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Kendra Blattman celebrates a goal. QAFLW Bond vs Southport. Picture: Chris Hyde

REVEALED: Best Gold Coast QAFLW recruits and debutantes of 2025

As we hit the halfway point in the competition, we reveal the best QAFLW new recruits and debutantes playing on the Gold Coast. See who has had a breakthrough season for Southport and Bond here.

Action on Day 1 of the 2025 AFLQ Schools Cup state finals in Maroochydore. Picture: AFL Queensland

Watch replays: AFLQ Schools Cup state finals, Day 1

A Gold Coast heavyweight dominated the action on the opening day of the AFLQ Schools Cup state finals in Maroochydore, qualifying for five grand finals. Watch all Friday’s REPLAYS here.

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Live stream: Meet Queensland’s natural born Aussie rules leaders

Live stream: Meet Queensland’s natural born Aussie rules leaders

A strong contingent of up-and-coming young leaders will guide their teams into battle when the AFLQ Schools Cup state finals kick off on Friday. Meet the captains HERE.

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VOTE: Gold Coast’s top Aussie Rules clubs of 2025

After a thrilling year of footy on the Gold Coast. We have ranked all 14 local Aussie Rules clubs to reveal the top club of 2025. See where your team is ranked here and vote for who you believe is the top club in our poll.

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Cairns City Lions v Manunda Hawks preliminary final at Cazalys Stadium. AFLW Cairns 2024. Photo: Gyan-Reece Rocha

‘We remain committed’: Footy club responds to sexism allegations

The FNQ football club at the centre of sexism controversy has issued a statement in response to the allegations. Read their full statement.

Tweed Coast AFC grounds after Cyclone Alfred. Picture: Supplied/Andrew Ryan

Goalpost snaps, ground underwater: Alfred’s GC sport toll

A local Aussie Rules club had a goalpost cleaved in half, a rugby club is cut off from their clubhouse and another is in desperate bid to carve a ditch to a river to save itself. Toll on GC sport

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QAFL, QAFLW signing tracker: Grand final hero signs with Tigers

QAFL, QAFLW signing tracker: Grand final hero signs with Tigers

The 2025 pre-season is officially underway with a host of rising stars, hardened veterans and ex-AFL standouts eager to enter the QAFL and QAFLW. Discover every club’s newest recruits here.

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Zeke Uwland and Georja Davies

AFL Draft Watch: Suns Academy duo aiming to follow famous siblings

The younger siblings of two Suns stars have been named in the club academy’s leadership groups. Meet the draft eligible superstars looking to carve out a career of their own.

Start of the AFL Premiership Cup tour of QLD. AFLW Gold Coast draftee Annise Bradfield, 17 with nippers Leroy Kaesler and Jordan Kaesler from Kurrawa Surf Club. Picture: NIGEL HALLETT

Former AFLW young gun’s new role after medically retiring at 21

From being hailed as a potential breakout midfield star of the Suns, to medically retired at just 21 years old. Annise Bradfield reveals the mental challenges of constant rehab as she prepares for her newest football venture.

APAC Sports Pictures of the Week - 2020, July 27 - GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - JULY 23: Brandon Ellis of Gold Coast Suns celebrates kicking a goal during the round 8 AFL match between the Gold Coast Suns and Western Bulldogs at Metricon Stadium on July 23, 2020 in Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Matt Roberts/AFL Photos/via Getty Images)

‘F*** I miss it’: How the Cutters managed to sign former Sun

After stepping away from the AFL due to mental fatigue, former Richmond Tigers premiership star and Gold Coast Sun Brandon Ellis has rediscovered his love for the game, signing with the South Cairns Cutters for the 2025 season. This is why.

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AFL Round 6. 24/04/2019. Richmond v Melbourne at the MCG. Richmonds Brandon Ellis celebrates a goal in the 4th qtr . Pic: Michael Klein.

South Cairns Cutters sign former Richmond premiership star

A former Richmond Tigers premiership star and Gold Coast Suns player is the latest recruitment coup for AFL Cairns as he joins the reigning premiers in 2025. FIND out how it came about here

Local cross-code star Isabella Lyons has been named in the Gold Coast Suns AFLW U18s squad for 2025

Teen Titan trading netball for a Suns debut

She’s still learning the rules of Australian Football after playing just 10 games, but this 16-year-old netball prodigy has already booked herself into the Gold Coast Suns AFLW under-18s squad for 2025 and is eyeing the draft. Read about her remarkable journey here:

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Revealed: 120+ sports stars of the southeast

The new year looms, and athletes have already begun their prep for season 2025. From the track to the pool and everywhere in between, these are the 120+ southeast Queensland young guns you must watch and why. Full list:

Southport Sharks win the 2024 Bond University QAFLW Seniors. Credit: Queensland AFL Media and Highflyer Images

Revealed: Gold Coast’s top 10 sports clubs of 2024

From threepeats to shattering longstanding premiership droughts and producing generation next, plenty of Gold Coast sports clubs stood tall in 2024. See the best of the best here.

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