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Coorparoo
Names
Full nameCoorparoo Football Club
Nickname(s)Roo's
Club details
Founded1935
Dissolved1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Colours   
CompetitionQAFL
Premierships(6): 1960, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1984, 1986
Ground(s)Coorparoo, Queensland
Uniforms
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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.[1] 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.[citation needed]

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.

Honours

QAFL Hall Of Fame (15)
Notes
  1. ^ AFL Qld Umpires association "Team of The Century") Darren played his junior football at Coorparoo.
AFLQ Team Of The Century (6)
QAFL Legends (2)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Coorparoo Football Club". AustralianFootball.com.
  2. ^ AFLQ

External links

Australian rules football in South East Queensland
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