2023 QAFL season

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2023 QAFL season
Teams12
Premiers Aspley
2nd premiership
Minor premiers Aspley
Wooden spooners Sherwood Districts
Grogan Medallist Kwaby Boakye [1]
(Broadbeach − 21 votes)
Ray Hughson Medallist Matthew Hammelmann [2] [3]
(Redland-VP − 106 goals)
  2022
2024  

The 2023 QAFL season was the 112th season of the Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Queensland. The season featured 12 clubs, beginning on 1 April and concluding on 16 September. [4] [5]

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Aspley won the QAFL premiership for the second time and the second year in a row, defeating Redland-Victoria Point by 42 points in the 2023 QAFL Grand Final. [6] It was Redland-Victoria Point's first senior grand final since the merged club joined the QAFL in 2021. [7] [8]

Ladder

PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPtsQualification
1 Aspley (P)1815211779982181.262 Finals series
2 Redland-Victoria Point 18144018651202155.256
3 Broadbeach 18134116361167140.254
4 Surfers Paradise 18126014231171121.548
5 Wilston Grange 18117014851383107.444
6 Palm Beach Currumbin 188911385158387.534
7 Labrador 1871011288147087.630
8 Maroochydore 18711014541422102.328
9 Morningside 1871101343160283.828
10 Noosa 1861201357171179.324
11 Mount Gravatt 1851301399178078.620
12 Sherwood Districts 181170971191250.84

Source: [9] [10]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals series

Grand Final

2023 QAFL Grand Final
Saturday, 16 September (2:05 pm) Aspley def. Redland-Victoria Point Giffin Park [11] [12]
4.4 (28)
8.7 (55)
12.8 (80)
16.12 (108)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
1.2 (8)
2.7 (19)
5.8 (38)
9.12 (66)
5: Freeman
3: Stackelberg
2: O'Dwyer, Toye
1: Best, Payne, Peppin, Watson
Goals5: Hammelmann
1: Hausfeld, Matthews, O'Sullivan, Rolls
Dawson, Freeman, Payne, Harker, Craven, WolbersBestO'Sullivan, Huddy, Hambleton, Hammelmann, William, Rolls

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