List of former Australian rules football competitions in Tasmania


This is a list of former Australian rules football competitions in the Australian state of Tasmania.

Statewide competitions

Tasmanian State Premiership (1904–1978)

The Tasmanian State Premiership was an Australian rules football tournament which was competed originally between the reigning TFL/TANFL and NTFA premiers, with the NWFU joining in from 1954.
The State Premiership was finally abandoned after 1978 in favour of sending a combined Tasmanian team to play interstate.

Winfield Statewide Cup (1980)

The Winfield Statewide Cup was a football tournament held in 1980 between the top twenty-one major football clubs across Tasmania from the three major footballing bodies across the state, the TANFL, the NTFA and the NWFU.

Tasmanian Amateur Football League (1931–1995)

The Amateurs controlled the two competitions.

Northern Division

Commenced in 1931 with three clubs, Old Launcestions, St Patricks and Associated Banks, in 1948 the competition became known as Northern Division.
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Division 2
Commenced in 1932 as Public Schools Old Boys Football Association it changed its name to TAFL Southern Division in 1947 when the two competitions merged administration.
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B Grade
Old Scholars Division

Associated Youth Clubs (1949–1975)

Clubs included Cambridge, Canes, Cascades, Chigwell, Lachlan, Metropolitan, Moonah, Nettlefolds, New Town Methodist, Railway, South West, Warrane, West Hobart
This competition disbanded then reorganized themselves into the Southern Tasmanian Football Association
PREMIERS
Clubs included Bellerive and Union. Lasted one season
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The Beaconsfield Football association began before the end of the 19th century and was made up of teams from the town of Beaconsfield. The league was forced into recess in 1915 because of the first world war. After the war the league was not resurfaced because of the demise of the towns goldmine and its population.
Teams in the competition included Stars, Rovers, and Battery
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Clubs included Montacute, Dennistoun, Ouse, Bothwell, and Ellendale.
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Competing Teams Unknown. A Bream Creek combined side played a combined Tasmanian Football Association side in 1927.

Brighton Football Association

Formed in 1922. Clubs over the ensuing period included Bridgewater, Broadmarsh, Kempton, Brighton, Bagdad and Bothwell
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The Buckingham football association was most likely based around the Hobart suburb of New Town.
Clubs included Newtown United, Fitzroy, and Maypole Rovers.

Central Association (1923–1949)

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Clubs included Lefroy Juniors, Carlton, and Newtown Juniors.
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A forerunner to the Kingborough Football Association
Clubs included Gordon, Kettering, Kingston, Margate, Sandfly and Woodbridge.

Member clubs competed for the Warren Shield.
Premiers
Clubs included Snug, Margate, and Kingston.

Chudleigh Football Association (1926–1939)

Clubs included Chudleigh, Cressy, Dairy Plains, Kimberley, Meander, Mole Creek, Red Hills.
Premiers
Clubs included Cressy Rovers, Timms Bridge, Blundstones and New Town Gymnasium.

City Football Association

Clubs included Gray Brothers, Derwent United, Neptune Oils, Standfast, Maypole Rovers, Lindisfarne, and Bellerive Juniors.
Premiers
Clubs included Carlton Rovers, Risdon Rovers, Union Rovers, IXL Juniors, Swan Street, North Hobart Rovers, New Town Wanderers, City Rovers, South United and YMCA.
Premiers
Clubs included Lindisfarne, IXL, Bellerive, Cambridge and Aikens.

Clarence Sub District Football Association

Clubs included Canes, Gadsdens, Clarence Colts, Lindisfarne, Sandfly, South Hobart, Montagu Bay, Forcett, Sorell, Ralphs Bay and Warrane.
Premiers
Clubs included Pioneer, Winnaleah, Weldborough, North Derby, Moorina and Gladstone.
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Competing clubs included Mt Nicholas, Cornwall, Avoca, Jubilee, St Marys, Fingal and Mangana.
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Clubs included: Chudleigh, Elizabeth Town, Hagley, Meander, Mole Creek, Red Hills
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Clubs included Derwent, Glebe Juniors, Lindisfarne and Rialannah.
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Clubs included North and City.
The two clubs participated for the Diggers Cup.
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Clubs included Fitzroy, Cananore, Lefroy Juniors, Crescent, Bellerive, Imperials, Union, New Town, Holebrook, Standfast, East Hobart and Trinity.
Premiers
Clubs included Imperials, Lefroy Juniors, Cananore Juniors, and Bellerive.

Derwent Valley Football Association (1933–1954)

Clubs included: Australian Newsprint Mills, Bothwell, Bronte, Butlers Gorge, Hamilton, Lachlan, Lower Derwent, Molesworth, Ouse, Plenty, Rosegarland, Upper Derwent, Westerway.

East Coast Football Association (1909–1958)

Clubs included Buckland, Nugent, Orford, Runnymede, Swansea, Spring Bay, Cranbrook, Triabunna, Sorell, Buckland-Orford, Woodsdale, Nugent, Copping, and Forcett.
The ECFA folded at the completion of the 1958 season.
Premiers
Best and Fairest
Competing clubs included St Marys, St Helens and Union Rovers.

East Devon Football Association (1905-?)

Formed in 1905. Clubs included Moriarty, Sassafras, Harford and Latrobe.

East Tamar Football Association (1946–1969)

Clubs included George Town, Hillwood, Karoola, Lebrina, Lefroy *, Lilydale, Newstead, Rocherlea, St Leonards.
Premiers
Merged with the West Tamar Football Association after the construction of the Batman Bridge over the Tamar River in 1968.

Eastern Football Association

Competing clubs included Fingal and St Helens.

Emu Bay Football League (1942)

Formed in 1942 and lasted just that season.
Premiers
Clubs included: Cressy, Bishopsbourne, Deloraine, Evandale, Hagley, Poatina, Perth, Westbury
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Competition merged with the Deloraine FA to form the Esk-Deloraine Football Association.

Esk-Deloraine Football Association (1984–1997)

All clubs joined Northern Tasmanian Football Association in 1998.
Premiers
Clubs included Dover, Raminea, Southport and Glendevie.
Premiers
In 1967 Southport went into recess and Raminea struggled to field a side, the competition folded at the end of the season

Federal Football League (1902)

Formed in 1902 and lasted just that season. Clubs included Emu Bay and Penguin.
Premiers
Clubs included Avoca, Campbell Town, Cornwall, Cullenswood, Fingal, Mathinna, Mt. Nicholas, Rossarden, St. Helens, St. Marys, and Swansea. A short history can be found here.

Flinders Island Football Association

Teams comprised North Flinders Island and South Flinders Island. Games were played at Whitemark.

Forrest Hills Cup Football Association

Clubs included Tyenna, Westerway Upper Derwent Juniors and National Park.
Premiers
Competing clubs unknown.

George Town Football League

Competing clubs included Georgetown, Hillwood and Lefroy*
Clubs included Glenorchy Rovers, Claremont Flyers, Bellerive, Bridgewater, Montrose, Derwent Rovers and Granton.
Premiers
The Greater Northern Football League was a competition played between the fifteen major football clubs across Northern Tasmania from the two major footballing bodies across the north of the state, the Northern Tasmanian Football Association, and the North West Football Union in 1981 and 1982.

Hobart Central Football Association

Clubs included Derwent, Lenah Valley, Sandy Bay Rovers, and Glenorchy.

Hobart Football Association

Clubs included Old Hobartians, West Hobart, University, and Postal Electricians.

Hobart Junior Football Association

Clubs included: Collingwood, Empire, Derwent, North Hobart Juniors, Hobart Central, and Crescent "B".
Premierships
Clubs included: Training College, Presbyterian, Melville Street, New Town, Rovers and Buckingham.
Premiers
Clubs included Cygnet, Huonville, Franklin, Kermandie, Channel and Kingston

Channel and Kingston entered the HFA in 1967.
The competition struggled during the 1990s culminating with the loss of Channel and Kingston to the STFL in 1996, the Huon FA folded at the end of the 1997 season with the remaining clubs joining the STFL/SFL.

Huonville and Franklin merged to become the Huonville Lions, with Cygnet and Kermandie also having to adopt alternate playing uniforms and emblems upon joining the SFL.
PREMIERS
Clubs included: Ranelagh, Mountain River, Glen Huon and Crabtree.
Premiers
Clubs included: Barrington, Sheffield, West Kentish and Wilmot.
Premiers
Clubs included: Kermandie, Geeveston, Castle Forbes Bay.
Formed when the Kermandie Football Club were late registering for the Huon Football Association in 1912, and subsequently were left out of the fixture.

Kingborough Football Association (1929–1966)

In 1929 the Channel Football Association voted to change its name to the Kingborough Football Association.

Clubs included Kettering, Kingston, Longley, Margate, Sandfly, Snug, and Woodbridge.

The Kingborough and Huon Football Associations were in merger talks for three years prior to the 1967 Southern Tasmanian bushfires which destroyed the region.

All clubs with the exception of Kingston merged to create the Channel Football Club. Channel and Kingston then commenced in the Huon Football Association.
Premiers
Clubs included Deloraine, Harford, Kingston, Latrobe Rovers, Railton, Cement Rovers, Goliath, Sassafras, Sheffield, and Moriarty.
PREMIERS
Competing clubs included: Lilydale, Lebrina, Karoola, Tunnel, Pipers River, Bangor, Nabowla, Scottsdale, Scottsdale Juniors and Bridstowe Rovers.
PREMIERS
Clubs included: Lower Derwent, Lachlan, Plenty, Molesworth, Upper Derwent and Rosegarland.
PREMIERS
Clubs included: Linda, North Lyell, Gormanston, Mechanics, Miners, Wrenns, Wanderers.
Premiers
Clubs included: Centrals, Railway, West, Marrawah, East Marrawah and Welcome Swamp Reclaimers.
Premiers
Clubs included: Deloraine, Westbury Wanderers and Dunorlan.
PREMIERS
Clubs included: Battery Point, Glebe, Bellerive, Old Hobartians Association and Old Virgilians Association
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Clubs included Campbell Town, Oatlands, Ross and Tunnack.
PREMIERS

As Tullah was in the early 20th century an isolated community, teams were made up from the township of Tullah only.
With the construction of the Murchison Highway in 1963 a combined Tullah team competed in the Roseberry, Murchison, and Western Tasmanian competitions at different times.
The competition commenced in 1912. Teams included: Rovers, Tigers, City, Tullah, Federal and Wanderers.
PREMIERS
Clubs included: Lachlan, Plenty, Lower Derwent, New Norfolk Juniors, Molesworth and New Norfolk Rovers.

North East Association

A precursor to the NorthEast Football Union.
Premiers
Clubs included: Druids, South Launceston, Caledonians, East Launceston.
Premiers
Formed when the NTFA expelled second XVIII clubs so it could a pure reserve grade competition.
Clubs included Deloraine, Exeter, Kings Meadows, Mowbray, Riverside, St. Leonards, Westbury
PREMIERS
The Northern Tasmanian Football Association was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1886 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania and was based in the Launceston and surrounding districts.
Two teams were to field reserve grade teams at senior level in the competition in 1986 upon joining the TFL Statewide League with a third club – City-South – merging with East Launceston on 26 May 1986.

In 1987 the NTFA merged with the North West Football Union to form the Northern Tasmanian Football League, losing both North Launceston and the merged East Launceston/City-South club.

North West Football Union (1910-−1986)

The North West Football Union was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and Northern Tasmanian Football Association representing the rest of the state.
The league were forced to disband after the 1986 season when major clubs such as Cooee and Devonport defected to the TFL Statewide League. In 1987 the NWFU merged with the Northern Tasmanian Football Association to form the current Northern Tasmanian Football League.

Oatlands District (Junior) Football Association

Clubs included: Mt Pleasant, Oatlands, Tunnack, Tunbridge, Mt Seymour and Parratah.
Premiers
Clubs included Forcett, Sorell, Nugent, Bream Creek, Dunalley, Copping, Woodsdale, and Colebrook.
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Main Article: Peninsula Football Association
The Peninsula Football Association was a league from the Tasman Peninsula area of Tasmania that operated between 1988 and 2001.

Portland Football Association (1936−1950)

The Portland Football Association teams included Anchor, City, George's Bay, Miners, Pyengana, St Helens, Union Rovers, and Weldborough.
Premiers
Clubs included: Baptists, Methodists, University, Congregationalists, Battery Point Methodists and Hobart Baptists.
Premiers
Clubs included: Hydro Electric, Public Works, Politax, Railways and Tasmanian Government Printers.

Queenborough Football Association (1919−1957)

clubs included: Army, Blundstones, Canes, Cascade, Claremont, Elliotts Bros, Glenorchy Grove, Glenorchy II, High School, Hydro, IXL, Jay Bee, Kingston, Long Beach, Mt Nelson, North Hobart, Old Hobart Association, Old Technical Collegians, Postal, Railways, Sandy Bay Jrs, Sutex, Teachers College, Tibbs Bridge, University, YCW
Premiers
Teams included: Top End, Bottom End, Salmon River, Central, Railway, Marrawah, Redpa Wanderers.
Premiers
Clubs included: Richmond, Campania, Colebrook, Brighton, Bagdad, Kempton, Dunalley and Sorell.
Premiers
Clubs included: Highclere, Mooreville Road, Ridgley, West Ridgley, Tewkesbury, Wilmot.
Premiers
Clubs included: Rosebery, Strachan, Toorak, Tullah, Williamsford, Zeehan
Clubs that competed in the competition included Nugent, Sorell, and Bream Creek. All the clubs moved to the Pembroke Football association in 1936.
Premiership cup was known as the McHugh Trophy.
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A forerunner to the Southern District Football Association.
'Premiers''


Clubs included Bagdad, Bothwell, Campania, Colebrook, Kempton, Mangalore, Maydena, Ouse, Richmond, Sorell, Triabunna, Tunnack and Upper Derwent.
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Clubs included Australian Newsprint Mills, Bagdad, Bagdad-Mangalore, Bellerive, Bothwell, Bridgewater, Brighton, Clarence, Forcett, Glenorchy Rovers, Hamilton, Mangalore, Maydena, Maydena-Westerway, Montrose, Ouse, Ouse-Wayatinah, Richmond, Upper Derwent, New Norfolk, and South Hobart.

Glenorchy Rovers were absorbed by New Town Football Club when they moved to KGV in early 1957 and became current TSL club, Glenorchy Magpies.
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Formerly the Hobart Junior Football Association
Clubs included: Crescent, Excelsior and Brisbane Rovers.
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Formerly the Associated Youth Clubs.
Clubs included: Bothwell, Buckingham, Cambridge, Lachlan, Maydena, Metropolitan, North Derwent, Railway, Risdon Cove, Risdon Vale, Upper Derwent & West Hobart.
Premiers
Clubs included: Burnie Juniors, Boat Harbour, Flowerdale, Henrietta Rovers, Myalla, Rocky Cape, Seabrook, Wynyard Jrs, Yeoman & Yolla
Formed when it became possible to drive across the Tamar River with the opening of the Batman Bridge in 1968. The East Tamar and West Tamar Football association merged in 1970.
Clubs included Beaconsfield, Beauty Point, Bridgenorth, Exeter, George Town, Hillwood, Karoola, Lilydale, Rosevears.
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Main Article:Tasman Football Association
The Tasman Football Association was a competition made up of clubs from the Tasman peninsula and areas and suburbs East of Hobart. In its latter years it also contained a team from the Derwent Valley and the Hobart inner suburb of New Town.

Tyenna Football Association

Clubs included Bronte Park, Ellendale, Fitzgerald, Hamilton, Keamaree, Lachlan, Maydena, Molesworth, National Park, Ouse, Plenty, Tyenna, Upper Derwent, Upper Derwent Juniors, Wayatinah and Westerway.
Premiers
This Association closed after the 1958 season.

Waratah Football Association

Clubs included Bischoff, Magnet,Parrawe, Waratah

West Tamar Football Association (1920−1969)

Clubs included Beaconsfield, Beauty Point, Bridgenorth, Exeter, Frankford, Rosevears, Rowella & Sidmouth.
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Main Article: Western Tasmanian Football Association
The Western Tasmanian Football Association was a competition based on Tasmania's West Coast, and was mostly made up of miners that lived and worked in the area.

Zeehan Football Association (1908−1952)

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