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🖤FQPL2 MENS SEMI FINALS 💛

QPL2 | SEMI FINALS
South West QLD Thunder FC v Pine Hills FC 💛🖤
⏰Sunday, 30 August
⚽2:30pm: FQPL2 Men
📍Toowoomba Sports Ground (1)

Please head over to support these members of our Pine Hills FC family!

Can’t make it down? Watch the game online here: https://youtube.com/

Congratulations to our Over 35s Division 4 team on winning the premiership! 🏆

Best of luck to the team in their semi-final tomorrow night. Come on down and show your support!

⏰Friday, 28 August
⚽6:45pm: O35s Div 4
📍James Drysdale Reserve (2)

🖤💛 Sponsor Spotlight! 🖤💛

A huge thank you to Balln, our sponsor spotlight this week! Their ongoing support of Pine Hills FC and generosity plays an important role in helping our club, players, and community thrive.

Semi-Finals Bound! 💛🖤🔥

A huge congratulations to our Senior Metro teams who have finished in the Top 4 of their respective leagues, securing their spots in this weekend’s semi-finals!

🏆 Metro 3 Women – Minor Premiers
🥉 Metro 4 Women – 3rd
🥉 Metro 6 Men – 3rd
🥉 Metro 6 Women – 3rd
4️⃣ Metro 10 Men – 4th

What an incredible achievement across our Senior Metro program! 👏

Now it’s time to get behind our teams as they battle it out for a place in the Grand Final. Bring the noise, show your support and cheer them on this weekend! 📣

!Good luck to all of our teams! 💛🖤⚽

🖤💛 Sponsor Spotlight! 🖤💛

A huge thank you to Ultra Tune Stafford and Keperra, our sponsor spotlight this week, for their ongoing support of Pine Hills FC. Their generosity plays an important role in helping our club, players, and community thrive.

🏆 MINOR PREMIERS! 🏆

Congratulations to our Metro Women Div 3 on an outstanding 2026 season! 💛🖤⚽

After 18 rounds, the ladies finished on top with an impressive:
🔥 12 Wins | 2 Draws | 4 Losses
⚽ 48 Goals For | 18 Goals Against

Their minor premiership has also secured a HOME SEMI-FINAL against Taringa Rovers this Saturday! 💪💛🖤

📅 Saturday, 22 August 2026
⏰ Kick-off: 5:00pm
📍 Field 2

Come on down, get behind the ladies and help us cheer them on as they fight for a place in the Grand Final! 📣💛🖤

Let’s Go Pine Hills FC 💛🖤

It’s the final game of the season for our FQPL Women, and what a big one it is! 🔥

Tomorrow night’s catch-up game against Wolves is a must-watch, with a win or draw securing our place in QPL3 for the 2027 season! 🙌

With three wins from their last three games, the momentum is firmly on our side. 💪⚽

We’d love to see plenty of sideline support, but we know a mid-week away game can make getting to Carmichael Park difficult. So, if you can’t be there, show the ladies your support right here in the comments!

Let’s get behind them and cheer them over the line!

LET’S GO LADIES — YOU’VE GOT THIS! 💛🖤🔥

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀

In a world where children have more choices than ever before, one question is worth asking:

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁?

Every activity offers something valuable. Swimming builds fitness. Music develops creativity. Tennis develops skill.

But team sport offers something few other activities can.

It's one of the only places where young people regularly experience challenge, responsibility, belonging, accountability and teamwork—all at the same time.

At Pine Hills FC, we believe football is about far more than developing players. It's about developing people.

Recent research involving almost 190 studies found that participation in organised sport is associated with higher self-esteem, greater life satisfaction, stronger social skills, and lower levels of anxiety and depression. Team sports consistently demonstrated greater psychological and social benefits than individual sports, largely because of the relationships, shared purpose and sense of belonging they create.

Team sport asks young people to think beyond themselves. It teaches them to communicate, trust others, solve problems together, celebrate teammates' success and take responsibility when things don't go to plan.

These aren't just sporting skills—they're life skills.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴

One of the strongest findings from modern research is that belonging matters.

Young people who feel connected to teammates, coaches and a shared purpose experience better wellbeing and stronger social development. Every child wants to feel like they belong, and a great team provides exactly that.

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲

Football mirrors life.

Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you're selected, and sometimes you're disappointed. Sometimes you make the mistake. Sometimes you rescue a teammate who has made a mistake.

These moments aren't obstacles to development—they are the development. Every setback builds resilience. Every challenge develops character. Every season teaches perseverance.

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹

Of course, we hope every player improves and enjoys success. But only a small number will play at the highest levels. The opportunity available to every player is much greater than that.

If football helps a young person become more resilient, more confident, a better teammate, and someone who can work well with others, then it has already delivered something of lifelong value.

Years from now, most players won't remember every result or every training session. They'll remember the friendships, the challenges they overcame, the coaches who believed in them, and the feeling of belonging to something bigger than themselves.

That's the real power of team sport.

At Pine Hills FC, we're proud to be developing far more than footballers—we're helping shape the people our young players will become.

Have a great week PHFC!

Luke McKenna

Football Director - Pine Hills FC

🖤💛 Sponsor Spotlight! 🖤💛

Sending a big thank you to UltraTune Arana Hills for our sponsor spotlight this week for their support of Pine Hills FC. Their contribution helps our club, players, and community continue to grow.