Our Story

 

The South East Suns were offically born on the 1st August 2014 after officials from the Logan City Cobras and Beenleigh Buffaloes Football Clubs had come together during 2014 to discuss the possibility of merging forces to become one club for the South East QLD region. The main concern for both parties was the lack of juniors progressing up to the senior ranks due to both clubs not having an colts side. Due to this, both clubs juniors had sort opportunities elsewhere and rarely did these players come back to their clubs at senior level. Because of this it meant that both clubs were continually competing against each other for players. Furthermore as both clubs were located in the heart of Logan it was viewed that we should be playing a higher level of competition and our aim is to progress up the levels in the years to come whilst having an Under 19's side who would feed into our Seniors & Reserves teams and providing the opportunity for our youth players to hopefully progress to the AFL level.

 

Prior to announcing our new name an exhaustive consultation process was held between both the Logan & Beenleigh officials as to what our new entity would be called. All agreed that aligning ourselves to AFL club Gold Coast Suns was a postive move seeing as they too were a fairly new club and only located a short drive down the road. Furthermore we would be the only club in the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and Gold Coast areas that had the Suns moniker and would appeal to those that followed Gold Coast and the AFL in general. After liasing with the Gold Coast Suns we gained approval to use their colours of red, gold and blue and adopting their club song.

 

After numerous discussions it was decided by the members of the Logan City Cobras at a Special General Meeting that in the best interests of football in Logan and surrounding areas that the Cobras would cease and the South East Suns would become our new club.  After holding their own Special General Meeting the Beenleigh Buffaloes decided against ceasing as a senior club and to remain as their own club. Whilst we were disappointed they didn't join forces with the then Logan City Cobras to become one club for the South East QLD region we understood their position but we proceeded to continue on as the new entity 'South East Suns.'

 

A critical element of building our football club was establishing and maintaining a community connection. Its promise remains to ensure that the club will have meaningful engagement with the community and our pathway ensures that the South East Suns will become a competitive and successful club for the South East QLD region.

 

Not one to forgot where we came from we decided to honour both the Logan City and Beenleigh Football clubs by maintaining their history that goes back to 1973 when the Woodridge Woodpeckers were formed. Since that time numerous name changes have occured with the Slacks Creek Cobras, Beenleigh Cobras, Logan City Cobras and finally the Beenleigh Buffaloes forming their own club in 1998. All games, club, league and life membership honours are recognised by us as we are a club for the South East QLD region.

 

The South East Suns are building a reputation as one of the most exciting football clubs in Australia. Strong values and a culture of success both on and off the field are central to achieving this goal.

 

The journey is only just beginning. A new dawn is rising, it's our time to shine!