Soccer was first played in Queensland on a regular basis in Brisbane, in 1884. Now it is the most participated team sport in the state, with 341,917 players in 2024. Just under a third of these are female remarkable considering the country's "traditional winter sport of Aussie Rules".
The game in Queensland is administered by the peak body, Football Queensland, together with several subordinate zone councils, each representing regions of Queensland.
History: The following year at a meeting at the Railway Hotel, Petrie Terrace in April 1876, a new club was being formed in Brisbane to play under London Association rules is made with the intention of starting a neighbourhood league.
The Anglo-Queensland Football Association (a predecessor of Football Queensland) began in 1884. The Brisbane Courier reported in early May 1884:
A MEETING of those favourable to the "Association" game of football as played in the home countries was held at the Australian Hotel last night ... It was resolved that it was desirable to form an Anglo-Queensland Football Association, and as a beginning the meeting formed the first club, the name selected being "St. Andrew's Football Club." ... It was announced that already from twenty-seven to thirty promises to join the club had been received, and it was resolved to play a practice match tomorrow afternoon, if possible, in the Queen's Park.
The first fixture match was played on 7 June 1884, on the Pineapple Sportsfield (now part of Raymond Park), Kangaroo Point
By 1886, the game had spread west to Ipswich (not England!) and then to other regional centres.
A team playing London Association (soccer) rules, known as The Brisbane Football Club (Queensland's first football club) formed in 1866, under Australian Rules football rules but dabbled in both soccer and rugby football for much of its history. It appears to have been involved in many of the early soccer matches in Brisbane from 1867 to 1870.The earliest mention of matches under London Association rules is a July 1867 match between Brisbane FC and the Volunteer Artillery "World" eleven. Volunteer Artillery later switched to Australian rules. Brisbane FC also played soccer at Woogaroo (now known as Goodna), west of Brisbane, in 1875 against the inmates and warders of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum!
The present Football Queensland was preceded by a number of organisations:
- 1884-1889: Anglo-Queensland Football Association
- 1890-1919: Queensland British Football Association
- 1920-1927: Queensland Football Association
- 1928-1939: Queensland Soccer Council
- 1940-1961: Queensland Soccer Football Association
- 1962-2005: Queensland Soccer Federation
- 2006-Present: Football Queensland
Football Queensland
is administered locally by zone councils:Central Coast: Darling Downs: Far North & Gulf: Metro North & South: North: South Coast: Sunshine Coast: Whitsunday Coast: Wide Bay.
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