AFL Queensland (AFLQ) is the

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. AFL Queensland has over 216,000 participants (including Northern Rivers which is governed by AFLQ) playing at all levels of football from the introductory NAB AFL Auskick program to the AFL Masters Competition. AFL Queensland covers 13 regions, 24 leagues and 159 clubs. These bodies include

Affiliated Leagues

Premier South East Queensland Leagues

The highest grades of men's and women's Queensland community football are: *

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(QAFL) (1903-) *

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(QWAFL) (2001-) *

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(NEAFL) (was the highest level from 2010-2020)

Developmental Leagues

* Queensland Football Association (QFA) (AFL Northern Rivers

Regional Leagues

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(1956-) * AFL Capricornia (1969-) *

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(1971-) * AFL Mackay (1970-) * AFL Mount Isa (1967-) * AFL Northern Rivers (reintroduced 2017) *

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(reintroduced 2017) * AFL Townsville (1955-) *

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(1987-) All Regions include their own affiliated junior Leagues.

Representative Side

The "Queensland Scorpions" are the state representative side and include under 16s, under 18s and open age groups and compete at the

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and other state championships. The "Country Kookaburras" represent the regional areas outside of South East Queensland, have under 14's, 16s, under 18s and open age groups and compete at the Australian Country Championships. Due to the 2005 alignment with

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, both sides can also include players from

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Location

The league's offices are currently based at Leyshon Park, Yeronga.

Previous Australian rules governing bodies in Queensland

* Queensland Football League (QFL), later Queensland Australian National Football League (QANFL) and Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL) (1903–1996) * Queensland Australian Football Council (1997–1999) which oversaw the Queensland State Football League (QSFL)

Grogan Medal

The

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is awarded to the best and fairest in home and away rounds of each season's competition. A best and fairest for the league has been awarded since 1946 however before it became a medal in 1947 and 1948 it was a trophy donated by Col Loel and Mick Byles known as the "Col Loel-Mick Byles" trophy. It was awarded to Kedron's

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in 1947, and Coorparoo's T. Calder in 1948 before being replaced by the Grogan Medal in 1949.

Queensland Team of the 20th Century

On 16 June 2003, the Queensland Team of the 20th Century was announced at a gala function staged by AFLQ at the

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. The Team of the 20th Century is selected from the best home-grown talent and read as follow

Coach of the Century:

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. Umpire of the Century: Tom McArthur.

References

Sources

# ''

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'' 1903 to 1933, weekly match reports and articles # ''

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'' 1903 to 1914, weekly match reports and articles # ''Saturday Sports Observer'' 1903 to 1912, weekly match reports and articles # ''John Morton's Queensland Australian Rules Year Book 1960'' by John Morton, 1960 # ''Queensland Team of the Century Football Record Official Programme'', AFL Queensland, 2003

External links

Official website

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20060819072428/http://qfl.aflq.com.au/default.aspx?s=historydisplay&aid=98717 List of Grand Final Results at the AFLQ State League website
Queensland Footy Discussion
on BigFooty
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