YEAR FORMED
1958-CENTRALS FC
NO DETAILS-GORDONVALE FC
NO DETAILS-ALOOMBA FC
1957-ALOOMBA GORDONVALE FC (MERGER BETWEEN ALOOMBA FC & GORDONVALE FC)
1963-CENTRALS ALOOMBA FC (MERGER BETWEEN CENTRALS FC & ALOOMBA FC)
1989-CENTRALS TRINITY BEACH FC (NAME CHANGE)
Current Affiliation: Cairns Australian Football League (CAFL) since 1963
Formed: 1963 following a merger between the Centrals and Aloomba Football Clubs
Club Address: 1 Nautilus St, Trinity Beach, Queensland 4879
Home Ground: Trinity Beach Sporting Complex
Colours: Red, White and Blue
Emblem: Bulldogs
Senior Premierships: 1967, 1969, 1973-4-5, 1978-9, 1989-90, 1992-3, 1997 (12 total)
Centrals Football Club originated in 1958, and took its bows in the Cairns Australian Football League the following year. Recruiting the majority of its players from the local railways workshops, the club wasted little time in establishing itself, and in both 1959 and 1960 it reached the grand final, losing to North’s by 35 points in the former year, and by 34 points against Aloomba in the latter.
Aloomba in the 1950s was a tiny canefield township just south of Cairns where Australian football has emerged thanks to the hard work and dedication of local policeman Des Trannore, a former Kedron player. For several years Aloomba was a creditable addition to the CAFL, highlighted by the aforementioned senior premiership in 1960. However, both it and Centrals experienced increasing difficulty in recruiting sufficient players to field competitive teams, and in 1963 the decision was taken to merge the two clubs.
During the 1960s Centrals Aloomba flexed its muscles with losing grand final appearances against South’s Balaclava in 1964 and 1966 before breaking through for a first senior flag in 1967. Once again, the grand final opposition was provided by South’s, who in point of fact were on the verge of a fifth consecutive premiership, but Centrals won emphatically, 13.17 (95) to 9.9 (63), a result which was repeated, albeit slightly less convincingly, two seasons later.
The 1970s saw Centrals Aloomba truly come of age as a club, contesting seven of the ten grand finals played during the decade for wins in 1973-4-5 and 1978-9. After that, statistically the 1980s were somewhat less impressive, yielding just a solitary flag, but the club could be considered somewhat unfortunate to finish runners-up on three successive occasions.
The Centrals team that broke through for its first senior premiership in a decade in 1989 was arguably the most potent force in the club's history. After trouncing North Cairns by 71 points in that year's grand final, it emphasised its quality by going back to back in 1990 thanks to a record breaking 100 point grand final annihilation of Port Douglas.
In 1984, Centrals had relocated to Trinity Beach following the establishment of the Trinity Beach Sporting Trust. By the time the club won its tenth senior flag in 1992 it had altered its name to Centrals Trinity Beach by way of rubber stamping the move. Further premierships under the new moniker were achieved in 1993 and 1997.
THE TROPHY CABINET
PREMIERS
1960-ALOOMBA GORDONVALE FC
1967-CENTRALS ALOOMBA FC
1969-CENTRALS ALOOMBA FC
1973-CENTRALS ALOOMBA FC
1974-CENTRALS ALOOMBA FC
1975-CENTRALS ALOOMBA FC
1978-CENTRALS ALOOMBA FC
1979-CENTRALS ALOOMBA FC
1989-CENTRALS TRINITY BEACH FC
1990-CENTRALS TRINITY BEACH FC
1992-CENTRALS TRINITY BEACH FC
1993-CENTRALS TRINITY BEACH FC
1997-CENTRALS TRINITY BEACH FC
CENTRALS TRINITY BEACH AFL CLUB TODAY
The club has grown into a multi sporting facility with Junior teams from under 8's to 17's, a Women's club and is used by Barron River Cricket Club and the Marlin Coast Lions Club sharing our facilities.
We now have new changing rooms, a gymnasium and we are building a set of women's changing rooms starting in January 2015.
The club has over 5000 social club members plus sporting and football members.
It provides a great deal of entertainment for the local community, not only in Trinity Beach but all over the Marlin Coast.
We house over 75 pokie machines at our club and we provide a very professional social club with Keno and Tab facilities, a brand new bistro dining area for members also with outdoor dining, a kids play area, and a courtesy coach accessible to members, visitors and tourists.
We are always looking for additional sponsors and volunteers to help make our club the most competitive, professional and successful sporting Club in Cairns.
