The Morningside Australian Football Club, nicknamed the Panthers, 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 Jack Esplen Oval in the suburb of Hawthorne in Brisbane. The club consists of Masters, Amateurs, Women's, Junior and Senior football sections. Its senior team competed in the

North East Australian Football League The North East Australian Football League (NEAFL ) was an Australian rules football league in New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. The league was formed in November 2010, and its inaugural ...

(NEAFL) competition from 2011 to 2013 and now is a member club of the

Queensland Australian Football League 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 Queens ...

.2014 QAFL clubs
/ref> Its junior sides compete in the AFL Brisbane Juniors (AFLBJ) competition. The club also caters for young girls and boys by running Auskick skills clinics, which are held at the beginning of the season and do not involve competitive games. Morningside has operated successfully as a football club in Brisbane for over 50 years and is one of the most widely recognised Queensland based AFL clubs within Australia. It developed from the Hawthorne Juniors club, which was founded in 1931.

Recent history

At the beginning of the 2000 season, the members of both clubs voted unanimously to join and form one united club. This decision was made to strengthen the club socially, financially and to improve the junior player development programmes and created a player path to the elite AFLQ State League competition. Morningside has provided some of the best Queensland-bred Australian rules footballers of the last 50 years, including triple-premiership winning

Brisbane Lions The Brisbane Lions are a professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Brisbane are the ...

captain

Michael Voss Michael Voss (born 7 July 1975) is a former professional Australian rules football player with the Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions, and current senior coach of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Voss was a tr ...

and his teammate fullback Mal Michael, Voss's brother

Brett Voss Brett Charles Voss (born 22 February 1978) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Lions and the St Kilda Football Club. Early life Voss was born in Queensland and raised in Beenleigh in Logan City, Brisbane where ...

(who played at Brisbane and St Kilda). Current players include Keidean Coleman, who currently plays at Brisbane Lions Football Club and

Ben Keays Ben Keays (born 23 February 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). His great-grandfather Fred Keays represented both and in the Victorian Football L ...

who captains, Adelaide Crows Football Club. At the beginning of 2011, the QAFL was merged to form the "North-East Australian Football League", combining Sydney and Canberra teams with the best QAFL teams, including the Northern Territory Thunder,

Gold Coast Suns 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, Queensland, Gold Coast in the ...

, GWS and

Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a Austral ...

reserves team all compete in the competition as well as the

reserves. There are two conferences with Morningside playing in the Northern Conference alongside fellow rivals Mt Gravat and Southport, among others. In the NEAFL's inaugural year, Morningside played Northern Territory in the Northern Conference Final, in which they were beaten by 87 points. Northern Territory went on to beat Eastern champion Ainslie. In 2023 it was announced former

and

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star, Mitch Robinson would play for Morningside's Senior men's side in the 2023 QAFL season.

Honours

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 ...

(11): 1965, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2020, 2024

Grand Finals detail

Individual

Grogan Medallists

The

Grogan Medal The J.A. Grogan Medal, commonly known as the Grogan Medal, is an Australian rules football award given to the best and fairest player in home and away rounds of each season's QAFL/Queensland State League competition. From 2011 to 2013 it was awa ...

is awarded to the best and fairest player in an AFLQ season. *Noel McGuinness 1953 *Henry Maguire 1955 *Keith Farnsworth 1957 * Merv Dihm 1960 *Terry Johnston 1967 *Jeff Ebert 1974 * John Blair 1982 * Daryl Bourke 1989 & 1993 *Ricky Chapman 1992 *Mitchell Howe 1994 *Dean Edwards 1998 *Jacob Gough 2003 *Nathan Kinch 2008 *Matthew Payne 2020

QAFL Top Goalkickers

*Gary Jones (114) – 1974 *Gary Jones (124) – 1975 *Gary Jones (142) – 1976 *J. Newton (81) – 1979 * J. Blair (86) – 1985 *J. Manson (106) – 1986 *Darren Vickery (95) – 1989 *Darren Vickery (117) – 1990 *Darren Vickery (100) – 1991 *Darren Vickery (81) – 1992 *M. Russell (83) – 1994 *M. Russell (105) – 1995 *M. Russell (101) – 1997 *Matthew Hammelmann (34) – 2020

AFL/VFL players

There is a list of past and present Morningside players who have played at AFL/VFL: * Jackson Allen (Gold Coast) * David Armitage (St. Kilda) * Tom Bell (Carlton and Brisbane Lions) * John Blair (South Melbourne, Fitzroy and St. Kilda) * Daryl Bourke (Melbourne) * Jordon Bourke (Brisbane Lions) * Scott Clouston (Brisbane Lions) * Keidean Coleman (Brisbane Lions) *Blake Coleman (Brisbane Lions) *

Courtenay Dempsey Courtenay Dempsey (born 28 August 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). In 2024, Dempsey was named at Number 94 in Don The Stat’s Top 100 ...

(Essendon) * Barry Denny (Melbourne) * Terry Devery (Footscray) * Merv Dihm (St. Kilda) * Brad Edwards (Fitzroy and Brisbane Bears) * Matthew Hammelmann (Brisbane Lions) * Scott Harding (Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide) * Jack Henry (Essendon) * Tom Hickey (Gold Coast and St. Kilda) * Warren Jones (Carlton and St. Kilda) *

(Brisbane Lions and Adelaide) * Will Ashcroft (Brisbane Lions) * Stephen Kenna (Carlton) *

Tony Lynn Tony Lynn (born 29 April 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears and Carlton in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL). A Queenslander, Lynn was raised in Beenleigh (Logan City) in Brisb ...

(Brisbane Lions and Carlton) * Mal Michael (Collingwood, Brisbane Lions and Essendon) * Rick Norman (North Melbourne and Brisbane Bears) * Paul Peos (West Coast Eagles and Brisbane Bears) * Tony Smith (Sydney Swans) * Lee Spurr (Fremantle) * Howard Tarpey (South Melbourne) * Gavin Urquhart (North Melbourne) *

(Brisbane Lions and St. Kilda) *

(Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions) * John Waddington (North Melbourne) * David Wearne (Brisbane Bears) *

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(Essendon) * Tom Williams (Western Bulldogs) * Peter Yagmoor (Collingwood) * Mitch Robinson (Carlton and Brisbane Lions)

References

External links

Official websiteAustralianFootball.com club profile
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