Brisbane Premier League

The Brisbane Premier League was the first tier of senior soccer in Brisbane, Queensland (fourth tier in Queensland and fifth overall in Australia). It was run and administered by Football Queensland Metro. The competition folded and was revamped in 2021 with Football Queensland's takeover of the league structure from Football Brisbane, where they formed the Football Queensland Premier League – Metro.

Honours

Governing body Competition and Year PremiersAnglo-QldFootball Association1884 Rangers1885 St. Andrews1886 St. Andrews1887 Challenge Cup St. Andrews1888 Challenge Cup Thistles1889 Not knownQld BritishFootball Association 1890 Not known1891 Not known1892 Challenge Cup Withheld1893 Challenge Cup Rosebank1894 Challenge Cup Normans1895 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats 1896 Challenge Cup Ipswich Rovers1897 Challenge Cup Rosebank1898 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats 1899 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats 1900 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats 1901 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats1902 No fixture competition 1, 21903 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats 1904 Challenge Cup Blackstone Rovers B 1905 Challenge Cup Wellington1906 Challenge Cup Wellington1907 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats1908 Not known1909 Challenge Cup Wellington1910 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats 1911 Challenge Cup Bulimba Rangers1912 Challenge Cup Blackstone Rovers 1913 Challenge Cup Bulimba Rangers1914 Challenge Cup Toowong Caledonians1915 Challenge Cup Corinthians1916 No competition due to World War 11917 No First Division competition due to World War 131918 No First Division competition due to World War 131919 Challenge Cup Pineapple RoversQueenslandFootball Association 1920 Challenge Cup Corinthians1921 Challenge Cup Dinmore Bush Rats 1922 Challenge Cup Bundamba Rangers 1923 Challenge Cup Thistle1924 Challenge Cup Pineapple Rovers1925 Challenge Cup Pineapple Rovers1926 Challenge Cup Blackstone Rovers 1927 Challenge Cup Bundamba Rangers Brisbane & DistrictFootball Association 1928 Challenge Cup Bundamba Rangers 1929 Challenge Cup Latrobe1930 1st Division Latrobe1931 1st Division Latrobe1932 1st Division Latrobe1933 1st Division Latrobe1934 First Division YMCA1935 First Division Latrobe1936 First Division YMCA1937 First Division Bundamba Rangers 1938 First Division Bundamba Rangers 1939 First Division Bundamba Rangers QueenslandSoccer FootballAssociation 1940 First Division Corinthians1941 First Division Blackstone Rovers 1942 - 1943 No competition due to World War 21944 First Division St. Helens 1945 First Division St. Helens Brisbane & IpswichSoccer FootballAssociation 1946 First Division YMCA1947 First Division St. Helens 1948 First Division St. Helens 1949 First Division Corinthians1950 First Division Dinmore Bush Rats 1951 First Division Eastern Suburbs1952 First Division Corinthians1953 First Division Blackstone Rovers 1954 First Division Dinmore Bush Rats 1955 First Division Bundamba Rangers1956 First Division St. Helens 1957 First Division Bundamba Rangers1958 First Division Oxley United

Governing body Competition and Year Premiers ChampionsBrisbane & IpswichSoccer FootballAssociation 1959 First Division Annerley Annerley1960 First Division Hellenic Hellenic1961 First Division Hellenic AzzurriQueenslandSoccer Federation1962 Division 1 Hellenic Merton Rovers1963 Division 1 Hellenic Hellenic1964 Division 1 Latrobe Merton Rovers1965 Division 1 Hellenic Latrobe1966 Division 1 Latrobe Latrobe1967 Division 1 Latrobe Hollandia-Inala1968 Division 1 Hollandia-Inala Merton Rovers1969 Division 1 Hellenic Hollandia-Inala1970 Division 1 Azzurri Azzurri1971 Division 1 Azzurri Azzurri1972 Division 1 Hellenic Merton-East1973 Division 1 Brisbane Lions Brisbane City 1974 Division 1 Brisbane Lions Brisbane City 1975 Division 1 Brisbane Lions Brisbane City 1976 Division 1 Brisbane City Brisbane City 1977 Division 1 St George-Souths Redlands United1978 Division 1 Southside Eagles Southside Eagles1979 State League Grange Thistle Grange Thistle1980 State League Mount Gravatt Grange Thistle1981 State League Mount Gravatt Mount Gravatt1982 State League Townsville United Ipswich United1983 Premier League Mount Gravatt Olympic United1984 Premier League Mount Gravatt Ipswich United1985 Premier League Ipswich United Ipswich United1986 Premier League North Star Coalstars 1987 Premier League Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions1988 Premier League Brisbane City North Star1989 Premier League North Star Eastern Suburbs1990 Premier League Brisbane Lions Brisbane City 1991 Premier League Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions1992 Premier League North Star North Star1993 Premier League Taringa Rovers Rochedale Rovers 1994 Premier League North Star North Star1995 Premier League Brisbane City Rochedale Rovers 1996 Premier League Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions1997 Premier League Brisbane City Brisbane City 1998 Premier League Brisbane City Brisbane Lions1999 Premier League Rochedale Rovers Brisbane City 2000 Premier League Brisbane City not held2001 Premier League Wynnum District Brisbane City 2002 Premier League Queensland Lions Queensland LionsBrisbaneMen's Soccer2003 Premier League Queensland Lions Queensland Lions2004 Premier League Queensland Lions Queensland Lions2005 Premier League Palm Beach Pine Rivers UnitedBrisbaneMen's Football2006 Premier League Brisbane Strikers Brisbane StrikersFootball Brisbane2007 Premier League Rochedale Rovers Rochedale Rovers 2008 Premier League Rochedale Rovers Brisbane City 2009 Premier League Peninsula Power Brisbane Wolves2010 Premier League Rochedale Rovers Brisbane Wolves2011 Premier League Wolves FC Rochedale Rovers 2012 Premier League Redlands United Wolves FC2013 Premier League Lions FC Peninsula Power2014 Premier League Wolves FC Peninsula Power2015 Premier League Lions FC Peninsula Power2016 Premier League Lions FC Lions FC2017 Premier League Rochedale Rovers Lions FC2018 Premier League Albany Creek Grange Thistle2019 Premier League Albany Creek Albany Creek2020 Premier League St George Willawong –2021 Premier League Albany Creek Bayside United

1 Challenge Cup held as a knockout competition (see section on Charity Cup competition). 2 Ipswich and West Moreton Association competition continued during these seasons. 3 Competition restricted to Second and Third Divisions and Junior competitions.

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Media

The league and its lower divisions are covered by several local newspapers throughout the city, suburbs and surrounding areas including Ipswich and Toowoomba. Highlights of matches, often at least 2 matches per round, in the league are put together by FB Media (the Media arm of Football Brisbane). Live scores and updates from all Brisbane Premier League matches can be found on The Washing Line Facebook page. The Washing Line website also publishes reports, previews and newspaper articles from around the city. The website built upon the Unofficial site YourBPL.com which began media coverage of the league in 2007. From 2012, the newly founded 'FB Media' has been producing weekly podcasts which can be downloaded from The Washing Line website featuring prominent guests including James Meyer, Miron Bleiberg, Matt Mundy and a wide variety of coaches and players from the Brisbane Premier League. Some games are covered by PaulyTV and FBTV.

Media milestones

On Sunday 23 May 2010, a match between Brisbane Wolves and Pine Rivers United became the first BPL match to be streamed live on the internet. Wolves won 5–2. On Saturday 11 June 2011, a match between Redlands United and Olympic FC featured on The Danny Baker Show in the UK, on BBC Radio 5 Live. Olympic won 3–2. At the end of the 2011 season following the success of Wolves FC, 18 goal centreback Patrick Hopkins was scouted via FBTV match highlights for Ljungskile SK in Sweden. In need of a forward, the league's top scorer Steffen Vroom soon followed.

Brisbane Premier League

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