It is also their 2nd season in the AFL Women's and they will field a reserves team in the NEAFL.
At the end of the 2017 season, the Lions announced that they were delisting five players from their squad: Ryan Harwood, Jarrad Jansen, Josh Clayton, Jonathan Freeman and Blake Grewar.
[1] After 154 games at the club, former captain Tom Rockliff accepted an offer to go to Port Adelaide as a restricted free agent and Brisbane decided not to match Port Adelaide's offer.
Four-time premiership player and former captain of Hawthorn Luke Hodge decided to come out of retirement and was traded to the Lions.
[3] Queenslander Charlie Cameron also requested a trade to the club and the Lions gave up pick 12 to secure him.