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The league was a precursor to the nearby Cairns, Queensland league. In 1955, the Townsville Australian Football League began. Two years later the Cairns Australian Football League was formed. AFL was also introduced to Mount Isa. In the early 1970s, organised leagues started appearing in Mackay, the Darling Downs and Central Queensland.
3.1 Queensland Football Association (Brisbane-Gold Coast-Ipswich-Sunshine Coast) ... AFL Cairns. Cairns City Lions; Cairns Saints; Centrals Trinity Beach Bulldogs;
AFL Cairns is a semi-professional Australian rules football league that includes clubs from the Cairns region in Queensland, Australia.It is widely regarded as the strongest regional Australian rules football league in Queensland and has a large base at Cazalys Stadium which has staged Australian Football League matches.
There are 11 regional club competitions, the highest profile of which are the semi-professional Queensland Australian Football League and AFL Cairns. It is governed by AFL Queensland. According to Ausplay there are 51,941 adult players with a per capita rate of 1.2%, just under half of which are female, and 30,563 children. [1]
Port Douglas Crocs Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club based to the north of that region in Port Douglas, Queensland and is the club sited furthest north on the east coast of Australia. The football team currently plays in the AFL Cairns League.
However Cairns and North Queensland is often cited as lacking the supporter base (being far behind the Barassi Line) and population to make a standalone AFL franchise successful. A Northern Australia joint venture between the Northern Territory and North Queensland is sometimes proposed as a more viable option. [44] [45] Despite making moves to ...
AFL club Gold Coast Suns won their third AFL home and away season game on 16 July 2011, winning a tough and hard-fought game against Richmond 12.13 (85) to 9.16 (70) [38] Gold Coast Suns won its first match of the 2012 AFL home and away season on 14 July 2012, ending a twenty-one match losing streak by defeating Richmond 13.12 (90) to 13.10 (88).
Founded in 1903 it was previously known as the Queensland Football League (QFL), Queensland Australian National Football League (QANFL), Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL) and AFL Queensland State League (AFLQSL), the QAFL is the premier semi-professional competition in Queensland.