Football Queensland Premier League

The Football Queensland Premier League (known by its abbreviation FQPL) is a men's football competition contested by clubs in Queensland, Australia. It is administered by Football Queensland and is the second tier of football in Queensland, operated by a system of promotion and relegation. The league is contested by 12 clubs each season, the team that finishes at the top of the league is crowned premiers and they are promoted to the Queensland National Premier League, whilst the bottom three teams are relegated to the Football Queensland Premier League 2. The teams that finish in the top four qualify for a finals tournament, where the winners of the bracket are crowned FQPL champions.^[1]

Football Queensland Premier League

Founded	2017; 7 years ago (2017)
First season	2018
Country	Australia
State	QLD
Confederation	AFC
Number of teams	12
Level on pyramid	3
Promotion to	National Premier Leagues Queensland
Relegation to	Football Queensland Premier League 2
Domestic cup(s)	Australia Cup
Current champions	Wynnum Wolves (2023)
Current premiers	Surfers Paradise Apollo (2023)
Most championships	5 teams (1 title each)
Most premierships	5 teams (1 title each)
TV partners	NPL.TV YouTube
Website	footballqueensland.com
Current: FQPL 2021

The Football Queensland Premier League was founded in 2017, with the first season held in 2018. There was previously there was no second-tier statewide competition, instead there was only the Brisbane Premier League and subsequent Capital leagues which were the highest level of football competition in the state.

The current champions and premiers are Brisbane City, crowning the 2021 season and earning promotion to the 2022 season of the Queensland National Premier League.^[2]

History

In May 2017, Football Queensland confirmed the creation of the new competition and the teams to take part in the 2018 season.^[3] Peninsula Power were both premiers and champions of the inaugural Football Queensland Premier league, earning promotion into the 2019 NPL Queensland season along with runner-up team Capalaba.

In March 2020 and again in August 2021, Football Queensland announced that all its competitions would be temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia.^[4][5]

Format

The season consists of a regular season in which all clubs play each other twice, home and away. At the conclusion of the regular season the top of the table club progresses into the National Premier Leagues Queensland for the following season. Additionally, at the conclusion of the regular season the top four clubs play a local finals series. The local finals series consists of two semi-finals and a final. In the local finals series the top of the ladder club plays the fourth place and second place plays third. The winner of these local semi finals play each other in the Football Queensland Premier League Grand Finale.

Clubs

2024 season

The following 12 clubs are participating in the 2024 season:

Club	City	Stadium	Founded	Joined	Head Coach
Moreton City Excelsior Reserves	Moreton Bay	Wolter Park	1963	2023	Steve Glockner
Brisbane Strikers	Brisbane	Perry Park	1994	2022	Daniel Carew
Broadbeach United	Gold Coast	Nikiforides Family Park	1963	2024	Leighton Speechley-Price
Caboolture Sports	Moreton Bay	Moreton Bay Central Sports Complex	1969	2022	Terry Kirkham
Capalaba FC	Redlands	John Frederick Park	1972	2018	David McEvoy
Eastern Suburbs	Brisbane	Heath Park	1922	2018	David Booth
Logan Lightning	Logan	Cornubia Park	2011	2018	James Coutts
Mitchelton	Brisbane	Teralba Park	1920	2018	Jason Poggi
SWQ Thunder	Toowoomba	Clive Berghofer Stadium	2012	2020	Sam Gahan
Southside Eagles	Brisbane	Memorial Park	1968	2018	Vacant
St George Willawong	Brisbane	St George's Park	2010	2024	Danny Gnjidic
Ipswich FC	Ipswich	Briggs Rd Sporting Complex	2024	2024	Vacant

Honours

By season

Seasons in bold indicate doubles with both the respective premiership and championship in a single season.

Year	Champions	Premiers	Golden Boot	Goals
2018	Peninsula Power	Peninsula Power	Youeil Shol (Eastern Suburbs)[6]	35
2019	Rochedale Rovers	Sunshine Coast Wanderers	Jeremy Stewart (Sunshine Coast Wanderers)[7]	21
2020	Logan Lightning	Logan Lightning	Yuta Hirayama (Western Pride FC)[8]	16
2021	Brisbane City	Brisbane City	Shuto Kuboyama (Mitchelton)[9]	16
2022	Redlands United	Redlands United	Marek Madle (Rochedale Rovers)[10] Guilherme Santana (Redlands United)	18

By team

Club	Premierships	Championships	Years Premiers	Years Champions
Peninsula Power	1	1	2018	2018
Logan Lightning	1	1	2020	2020
Brisbane City	1	1	2021	2021
Redlands United	1	1	2022	2022
Sunshine Coast Wanderers	1	0	2019
Rochedale Rovers	0	1		2019

Awards

Player of the Year

Year	Winner	Club	Ref.
2018	Youeil Shol	Eastern Suburbs	[6]
	Ryo Ono	Capalaba FC
2019	Jeremy Stewart	Sunshine Coast Wanderers	[7]
2020	Matthew Green	Logan Lightning	[8]
2021	Scott Halliday	Brisbane City	[9]
2022	Mirko Crociati	SWQ Thunder	[10]

Young Player of the Year

Year	Winner	Club	Ref.
2018	Zander Guy	Logan Lightning	[6]
2019	Jed Brown	Logan Lightning	[7]
2020	Maximilian Mikkola	Wynnum Wolves	[8]
2021	Jacob Krayem	Wynnum Wolves	[9]
2022	Oli Williams	Sunshine Coast	[10]

Coach of the Year

Year	Winner	Club	Ref.
2018	Aaron Philp	Peninsula Power	[6]
2019	Scott MacNicol	Rochedale Rovers	[7]
2020	Rick Coghlan	Logan Lightning	[8]
2021	Matt Smith	Brisbane City	[9]
2022	Graham Harvey	Redlands United	[10]

Goalkeeper of the Year

Year	Winner	Club	Ref.
2018	Denver Crickmore	Sunshine Coast Wanderers	[6]
2019	Chris Parsons	Ipswich Knights	[7]
2020	Zayne Freiberg	Ipswich Knights	[8]
2021	Duro Dragicevic	Brisbane City	[9]
2022	Jerrad Tyson	Sunshine Coast	[10]

Fair Play Award

Year	Winner	Ref.
2018	not awarded	[6]
2019	Southside Eagles	[7]
2020	Ipswich Knights	[8]
2021	Ipswich Knights	[9]
2022	not awarded	[10]

See also

• National Premier Leagues Queensland
• Football Queensland Premier League 2
• Football Queensland

References

1. "FQPL Men's". Football Queensland. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
2. "Logan Lightning complete FQPL double with Grand Final victory". Football Queensland. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
3. Smith, Erin (29 May 2017). "Football Queensland reveals new state competition and 16 new teams". Quest Community Newspapers. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
4. "FQ statement on the suspension of football activity". Football Queensland. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
5. "FQ update on suspension of football activity in SEQ and Cairns". Football Queensland. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
6. "2018's best recognised at NPL, NPLW and FQPL Awards". Football Queensland. 28 October 2018. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
7. "2019's best recognised at inaugural Football in Queensland Awards Night". Football Queensland. 4 November 2019. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
8. "Football in Queensland Awards Week 2020". Football Queensland. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
9. "2021 Football in Queensland Awards Night winners". Football Queensland. 1 November 2021. Archived from the original on 19 November 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
10. "State's best celebrated at the 2022 Football in Queensland Awards Night". Football Queensland. 1 November 2022. Archived from the original on 24 March 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2023.

External links

• Football Queensland official website
• Queensland Premier League, standings, results & fixtures at Donnael.com