With the Bond University QAFLW grand final just around the corner, here is your event guide for the day.  Bond University QAFLW Grand Finals Sunday 27th August, Brighton Homes Arena, Springfield   Match Schedule 12.00pm – Bond University QAFLW Reserves…

Aussie Rules in Queensland continues to soar to new heights, with the all-time community football participation record surpassed. More than 68,000 people are now registered to play Australia’s game in the sunshine state.  The record was announced on Thursday 24…

AFL fans across the country will remember the David Zaharakis moment. When a 19-year-old in just his fourth game kicked himself into football immortality. A last-second goal to win the 15th AFL Anzac Day game for Essendon by four points…

The 2023 Toyota Wheelchair AFL National Championships will be back in Victoria with the event to be held at State Netball & Hockey Centre from 1-5 November.  After successfully returning in 2022 following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic,…

Ben Ryan will never forget his second game as a senior field umpire. It was an extra special father/son moment he shared with his father Steve at the home ground of the one-time infamous Gladstone Mudcrabs in 1998. He was…

By Peter Blucher Connor Budarick has been in the AFL system 1,363 days, all for 28 games of AFL football. He’s had blocks of 393 days and 413 days without playing after not one but two knee reconstructions. He’s done…

Paul Sherwood has carried a little bit of Morningside with him for 30 years. His nickname ‘Forest’ was a ‘gift’ from Panthers great Daryl Bourke and has stuck with him through five years in the QAFL, 10 years with Glenelg…

As a youngster Gary Shaw would wait out on the ground at Chelmer whenever Western Districts played at home through the 1970s. As the team ran out and came towards him he’d kick his footy to Owen Backwell, and the…

You’ve heard the old saying ‘first impressions are everything!’ It’s never been more true than in the case of the Southport Sharks. Because if things had worked out a little differently 35 years ago the Sharks most likely would not…

Can you name the five Queenslanders who can lay claim to 300 AFL games? Nick Riewoldt played 336, Jason Akermanis 325 and Marcus Ashcroft 318. Michael Voss played 289 and by the end of the 2023 home-and-away season he’ll have…

Grand Final fever has hit the Sunshine State.   More than 80 Grand Finals will be played across eleven venues over five action-packed weekends, with the premier Bond University QAFLW Grand Final being held at Brighton Homes Arena on Sunday August 27th.…

by Daniel Viles  SOUTHPORT v ASPLEY Saturday 19 August 2023, 2pm at Fankhauser Reserve, Southport Live stream with commentary on YouTube Head-to-Head: Played 4 – Southport won 3; Abandoned 1 Head-to-Head at Fankhauser Reserve: Played 1 – Southport won 1…

LABRADOR QAFL SENIORS v. BROADBEACH QAFL SENIORS Round R21 – 2023-08-19 Labrador QAFL Seniors ——————————————– B: Jed Riddle(32), Jayden Young(7), Cade Gregory(47) HB: Jay Foon(9), Mackenzie Bristow(28), William Derrington(39) C: Luke Coombes(4), Matthew Lee(5), Jack Hammond(11) HF: Nathan Wright(24), Cooper…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend We head into the final round of the 2023 QAFL Senior Men’s Home and Away season in what looms as the most complicated round of the weekend with just three of the 12 positions on the…

Meet Kim Stahl, Queensland Football Hall of Famer, and his wife Kim. Confusing? Yes. Think about it. Even opening the mail would be a challenge. But what is not confusing is the legacy of a quarter of a century spent…

One of the great features of AFL football is the father/son rule, whereby family tradition is passed from generation to generation. Like the Abletts, Watsons, Clokes, Kennedys and Murphys. The Hawkins, Liberatores, Mitchells, Vineys and Danihers. And while it wasn’t…

The inaugural Queensland Wheelchair Football League Premiership will be decided this Sunday, when Morningside Panthers and Redcliffe Tigers do battle at Nissan Arena at 12:30pm. Four foundation clubs including Ormeau Bulldogs, Beenleigh Buffaloes, Morningside Panthers, and Redcliffe Tigers played in…

There were some handy types in the 1974 Coorparoo under 12’s grand final side. Two-time Grogan Medallist Brendan McMullen, regular senior players David Fagg, Ross McKinnon, Mal Thompson and Warren Bobbermein, and leading Queensland umpire Martin Hopp and two others…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend   The stage is set for an epic final round in the QAFL Senior Men’s competition with just two positions locked in following the completion of the penultimate round. Reigning premiers Aspley secured the minor premiership…

The AFL audience world-wide held its collective breath shortly after 5pm on Saturday 28 September 2018 as West Coast’s Dom Sheed stood 25m from goal on the boundary line at the MCG with the result of the AFL Grand Final…

A total of 197 Queenslanders have played in the AFL since Kedron’s Erwin Dornau was the first at South Melbourne in 1948 and 131 of them have done so since Mark Browning took charge of the Queensland talent pathway in…

Jo Butland loves nothing more than to hear the words ‘Thanks Jo’ from any of the countless young girls who have followed a pathway that the Cairns-based women’s football icon has blazed in Queensland. It makes it all worthwhile, she…

In ancient England the name ‘Daddow’ means ‘good fella’ in the Cornish and Celtic dialects. But if they were to invent an area-specific dialect at Noosa it would have an extended meaning ….it  would be ‘good fella and club legend’.…

By Daniel Viles Qualifying Final: SOUTHPORT v BOND UNIVERSITY Saturday 12 August 2023, 2pm at Fankhauser Reserve, Southport Live stream with commentary on YouTube Head-to-Head: Played 5 – Southport won 3; Bond University won 2 Head-to-Head at Fankhauser Reserve: Played…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend The penultimate round of the QAFL Senior home and away season will be epic. It’s hard to pick a winner across most games this round; almost as much as it is to pick the final order…

Many of the most promising under-17 boys footballers from Victoria, New South Wales, ACT and Queensland will be in action in Melbourne this Sunday, August 13. The young stars will feature in a double-header at Werribee’s Avalon Airport Oval. The…

Cameron Buchanan tells a story that goes right to the heart of Queensland football. When as a teenager, he started at senior level with Windsor-Zillmere in 1987, he was the only boy in a family of three children, yet 36…

In its inaugural season, wheelchair AFL in Queensland has taken off, building to an intense finals series between the four foundation clubs. Following the conclusion of the season, QClash returns in September, and both the Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast…

They say if you can find something you love and make it your career, you’re a lucky man. So Peter Blucher is one very lucky man. A one-time journalist and all-time sports ‘nut’, he’s been involved in Australian football in…

AFL Queensland has partnered once again with McDonalds Brisbane for the fifth annual Ronald McDonald House Charity Round across the South East Queensland Footy4Fun and Youth competition. The Ronald McDonald House Charities South East Queensland (SEQ) accommodate for up to…