 In 2011, the club was granted permission to enter the NEAFL, which is an even higher position within the AFL as a whole.With this, a new football board of management which has improved the off-field game plan, The game plan instigated by Geoff Bower in 2010 and exercised in 2011.The Broadbeach Cats have not seen such an improvement in the club since 1994 when Tiger McCormick dragged the licensed club out of over $100,000 in debt and into the black in under one year, and was able to sponsor and foster a team led by Harry Kennan in 1996, where the U-18s, Reserves and Seniors all won Premierships.