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The Brisbane Lions are a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Brisbane are the reigning AFL premiers , having won the 2024 Grand Final by sixty points.
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 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 ...
Brisbane Lions Round 10, 2001 Round 20, 2000 20 Essendon Round 1, 2000 Round 18, 1929 20 Collingwood Semifinal, 1928 5 Round 20, 2009 19 St Kilda Round 1, 2009 Round 13, 1956 19 Melbourne Round 15, 1955 [4]
The Brisbane Bears was the name for a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, now known as the Brisbane Lions. Granted a Victorian Football League license in 1986, it was the first privately owned club in the history of the competition and debuted in the 1987 VFL season .
It was the Brisbane Lions' first appearance in a grand final, and it broke a long grand final drought for the two clubs who merged to form it in 1997: its Melbourne-based predecessor, Fitzroy Lions, had not contested a grand final since 1944, and its Brisbane-based predecessor, Brisbane Bears, did not contest a grand final in its ten-year history.
Australian rules football in South Africa is a team sport played at amateur level in the country with a small audience. The governing body is AFL South Africa.. Earliest recollections in South Africa indicate that Australian rules football was first introduced to the colonies of Transvaal, Natal and Cape in the 1880s with a premiership competition and intercolonial matches operating from 1896.
Awarded 2014–2019 and 2021–present, as 'Reserves Player of the Year' in 2014 and as 'Neville Fallon Brisbane Lions Reserves Best & Fairest' from 2015–2019 and 2021–present. 2014: Nick Hayes 2015: Zac O'Brien 2016: Billy Evans 2017: Oscar McInerney 2018: Ryan Bastinac/Claye Beams/Ben Keays/Corey Lyons 2019: Ryan Bastinac 2021: Connor ...