Football Queensland

Football Queensland is the governing body of football (soccer) and futsal in Queensland, Australia. It is affiliated with the sport's national governing body, Football Australia. It traces its history back to the establishment of the Anglo-Queensland Football Association in Brisbane, in 1884.[1]

Football Queensland
Formation1884
HeadquartersBrisbane, Queensland
Robert Cavallucci
Parent organization
Football Australia
WebsiteOfficial website

Football Queensland organises the two statewide competitions - the National Premier Leagues Queensland (NPL Queensland) and the Football Queensland Premier League, which sits underneath the NPL Queensland since 2018. Below the state-wide leagues are regional zones. Currently there are ten regional zones - Brisbane, Central Queensland, Far North Queensland, Gold Coast, North Queensland, North West Queensland, South West Queensland, Sunshine Coast, Whitsunday and Wide Bay. Each organises its own city and regional competitions with the strongest zone being Brisbane (Brisbane Premier League).

Football Queensland also organizes Futsal competitions - SEQ Futsal Premier League[2] and the Queensland Super-Liga[3] which runs year round.

In 2020 former politician Robert Cavallucci was hired on nearly double the pay of the last chief executive at Football Queensland (FQ) — almost $320,000 a year. The CEO was recruited via a two-month consultancy that earned the president of the board Ben Richardson $44,000.[4]

Bonita Mersiades is being sued by Football Queensland chairman Ben Richardson and its CEO, Robert Cavallucci, for a total of $800,000 over an article she published in January this year on her website Football Today.[4]

Formation

The state is divided up into 10 administrative areas:[5]

References
  1. The World Cup Dream - Australian football timeline Archived 17 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "SEQ Futsal Premier League". Football Queensland. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  3. "Super Futsal". Super Futsal. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. David Mark (14 August 2020). "Football advocate Bonita Mersiades wins support from former Socceroos over defamation case". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  5. "ZONES". footballqueensland.com.au. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
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