFL in schools for many years. Dave has been running AFL interschool competitions since 2017 and through the Sporting Schools program he has been able to run extra…

Pete has been an outstanding coach to the very lucky U8 Red Hot Roos junior AFL team at Coorparoo JAFC for four years. Pete lives and breathes footy and shares his passion with enormous enthusiasm to his team of boys…

Thanks to the generous support of this year’s Toyota Australia Good for Footy Raffle clubs across Australia have raised $1 million, with 100 percent of proceeds going directly to community clubs around the nation. Impressively Queensland clubs the Jindalee Jaguars…

Congratulations to all youth teams who participated in Grand Finals across South East Queensland over the weekend.   Friday 3 September (Yeronga) U14 Division 4 Brisbane South – Hamish Lochran, Wynnum U12 Division 4 Brisbane North – Zachary Roberts, North…

Father of three, Scott Peeler-Hammond from Wavell Heights in Brisbane is this year’s worthy winner of the Philips Community Sports Dad of the Year award. The award recognises dads in local communities across Australia who make a positive impact through…

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…

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 inaugural Under 9 girls competition in South East Queensland (SEQ) has been celebrated with a gala night of Friday night footy. All Brisbane based teams came together at Coorparoo AFC to play their final round of fixtures and celebrate…

Rosie Thomson, from Queensland’s Ipswich Eagles NAB AFL Auskick Centre, became the envy of all Auskickers on Friday when she was announced as the weekly nominee for the 2021 NAB AFL Auskicker of the Year competition. It was so much…

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…

AFL Queensland is partnering with McDonalds Brisbane for the third annual Ronald McDonald House Charity Round across the South East Queensland Footy4Fun and Youth competition. The Charity Round will take place over July 30th – August 1st and provides clubs…

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…

July marks the AFL’s inaugural Women’s Coaching Month, celebrating women in coaching across all levels of the game while promoting coaching as a pathway for women and girls in the football community. AFL Queensland will be shining a spotlight on…

After four action packed days, the 2021 Queensland School Sport (QSS) 10-12 Years Combined AFL State Championships in Cairns has wrapped up! Congratulations to our two winning regions: Girls – South Coast Boys – Sunshine Coast A special shout out…

Yesterday, over forty Brisbane Lions players visited schools and community clubs across South East Queensland. Throughout the day players got involved in training drills, NAB AFL Auskick sessions and were generous with their time taking photos and signing hundreds of…

Meet Lindsay from Collingwood Park Power AFL Auskick Program. He is in his fourth  year as an Auskick Coordinator and is doing an amazing job at Collingwood Park ensuring his Auskickers are enjoying themselves and learning about Aussie Rules! Thanks…

Taking you around footy grounds across Queensland. This week we’re putting a spotlight on our Superstars Footy program. It was an action-packed Saturday morning at Morningside Panthers, hosting Carindale Cougars JAFC and Wynnum Vikings JAFC in week 3 of their…

She’s brought her muscles from Brussels and given the Everton Wolves under 15 girls side a Belgium boost. At 178cm tall, fifteen-year-old Catherine Vander Meulen’s played just four games of football but is already making her mark on the game.…

The littlest SUNS of the Gold Coast Sky warmed up the Metricon Stadium pitch on Saturday, as the first ever AFL Queensland under nine girls competition was officially launched. With the SUNS team song blaring from the speakers, fans in…

More people are playing footy in Queensland than ever before, but everyone knows a footy game can’t be played without the umpires. To tackle the issue head on, AFL Queensland has put the call out for retired footballers, ex-umpires, students…

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…

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…

Meet Adam from Kedron Lions AFC NAB AFL Auskick Program. He is a first year Auskick Coordinator and is doing an amazing job on the northside ensuring her Auskickers are enjoying themselves and learning about Aussie Rules! Thanks for all…