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Gold Coast Football Club Ltd was registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on 24 December 2007 by the Australian Football League . On 12 March 2008 the AFL received unanimous support from the existing 16 clubs for two expansion teams to enter the league. A bid team known as 'GC17' was created in April and were already in deep discussion with the Australian Football League to be granted the licence. The AFL allowed the GC17 team a six-month period to meet the licence criteria which included 20,000 committed supporters and 111 business partners. Triple AFL premiership player and 1996 Brownlow medal winner Michael Voss accepted a consultancy role with the GC17 team in May. Voss was considered a strong favourite to be appointed the inaugural coach of the new team and was offered a three-year contract as head coach. However, Voss sensationally walked out on the GC17 bid team due to the fact that they refused to offer a five-year contract as head coach. AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou announced in June that the GC17 team were given access to 20 Queensland-based teenagers that would be eligible for the 2009 and 2010 AFL national drafts. In July the team signed their first players in the form of Charlie Dixon, Jesse Haberfield and Jack Stanlake. Collingwood assistant coach Guy McKenna was officially announced as GC17's inaugural head coach in August. On 5 September the bid team announced the club would be known as the Gold Coast Football Club and would wear red, gold and blue. In October the GCFC bid team presented their submission to the AFL commission which included 42,000 committed supporters and the required 111 business partners. The AFL Commission revealed in November that the newly formed team would compete in the TAC Cup in 2009 and the Victorian Football League in 2010 but had not yet been granted an AFL licence. ==Acceptance== Although the GCFC bid team met all the criteria during their presentation to the AFL Commission, several stadium issues continued to delay the process. Initially, the Government of Queensland intended to uphold a contract clause that stated a second AFL team in Queensland must play all home games at the Gabba until 2016. The clause was later loosened and the AFL sought out joint funding for the redevelopment of Carrara Stadium. The AFL was able to conjure up the funds needed for the redevelopment but it would all hinge on whether the Queensland Labor Party would be re-elected in the 2009 state election. The Queensland Labor Party would win the 2009 election and in doing so secured the AFL licence for the GCFC bid team. On 31 March 2009 AFL Chief Executive Andrew Demetriou announced that the Gold Coast bid team had been granted a provisional licence to enter the league in 2011 and would become the seventeenth team in the Australian Football League. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Gold Coast Football Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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