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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.
AFL Cairns. Cairns City Lions; Cairns Saints; Centrals Trinity Beach Bulldogs; Manunda Hawks; North Cairns Tigers; Port Douglas Crocs; South Cairns Cutters; AFL ...
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.
AFL Premiership matches are now regularly played in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Cairns. The AFL began matches in Townsville along with AFLW matches in Moreton Bay, Mackay in the 2010s and the Sunshine Coast and Ipswich in the 2020s. Combined average AFL club membership, television audience and attendance, while growing, is the smallest of any ...
The football team currently plays in the AFL Cairns League. Whilst the league is based in Cairns, Queensland , Port Douglas is a popular tourist destination and is close to both the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree National Park rainforest.
In November 2010 the AFL Queensland's Premier Division merged with AFL Canberra to form the North East Australian Football League, featuring all of its previous teams as well as the Gold Coast Suns and Brisbane Lions reserve teams in the Northern Conference of the league. [10]
AFL Cairns boasts a strong local competition producing many talented players for the national competition and regular AFL matches hosted there. 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 ...
2.2.20 Maryborough Castlemaine District Football League. 2.2.21 Mid Gippsland Football League. ... 8.3 AFL Cairns. 8.4 AFL Capricornia. 8.5 AFL Darling Downs. 8.6 AFL ...