Gold Coast Sports Precinct
Teams -- Former teams
Table:
Team

Sport

Used

Competition

Years

Brisbane Bears
Australian rules football
Carrara Stadium
Australian Football League
1987–92

Gold Coast Clippers
Baseball
Carrara Stadium
Australian Baseball League
1989–90

Gold Coast Rollers
Basketball
Carrara Indoor Stadium
National Basketball League
1990–96

Daikyo Dolphins
Baseball
Carrara Stadium
Australian Baseball League
1992–93

Gold Coast Cougars
Baseball
Carrara Stadium
Australian Baseball League
1993–99

Gold Coast Chargers
Rugby league
Carrara Stadium
National Rugby League
1996–98

Gold Coast Titans
Rugby league
Carrara Stadium
National Rugby League
2007

East Coast Aces
Rugby union
Carrara Stadium
Australian Rugby Championship
2007

Gold Coast Blaze
Basketball
Carrara Indoor Stadium (training)
National Basketball League
2007–12

Gold Coast United
Soccer
Western Fields (training)
A-League
2011–12

With reference to the accompanying table and the textual context listed below.

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The Brisbane Football Club , nicknamed the Bears , was the first professional Australian rules football club established in Queensland . The club , along with the West Coast Eagles , joined the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1987 and played its first ever VFL game against North Melbourne at the MCG on Friday 27 March 1987 which it won 19.23.137 to 15.14.104 . Unlike the AFLs more recent expansion clubs , the Gold Coast Suns and Greater Western Sydney Giants ( GWS ) , Brisbane received absolutely no assistance from the VFL/AFL when it was first established and was given only 5 months to recruit an entire team . Despite this however , the club went on to secure 6 wins in its first season and remains the only expansion club from the northern states to avoid finishing in last place on the ladder at the end of their first season . In contrast , the Gold Coast Suns only won 3 games in their first season and GWS only won 4 . Both the Gold Coast Suns and GWS Giants , unlike Brisbane , also finished on the bottom of the ladder at the end of their first season . Brisbane made the finals for the first time in 1995 and only narrowly missed out on a position in the grand final the following year when they were defeated by North Melbourne in the preliminary finals . Many of the Brisbane players who played in this match would go to be stars of Brisbanes 2001 , 2002 and 2003 triple premiership winning teams . The club merged with the Fitzroy Football Club at the completion of the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions without giving their members a vote on the matter . Many Brisbane supporters are still unhappy with the way the club handled the merger and this is exasperated by the clubs reluctance to acknowledge the Bears history despite its clear willingness to regularly acknowledge that of Fitzroys . This has created significant unrest , particularly in Melbourne , between longstanding Brisbane supporters and the small number of former Fitzroy supporters who chose to support the club after Fitzroy went into administration .
Australian rules football , officially known as Australian football , or simply called Aussie rules , football or footy , is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field , often a modified cricket ground . Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between the middle goal posts ( worth six points ) or between a goal and behind post ( worth one point ) . During general play , players may position themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bodies to move the ball . The primary methods are kicking , handballing and running with the ball . There are rules on how the ball can be handled : for example , players running with the ball must intermittently bounce or touch it on the ground . Throwing the ball is not allowed and players must not get caught holding the ball . A distinctive feature of the game is the mark , where players anywhere on the field who catch the ball from a kick ( with specific conditions ) are awarded possession . Possession of the ball is in dispute at all times except when a free kick or mark is paid . Players can tackle using their hands or use their whole body to obstruct opponents . Dangerous physical contact ( such as pushing an opponent in the back ) , interference when marking and deliberately slowing the play are discouraged with free kicks , distance penalties or suspension for a certain number of matches , depending on the seriousness of the infringement . The game features frequent physical contests , spectacular marking , fast movement of both players and the ball and high scoring . The sport 's origins can be traced to football matches played in Melbourne , Victoria in 1858 , inspired by English public school football games .
Carrara Stadium ( known commercially as Metricon Stadium ) is a sporting venue on the Gold Coast in Queensland , Australia , located in the suburb of Carrara . The venue is primarily used for Australian rules football , serving as the home ground of the Gold Coast Suns , who compete in the Australian Football League . In addition , the venue is used occasionally for cricket , including Big Bash League matches . Carrara Stadium received substantial redevelopment work prior to the entry of the Brisbane Bears to the VFL/AFL in 1987 , but following the Bears relocation to the Brisbane Cricket Ground in 1993 , it was used for other sports including rugby league , rugby union and even baseball . The stadium has hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2018 Commonwealth Games as well as the athletics competitions .
The Australian Football League ( AFL ) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men 's competition of Australian rules football . Through the AFL Commission , the AFL also serves as the sport 's governing body , and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game . Originally known as the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) , it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) , with its inaugural season commencing the following year . The VFL , aiming to become a national competition , began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s , and changed its name to the AFL in 1990 . The league currently consists of 18 teams spread over five of Australia 's six states ( Tasmania being the exception ) . Matches have been played in all states and mainland territories of Australia , as well as in New Zealand and China to promote the sport abroad . The AFL season currently consists of a 23-round regular ( or home-and-away ) season , which runs during the Australian winter ( March to September ) . The team with the best record after the home-and-away series is awarded the minor premiership . The top eight teams then play off in a four-round finals series , culminating in the AFL Grand Final , which is held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground each year . The grand final winner is termed the premiers , and is awarded the premiership cup . The current premiers are Richmond .
The Gold Coast Clippers were a foundation team in the now defunct Australian Baseball League . The Clippers changed their name to the Daikyo Dolphins following the signing of a major sponsorship deal with Daikyo to create one of the strongest teams in ABL history .
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding . The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team , called the pitcher , throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat . The objective of the offensive team ( batting team ) is to hit the ball into the field of play , allowing its players to run the bases , having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called runs . The objective of the defensive team ( fielding team ) is to prevent batters from becoming runners , and to prevent runners ' advance around the bases . A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate ( the place where the player started as a batter ) . The team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner . The first objective of the batting team is to have a player reach first base safely . A player on the batting team who reaches first base without being called out can attempt to advance to subsequent bases as a runner , either immediately or during teammates ' turns batting . The fielding team tries to prevent runs by getting batters or runners out , which forces them out of the field of play . Both the pitcher and fielders have methods of getting the batting team 's players out . The opposing teams switch back and forth between batting and fielding ; the batting team 's turn to bat is over once the fielding team records three outs . One turn batting for each team constitutes an inning .
The Australian Baseball League ( ABL ) was a baseball league , established in 1987 and disbanded in 1999 .
The Gold Coast Rollers are a defunct basketball team from Gold Coast , Queensland that competed in the National Basketball League ( NBL ) . The team entered the NBL in 1990 as the Gold Coast Cougars , but for the 1992 season , they were renamed the Rollers . The team was one of only two teams from the state of Queensland when it first joined the NBL ( the Brisbane Bullets being the other ) . The Rollers were one of three teams ( the Geelong Supercats and the Hobart Devils being the other two ) that had their NBL licences revoked by the league following the 1996 season due to financial difficulties .
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams , most commonly of five players each , opposing one another on a rectangular court , compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball ( approximately 9.4 inches ( 24 cm ) in diameter ) through the defender 's hoop ( a basket 18 inches ( 46 cm ) in diameter mounted 10 feet ( 3.048 m ) high to a backboard at each end of the court ) while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop . A field goal is worth two points , unless made from behind the three-point line , when it is worth three . After a foul , timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws . The team with the most points at the end of the game wins , but if regulation play expires with the score tied , an additional period of play ( overtime ) is mandated . Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking or running ( dribbling ) or by passing it to a teammate , both of which require considerable skill . On offense , players may use a variety of shots - the lay-up , the jump shot , or a dunk ; on defense , they may steal the ball from a dribbler , intercept passes , or block shots ; either offense or defense may collect a rebound , that is , a missed shot that bounces from rim or backboard . It is a violation to lift or drag one 's pivot foot without dribbling the ball , to carry it , or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling . The five players on each side at a time fall into five playing positions the tallest player is usually the center , the tallest and strongest is the power forward , a slightly shorter but more agile player is the small forward , and the shortest players or the best ball handlers are the shooting guard and the point guard , who implements the coach 's game plan by managing the execution of offensive and defensive plays ( player positioning ) . Informally , players may play three-on-three , two-on-two , and one-on-one . Invented in 1891 by Canadian-American gym teacher James Naismith in Springfield , Massachusetts , United States , basketball has evolved to become one of the world 's most popular and widely viewed sports . The National Basketball Association ( NBA ) is the most significant professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity , salaries , talent , and level of competition . Outside North America , the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the EuroLeague and the Basketball Champions League Americas .
Carrara Indoor Stadium is a multi-purpose arena located at Carrara on Queensland 's Gold Coast and can accommodate 1,600 fans , with additional seating provided if required which can push total capacity for events such as basketball up to 2,962 . The stadium stands adjacent to the 25,000 seat Metricon Stadium and forms part of the Carrara Sports Complex . The stadium has the nickname The Greenhouse as even during winter it would get Hot and steamy as Hades at times , although that changed with $ 800,000 worth of improvements in 1996 including new air conditioning . The stadium was the home of former National Basketball League team the Gold Coast Rollers who played there from 1990 until 1996 , after which their licence was revoked due to financial struggles . The stadium later became the training venue for the NBL 's Gold Coast Blaze who played at the larger 5,269 seat Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre until the team folded after the 2011-12 NBL season . Carrara Indoor Stadium 's flexible design means it is regularly used for sporting activities ranging from soccer and basketball through to figure skating . The stadium has also been used to hold expos as well special dinners and functions . With the Gold Coast winning the right to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games , plans were put in place to develop a new indoor venue at Carrara under the name of Carrara Sport and Leisure Centre , which will replace the Carrara Indoor Stadium and is slated to host the badminton competition . Squash Australia moved their headquarters to the Carrara Indoor Stadium in 2018 .
The National Basketball League ( NBL ) is a men 's professional basketball league in Oceania ; currently composed of 9 teams , 8 in Australia and 1 in New Zealand . It is the premier professional men 's basketball league in Australia and New Zealand .
The Daikyo Dolphins were formerly the Gold Coast Clippers , a foundation team in the now defunct Australian Baseball League . The Clippers changed their name to the Daikyo Dolphins following the signing of a major sponsorship deal with Japanese real estate development company Daikyo to create one of the strongest teams in ABL history . Daikyo ended its sponsorship of the club due to financial troubles in Australia , and after a season of being known as the Gold Coast Dolphins in 1992/93 , the club changed its name again to the East Coast Cougars ( later Gold Coast Cougars ) as of the 1993/94 season .
The Gold Coast Cougars were the re-branded Daikyo Dolphins after major sponsor Daikyo had to end sponsorship of the team due to financial problems with the Australian arm of the company .
The Gold Coast Chargers were a professional rugby league club which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994 , the Australian Rugby League premiership from 1995 to 1997 , and the National Rugby League premiership in 1998 . They first played under the name Gold Coast-Tweed Giants , then Gold Coast Seagulls , later Gold Coast Gladiators and finally Gold Coast Chargers . The Gold Coast-Tweed Giants were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League premiership for the 1988 season , along with the Brisbane Broncos and Newcastle Knights . Due to a clause in Brisbane 's licence , only one team ( the Broncos ) could play in South-East Queensland . As a result , the Giants played out of the now demolished Seagulls Stadium in Tweed Heads , New South Wales , just over the border , which was home to the Tweed Heads Seagulls RLFC . Gold Coast and Group 18 provided a nursery of young players in which the club was able to draw on for recruitment . The Giants were formed , swiftly , after the Internationals Syndicate Including , John Sattler , Peter Gallagher , Bob Hagan and Doug Ryan had missed out on their bid to win the contract to bring a Brisbane team into the Sydney competition . They were joined by veterans Bob McCarthy as coach , Graeme Langlands as team manager and Ken Irvine as sprint coach . The Giants were a team that spanned both New South Wales and Queensland but struggled for acceptance in either state .
Rugby league is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 m wide and 112-122 m long . One of the two codes of rugby football , it originated in Northern England in 1895 as a split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of payments to players . Its rules progressively changed with the aim of producing a faster , more entertaining game for spectators . In rugby league , points are scored by carrying the ball and touching it to the ground beyond the opposing team 's goal line ; this is called a try , and is the primary method of scoring . The opposing team attempts to stop the attacking side scoring points by tackling the player carrying the ball . In addition to tries , points can be scored by kicking goals . Field goals can be attempted at any time , and following a successful try , the scoring team gains a free kick to try at goal with a conversion for further points . Kicks at goal may also be awarded for penalties . The Super League and the National Rugby League ( NRL ) are the premier club competitions . Rugby league is played internationally , predominantly by European , Australasian and Pacific Island countries , and is governed by the International Rugby League ( IRL ) . Rugby league is the national sport of Papua New Guinea , and is a popular sport in Northern England , Australia , North Island in New Zealand , France , Tonga , Fiji , Samoa and Lebanon . The first Rugby League World Cup was held in France in 1954 ; the current holders are Australia .
The National Rugby League ( NRL ) is a league of professional men 's rugby league teams in Australia . Run by the Australian Rugby League Commission , the NRL 's main competition is known as the Telstra Premiership due to sponsorship from Telstra and is contested by sixteen teams , fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand . It is the most viewed and attended rugby league club competition in the world . The National Rugby League is Australia 's top-level domestic men 's rugby-league club competition . It contains clubs from the original Sydney club Rugby League competition , which had been running continuously since 1908 . The NRL formed in the aftermath of the 1990s ' Super League war as a joint partnership between the Australian governing body , the Australian Rugby League ( ARL ) and media giant News Corporation-controlled Super League , after both organisations ran premierships parallel to each other in 1997 . This partnership was dissolved in February 2012 , with control of the NRL going to the independently formed Australian Rugby League Commission . NRL matches are played in Australia and New Zealand from March to October . The season culminates in the premiership-deciding game , the NRL Grand Final , traditionally one of Australia 's most popular sporting events and one of the world 's largest attended sporting championship games [ citation needed ] . In addition , the NRL premiers also play in the World Club Challenge , a pre-season match against the champions of the Super League competition . The reigning premiers are the Sydney Roosters winning their fifteenth premiership and becoming the first team to win back-to-back titles since the inception of the unified league .
The Gold Coast Titans are a professional rugby league football club , based on the Gold Coast , Queensland , Australia . The club competes in the National Rugby League ( NRL ) premiership , Australia 's elite rugby league competition . It is the newest of the sixteen clubs in the league , having commenced its inaugural season on 18 March 2007 . Since 2008 , the Titans have played their home games at Cbus Super Stadium in Robina , Queensland . The Titans are the second top-level rugby league club to have been based on the Gold Coast , the first being the ill-fated Gold Coast-Tweed Giants / Gold Coast Seagulls / Gold Coast Chargers , which existed from 1988 to 1998 .
Queensland Country is an Australian rugby union football team that competes in the National Rugby Championship ( NRC ) . The team is one of two Queensland sides in the competition , the other being Brisbane City . Queensland Country is organised and managed by the Queensland Rugby Union ( QRU ) , with the coaching and training programs used at the Queensland Reds extended to players joining the team from the Reds , Premier and Country rugby teams . The Queensland Country team in the NRC draws its identity from the Queensland Country representative team that has played in regular City-Country fixtures in Queensland since 1902 . The same colours have been adopted for the team in the NRC competition and , while the Heelers ' cattle dog logo is not used , an emblem based on the traditional Cooktown Orchid logo of the Queensland Country Rugby Union has been adopted . The Queensland Country uniform is blue and white , with a crest of the orchid logo inside Queensland Rugby 's traditional Q on the jersey 's chest . The NRC was launched in 2014 , reinstating the national competition after the Australian Rugby Championship ( ARC ) was discontinued following the first season in 2007 . The Queensland Country NRC team plays in various Queensland regional centres . Existing QRU staffing roles and infrastructure are utilised , and the training base for the team is at QRU 's headquarters at Ballymore .
Rugby union , widely known simply as rugby , is a contact team sport that originated in England in the first half of the 19th century . One of the two codes of rugby football , it is based on running with the ball in hand . In its most common form , a game is played between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field with H-shaped goalposts at either end . Rugby union is a popular sport around the world , played by male and female players of all ages . In 2014 , there were more than 6 million people playing worldwide , of whom 2.36 million were registered players . World Rugby , previously called the International Rugby Football Board ( IRFB ) and the International Rugby Board ( IRB ) , has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886 , and currently has 101 countries as full members and 18 associate members . In 1845 , the first football laws were written by pupils at Rugby School ; other significant events in the early development of rugby include the decision by Blackheath F.C . to leave the Football Association in 1863 and , in 1895 , the acrimonious split between the then amateur rugby union and the professional rugby league . Historically rugby union was an amateur sport , but in 1995 formal restrictions on payments to players were removed , making the game openly professional at the highest level for the first time . Rugby union spread from the Home Nations of Great Britain and Ireland and was embraced by many of the countries associated with the British Empire . Early exponents of the sport included Australia , New Zealand , South Africa and France . Countries that have adopted rugby union as their de facto national sport include Fiji , Georgia , Madagascar , New Zealand , Samoa , and Tonga .
The Australian Rugby Championship , often abbreviated to the ARC and also known as the Mazda Australian Rugby Championship for sponsorship purposes , is a now-defunct domestic professional men 's rugby union football competition in Australia , which ran for only one season in 2007 . It was the predecessor to the current National Rugby Championship . The competition , similar to New Zealand 's ITM Cup and South Africa 's Currie Cup , aimed to bridge the gap between existing club rugby and the international Super Rugby competition then known as Super 14 . The ARC involved eight teams : three from New South Wales , two from Queensland , and one each from the Australian Capital Territory , Victoria and Western Australia .
The Gold Coast Blaze was an Australian men 's professional basketball team which competed in the National Basketball League ( NBL ) . The Blaze competed in their inaugural season in 2007/08 . The club was based on the Gold Coast and joined two other NBL clubs competing from Queensland . The Blaze played its home games at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre ( GCCEC ) in Broadbeach , known as The Furnace within the NBL . The team was not related to the previous Gold Coast representative in the NBL , the Gold Coast Rollers .
Gold Coast United FC is an association football ( soccer ) club based on the Gold Coast , Queensland , Australia . The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach . The first era of Gold Coast United senior teams competed in the Brisbane leagues until the club disbanded after the 1979 season , allowing Broadbeach United Soccer Club to form its first senior team in 1980 at the same grounds . Twenty-eight years later the club was revived and was officially announced as a professional expansion team for the A-League 's 2009-2010 season on 28 August 2008 . It was the second bid accepted by the league , with an unrelated bid known as Gold Coast Galaxy FC preceding it . The club was owned by Clive Palmer , the wealthiest man in Queensland , until the FFA took over the club 's A-League licence in February 2012 , and officially folding on 25 March 2012 and its intellectual property being surrendered to Football Federation Australia . In their first two A-League seasons , Gold Coast were one of the strongest clubs in the A-League , finishing in the top four on both occasions and making the finals series . Although in their third season , the teams form dropped due to off-field instability surrounding player contracts , coaching staff and community support . Since their inception , Gold Coast were criticised about their low attendance . In their first season , they averaged close to 5,500 people and in their second season , they averaged just under 3,300 people per game , making them the lowest attended team . On 29 February 2012 , the FFA revoked Palmer 's Gold Coast United A-League licence . On August 3 , 2017 , it was announced that they would be joining the National Premier League Queensland to compete in both Men 's and Women 's competitions .
Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , [ a ] is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players . It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies , making it the world 's most popular sport . The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end . The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal . Football is played in accordance with a set of rules known as the Laws of the Game . The ball is 68-70 cm ( 27-28 in ) in circumference and known as the football . The two teams each compete to get the ball into the other team 's goal ( between the posts and under the bar ) , thereby scoring a goal . The team that has scored more goals at the end of the game is the winner ; if both teams have scored an equal number of goals then the game is a draw . Each team is led by a captain who has only one official responsibility as mandated by the Laws of the Game : to represent their team in the coin toss prior to kick-off or penalty kicks . Players are not allowed to touch the ball with hands or arms while it is in play , except for the goalkeepers within the penalty area . Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball , but may also use any other part of their body except the hands and the arms . The team that scores most goals by the end of the match wins .
The A-League is the highest-level professional men 's soccer league in Australia . At the top of the Australian league system , it is the country 's primary competition for the sport . The A-League was established in 2004 by Football Federation Australia ( FFA ) as a successor to the National Soccer League ( NSL ) and competition commenced in August 2005 . The league is currently contested by eleven teams ; ten based in Australia and one based in New Zealand . A twelfth team , Macarthur FC , based in Sydney , is scheduled to join the league in the 2020-21 season . It has been officially known since its inception as the Hyundai A-League through a series of sponsorship arrangements with the Hyundai Motor Company . Seasons run from October to May and include a 26-round regular season followed by a Finals Series playoff involving the highest-placed teams , culminating in a grand final match . The winner of the regular season tournament is dubbed the 'premier ' while the winner of the grand final is the season 's 'champion ' . This differs from the other major football codes in Australia , where 'premier ' refers to the winner of the grand final and the winner of the regular season is the 'minor premier ' . Successful A-League clubs gain qualification into the Asian continental club competition , the Asian Football Confederation Champions League ( ACL ) also known as AFC Champions League , in 2014 the Western Sydney Wanderers became the first and only winning Australian club . Similar to the United States and Canada 's Major League Soccer , as well as other professional sports leagues in Australia , Australia 's A-League does not practice promotion and relegation . Since the league 's inaugural season , a total of seven clubs have been crowned A-League Premiers and six clubs have been crowned A-League Champions .