Brisbane Lions

For the soccer team formerly known as Brisbane Lions, see Queensland Lions FC.

Brisbane Lions
Names
Full nameBrisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club Limited, trading as Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club[1]
2024 season
After finalsAFL: Premiers
AFLW:
Home-and-away seasonAFL: 5th
AFLW: 3rd
Leading goalkickerAFL: Joe Daniher (61)
AFLW:
Best and fairestAFL: Lachie Neale
AFLW:
Club details
Founded1 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
CompetitionAFL: Senior men
AFLW: Senior women
VFL: Reserves men
ChairmanAndrew Wellington[6]
CEOGreg Swann
CoachAFL: 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[7]
Abby Coleman
PremiershipsAFL (4)[8]
AFLW (2)
Reserves (5)
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 websitelions.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. Brisbane are the reigning AFL premiers, having won the 2024 Grand Final by sixty points.

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.[9][10][11][12] Its colours of maroon, blue, and gold were drawn from both Fitzroy and the Bears.[13][14][15][16]

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, and won their fourth premiership in 2024.

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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  4. ^ "Official AFL Website of the Brisbane Lions Football Club".
  5. ^ "Official AFL Website of the Brisbane Lions Football Club".
  6. ^ "Andrew Wellington appointed Chairman". Brisbane Lions. Archived from the original on 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  7. ^ "It's 'claws' for celebration". The Courier Mail. 3 October 2024. p. 13.
  8. ^ "A history of Premierships". Brisbane Lions. 30 September 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  9. ^ "ASIC corporate records for Fitzroy Football Club". asic.gov.au. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
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  14. ^ "The Deed – Victorian Lions Supporters Group". viclions.wordpress.com. 2 June 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  15. ^ "The Deed of Arrangement between Fitzroy's administrator and the Brisbane Bears". Big Footy. 27 October 2011. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  16. ^ "Official AFL Website of the Brisbane Lions Football Club". lions.com.au. Retrieved 10 May 2023.