Ipswich Cats Australian Football Club 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 at Ivor Marsden Memorial Sports Centre in
Amberley Amberley may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Amberley, Queensland, near Ipswich, Australia
*RAAF Base Amberley, a Royal Australian Air Force military airbase
United Kingdom
* Amberley, Gloucestershire, England
* Amberley, Herefordshire, England
...
suburb of
West Ipswich. The club currently has mixed Junior and Men's Senior teams in the
QFA Division 4, managed by the
AFL Queensland
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.
History
The club was established in 1959 by an Australian football enthusiast by the name of Noel Kimlin. Noel had his wife sew red numbers onto 50 blue t-shirts for two teams to use. The club was given an oval in Ipswich but not allowed to cut down the trees in the middle. The club organised matches with Kelvin Grove Teachers College and a social group of ex-pat southerners at Palm Beach. The club played 1963 in the Gold Coast AFL. The following year they joined the South Queensland AFA. Winning 3 premierships in 30 years.
A lack of interest caused the club to go into recess in 1995.
Ipswich became a growth corridor for Brisbane and the
AFL
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Education
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Military
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were keen to develop the game in the area. The club was reformed as the Ipswich Central Junior AFC and concentrated on encouraging young children to learn the game. The club embarked on a total rebuild from the ground up, starting with under age sides before the list matured enough to form a senior side in 2017.
Currently the Ipswich Cats Australian Football Club has both Junior & Senior Teams.
Premierships
* SQAFA Div 2
** 1979, 1991
* BFA Div 2
** 1993
References
External links
ipswichcatsafc.com.au*https://www.facebook.com/ipswichcatsafc/
{{AFL Queensland State League Clubs
Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...
Australian rules football clubs in Brisbane
1959 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1959
Sport in Ipswich, Queensland