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Coorparoo Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the Brisbane suburb of Coorparoo from 1935 until the senior club folded in 1995. The club left the QAFL following the 1993 season due to the financial strain experienced since the recent introduction of a minimum salary cap, and joined the Brisbane Australian Football League (BAFL) for the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
The "Coorparoo Junior Australian Football Club" has continued as a standalone club since 1996 to the present. The "Coorparoo (Seniors) Kings Football Club" also operates out of the same oval in Birubi Street. Both teams club colours are navy blue with a white monogram.




History


Formed in 1935, Coorparoo played in the QAFL from 1941 to 1993. They were nicknamed the Roos. For the 1953 and 1954 seasons, they merged with Yeronga.
Footballers to have played or coached at the club include Carl Ditterich, Jason Dunstall, Kevin O'Keeffe, Terry O'Neill, Michael Gibson, David Wearne, Stephen Wearne, John Pitura, Bill Ryan and Mark Maclure.
When Carl Ditterich left Coorparoo he returned with a notice to sue (for breach of contract) following his sacking by the club's board. The awarded $36 000 placed the club in financial hardship which the Q.A.F.L. premierships in 1984 and 1986 momentarily covered, but in the long term, without an improving local demographic made the club difficult to keep afloat. The insistence of the Q.A.F.L. to introduce a minimum salary cap by the end of the decade would prove catastrophic.
After the 1995 season, the original Coorparoo club sold the facilities to the Brisbane Bears, and although the last senior team to play was in 1995, the name continues in the form of the Coorparoo Junior Australian football club. Twenty years after the original QAFL club folded, the Junior football club is currently following the legacy, with multiple teams in each age group as well as a popular Auskick venue on weekends.
30 years after the departure of Coorparoo Football Club from the Q.A.F.L the club will re-join the league in 2025.




Honours


QAFL Premiers (6): 1960, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1984, 1986
Grogan Medalists (5):
Tom Calder 1948, 1950
Bevis Howell 1952
John Golding 1959
Ken Grimley 1964
Brendan McMullen 1984, 1986
Joe Grant Medalists (2)
Gary Becker 1984
Brendan McMullen 1986
Ray Hughson Medalists (3)
1954 Darryl Sanders - Coorparoo/Yeronga 92 Goals
1980 Robert Fox - Coorparoo 103 Goals
1984 Jason Dunstall - Coorparoo 73 Goals
Most Games (Top 12)
5th Wayne Stewart - Coorparoo/Mayne 289 Games
6th Dick Verdon - Coorparoo/ Sandgate 283 Games
9th Des Hughes - Coorparoo 279 Games
11th Vic Giffin - Coorparoo 263 Games
QAFL Hall Of Fame (15)

Notes

AFLQ Team Of The Century (6)
Dick Verdon
Wayne Stewart
Des Hughes
Jason Dunstall (VC)
Ken Grimley
Noel McGuiness
QAFL Legends (2)
Dick Verdon
Jason Dunstall




See also


Coorparoo Football Club (1996)




References






External links


Coorparoo Junior AFC

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• Brisbane Tigers
• Coorparoo Football Club
• Coorparoo Football Club (1996)
• Coorparoo, Queensland
• List of Australian rules football clubs in Australia
• Jason Dunstall
• Kevin O'Keeffe (footballer)
• Queensland Football Association
• Glenn Scanlan
• Eddie Lake (footballer)
• Loreto College Coorparoo