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Soccer in Queensland
Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium
Governing bodyFootball Queensland
Representative teamQueensland
Nickname(s)soccer, football
First played1867 in Brisbane
Registered players217,749 (adult)
124,168 (child)[1]
Audience records
Single match51,153 (2014) Brisbane Roar vs Western Sydney Wanderers Suncorp Stadium 2014 A-League Grand Final (Lang Park, Brisbane)[2]

Soccer was first played in Queensland on a regular basis in Brisbane, in 1884. It is the most participated team sport in the state with 341,917 players in 2024 just under a third of which are female.[1] The game in Queensland is administered by the peak body, Football Queensland, together with several subordinate zone councils, each representing regions of Queensland.[3]

History

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Main article: History of soccer in Brisbane, Queensland
Brisbane team ca 1870 playing London Association (soccer) rules

The Brisbane Football Club (Queensland's first football club) formed in 1866 under Australian Rules football rules but dabbled in both soccer and rugby football for much of its history, but appears to have been involved in many of the early soccer matches in Brisbane from 1867 to 1870.

The earliest mention of matches under London Association rules is a July 1867 match Between Brisbane FC and the Volunteer Artillery World eleven.[4] Volunteer Artillery later switched to Australian rules.

Brisbane FC also played soccer at Woogaroo (now Goodna), west of Brisbane, in 1875 against the inmates and warders of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum."[5]

The following year at a meeting at the Railway Hotel, Petrie Terrace in April 1876, a new club was being formed in Brisbane to play under London Association rules is made with the intention of starting a neighbourhood league.[6]

The Anglo-Queensland Football Association (a predecessor of Football Queensland) began in 1884. The Brisbane Courier reported in early May 1884:

A MEETING of those favourable to the "Association" game of football as played in the home countries was held at the Australian Hotel last night ... [I]t was resolved that it was desirable to form an Anglo-Queensland Football Association, and as a beginning the meeting formed the first club, the name selected being "St. Andrew's Football Club." ... It was announced that already from twenty-seven to thirty promises to join the club had been received, and it was resolved to play a practice match tomorrow afternoon, if possible, in the Queen's Park.[7]

The first fixture match was played on 7 June 1884, on the Pineapple Sportsfield (now part of Raymond Park), Kangaroo Point (refer to History of association football in Brisbane, Queensland for more information).

By 1886, the game had spread west to Ipswich and then to other regional centres.

Administration of football in Queensland

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Football Queensland

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Football Queensland was preceded by a number of organisations:

  • 1884-1889: Anglo-Queensland Football Association
  • 1890-1919: Queensland British Football Association
  • 1920-1927: Queensland Football Association
  • 1928-1939: Queensland Soccer Council
  • 1940-1961: Queensland Soccer Football Association
  • 1962-2005: Queensland Soccer Federation
  • 2006-Present: Football Queensland

Queensland Zones

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The game is administered locally by zone councils:

Zone Site
Football Queensland Central Coast [1]
Football Queensland Darling Downs [2]
Football Queensland Far North & Gulf [3]
Football Queensland Metro North & South [4]
Football Queensland North [5]
Football Queensland South Coast [6]
Football Queensland Sunshine Coast [7]
Football Queensland Whitsunday Coast [8]
Football Queensland Wide Bay [9]

Participation

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Registered players[8]
2021/22 211,923[9]
2023/24 217,749[1]

National representation

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National Soccer League (NSL) 1977-2004

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There were a number of Queensland teams that played in the now defunct National Soccer League.

Club name Years in the NSL Premierships Cups
Brisbane City 1977-1986 (10) -- 1977, 1978
Brisbane Lions 1977-1986 & 1988 (10) -- 1981
Brisbane Strikers 1992-2004 (12) 1997 --

A-League (2005-present)

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The Brisbane Roar, a privately owned football club (originally formed by the Brisbane-based Queensland Lions FC), was the only Queensland team to compete in the inaugural season of the national A-League (2005).

In the 2009-10 Hyundai A-League season, two other clubs joined the Roar, Gold Coast United FC and the North Queensland Fury FC (Townsville).[10] However, the Fury team withdrew from the competition after season 2010-11, citing financial difficulties.[11] Gold Coast United also left the A-league after the 2011-12 season. They have now reformed in August 2017 and currently compete in the National Premier Leagues Queensland.[12][13]

Club competitions

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Queensland statewide competitions

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The Queensland State League (QSL) was established in 2008 to provide a second tier competition between the A-League and the Queensland regional competitions. The QSL consisted of a single division, comprising nine teams without provision for promotion or relegation.

In 2013 the QSL was replaced by the National Premier Leagues Queensland (NPL Qld) which forms a division within the National Premier Leagues (NPL). The winner (top of the table after the regular season) enters a national finals series against the winners of the other NPL divisions. In 2018 the NPL Queensland will introduce promotion from and relegation to, a new league the Football Queensland Premier League.

Regional competitions

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Below the NPL Qld there are local competitions run in each of the zones.

Seasons in Queensland soccer

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1880s 1884
1890s 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020s 2020 2021

Women's football

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Brisbane Roar have a team in the national W-League that represent Queensland's female footballers.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c Commission, Australian Sports Commission; jurisdiction=Commonwealth of Australia; corporateName=Australian Sports. "AusPlay results". Sport Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Bilton, Dean (5 May 2014). "Brisbane Roar win third A-League championship with thrilling 2-1 extra-time win over Western Sydney Wanderers". ABC News.
  3. ^ "Football Queensland: The Home of Football in Queensland". Football Queensland. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  4. ^ "TELEGRAPHIC". The Brisbane Courier. Vol. XXII, no. 3, 057. Queensland, Australia. 29 July 1867. p. 2. Retrieved 26 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ Syson, Ian. "The genesis of soccer in Australia". Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  6. ^ "ADELAIDE". The Telegraph. No. 1, 110. Queensland, Australia. 29 April 1876. p. 2. Retrieved 26 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "The Brisbane Courier". The Brisbane Courier. Vol. XXXVIII, no. 8, 209. Queensland, Australia. 2 May 1884. p. 4. Retrieved 20 November 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ Ausplay Participation by Activity/State
  9. ^ "Football/soccer Report". Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Gold Coast And Townsville Set For A-League". FourFourTwo. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Fury owner bows out as A-League faces $20m debt". 3 March 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Then there were 10 again: Gold Coast to Fod". 9 April 2010. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  13. ^ "Gold Coast United is Back. – Gold Coast United". 3 August 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2018.

See also

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