By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend   Broadbeach has secured the opening spot in the 2021 QAFL Senior Football Grand Final at Southport after an inspiring four-point win over Labrador on Saturday.   After kicking 3.12 in the first half, the Cats…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Semi Final – 1 | Labrador Labrador v Morningside In  Brief Labrador has been arguably the best-performed team of any that has competed across the Seniors, Reserves and Colts competitions in the QAFL competition this year.…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Semi Final – 1 | Labrador Oval  Labrador v Morningside  In Brief These two teams have been the bench mark of the 2021 Reserves season. Labrador has continued its extraordinary rise as a football club, going…

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…

AFL Queensland is excited to announce that every SEQ Youth Grand Final across all three venues this weekend will be live streamed! KAWANA Field 1 Kawana https://livestream.com/accounts/9457344/events/9825234<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/livestream.com/accounts/9457344/events/9825234__;!!MoAtgck!L9n_Lbseo23CFzYoR3lxSTPMi42xbIELMk7P9ZEPcmolseQ8SXwze7GBbThZshXMTg$ Field 2 Kawana https://livestream.com/accounts/9457344/events/9825236<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/livestream.com/accounts/9457344/events/9825236__;!!MoAtgck!L9n_Lbseo23CFzYoR3lxSTPMi42xbIELMk7P9ZEPcmolseQ8SXwze7GBbTiUZQYFAQ$   SOUTHPORT Field 1 – Friday 3 September https://youtu.be/7e4BE6OfmjM…

By Peter Blucher Keidean Coleman is living proof that 12 months is a long time in football. This time last year, as the Brisbane Lions prepared for their second final of the Covid-interrupted 2020 season against Geelong at the Gabba,…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend In Brief If all finals football could be as good as what we saw last week, the pressure is on for the remainder of the teams competing in the Senior competition to live up to that…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend In Brief After finishing in eighth position on the ladder in 2020 with one win and basically 11-goals ahead of Wilston Grange, Labrador has executed the perfect turn-around from near cellar-dwellers one season to minor premiers…

Congratulations to all of our award winners from the 2021 SEQ Senior Community Football season.  QFAW DIVISION 1 2021 Leading Goalkicker: Katrina Pridmore – Surfers Paradise  2021 Best & Fairest: Alana McNabb – Surfers Paradise and Madeleine Watt – Southport…

AFL Queensland congratulates the following Queensland Volunteer of the Year Award recipients. You are the unsung heroes of our game and your work to progress our sport is very much appreciated. Category Winners Name Winners Club/League Toyota AFL Community Football…

The AFL thanks all supporters for a strong start to the 2021 Toyota AFL Finals Series which saw a total average audience of 5.84 million, a 15 per cent increase compared to the first week of the 2019 Toyota AFL Finals…

Submitted by Peter Blucher. There are more than 20 Queenslanders who will wholeheartedly endorse the appointment of former Brisbane Lions flyer Craig McRae as the new Collingwood senior coach this week. All have much to thank McRae for, having played…

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States of America that simply became known as 9/11. To honour the almost 3,000 victims and in particular, the 412 emergency services workers (including 343 Firefighters) who lost…

Congratulations to all of our award winners from the 2021 SEQ Senior Community Football season.  QFA DIVISION 2 NORTH SENIOR 2021 Leading Goalkicker: Jacob Knight – Hinterland Blues 2021 Nev Poppleton Medal: Joshua Wagner – Sandgate  RESERVES  2021 Leading Goalkicker:…

The AFL has today informed all 22 VFL Clubs that the 2021 VFL Premiership Season will not be completed, due to the challenges surrounding the COVID-19 situation across the country.   A 2021 VFL Premier will not be awarded with…

The AFL is pleased to announce the 2021 Toyota AFL First Semi-Final match between the Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs will be broadcast in traditional Yolngu Matha language for the first time.   The history-making broadcast will be conducted by…

The Lord Mayor’s Better Suburbs Grants program supports not-for-profit community organisations to deliver projects and activities across the city and to maintain, improve and develop community facilities.  The program comprises two categories. Community Support Category The Community Support Category provides funding to…

Day Two – Wednesday 1 September Secondary Female GAME 1 Junior Female:  The Cathedral College 4.2 (26) def Kirwan State High 2.7 (19)  Senior Female PF1: St Andrew’s College 8.5 (53) def Kirwan State High 1.2 (8)  Senior Female PF2:…

More than 12,000 participants have taken part in the 2021 StreetSmarts AFLQ Schools Cup making it the most successful year of the state-wide competition since it began in 2016. Over the last six months we’ve seen 270 schools and 606…

Congratulations to all of our Best and Fairest award winners from the 2021 McDonald’s SEQ Youth Football season.    McDonald’s U12 Division 1 North Noah Cameron Wilston Grange  McDonald’s U12 Division 1 South Taj Murray Burleigh McDonald’s U12 Division 2…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend WILSTON GRANGE v BROADBEACH Broadbeach has celebrated one of its best wins of the 2021 season with an impressive 27-point win over Wilston Grange at Redland-Victoria Point on Saturday. The Cats went into the contest as…

On Thursday (26 August), Harrup Park advised AFL Queensland that they had secured three international women’s ODI fixtures and as a result AFL Mackay would be unable to host the six Grand Finals booked for Saturday, 11 September. An alternate…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend BROADBEACH v MAROOCHYDORE These two teams took to field at Redland-Victoria Point with pure desperation to keep their finals’ dreams alive. It was this desperation that was evident from the opening bounce and did not stop…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Morningside held off a fast-finishing Surfers Paradise to advance through to the QAFL Semi-Final after recording a thrilling six-point win at Sir Bruce Small Park on Saturday afternoon. After leading by as much as 41-points on…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Just 24 hours after celebrating his 30th birthday, powerhouse full forward Mitch Scholard kicked seven goals to sink Redland-Victoria Point and help Maroochydore advance to the first QAFL Semi-Final by 10-points. After trailing by as much…

Fifteen-year old Queensland football representative Zimra Hussain has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution from a New Queenslander in the Queensland Government’s Multicultural Queensland Awards.  The Brisbane Lions Academy member arrived to Queensland seven years ago as a refugee from Afghanistan…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Elimination Final – 1 | Redland-Victoria Point Wilston Grange v Broadbeach In  Brief For Wilston Grange to have its Colts playing finals is a tremendous effort and reward for where the club is headed. Under the…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Elimination Final – 1 | Redland-Victoria Point Broadbeach v Maroochydore In  Brief With Labrador and Morningside controlling proceedings at the head of the ladder, the bottom half of the six created plenty of excitement. It ended…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend In Brief Who would have thought that the premiers of the last two seasons would be battling it out in an Elimination Final. The Demons went from winning a memorable Grand Final in 2019 to not…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend In Brief The Sharks and and the Roos kick off the return to QAFL football for the first time since July 24; and needless to say it has felt like an eternity. These two teams will…