Australian rules football in Queensland was the first official football code played in 1866. The Colony of Queensland was the second after Victoria to adopt Australian rules football, just days after the rules were widely published. For two decades it was the most popular football code, however a strong desire for representative football success saw Queenslanders favour British football variants for more than a century. As a result, Queensland is one of the two states to the east of the Australian cultural divide described as the Barassi Line. 120 years later in 1986 Queensland was the first state awarded a licence to have a club, the Brisbane Bears, in the national (AFL) competition, also its first privately owned club. However the Gold Coast based Bears had a detrimental effect until the 1993 redevelopment of the Brisbane Cricket Ground (Gabba). In contrast the Bears transformation into a Brisbane and traditional membership based club resulted in enormous growth, and a tripling of average AFL attendances by 1996.
The Gold Coast Suns, officially the Gold Coast Football Club, are a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based on Queensland's Gold Coast in the suburb of Carrara.
Paige Parker is an Australian rules football and rugby league footballer who plays for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL Women's Premiership. She previously played for Brisbane and the Gold Coast in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW), and the Newcastle Knights in the NRLW.
Samantha Virgo is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Brisbane and Gold Coast in the AFL Women's. She was selected in the All-Australian team in 2017, and co-captained Gold Coast from 2020 to 2021.
Leah Kaslar is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Brisbane and Gold Coast in the AFL Women's (AFLW), captaining both teams.
Tahlia Randall is an Australian rules footballer playing for the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Randall previously played for the Brisbane Lions in 2017 and 2018, where she received a nomination for the 2018 AFL Women's Rising Star award in round 6 of the 2018 season. She won the AFLW Mark of the Year in 2022 season 6, and is also North Melbourne's equal games record holder with 48 games for the club.
Breanna L. Koenen is an Australian rules footballer and captain of the Brisbane Lions in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Jordan Membrey is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Gold Coast. She has also played for Brisbane and Collingwood in the AFL Women's.
Jordan Zanchetta is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Essendon in the AFL Women's.
Emma Pittman is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Brisbane and Gold Coast in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She also has a history in association football, having played four matches for the Brisbane Roar in the W-League.
Lauren Bella is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She has previously played for Brisbane.
Tori Groves-Little is an Australian rules footballer who played for Brisbane and for Gold Coast in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW).
Natalie "Nat" Grider is an Australian rules footballer playing for Brisbane in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW).
Jacqueline Yorston is an Australian rules footballer playing for Port Adelaide in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She has previously played for Brisbane and Gold Coast.
Jade Pregelj is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Brisbane in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She has previously played for Gold Coast.
Dion 'Dee' Heslop is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Brisbane in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She has previously played for the Gold Coast.
Kalinda Howarth is an Australian rules footballer with the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She was previously listed at the Brisbane Lions in 2018 and played for the Gold Coast Suns from 2020 to 2023. Howarth is a dual Gold Coast leading goalkicker and was named in the 2020 AFL Women's All-Australian team.
Lily Postlethwaite is an Australian rules footballer playing for Brisbane in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW).
Dakota Davidson is an Australian rules footballer playing for Brisbane in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW).
William Ashcroft is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was taken as pick number 2, under the father–son rule.
