2009 Gold Coast Football Club season

The 2009 Gold Coast Football Club season was the club's inaugural season. It competed in the 2009 TAC Cup season beginning on 4 April 2009, just five days after the club was granted a provisional licence to enter the Australian Football League (AFL) in 2011.

Gold Coast did not yet have a nickname, and it was not until July 2010 that th club would be known as the "Suns".

Background
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.

assistant coach Guy McKenna was officially announced as GC17's inaugural head coach in August 2008. 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 2008, 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 (VFL) in 2010, but had not yet been granted an AFL licence.

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 AFL in 2011. By this time, Gold Coast had already played two official practice matches.

Results
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2009 playing squad
33 players were named on the Gold Coast list in 2009, with Marc Lock as the inaugural captain.