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Australian Football League Townsville
General information
Founded 1955
AFL Townsville Season 2014:
Premiers Hermit Park
Minor Premiers Thuringowa
Wooden Spoon Townsville City Lions
Leading goal kicker Paul Sanson (Thuringowa)
League Records
Highest Score West Townsville 69.26.440 (v Hermit Park 1.1.7) - 1992
Most goals in a game 27 - Steve Mazey - West Townsville vs Northern Beaches - 1999

AFL Townsville is an amateur competition formed as the Townsville Australian Football League in 1955, the first AFL competition to be formed in Queensland outside of the South East. It is based in the city of Townsville. For a short period in the 1980s, the competition was played during the summer months. The representative team is known as the Eagles and they wear similar guernseys to the Zillmere Eagles' old white and blue guernseys.

History

The League was launched with three teams, RAAF, Hermit Park and South Townsville in 1954, after a series of exhibition matches were played at RAAF Oval and Gill Park and an exhibition game at the Townsville Showgrounds. All clubs were founded with juniors.

The Garbutt club was formed in 1956. In 1961, Currajong replaced the RAAF who withdrew due to a struggle for numbers. Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War led to the Army entering the scene in 1968 when 6 RAR and a revived RAAF side expanded the league to 6 teams.

The Wulguru club was established in 1968, entered senior sides and this made the league up to 7 sides. As Australia's involvement in Vietnam wound down the Army withdrew. The competition was to remain with 6 sides from 1976 – 1982 until in 1983 a side from Burdekin increased the numbers once again to 7. Burdekin was made up from converted Rugby players and the team had almost no support apart from the management of the Delta Hotel. The demise of Wulguru followed in early 1984 when the league made a decision which would have significant consequences. Four seasons of summer football followed and while the “Darwin” seasons attracted some top players junior development was stifled.

Currajong in 1990 swallowed up a penniless Townsville Swans, who had switched from South Townsville in June 1982 to become the Curra Swans. The nomination of the Hawks club in 1989 caused a stir due to the number of current players recruited from Hermit Park, Currajong and South Townsville using suspect overtures [dubious – discuss], although be that as it may the club were premiers by a point in their first season.

The league lost three teams in 1989 and the following year only Hermit Park, West Townsville, Curra Swans, and the University Hawks remained.

In 1999, the Northern Beaches Lions entered the TAFL in an attempt to expand the shattered league. Unfortunately, they endured season after season of enormous defeats. In one match that year, Steve Mazey of West Townsville kicked 27 goals against them. The Northern Beaches Lions were renamed to the Twin City Lions in 2002 and continued to struggle until the end of 2008 when they went into recess. The Lions regrouped and returned with much more solid foundations in 2012 under the banner of "Townsville City Lions". Despite losing every match that year, often at record margins, the determined Lions upgraded their Garbutt facility and won their first Senior match in June 2013 by a goal against University.

Despite the lack of growth in the Seniors, AFL Townsville enjoyed a massive surge in the Junior ranks in more recent years, numbers had increased, and now hundreds of children and teenagers turn out to give their all for their respective clubs.

In 2010, the Thuringowa Bulldogs (former West Townsville) won their first Senior premiership since 2001 in their 40th year and went on to go back to back in 2011.

Premiers[1]

Clubs

Current

Club Nickname Home Ground(s) Joined Premierships
Curra
Club Website 		Swans Muldoon Oval 1990 3 (1997, 1998, 1999)
Hermit Park
Club Website 		Tigers Neil French Oval 1955 10 (1955, 1967, 1970, 1984/85, 1986/87, 2002, 2006,
2008, 2012, 2015)
Northern Beaches
Club Website 		Suns North Shore Cyclone Shelter 2016 0
Thuringowa
Club Website 		Bulldogs Tony Ireland Stadium 1970 13 (1971, 1980, 1987/88, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1999,
2000, 2001, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
University
Club Website 		Hawks Belgian Gardens PCYC Oval 1989 9 (1989, 1993, 1994. 1995, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007,
2009)

W.J.Williams Medal(League Best & Fairest)

2009 Ladder

AFL Townsville Wins Byes Losses Draws For Against % Pts Final Team G B Pts Team G B Pts
University Hawks 14 0 1 0 1469 815 180.25% 56 1st Semi Hermit Park 15 21 111 Curra Swans 9 9 63
Thuringowa 7 0 7 1 1417 1126 125.84% 30 2nd Semi University Hawks 11 14 80 Thuringowa 12 7 79
Hermit Park 6 0 9 0 1199 1336 89.75% 24 Preliminary Thuringowa 21 16 142 Hermit Park 11 6 72
Curra Swans 2 0 12 1 928 1736 53.46% 10 Grand University Hawks 17 12 114 Thuringowa 15 6 96

2010 Ladder

AFL Townsville Wins Byes Losses Draws For Against % Pts Final Team G B Pts Team G B Pts
Thuringowa 12 0 3 0 1645 942 174.63% 48 1st Semi Hermit Park 22 13 145 Curra Swans 13 7 85
University Hawks 9 0 6 0 1377 1122 122.73% 36 2nd Semi University Hawks 15 16 106 Thuringowa 10 10 70
Hermit Park 9 0 6 0 1395 1182 118.02% 36 Preliminary Thuringowa 17 11 113 Hermit Park 10 8 68
Curra Swans 0 0 15 0 807 1978 40.80% 0 Grand Thuringowa 7 11 53 University Hawks 6 12 48

2011 Ladder

AFL Townsville Wins Byes Losses Draws For Against % Pts Final Team G B Pts Team G B Pts
Thuringowa 13 0 2 0 1435 888 161.60% 52 1st Semi Curra Swans 16 13 109 University Hawks 10 9 69
Hermit Park 10 0 5 0 1306 968 134.92% 40 2nd Semi Thuringowa 11 7 73 Hermit Park 9 9 63
Curra Swans 6 0 9 0 1090 1193 91.37% 24 Preliminary Hermit Park 14 13 97 Curra Swans 13 13 91
University Hawks 1 0 14 0 771 1553 49.65% 4 Grand Thuringowa 13 14 92 Hermit Park 4 11 35

2012 Ladder

AFL Townsville Wins Byes Losses Draws For Against % Pts Final Team G B Pts Team G B Pts
Thuringowa 16 0 0 0 2154 932 231.12% 64 1st Semi University Hawks 15 12 102 Curra Swans 7 4 46
Hermit Park 9 0 7 0 1999 1066 187.52% 36 2nd Semi Thuringowa 17 6 108 Hermit Park 9 11 65
University Hawks 9 0 7 0 1648 1125 146.49% 36 Preliminary Hermit Park 12 9 81 University Hawks 9 9 63
Curra Swans 6 0 10 0 1320 1382 95.51% 24 Grand Hermit Park 12 10 82 Thuringowa 9 9 63
Townsville City Lions 0 0 16 0 421 3037 13.86% 0

2013 Ladder

AFL Townsville Wins Byes Losses Draws For Against % Pts Final Team G B Pts Team G B Pts
Thuringowa 13 0 2 1 2041 794 257.05% 54 1st Semi Curra Swans 10 11 71 University Hawks 7 14 56
Hermit Park 13 0 2 1 1638 941 174.07% 54 2nd Semi Thuringowa 15 14 104 Hermit Park 2 7 19
Curra Swans 6 0 10 0 1064 1585 67.13% 24 Preliminary Hermit Park 9 11 65 Curra Swans 8 8 56
University Hawks 5 0 11 0 1069 1273 83.97% 20 Grand Thuringowa 13 14 92 Hermit Park 12 5 77
Townsville City Lions 2 0 14 0 783 2002 39.11% 8

2014 Ladder

AFL Townsville Wins Byes Losses Draws For Against % Pts Final Team G B Pts Team G B Pts
Thuringowa 16 0 0 0 2205 654 337.16% 64 1st Semi Hermit Park 11 10 76 University Hawks 5 3 33
Curra Swans 10 0 6 0 1656 1053 157.26% 40 2nd Semi Thuringowa 18 9 117 Curra Swans 7 12 54
Hermit Park 10 0 6 0 1626 1086 149.72% 40 Preliminary Hermit Park 10 15 75 Curra Swans 9 10 64
University Hawks 4 0 12 0 1024 1410 72.62% 16 Grand Thuringowa 26 11 167 Hermit Park 9 3 57
Townsville City Lions 0 0 16 0 530 2838 18.68% 0

See also

References

  1. ^ "none". Townsville Bulletin. Townsville, Queensland.
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