Soccer was first played in Queensland on a regular basis in Brisbane, in 1884. The game in Queensland is administered by the peak body, Football Queensland, together with several subordinate zone councils, each representing regions of Queensland.
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.
Australian rules football in South East Queensland has a varied history and many changes were made especially in the 21st century. Ruled and organised by the AFL Queensland, the region had a total of 46 teams playing in different divisions.
The Queensland Australian Football League is an Australian rules football competition organised by the AFL Queensland, contested by clubs from South East Queensland.
North Ipswich Reserve presently known as Qld Group Stadium and formally Bendigo Bank Oval due to naming rights is a sports venue in Ipswich, Queensland. Originally an Australian rules football oval, it became a primarily rugby league venue in the 1920s as that code experienced an explosion in local popularity. It is currently home to the Ipswich Jets, who play in the Queensland Wizard Cup. On occasion the venue plays host to National Rugby League trial matches, most recently when the Sydney Roosters played the Jets.
The Brisbane Football Club is a defunct football club, formed in May 1866 in the colonial capital of Brisbane. Brisbane FC was the first known football club of any code in the Colony of Queensland. It was the first club outside Victoria to adopt what was then known as the 'Victorian rules' football from 1866. It is also the first recorded club to have played multiple football codes in Queensland, including soccer (1867–1870) and rugby (1876–1879).
Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queensland, Australia. The competition was founded under the name Brisbane Electoral Cricket in 1897 and eventually came to be known as Brisbane Grade Cricket, but has since expanded to take in teams from Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and Ipswich.
South Brisbane District Cricket Club is a cricket club in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They were founded in 1897 and compete in the Queensland Premier Cricket competition.
Alfred Haddrick was an Australian cricketer who was an all-rounder. He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria in 1893.
William Thornton Fisher was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Queensland between 1892–93 and 1893–94. He was South Brisbane's first captain in Queensland district cricket.
Ernest Sadler Grew was an Australian cricketer. He played in the inaugural first-class match for Queensland in 1893. In his professional career he was a public accountant.
William Hoare was an Australian cricketer. He played fourteen first-class matches for Queensland from 1892–93 to 1902–03.
William Munro was an English-born Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Queensland in 1893.
Tom Ball was an Australian cricketer. He played in three first-class matches for Queensland in 1947.
Gordon Bourne was an Australian cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Queensland in 1930/31.
Jim Coats was an Australian cricketer. He played in three first-class matches for Queensland in 1937/38.
Charles Cossart was an Australian cricketer who was described as a "forceful bat" and "clean hitter" of the ball. He played in one first-class match for Queensland in 1913 and played country cricket, mostly for Boonah and Dungandan, from at least 1904 to 1935. In his career he managed a timber mill in Dungandan with his brother and he served as President of the Boonah Hospital Committee and School of Arts Committee.
Charles Martin was an Australian cricketer. He played in two first-class matches for Queensland between 1893 and 1894. He was regarded as one of the best batsmen in Queensland in the 1890s.
Herbert Rahmann was an Australian cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Queensland in 1924/25, and played for University in Brisbane Grade Cricket from 1921 to 1926. In his career he was a teacher and went on to train teachers and served as Inspector of Schools for Queensland.
The Queensland Football Association (QFA) was the first governing body for football in the Colony of Queensland founded on 30 April 1880. Its role was primarily to facilitate club and representative matches primarily in Australian rules football but also in Rugby union.
