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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 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 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 ...
In the match, the Lions came back from a 52-point deficit during the third quarter to clinch a 5-point win with a goal after the siren. [1] The win was the eighth-biggest comeback in VFL/AFL history, and the largest in the history of the Brisbane Lions. [2] The game was given its name by commentator Anthony Hudson. [3]
This is a list of every player to have been listed in the Australian Football League or the AFL Women's for the Brisbane Lions in the club's history.. Players are listed in order of debut, and the start of their Brisbane Lions career is determined by their year of debut, and the end is determined by the year of their final game playing for the Brisbane Lions.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... History of the Brisbane Lions; L. ... Media in category "Brisbane Lions" This category contains only the ...
Swann was previously Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Collingwood Football Club from 1999 until 2007. [4] [5] Swann in his tenure as CEO of Collingwood, oversaw improved on-field results after lifting Collingwood up from the bottom of the ladder, the previous years, by being a strong supporter of club president Eddie McGuire, club senior coach Mick Malthouse and club captain Nathan Buckley ...
Copeland was born in Redcliffe, Queensland and raised in Kilcoy. [1] He played his junior football with the Strathpine Swans in Brisbane's northern suburbs. [1]Overlooked in successive AFL Drafts, Copeland was recruited to the Brisbane Lions through the 2001 Rookie Draft (QLD Zone) from the Northern Eagles and was elevated to the Senior list on 10 May that year after Michael Voss was placed on ...