Cazaly's Stadium is a sports stadium in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It is situated in the suburb of Westcourt. The stadium is named after Australian rules footballer Roy Cazaly.
AFL Cairns is a semi-professional Australian rules football league that includes clubs from the Cairns region in Queensland, Australia. It is widely regarded as the strongest regional Australian rules football league in Queensland and has a large base at Cazaly's Stadium which has staged Australian Football League matches.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men's competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, aiming to become a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and changed its name to the AFL in 1990.
Richard Champion is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL) and South Australian National Football Leagues (SANFL).
Courtenay Dempsey is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
James Henry Freake was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A full forward, Freake lacked the height and weight that most had for that position but had considerable pace and ball handling abilities.
Peter German is a former Australian rules footballer. Since retiring he has become a successful coach. German coached Subiaco to the 2004 and 2006 WAFL premierships and was rewarded by being named as an assistant to Chris Connolly at Fremantle. Peter has coached second-tier Australian rules in three different states and been involved with five different Australian rules football clubs in a coaching and player capacity.
Gary Cowton is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) as well as having stints with Footscray and South Melbourne.
Jarrod Harbrow is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
James Smith was an Australian rules footballer who played with and coached St Kilda in the VFL during the early 1900s.
Proposed VFL/AFL clubs are clubs that at various points in the history of the Australian Football League have been or were distinct possibilities but either did not or have not yet eventuated. Due to their association with the national Australian competition, they have drawn a large amount of controversy and media attention.
Jeff Hopgood was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Charlie Dixon is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Gold Coast Football Club as a Queensland zoned selection made available to Gold Coast under the AFL's draft concessions. He scored the first ever goal in the history of the club on 2 April 2011 against Carlton.
Shane Morrison is an Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Lions and Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Rhys O'Keeffe is a former professional Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
George Henry Wickens was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jimmy Shand was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jimmy Roberts was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Arthur Cairns was an Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jack Madgen is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for Collingwood in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played professional basketball for the Cairns Taipans in the National Basketball League (NBL) and U.S. college basketball for Delta State University in Mississippi.