The Coorparoo Football Club, nicknamed the Kings, is 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 ...

. The club was formed in 1996, one year after the original Coorparoo club folded. Coorparoo's men's team currently competes in Division 1 and Division 3 of the

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(QFA), and will enter the

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(QAFL) in 2025. The women's team currently plays in the QAFL Women's (QAFLW) competition.

History

Formation and early years

The club was founded in 1996 by Craig Dixon as the Treasury Kings Football Club. Dixon worked at Brisbane's

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and was responsible for organising an annual "grudge" match of Australian rules football between the Brisbane Treasury Casino and Gold Coast's Jupiters Hotel and Casino. In 1996, a number of players expressed interest in playing on a more regular basis, and with Dixon's organising, the Kings were born. During their first seasons, the club played in Division 3 of the Brisbane Australian Football League (BAFL) and played at Yeronga Football Club's home ground.

Renaming and QFA success

In 1999, after moving the oval that was once the home of the former Coorparoo club, the club was renamed to "Coorparoo Football Club". Since 2000, Coorparoo have won seven senior premierships, including a

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from 2011 until 2013. The club's reserves side has also appeared in grand finals in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2016.

QAFL

On 15 December 2023,

AFL Queensland AFL Queensland Limited (AFLQ) is the governing body of Australian rules football in Queensland formed in 2000 and based at Leyshon Park in the Brisbane suburb of Yeronga. AFL Queensland has over 216,000 participants (including Northern River ...

announced they had granted a provisional licence for Coorparoo to enter the

(QAFL) in

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

. An official licence to enter the QAFL men's competition was granted on 31 July 2024.

Seasons

Source:

Men's

Seniors

References

External links

Official website
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