SPORT TOOWOOMBA
Building a Healthy, Connected Community
If you drive around Toowoomba on a Saturday morning you’ll see colour and activity at every sporting field. If you’re new to town, sport is a great way to meet people and a great way to bring a community together. If you’re going to be a local, you’ll need to know which teams to cheer for and if you have children, chances are they’ll learn their sport through one of the following clubs.
AFLQ Darling Downs is the home of Australian Rules Football in the region.
It offers everything from A Grade men and women through to Auskick, Superstars Footy, Footy Fun and Youth Football.
Here's a list of Toowoomba Clubs and where they play:
Toowoomba has a long proud history of hockey. All club games are played at Clyde Park next to Club Glenvale, the home of Toowoomba Hockey Club at 564 Boundary Street. Clubs include: Newtown, Norths, Past High, Rangeville and Red Lions.
Nell E Robinson Park in Kearneys Spring is the centre for netball in Toowoomba. There are 15 hard surface and 12 grass netball courts ensuring maximum competition and excitement every weekend during netball season. In addition to school netball clubs: Brothers, Dominoes, Rata, Saints, Phoenix, Pittsworth District, Pittsworth Wildcats, Toowoomba Dragons..
Toowoomba Mountaineers also, Toowoomba Basketball Association Clubs.
There’s a cricket team for everyone in Toowoomba: juniors, women's, men's, seniors, over 50s and corporate teams.
Check out our local clubs: USQ, Southern District Magpies, Highfields Railway Cricket Club, Dragons Cricket, Metro East Trojans and Toowoomba Western District.
City Golf Club and Toowoomba Golf Club at Middle Ridge offer so much more than golf! But you can certainly join the club and play in 18 hole tournaments at both. Another popular golf course is Eustondale at Glenvale which offers nine holes.
You’ll also find fabulous country golf courses at Cabarlah, Highfields, Goombungee, Oakey and Millmerran.
Tennis on the Darling Downs goes back to 1898. Today the Toowoomba Tennis Association (TTA) is located at the corner of Water and James Streets and it offers a huge schedule of tennis from tiny tots to veterans. You can join the club and play fixtures or in tournaments, you can hire courts arrange lessons – it’s a busy place. There are also courts for hire at USQ and in Neil Street near St Patrick’s Cathedral.
If you’re an aspiring Diego Maradona then you’ll be happy to know that Football Toowoomba has all levels of competition including Mini Roos and Futsal. You’ll need to join a club though so choose from: Garden City Raiders FC; Highfields FC: Oakey SC: Pittsworth Vikings SC: Rockville Rovers FC: South Toowoomba Hawks SC; St Albans SC; West Wanderers FC and Willowburn FC.
A team for every age level, A grade through to Juniors.
Risdon Cup: Each year in October the A Grade teams in the Darling downs competition compete for the glory of the Risdon Cup: the symbol of Rugby Union supremacy on the Darling Downs.
Other sporting clubs in the region include: Toowoomba Company of Archers, Toowoomba Table Tennis Association and Clubs, Darling Downs Regional Swimming Association, Darling Downs Cycling Club, Toowoomba Touch Association, Toowoomba Rangers Baseball Club, Toowoomba Softball Association, Range Runners Orienteering Club Toowoomba, Gymnastics, Cheerleading Squads, Darling Downs Sailing Club at Cooby Dam, Toowoomba Mountain Bike Club, Little Athletics and Qld Athletics, Water Polo.