With the 2019 football season now wound to a close, registrations are once again available for the AFL Queensland Level 2 Coaching Course. The course is available to any coaches and assistant coaches from high performance teams, community clubs, talent…

Six-year-old Max Monaghan from Heritage Park in Queensland has been named the 2019 NAB AFL Auskicker of the Year at an awards ceremony in Melbourne on Thursday night.   Max is a passionate Sydney Swans fan who can name every…

It’s grand final time. Everything is magnified many times over, and invariably there are big stories good and bad. Yesterday’s selection for Saturday’s premiership decider between Richmond and the GWS Giants was exactly that. It was agony in the GWS…

By Hayley Hinze The 22 lucky NAB AFL Auskicker of the Year nominees will travel to Melbourne this week for an unforgettable three-day AFL experience. Queensland’s Lafari Vine and Max Monaghan will be amongst the young players nominated for the…

By Ant Wingard A mid-year shoulder injury threatened to derail the draft hopes of Yeronga South Brisbane midfielder Dee Heslop but the Gold Coast SUNS Academy member is adamant of returning fitter than ever as she prepares for the NAB…

By Peter Blucher Sam Reid has been spared a double bookings of epic proportions .. an AFL grand final and the birth of his first child on the same day. The 29-year-old Queenslander was faced with this freakish double last…

Springwood’s Rowan Page has added to his decorated football resume, winning his third straight Duncanson-Todd Medal as the QFA Division 1 HART Sport Cup’s Best and Fairest player at the AFL Queensland Community Football Awards held at the Royal International…

By Peter Blucher Dayne Zorko has ticked a lot of boxes during an AFL career in which he’s worked tirelessly to make up for a late start. Four best & fairest awards, an All-Australian blazer and this year captaincy of…

By Peter Blucher Lachy Keeffe faces an anxious week as he ponders the possibility of his greatest football moment going one step further into a grand final or turning into his biggest nightmare. Keeffe was a star in the GWS…

AFL Queensland has formally announced the makeup of teams in the revamped QFA senior men’s competition structure for season 2020 and beyond. Following a comprehensive mid-year review of the previous competition structure, some of the notable changes of the new…

By Terry Wilson The dust has barely settled on a season of QAFL football but it already has been confirmed that three clubs will have new coaches in 2020. Barry O’Brien (Wilston Grange) and Jared Marsh (Sandgate) made decisions to…

By Terry Wilson Deelightful Surfers are new QAFL champions It was a bell-ringer of a grand final that had it all, from fierce physicality to the euphoric scenes at the full-time siren, to the emotional afterglow in the raucous Surfers…

By Alice Barker Fifteen goals from Lions spearhead Rhys Nickalls has helped Moreton Bay power to win the QFA Division 3 Premiership in a 64-point affair against Wynnum. Nickalls, who has now kicked over 100 goals on the season, booted…

By Ant Wingard Surfers Paradise have broken a 21-year premiership drought to rewrite the history books with a two-point win in a QAFL Grand Final classic against Palm Beach Currumbin. The Demons have been forced to wait since 1998 to…

By Ant Wingard Wilston Grange has produced a miraculous comeback to win the QAFL Colts Premiership in a thrilling five-point affair against Palm Beach Currumbin. The Gorillas trailed at every break but always loomed ominously, leaving their tile for the…

MATCH DETAILS 9.00am – QAFL Colts Grand Final Palm Beach Currumbin v Wilston Grange 11.20am – AFL Premiership Trophy Media Opportunity 11.45am – QAFL Reserves Grand Final Surfers Paradise v Palm Beach Currumbin  2.30pm – QAFL Grand Final Palm Beach…

By Terry Wilson 2019 QAFL Grand Final PALM BEACH CURRUMBIN v SURFERS PARADISE At Metricon Stadium, 2.30pm Saturday The match will be livestreamed here.  Ins: Palm Beach Currumbin – John Macansh. Surfers Paradise – Sam Jewell. Outs: Palm Beach Currumbin –…

Fans attending the QAFL Grand Final between Palm Beach Currumbin and Surfers Paradise this Saturday` will be encouraged to donate to those affected by the ongoing Queensland bushfires.  Donation bins will be placed at the entrances to Gates 1 and…

By Hayley Hinze After a successful season in the green, NEAFL Field umpire Samuel Whetton has received the 2019 Golden Whistle Award as well as a spot on the Senior QAFL Grand Final Panel, at this year’s Grand Final Recognition…

By Terry Wilson Palm Beach Currumbin will join an elite group of clubs should they beat Surfers Paradise in the QAFL grand final at Metricon Stadium on Saturday. After beating Labrador in the 2017 premiership decider at Fankhauser Reserve, then…

By Terry Wilson The last time Surfers Paradise won a flag was against this weekend’s opponents Palm Beach Currumbin – and it all ended in utter confusion before the Demons were officially declared premiers. It was in the 1998 Gold…

Keen to know how your team fared in the 2019 J.A Grogan Medal and QAFLW Best and Fairest counts? See the full top 10 leaderboards for each club below. J.A. Grogan Medal Broadbeach Cats Jackson Fisher – 11 (6th) Matthew…

By Alice Barker Since the age of give, Emily Bates has called Leyshon Park home. She played her first game for the club when she was 11, giving the Devils an insight as to what was to come in her…

By Ant Wingard Mt Gravatt veteran Frazer Neate solidified his cult hero status on Sunday night when he was crowned the 74th member of the J.A. Grogan Medal fraternity in a thrilling vote count at the Gabba. Neate, a respected…

By Terry Wilson Surfers Paradise coach Brad Moore teared-up noticeably as he addressed his battered troops after the Demons surged into their first grand final in 15 years on Saturday. So proud was Moore of the heroics of his players…

Mt Gravatt midfielder Frazer Neate  has taken out the 2019 J.A. Grogan Medal. Neate was awarded the maximum three votes in Vultures victories on four occasions during the home and away season. He went on to confirm his win with three votes in the final round to finish the…

By Alice Barker Bribie Island held the QFA Division 5 Grand Final trophy high in their much deserved 18-point win over the Marcellin Old Boys at Voxsan Oval, capping off a spectacular season on the green. Both sides had a…

By Terry Wilson Surfers Paradise v Morningside At Sir Bruce Small Park, 2pm Saturday Ins: Surfers Paradise – Cody Filewood. Morningside – Lachlan Niland-Rowe, Ben McNiece. Outs: Surfers Paradise – Sam Jewell (concussion). Morningside – Tom Griffiths (inj), Ben Murray…

By Hayley Hinze In their second season as a club, the Marcellin Old Boys are set to play the QFA Division 5 Grand Final against Bribie Island on Friday night. Following their eighth place finish in 2018, this season has…

By Alice Barker In the QFA Division 2 Seniors Grand Final, Bond University proved to be strongest in the pack handing down a 38-point victory to Beenleigh on Sunday at Leyshon Park. Bond was knocked out of the race in…