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The Brisbane Lions have since renewed and maintained strong ties with the Fitzroy Football Club in the VAFA and the Fitzroy junior football club. The Brisbane Lions sponsor a male and female Fitzroy player each year, conduct coaching workshops for Fitzroy, frequently invite the Fitzroy juniors to form a guard of honour for Victorian games, 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 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 rivalry between the Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide can be traced back to July 1996 when the Fitzroy Football Club and the Brisbane Bears merged to form the Brisbane Lions as Port Adelaide were due to enter the AFL with the Brisbane Lions in 1997. Fans of both Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears were disappointed at losing their clubs as ...
Statistics are for AFL regular season and finals series matches only and are correct to the end of the 2024 season. Games played for either of the two clubs that merged in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions, the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Football Club are not included in this list. However, Brisbane Bears players who played for the Brisbane ...
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 ...
On 3 May 2001, Gale was named in Fitzroy's Team of the Century, as the ruckman. [5] In 2007, The Brisbane Lions recognised Gale as one of the ten greatest Lions players from the era 1957 to 1966. [6] Playing career: Fitzroy 1948–1961 (Games 213; Goals 19; Brownlow votes 30) [7] Player honors: 12th Brownlow Medal 1957. Fitzroy captain: 1958 to ...
Sapphire Coast Australian Football League: 1986: Brisbane Bears † Brisbane: Queensland: Defunct (1996) Participated in the VFL/AFL from 1987 until 1996, then merged with Fitzroy to form the Brisbane Lions. 1986: West Coast Eagles: Perth: Western Australia: Australian Football League: Participant in the VFL/AFL since the 1987 VFL season. 1987 ...