Most recent season or competition: 2024 | |
Formerly | Bundaberg Wide Bay AFL |
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Sport | Australian rules football |
Founded | 1987 |
No. of teams | 6 |
Country | Australia |
Most recent champion(s) | Hervey Bay Bombers (2024) |
Most titles | Hervey Bay Bombers (19) |
Official website | AFL Wide Bay |
The AFL Wide Bay is a regional body that coordinates Australian rules football competitions in the Wide Bay–Burnett and northern Sunshine Coast regions of Queensland, Australia. The competition currently features teams from the cities of Bundaberg, Maryborough, Hervey Bay, Gympie and the town of Pomona. AFL Wide Bay operates men's senior, reserves and women's competitions as well as underage competitions including mixed and junior boys teams.
Beginning as the Bundaberg-Wide Bay Australian Football League in 1987 through the merger of the "Bundaberg Australian Football League" and "Wide Bay Australian Football League". The competition was temporarily managed by AFL Queensland as part of its South East Queensland structure for the 2017 season before resuming under the current banner in 2018.
The representative team was known as the "Tigers", wearing guernseys similar to those of the Richmond Tigers.