BRISBANE
Affiliation History: Queensland Football League (QFL) 1905-8; 1921-7 (but see final paragraph below)
Formed: Original Brisbane Football Club established in 1866
Colours: Black and gold
Senior Premierships: 1922-3-4, 1926 (4 total)
The original Brisbane Football Club was formed on 22nd May 1866, at a meeting at Brayshers Metropolitan Hotel. It resolved to play under 'Melbourne Rules', and was instrumental in the early flowering of the game in and around the Queensland capital. By the early 1890s, however, rugby had overtaken football as the popular winter game of choice, and by the middle of the decade football's day in the sun was well and truly over.
Organised, competitive football resumed in Brisbane in 1904 with the formation of the Queensland Football League. A Brisbane Australian Football Club emerged the following year, and participated in the competition for four seasons. The club was generally quite competitive, and reached the premiership deciding match of the 1906 season, only to lose to City. However, it was eventually forced to disband owing to a lack of players. In 1909 quite a number of its former players lined up with new team Locomotives, which was occasionally referred to as 'Brisbane-Locomotives' as a result.
A new and entirely different Brisbane Football Club, popularly referred to as 'Brisbanes', participated in the QAFL between 1921 and 1927. During that time, it was far and away the most successful club in the league, contesting five straight grand finals between 1922 and 1926 and winning all but one of them. In 1928 Brisbane merged with Valley to form Brisbane Valley, but the new club only lasted four seasons before disbanding.
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