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Queensland's comeback kings

AC Carina and Bethania Rams have both won seven matches after falling behind. Dig into the score timelines, though, and two very different types of comeback team emerge.

14 combined comeback wins 253 recorded minutes behind 18 separate deficits recovered
AC Carina football
7 AC Carina comeback wins
7 Bethania Rams comeback wins
6 Grange Thistle comeback wins
−3 biggest deficit overturned

BEYOND THE TOTAL

Not all comebacks are created equal

Counting comeback wins tells us who has done it most often. Looking at how long each team actually spent behind tells us much more.

Carina have spent 143 recorded regulation-clock minutes behind across their seven comeback victories. Each win contained one deficit and one recovery.

Bethania have spent only 110 minutes behind, but have recovered from 11 separate losing positions. In three wins they equalised, fell behind again and had to come back another time.

THE COMEBACK TABLE

Who keeps finding a way back?

Wins after trailing, with the deepest deficit each club has successfully overturned.

01
AC Carina FQPL 3 Metro
7 wins
−1
02
Bethania Rams FQPL 5 Metro
7 wins
−1
03
Grange Thistle FQPL 2
6 wins
−2
04
Burleigh Heads FQPL 3 South Coast
5 wins
−1
05
Mackay Rangers FQPL Whitsunday Coast
5 wins
−3
06
West Wanderers FQPL 3 Darling Downs
5 wins
−1

CHASING THE GAME

Average minutes behind in a comeback win

Grange's six comeback wins required considerably more time chasing the game than the other clubs at the top.

Grange Thistle Grange Thistle
37.7
AC Carina AC Carina
20.4
West Wanderers West Wanderers
20.2
Bethania Rams Bethania Rams
15.7
Mackay Rangers Mackay Rangers
15.4
Burleigh Heads Burleigh Heads
9.2

Grange have spent 226 recorded minutes behind across their six comeback wins — almost 38 minutes per match.

THE TWO LEADERS

How long did they actually spend behind?

Each bar represents the recorded time spent trailing in that comeback victory.

AC Carina
AC CARINA 143 minutes behind
Springfield United FC Springfield
2
North Lakes United North Lakes
11
Newmarket Newmarket
21
Mt Gravatt Hawks Mt Gravatt
24
North Lakes United North Lakes
17
Mt Gravatt Hawks Mt Gravatt
29
UQFC UQFC
39
Bethania Rams
BETHANIA RAMS 110 minutes · 11 deficits
Pine Rivers Pine Rivers
27
Slacks Creek Slacks Creek
18
Jimboomba United Jimboomba
15
Westside Grovely Westside
21
Ridge Hills Ridge Hills
22
Acacia Ridge Acacia Ridge
1
QUT QUT
6

Lime-outline rows = Bethania fell behind more than once.

Bethania Rams BETHANIA RAMS
4–3
Pine Rivers PINE RIVERS

THE COMEBACK INSIDE THE COMEBACK

Three deficits. One win.

Bethania went behind at 22', 60' and 65'. Each time they found an equaliser, before finally going ahead in the 79th minute.

22' 0–1
→
43' 1–1
→
60' 1–2
→
64' 2–2
→
65' 2–3
→
67' 3–3
→
79' 4–3
27 minutes behind
3 separate deficits
79' final go-ahead goal

THE EXTREME END

Three goals down. Still won.

Three Queensland clubs have overturned a three-goal deficit in the validated score-state data.

Mackay Rangers
MACKAY RANGERS

Down 1–4. Then down again.

AGAINST Mackay Wanderers Mackay Wanderers
48' 1–4
→
72' 4–4
→
75' 4–5
→
84' 6–5

Rangers erased a three-goal deficit, fell behind again after getting level, and still found the winner at 84'.

Burdekin FC
BURDEKIN FC

0–3 down. Six second-half goals.

AGAINST Saints Eagles Souths Saints Eagles Souths
35' 0–3
→
58' 3–3
→
69' 4–4
→
72' 6–4

Burdekin scored six times between 48' and 72', including two in the final three minutes of the comeback.

Moggill FC
MOGGILL FC

A three-goal deficit erased in minutes.

AGAINST UQFC UQFC
38' 0–3
→
39' 1–3
→
44' 3–3
→
57' 4–3

Moggill conceded the third in the 38th minute, then scored at 39', 41' and 44' to go into half-time level.

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THE TAKEAWAY

The result tells you who won. The timeline tells you how ridiculous it was.

Carina have made a habit of patiently chasing games down. Bethania have repeatedly recovered from one setback after another. Grange have spent huge stretches behind and still won six times. And elsewhere, even a three-goal advantage has not always been enough.

COMEBACK WIN Team trailed at some stage before eventually winning.
MINUTES BEHIND Regulation-clock time between entering a losing state and returning level.
MULTIPLE DEFICITS Falling behind again after equalising counts as another trailing period.
90' BUCKET 90+X cannot be treated as exact because added-time values are not preserved reliably.
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