AFL South Pacific Nations

16/09/2026

14/09/2026

That’s a wrap on the 2026 AFL U17s Pacific Nations Challenge in Cairns 💪🏾

Safe travels home everyone - more photos and updates to come.

Huge thank you to our program partners:
PacificAus Sports, Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service, Sport and Recreation Queensland and Health and Wellbeing Queensland

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AFL Tonga
AFL Cairns
AFL Cape York
AFL Fiji
AFL Papua New Guinea

12/09/2026

✅ Day 2 at the AFL U17 Pacific Nations Challenge is all done and the final matches are locked in!

🏉 Quick feet, strong tackles, silky skills and some amazing football on display by the male footballers from across Far North Queensland and the Pacific!

🔥 Day 2 Results | Male Division 🔥

Match 7.
Crusaders 3.5 (23) def PNG Binatangs 3.3 (21)

Match 8.
Fiji Jnr Tribe 4.9 (33) def Tonga Thunder 2.2 (14)

Match 9.
PNG Binatangs 9.12 (66) def Tonga Thunder 0.3 (3)

Match 10.
Cairns Lions 5.4 (34) def Fiji Jnr Tribe 1.2 (8)

📺 Catch all the finals action LIVE on the AFL Cairns YouTube channel.

Huge thank you to our program partners:

PacificAus Sports

Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service

Sport and Recreation Queensland

Health and Wellbeing Queensland

🏉🌴

12/09/2026

✅ Day 2 at the AFL U17 Pacific Nations Challenge is done and the Finals matches are locked in!

🏉 Quick feet, strong tackles, silky skills and some amazing football on display by the U17 females from across Far North Queensland and the Pacific!

🌺 Day 2 Results | Female Division 🌺

Match 7. Cairns Lions 6.11 (47) def Tonga Storm 0.0 (0)

Match 8. Fiji Jnr Vonu 2.5 (17) def PNG Kurakums 1.2 (8)

Match 9. Fiji Jnr Vonu 4.7 (31) def Tonga Storm 0.1 (1)

Match 10. Crusaders 2.1 (13) def PNG Kurakums 1.5 (11)

📺 Catch all the finals action LIVE on the@AFL Cairns YouTube channel.

Huge thank you to our program partners:

PacificAus Sports

Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service

Sport and Recreation Queensland

Health and Wellbeing Queensland

🏉🌴

12/09/2026

Port Adelaide’e Esava Ratugolea is in Cairns for the
U17 AFL Pacific Nations Challenge! 🇫🇯 🇦🇺 🇵🇬 🇹🇴

Thanks to program partners for supporting this event:

⭐️ PacificAus Sports
⭐️ Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
⭐️ Queensland Government - Sport and Recreation Queensland
⭐️ Health and Wellbeing Queensland

12/09/2026

11/09/2026

What a fantastic day 1 at the AFL u17 Pacific Nations Challenge.

Quick feet, strong tackles, silky skills and some amazing football.

Day 1 results - Male Division
1. Cairns Lions 9-6-60 Def Tonga Thunder 0-0-0
2. Crusaders 6-4-40 Def Fiji Jnr Tribe 5-7-37
3. Cairns Lions 2-5-17 Def PNG Binatangs 2-3-15
4. Crusaders 10-8-68 def Tonga Thunder 1-2-8
5. PNG Binatangs 5-5-35 Def Fiji Jnr Tribe 2-4-16
6. Cairns Lions 4-6-30 def Crusaders 3-8-26

Day 1 results - Female Division
1. Crusaders 2-2-14 Def Fiji Jnr Vonu 2-1-13
2. PNG Kurakums 3-1-19 Def Cairns Lions 2-3-15
3. Crusaders 8-9-57 Def Tonga Storm 0-1-1
4. Cairns Lions 4-5-29 Def Fiji Jnr Vonu 1-2-8
5. PNG Kurakums 8-7-55 Def Tonga Storm 0-1-1
6. Crusaders 1-2-8 Def Cairns Lions 0-2-2

Catch all the Day 2 action live on the AFL Cairns Youtube channel from 10am AEST time.

Thank you to program partners
PacificAus Sports
Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
Health and Wellbeing Queensland

10/09/2026

The day is here!
Catch all the action live from the AFL u17 Pacific Nations Challenge

Games start from 11am

Head to the AFL Cairns YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/?feature=shared

AFL Cape York AFL Cairns AFL Papua New Guinea AFL Fiji Tongan Aussie Rules PacificAus Sports

Thank you to our wonderful partners
- PacificAus Sports
- Cape York House Foundation
- Torres Health
- Health & Wellbeing QLD

The official home of 🌴

08/09/2026

See you in Cairns soon 🙌🏾🇫🇯💪🏾🏉

08/09/2026

🚨 AFL U17 Pacific Nations Challenge Fixture 🚨

Catch some of the best up and coming footballers in action from across the Pacific and Far North Queensland!

Good luck to the teams travelling to Cairns, Australia this week:

🇵🇬 AFL Papua New Guinea
🇹🇴 AFL Tonga
🇫🇯 AFL Fiji
🌴 AFL Cairns
🌿 AFL Cape York & Torres Strait

A big thank you to our valued partners:
🤝 PacificAus Sports
🤝 Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
🤝 Queensland Government - Sport and Recreation
🤝 Health and Wellbeing Queensland

See you at the footy!

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