2024 QAFL season

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2024 QAFL season
Date6 April − 15 September 2024
Teams12
Premiers Morningside
11th premiership
Minor premiers Aspley
Grogan Medallist Tom Hickey
(Palm Beach Currumbin − 26 votes)
Ray Hughson Medallist Matthew Hammelmann
(Redland-Victoria Point − 71 goals)
  2023
2025  

The 2024 QAFL season was the 113th season of the Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Queensland. [1] The season began on 6 April and concluded on 15 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season over 19 rounds, followed by a four-week finals series. [2]

Contents

Morningside won the QAFL premiership for the 11th time, defeating Redland-Victoria Point by five points in the 2024 QAFL Grand Final. [3]

Ladder

PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPtsQualification
1 Aspley 18153018611118166.560 Finals series
2 Morningside (P)18144019851316150.856
3 Redland-Victoria Point 18126018591295143.648
4 Wilston Grange 18117018451348136.944
5 Palm Beach Currumbin 18117017011544110.244
6 Surfers Paradise 18108015531292120.240
7 Maroochydore 1899015071448104.136
8 Labrador 18810016971420119.532
9 Broadbeach 1881001463158692.232
10 Sherwood Districts 1871101484161991.728
11 Noosa 1831501306186969.912
12 Mount Gravatt 180180663306921.60

Source: [4]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals series

Grand Final

2024 QAFL Grand Final
Sunday, 15 September (2:30pm) Morningside def. Redland-Victoria Point Brighton Homes Arena [5] [6]
2.2 (14)
6.5 (41)
8.8 (56)
9.12 (66)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
1.4 (10)
3.11 (20)
4.12 (36)
8.13 (61)
Joe Grant Medal: Tommy Horne (Morningside)
J. Godwin 3, J. Lohmann 2, M. Waters 2, T. Horne, G. McDonaghGoalsC. Cameron 2, M. Hammelmann 2, D. Annable, J. Brown, D. McDowell-White, M. Thomson
T. Horne, G. McDonagh, D. Swann, J. Lohmann, J. Godwin, M. NelsonBestL. O'Sullivan, D. Annable, N. Smith, D. McDowell-White, T. Hausfeld, H. Hunkin

Awards

Notable events

See also

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