The Morningside Australian Football Club, also known as the Morningside Panthers, is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

club based at Jack Esplen Oval in the suburb of

Hawthorne Hawthorne often refers to the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne may also refer to: Places Australia *Hawthorne, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane Canada * Hawthorne Village, Ontario, a suburb of Milton, Ontario United States * Hawt ...

in Brisbane. The club consists of Masters, Amateurs, Women's, Junior and Senior football sections. Its senior team competed in the

North East Australian Football League The North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) was an Australian rules football league in New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. The league was formed in November 2010, and its inaugural co ...

(NEAFL) competition from 2011 to 2013 and now is a member club of the

Queensland Australian Football League The Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL) is an Australian rules football competition organised by the AFL Queensland, contested by clubs from South East Queensland. Previously known as the Queensland Football League (QFL), Queensland ...

.2014 QAFL clubs
/ref> Its junior sides compete in the AFL Brisbane Juniors (AFLBJ) competition. The club also caters for young girls and boys by running Auskick skills clinics, which are held at the beginning of the season and do not involve competitive games. Morningside Football Club has operated successfully as a football club in Brisbane for over 50 years and is one of the most widely recognised Queensland based AFL clubs within Australia. It developed from the Hawthorne Juniors club which was founded in 1931.

Recent history

At the beginning of the 2000 season the members of both clubs voted unanimously to join and form one united club. This decision was made to strengthen the club socially, financially and to improve the junior player development programmes and created a player path to the elite AFLQ State League competition. Morningside has provided some of the best Queensland-bred Australian rules footballers of the last 50 years, including triple-premiership winning

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captain

Michael Voss Michael Voss (born 7 July 1975) is a former professional Australian rules football player with the Brisbane Bears/Lions and current senior coach of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Voss was a triple premiersh ...

and his teammate fullback

Mal Michael Malcolm Robert Michael (born 24 June 1977) is a Papua New Guinean-born former Australian rules footballer. He is notable for his successful professional career in the Australian Football League. In a career spanning 238 games and three clubs ...

, Voss's brother Brett Voss (who played at Brisbane and St Kilda). Current players include dashing half-back

Courtenay Dempsey Courtenay Dempsey (born 28 August 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Dempsey was born in Mount IsaDavid Armitage of St Kilda and recently debuted Tom Bell of Carlton, nicknamed the next "Kouta" referring to Blues legend Anthony Koutoufides. At the beginning of 2011, the QAFL was merged to form the "North-East Australian Football League", combining Sydney and Canberra teams with the best QAFL teams, including the

Northern Territory Thunder Northern Territory Football Club, nicknamed NT Thunder, was a Northern Territory-based Australian rules football club that competed in the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) between 2011 and 2019. It also competed in the VFL Women's i ...

Gold Coast Suns The Gold Coast Suns is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based on Queensland's Gold Coast in the suburb of Carrara. The club has been playing in the AFL since th ...

, GWS and

Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a reser ...

reserves team all compete in the competition as well as the

reserves. There are two conferences with Morningside playing in the Northern Conference alongside fellow rivals Mt Gravat and Southport, among others. In the NEAFL's inaugural year, Morningside played Northern Territory in the Northern Conference Final, in which they were beaten by 87 points. Northern Territory went on to beat Eastern champion Ainslie.

Honours

AFL Queensland AFL Queensland (AFLQ) is the governing body of Australian rules football in Queensland. AFL Queensland has over 216,000 participants (including Northern Rivers which is governed by AFLQ) playing at all levels of football from the introductory N ...

(10): 1965, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2020

Grand Finals detail

Individual

Grogan Medallists

The

Grogan Medal The Grogan Medal is an Australian rules football award given to the best and fairest player in home and away rounds of each season's Queensland State League (Australian rules football), QAFL/Queensland State League competition. From 2011 to presen ...

is awarded to the best and fairest player in an AFLQ season. *Noel McGuinness 1953 *Henry Maguire 1955 *Keith Farnsworth 1957 *

Merv Dihm Mervyn "Merv" Dihm (born 16 September 1933) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). While serving at naval air station as a naval rating in 1953, Dihm was arrested and charged ...

1960 *Terry Johnston 1967 *Jeff Ebert 1974 * John Blair 1982 * Daryl Bourke 1989 & 1993 *Ricky Chapman 1992 *Mitchell Howe 1994 *Dean Edwards 1998 *Jacob Gough 2003 *Nathan Kinch 2008 *Matthew Payne 2020

QAFL Top Goalkickers

*Gary Jones (114) – 1974 *Gary Jones (124) – 1975 *Gary Jones (142) – 1976 *J. Newton (81) – 1979 * J. Blair (86) – 1985 *J. Manson (106) – 1986 *Darren Vickery (95) – 1989 *Darren Vickery (117) – 1990 *Darren Vickery (100) – 1991 *Darren Vickery (81) – 1992 *M. Russell (83) – 1994 *M. Russell (105) – 1995 *M. Russell (101) – 1997 *Matthew Hammelmann (34) – 2020

AFL/VFL players

There is a list of past and present Morningside players who have played at

AFL AFL may refer to: Sports * American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues: ** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football Leagu ...

/VFL: *

Jackson Allen Jackson Allen (born 14 April 1993) is a former professional Australian rules football player at the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the club in the 2011 National Draft, with pick #91, as ...

(Gold Coast) * David Armitage (St. Kilda) * Tom Bell (Carlton and Brisbane Lions) * John Blair (South Melbourne, Fitzroy and St. Kilda) * Daryl Bourke (Melbourne) *

Jordon Bourke Jordon Bourke (born 11 November 1994) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). The son of former and ruckman Damian Bourke, Jordon is a tall strong-m ...

(Brisbane Lions) * Scott Clouston (Brisbane Lions) * Keidean Coleman (Brisbane Lions) *Blake Coleman (Brisbane Lions) *

Terry Devery Terry Devery (born 22 March 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A rover, Devery started his senior career at Box Hill in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). He ...

(Footscray) *

(St. Kilda) * Brad Edwards (Fitzroy and Brisbane Bears) *

Matthew Hammelmann Matthew Hammelmann (born 8 March 1996) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Brisbane Lions with their fourth selection and seventy- ...

(Brisbane Lions) * Scott Harding (Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide) * Jack Henry (Essendon) * Tom Hickey (Gold Coast and St. Kilda) * Warren Jones (Carlton and St. Kilda) *

Ben Keays Ben Keays (born 23 February 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). His great-grandfather Fred Keays represented both and in the Victorian Footbal ...

(Brisbane Lions) *

Stephen Kenna Stephen Kenna (born 8 October 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL). After being delisted from Carlton, Kenna moved to South Adelaide in the South Australian National Foot ...

(Carlton) *

Tony Lynn Tony Lynn (born 29 April 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears and Carlton in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL). A Queenslander, Lynn played both junior and senior football at Morn ...

(Brisbane Lions and Carlton) *

(Collingwood, Brisbane Lions and Essendon) * Rick Norman (North Melbourne and Brisbane Bears) * Paul Peos (West Coast Eagles and Brisbane Bears) * Tony Smith (Sydney Swans) * Lee Spurr (Fremantle) * Howard Tarpey (South Melbourne) * Gavin Urquhart (North Melbourne) * Brett Voss (Brisbane Lions and St. Kilda) *

(Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions) * John Waddington (North Melbourne) *

David Wearne David Wearne (born 10 May 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League (AFL). Wearne played his early football at Coorparoo and joined Brisbane's senior list after being pic ...

(Brisbane Bears) *

John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (15 November 2022)Classic Connection review ''WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who wa ...

(Essendon) * Tom Williams (Western Bulldogs) *

Peter Yagmoor Peter Yagmoor (born 20 October 1993) is a former Australian rules football player. Early life Yagmoor was born and raised in Cairns, his Lebanese and Indigenous Australian father moved there from Melbourne where he met his mother. He played h ...

(Collingwood)

References

External links

Official websiteAustralianFootball.com club profile
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