QAFLW

Senior Women's football first arrived at Morningside in 2003 as the Morningside Wildcats, the team entered the competition and was very successful straight out the gate, winning the premiership in their debut season. They were back in 2004 with a Grand final appearance but went down to Surfers Paradise. However, they went on to win the flag in 2005 and again in 2011 before the Wildcats team disbanded and women’s football left Morningside for a short hiatus.

 

The group reformed in 2018 as the Morningside Panthers and went on to win the QFAW Div2 Competition in their first season back. They were promoted in 2019 to the QFAW Div1 Competition and had a solid season making finals. The 2020 season saw the club enter an additional Div 2 side into the competition bringing more women into the club and allowing 2021 to be a season of growth. With both teams again making the preliminary finals.

In 2022 there was a league restructure allowing the women to field a Seniors team and a Reserves team, this meant the team could now travel together and that unity saw both teams making the finals. The Seniors team getting knock out in a very close elimination final and the Reserve team securing an epic win to take home the Premiership Flag.

 

In 2021 & 2022 the club won the Under 17 Women's Premiership back-to-back, this brought with it an impressive group of young players to the Women’s program who are the first to come through the youth girls program, further cementing the fact that the club now has a very strong female pathway. 

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In 2023 both our Seniors and Reserves QFAW DIV 1 teams made finals but the Seniors were ultimately unsuccessful with their finals campaign. Our Reserves troopered one to take the flag! 

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In 2024 the Seniors and Reserves season's came to an end but not without hope as we have now been granted our licence to enter the QAFLW competition for 2025. It is an extremely exciting time at the club with the development of all aspects of the women's playing groups.