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On 15 July 2010, the two clubs reached a settlement, agreeing that the Fitzroy logo symbolically represents the historic deal between Brisbane and Fitzroy, and represents the Brisbane Lions in the AFL. Fitzroy agreed to a compromise whereby Brisbane would use both the old and new logos alongside each other in an official capacity for the next ...
The Brisbane Bears would then change their name to Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club (trading as Brisbane Lions), playing at The Gabba in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba. The arrangement ensured that all creditors were repaid, at least eight Fitzroy players were to be selected by the Brisbane Lions before the 1996 National Draft and ...
The Brisbane Lions are an Australian rules football club. The Queensland-based expansion club was formed in 1987, as the Brisbane Bears. [1] In late 1996, via a deal with the administrator of the 1883 VFL/AFL foundation club Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy's club operations at the AFL level were merged with that of the Bears.
The club's AFL assets were taken over by the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears Football Club who then changed their name at the end of 1996 and as a condition of that deal, on November 1, 1996, Brisbane Bears members voted to change their club's name to the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club (BBFFC or Brisbane Lions). There were as many as seven ...
Johnson began his professional AFL career with Fitzroy in 1994. He was awarded a nomination in the 1994 AFL Rising Star award in round 21. [3]He was one of eight players allowed to transfer to Brisbane when Fitzroy's AFL operations were taken over by the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions. [4]
Fitzroy Brisbane Lions: 1994–2007 264 172 Indigenous Team of the Century Premiership: 2001, 2002, 2003 All-Australian: 2002, 2004 Brisbane Lions captain: 2007 Joe Johnson: Fitzroy: 1904–1906: 55 15 Premiership: 1904, 1905: Michael Johnson: Fremantle: 2005–2018 244 68 All-Australian: 2013: Percy Johnson: North Melbourne: 1951–1955 52 4 ...
Brisbane Lions playing in Melbourne wearing the 1968 to 1973 Fitzroy jumper for the 2003 heritage round Three successive premierships for the Brisbane Lions in 2001, 2002 and 2003 saw crowds to Australian Football League matches in Brisbane to grow to an average of over 30,000, and in terms of attendance and membership, the AFL team in 2003 was ...
Despite a good season personally, Fitzroy struggled both on the field, winning only one match for the whole season, and financially. Fitzroy's administrator at the time negotiated a deal with Brisbane Bears whereby at the end of the 1996 season, Fitzroy's AFL operations were taken over by the Bears, to form the Brisbane Lions. [6]