Marlin Coast Rangers Football Club is an amateur soccer club founded in 1946.[1] and based in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The club play in the regional Football QueenslandFQ Far North & Gulf competition, the fifth tier of the Australian soccer league system. Its home ground was officially named Pennell Field in 2010,[2] in honour of Gary Pennell – a respected member of Marlin Coast Rangers Football Club.
The club has won the Football QueenslandFQ Far North & Gulf Treble (League, Premiership, Crad Evans Shield) four times in its history (2007, 2010,[3] 2013 and 2024), and also won the League Cup in 2022.[4][5]
On 6 October 2023, former Coast player Criostoir O'Hare – who won the Treble with the club in 2010 and 2013 – was confirmed as the club's new player-coach for the 2024 season.[6]
In O'Hare's first season back at Marlin Coast, the club again won the Treble, after being crowned league champions for the first time in 11 years, and winning their FQPL Grand Final 4-0 against Mareeba,[7] and the Crad Evans Shield with a 5-3 win over MA Olympic in Townsville.[8] Striker Cooper Kennedy also won the Golden Boot with 17 goals[9]
The club's Pennell Field grounds regularly play host to the Queensland Schools Football Championships, with the most recent event being the 10-12 years Girls and Boys Football State Championships in 2023.[10]
