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The humiliation was obviously felt by the players as when Queensland defeated a New South Wales Rugby Union team shortly afterwards many of the former rugby players receded from the Australian football ranks and formed clubs of their own. [7] Over the next few years, rugby union's popularity in South East Queensland would swamp Victorian Rules.
In Queensland, Australian rules football (known mainly as "AFL") dates back to the colonial era in 1866, with organised competitions being continuous since the 1900s. Today, it is most popular in South East Queensland and the Cairns Region.
The Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL / ˈ k w ɒ f ə l / KWOF-əl or "Q-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football competition organised by the AFL Queensland, contested by clubs from South East Queensland.
The sport of Australian rules football has a rich history in Queensland which dates back to the 1860s, however the game outside of South East Queensland was slower to take off than in Brisbane. In 1913, a team of servicemen briefly existed on Thursday Island, but was short-lived.
QFA Division 1-5 & Queensland Women's Amateur Football League Aspley Hornets AFC; Burleigh; Caloundra AFC; Coorparoo; Maroochydore AFC; Mayne AFC; Noosa AFC; Springwood; University of Queensland AFC
AFL Queensland Limited (AFLQ) is the governing body of Australian rules football in Queensland formed in 2000 and based at Leyshon Park in the Brisbane suburb of Yeronga.AFL Queensland has over 216,000 participants (including Northern Rivers which is governed by AFLQ) playing at all levels of football from the introductory NAB AFL Auskick program to the AFL Masters Competition.
This is a list of clubs that play Australian rules football in Australia at the senior level. Guide to abbreviations: FC = Football Club; AFC = Australian Football Club (mainly used if in Queensland or NSW or outside Australia) / Amateur Football Club (mainly used in the other Australian States)
Australian rules football holds the match attendance record of any football code in Victoria (121,696), South Australia (66,987), Tasmania (24,968) and the Northern Territory (17,500). The national professional competitions are the men's Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW). Nationally these are the most popular football ...