The Brisbane Football Club is a defunct football club, formed in May 1866 in the colonial capital of Brisbane. Brisbane FC was the first known football club of any code in the Colony of Queensland. It
Metropolitan Hotel Edward Street, Brisbane ca 1864
Statue depicting the first recorded match of Australian Rules Football between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar in 1858 umpired by Tom Wills. Brisbane FC founder Charles Edward Wallen played for Scotch in this match.
Sir Joshua Peter Bell, first elected president of the Brisbane FC in 1868
Prominent Irish-Australian politician Dr Kevin O'Doherty, served as president of the Brisbane Football Club from 1870 until his return to Ireland in 1885
Australian rules football in South East Queensland has a varied history, and many changes were made especially in the 21st century. Ruled and organised by the AFL Queensland, the region had a total of
Taringa v West, 1940
The Queensland state team who played Melbourne in 1888