AFL Mackay is an amateur Australian rules football competition formed as the Mackay Australian Football League in 1970. It is headquartered in the city of Mackay with further clubs in Airlie Beach, Bakers Creek and Moranbah. The representative team is known as the Crows. The Premier division is now sponsored by Allied Pickfords Australia (renaming it to Allied Pickfords Cup)
The first Australian rules football matches in Mackay were held in 1885, however most clubs in the region later adopted rugby rules.[1] It would be almost a century before regular competition would again be played in the region.
The Mackay Australian Football League began in 1970 with founding clubs being the East Mackay Demons, West Mackay Magpies (later Walkerston), and North Mackay Colts.
1971 Bakers Creek join.
1975 Moranbah join.
1977 Mackay City join.
1980 Dysart join.
1982 Middlemount join. Dysart and Middlemount, along with Moranbah, move to the Central Highlands AFL as shift work made it difficult to consistently field teams
1983 Trend United break away from North Mackay
1985 Airlie Beach come into the competition. They change their name to Whitsunday in 1990.
1987 East Mackay and Trend United amalgamate to become known as Eastern Swans.
1989 Moranbah return but the same problems arise and in 1993 again returned to the central highlands.
1990 Mackay City change their name to Northern Beaches and then back to Mackay City in 1998.
2011 Andergrove Kangaroos joined the competition, changed their name to the Northern Beaches Magpies in 2012, and then to the Mackay Magpies in 2015.
Clubs
30km 19miles
Moranbah
Whitsunday
North Mackay
Mackay City
Mackay
Eastern
Bakers Creek
Locations of the teams home grounds (Yellow = Junior only)
Split from North Mackay in 1983. Merged with East Mackay to form Eastern Swans in 1987
Walkerston
Magpies
1971–1986
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1975
Folded after 1986 season
MJ Miller Medal
The MJ Miller Medal is awarded to the best & fairest player as voted by the umpires in the senior men's competition. The award is named after Mick Miller; formerly of the Walkerston Magpies, who was a driving force behind the introduction of AFL to the Mackay Region.
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