The Coorparoo Football Club was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

club based in the

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suburb of

Coorparoo Coorparoo ( ) is a suburb in the inner City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coorparoo had a population of 18,132 people. Geography Coorparoo is by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO. It borders Camp Hill, Holland Park, Ston ...

from 1935 until the senior club folded in 1995. The club left the

QAFL The Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL or "Q-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football competition organised by the AFL Queensland, contested by clubs from South East Queensland. Founded in 1903 it was previously known as the Queensl ...

following the 1993 season due to the financial strain experienced since the recent introduction of a minimum salary cap, and joined the Brisbane Australian Football League (BAFL) for the 1994 and 1995 season.

History

Formed in 1935, Coorparoo played in the

from 1941 to 1993. They were nicknamed the Roos. For the 1953 and 1954 seasons, they merged with

Yeronga Yeronga is a southern riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yeronga had a population of 7,062 people. Geography The suburb is bounded to the west and north by the Brisbane River and to the south-east by Ip ...

. Footballers to have played or coached at the club include

Carl Ditterich Carl Robert Ditterich (born 10 October 1945) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also coached Melbourne for two years, as a pl ...

Jason Dunstall Jason Hadfield Dunstall (born 14 August 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Dunstall is arguably the greatest Australian rules footballer to come from ...

, Kevin O'Keeffe, Terry O'Neill, Michael Gibson, David Wearne, Stephen Wearne, John Pitura, Bill Ryan and Mark Maclure. When Carl Ditterich left Coorparoo he returned with a notice to sue (for breach of contract) following his sacking by the club's board. The awarded $36 000 placed the club in financial hardship which the Q.A.F.L. premierships in 1984 and 1986 momentarily covered, but in the long term, without an improving local demographic made the club difficult to keep afloat. The insistence of the Q.A.F.L. to introduce a minimum salary cap by the end of the decade would prove catastrophic. After the 1995 season, the original Coorparoo club sold the facilities to the Brisbane Bears, and although the last senior team to play was in 1995, the name continues in the form of the Coorparoo Junior Australian football club. Twenty years after the original QAFL club folded, the Junior football club is currently following the legacy, with multiple teams in each age group as well as a popular Auskick venue on weekends. 30 years after the departure of Coorparoo Football Club from the Q.A.F.L the club will re-join the league in 2025.

Honours

Premiers (6): 1960, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1984, 1986 * Grogan Medalists (5): ** Tom Calder 1948, 1950 ** Bevis Howell 1952 ** John Golding 1959 ** Ken Grimley 1964 ** Brendan McMullen 1984, 1986 * Joe Grant Medalists (2) ** Gary Becker 1984 ** Brendan McMullen 1986 * Ray Hughson Medalists (3) ** 1954 Darryl Sanders - Coorparoo/Yeronga 92 Goals ** 1980 Robert Fox - Coorparoo 103 Goals ** 1984 Jason Dunstall - Coorparoo 73 Goals * Most Games (Top 12) ** 5th Wayne Stewart - Coorparoo/Mayne 289 Games ** 6th Dick Verdon - Coorparoo/ Sandgate 283 Games ** 9th Des Hughes - Coorparoo 279 Games ** 11th Vic Giffin - Coorparoo 263 Games ;QAFL Hall Of Fame (15) * Tom Calder * Michael Gibson * Ken Grimley * Des Hughes * Shane Junker * Ray Marshall * Noel McGuiness * Brendan McMullen * Kevin O'Keefe * Terry O'Neill * Bill Ryan * Darryl Sanders * Wayne Stewart * Dick Verdon * Terry Moule ( Coached 1975 ) * Darren Morris ;Notes ;AFLQ Team Of The Century (6) * Dick Verdon * Wayne Stewart * Des Hughes * Jason Dunstall (VC) * Ken Grimley * Noel McGuiness ;QAFL Legends (2) *Dick Verdon *Jason DunstallAFLQ

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Coorparoo Junior AFC
{{AFL Queensland State League Clubs

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