Palm Beach Currumbin Australian Football Club

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Palm Beach Currumbin
Names
Full namePalm Beach Currumbin Australian Football Club Inc.
2022 season
Club details
Founded1961; 63 years ago (1961)
Colours     
CompetitionQAFL
PresidentGlenn Spencer
CoachRussell Maloney
Captain(s)Steven Thynne
Ground(s)Salk Oval, Thrower Drive, Palm Beach QLD 4221
Uniforms
Home
Other information
Official websitepbcafc.com.au

The Palm Beach Currumbin Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The club emblem is the lion[1] and the club plays in both Division One and Division Two of the AFL Queensland State League.

Palm Beach won the 1999 premiership.[2]


History

The Central Australian Football Club was established in 1961 and was one of the founding clubs of the Gold Coast Australian Football League. By 1965 the club had captured its first GCAFL premiership and would later change its name to the Palm Beach Currumbin Australian Football Club.

Premierships (13)

No. Year Competition Opponent Score Venue
1 1965 GCAFL Surfers Paradise Demons 10.13 (73) – 7.11 (53) Salk Oval
2 1971 GCAFL Southport Magpies 9.11 (65) – 7.9 (51) Salk Oval
3 1973 GCAFL Southport Magpies 18.15 (123) – 9.13 (67) Salk Oval
4 1985 GCAFL Surfers Paradise Demons 8.13 (61) – 8.8 (54) Carrara Oval
5 1995 GCAFL Labrador Tigers 13.12 (90) – 11.17 (83) Len Peak Oval
6 1997 QSFLGC Surfers Paradise Demons 10.15 (75) – 7.7 (49) Merrimac Oval
7 1999 QSFLGC Surfers Paradise Demons 16.9 (105) – 7.8 (50) Merrimac Oval
8 2000 AFLQSL Coolangatta Blues 13.8 (86) – 11.6 (72)
9 2007 AFLQSL Western Magpies 13.9 (87) – 6.11 (47) Carrara Stadium
10 2009 QAFL Div 1 Noosa Tigers 14.15 (99) – 10.11 (71) Maroochydore Multi Sports Complex
11 2013 SEQAFL Div 1 Springwood Pumas 18.19 (127) – 12.11 (83) Giffin Park
12 2017 QAFL Labrador Tigers 14.20 (104) – 7.9 (51) Fankhauser Reserve
13 2018 QAFL Broadbeach Cats 14.16 (100) – 9.12 (66) Leyshon Park

Drafted players in the AFL

Year Name Team Draft №
1994 John Hutton Fremantle WA Zone Selection
2015 Jesse Joyce Gold Coast 67th (rookie)
2016 Brad Scheer Gold Coast 67th
2016 Max Spencer Gold Coast Academy selection (rookie)
2017 Brayden Crossley Gold Coast 52nd
2017 Jacob Dawson Gold Coast Academy selection (rookie)
2017 Jacob Heron Gold Coast Academy selection (rookie)
2018 Caleb Graham Gold Coast 71st
2023 Jed Walter Gold Coast 3rd
2023 Ethan Read Gold Coast 9th
2023 Will Graham Gold Coast 26th

Notable players (seniors and juniors)

References

  1. ^ "HISTORY OF PBCAFC". Palm Beach Currumbin AFC. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Season 2011". Robina Roos. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Injury King-hits Carey comeback". The Age. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Ex-Carlton defender Liam Jones in surprise QAFL return with Gold Coast club Palm Beach Currumbin". The Australian. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  5. ^ "What will Michael Rischitelli add to the Palm Beach Currumbin Lions?". AFL Queensland. Retrieved 25 October 2022.

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