For the soccer team formerly known as Brisbane Lions, see Queensland Lions FC.
Brisbane Lions
Names
Full name
Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club Limited, trading as Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club[1]
2023 season
After finals
AFL: 2nd AFLW: Premiers
Home-and-away season
AFL: 2nd AFLW: 4th
Leading goalkicker
AFL: Joe Daniher (61) AFLW:
Merrett–Murray Medal
AFL: Harris Andrews AFLW:
Club details
Founded
1 November 1996
From the Incorporated AFL operations of:
Fitzroy Football Club (formed 1883)[2][3]
Brisbane Bears (formed 1987)[4][5]
Colours
Maroon Blue Gold
Competition
AFL: Senior men AFLW: Senior women VFL: Reserves men
Chairman
Andrew Wellington[6]
CEO
Greg Swann
Coach
AFL: Chris Fagan AFLW: Craig Starcevich VFL: Ben Hudson
Captain(s)
AFL: Harris Andrews and Lachie Neale AFLW: Breanna Koenen
Number-one ticket holder(s)
Dan Anstey Abby Coleman
Premierships
AFL (3)[7]
2001
2002
2003
AFLW (2)
2021
2023
Reserves (5)
2001
2012
2013
2017
2019
Ground(s)
AFL: The Gabba (1997–present) AFLW: Springfield Central Stadium (8,000) VFL: Springfield Central Stadium
Training ground(s)
Springfield Central Stadium (2022–present)
Uniforms
Home
Away
Clash
Other information
Official website
lions.com.au
Current season
The Brisbane Lions are a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.
The Lions came into existence in 1996 when the AFL expansion club the Brisbane Bears, established in 1987, absorbed the AFL operations of one of the league's foundation clubs, Fitzroy, established in Melbourne, Victoria in 1883.[8][9][10][11] Its colours of maroon, blue, and gold were drawn from both Fitzroy and the Bears.[12][13][14][15]
The club plays its home matches at the Gabba in Brisbane, and its headquarters and training facilities are located at Springfield Central Stadium. The Lions are one of the most successful AFL clubs of the 2000s, appearing in four consecutive grand finals from 2001 to 2004, a period in which they won three premierships (2001, 2002, 2003). They also finished runners-up in 2023.
The Lions were a foundation team in the AFL Women's competition in 2017, and have featured in five grand finals in that time, winning the premiership in 2021 and again in 2023 also finishing runners-up on the other occasions. They also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League, and operate an under-18s academy which contests Division 2 of the men's and women's underage national championships and the Talent League.
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