List of former Australian rules football competitions in Tasmania
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This is a list of former Australian Rules Football
Australian rules football
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 competitions in the Australian state of Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

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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 (21) major football clubs across Tasmania from the three major footballing bodies across the state (at the time), the TANFL, the NTFA and the NWFU.

Associated Youth Clubs (1949-1975)

Clubs included Canes, Chigwell, Metropolitan, Moonah, Warrane, West Hobart

This competition disbanded then reorganized themselves into the Southern Tasmanian Football Association (1976–1986)

Bellerive Football Association (1903)

Clubs included Bellerive and Union. Lasted one season

Premiers
  • 1903 Bellerive

Beaconsfield Football Association (?-1914)

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

Premiers
  • ?-1911 ?
  • 1912 Stars 9.7.61 defeated Rovers 5.17.47
  • 1913 ?
  • 1914 Stars were premiers

Bothwell District Football Association

(Also known as the Southern Tasmanian Country Football Association)

Clubs included Montacute, Dennistoun, Ouse, Bothwell, and Ellendale.

Premiers
  • 1934 Dennistoun defeated Montacute

Bream Creek Football Association

Competing Teams Unknown. A Bream Creek combined side played a combined Tasmanian Football Association side in 1927.

Brighton Football Association

Clubs included Bridgewater, Broadmarsh, Kempton, Brighton, Bagdad and Bothwell

Premiers
  • 1929 Brighton 9.13.67 defeated Bothwell 5.8.38 (Bothwell's captain/coach in the game was the legendary Tasmanian Footballer Horrie Gorringe
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    )
  • 1930 Bothwell are premiers

Buckingham Football Association

The Buckingham football association was most likely based around the Hobart suburb of New Town
New Town, Tasmania
New Town is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located about 4 km north of the central business district of Hobart. One of the city's oldest suburbs, it is now an inner city residential suburb. Many of its streets are lined with Federation style cottages...

.

Clubs included Newtown United, Fitzroy, and Maypole Rovers.

Central Association (1923-1949)

Premiers:
  • 1944 - Deloraine 7.7.49 def Westbury 7.6.48
  • 1945 - Bracknell 6.16.52 def Deloraine 7.8.50
  • 1946 - Meander 7.15.57 def Mole creek 7.12.54
  • 1947 - Meander 15.18.108 def Kimberley 10.8.68
  • 1948 - Mole Creek 9.17.71 def Meander 4.19.43
  • 1949 - Mole Creek 13.12.90 def Meander 4.6.30

Central Football Association

Clubs included Lefroy Juniors, Carlton, and Newtown Juniors.

Premiers
  • 1934 Lefroy Juniors

Channel Football Association

Clubs included Margate, Kettering, Sandfly, Kingston (1908), Gordon and Woodbridge.

Premiers
(Teams competed for the Warren shield)
  • 1920 Woodbridge 5.7.37 defeated Kettering 0.5.5
  • 1921 Gordon 4.10.34 defeated Woodbridge 3.6.24

Channel Junior Football Association

Clubs included Snug, Margate, and Kingston
Kingborough Tigers
The Kingborough Football Club is an Australian rules football club, based at Kingston, Tasmania and currently playing in the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.-Club Origins:...

.

City and Suburban Football Association

Clubs included Cressy Rovers, Timms Bridge, Blundstones and Newtown Gymnasium.

City Football Association

Clubs included Gray Brothers, Derwent United, Neptune Oils, Standfast, Maypole Rovers, Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne Blues
The Lindisfarne Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

, and Bellerive Juniors.

Premiers
  • 1933 Derwent United 8.5.53 defeated Gray Brothers 5.10.40
  • 1934 Gray Brothers 13.8.86 defeated Lindisfarne
    Lindisfarne Blues
    The Lindisfarne Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

     7.5.47

Clare Street Football Association

Clubs included Carlton Rovers, Risdon Rovers, Union Rovers, IXL Juniors, Swan Street, North Hobart rovers, Newtown Wanderers, City Rovers, South United and YMCA.

Premiers
  • 1921 South United 3.3.21 defeated YMCA 2.4.16
  • 1922 City Rovers defeated Union Rovers by 6 points
  • 1923 ?
  • 1924 Union Rovers 7.3.45 defeated Carlton Rovers 3.8.26
  • 1925 Carlton Rover 6.15.51 defeated Union Rovers 4.14.38
  • 1926 Carlton Rover 7.9.51 defeated Union Rovers 2.14.36

Clarence Football Association

Clubs included Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne Blues
The Lindisfarne Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

 (-1948), IXL, Bellerive, Cambridge and Aikens.

Clarence Sub District Football Association

Clubs included Canes, Gadsdens, Clarence Colts
Clarence Football Club
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, Lindisfarne, Sandfly, South Hobart, Montagu Bay, Forcett, Sorell, Ralphs Bay and Warrane.

Premiers
  • 1948 Sandfly v Canes (result unknown)
  • 1949 South Hobart defeated Sandfly
  • 1950 Forcett defeated South Hobart
  • 1951 South Hobart defeated Sorell
  • 1952 Sorell 11.12.78 defeated Forcett 5.15.45
  • 1953 to 1956 In recess
  • 1957 Warrane defeated Forcett
  • 1958 Canes defeated Ralphs Bay

Coastal Rovers Football Association

Clubs included Pioneer, Winnaleah, Weldborough, North Derby, Moorina and Gladstone.

Premiers
  • 1934 Pioneer 9.18.72 defeated Moorina 8.7.55
  • 1935 pioneer 24.22.172 defeated North Derby 7.8.50
  • 1936 Pioneer 6.19.55 defeated Moorina 7.11.53

Cullenswood Football Association

Competing clubs included Mt Nicholas, Cornwall, Avcoa, Jubilee, St Marys, Fingal and Mangana.

Premiers
  • 1932 Mt Nicholas
  • 1933 Mt Nicholas
  • 1934 Cornwall
  • 1935 St Marys

Deloraine football Association (1950-1983)

Clubs included: Chudleigh, Elizabeth Town, Hagley, Meander, Mole Creek, Red Hills

Denison Football Association

Clubs included Derwent, Glebe Juniors, Lindisfarne and Rialannah (Mt Nelson).

Premiers
  • 1914 Derwent

Derby Football Association

Clubs included North and City.

Premiers (Clubs played for the "Diggers Cup")
  • 1933 North 5.16.46 defeated City 5.12.42

Derwent Football Association

Clubs included Fitzroy, Cananore
Cananore Football Club
Cananore Football Club was an Australian rules football club, founded in 1901.It competed in the Tasmanian Football League as a junior club from 1901 to 1907, and as a senior club between 1908 and 1941....

, Lefroy
Lefroy Football Club
Lefroy Football Club were an Australian rules football club which competed in the Tasmanian Football League . They were known as the Blues and played their home games at North Hobart Oval as well as the Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground. Lefroy players wore dark and light blue as their club...

 Juniors, Crescent, Bellerive, Imperials, Union, Newtown, Holebrook, Standfast, East Hobart and Trinity.

Premiers
  • 1902 Fitzroy
  • 1903 Lefroy
    Lefroy Football Club
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     Juniors
  • 1904 Cananore
    Cananore Football Club
    Cananore Football Club was an Australian rules football club, founded in 1901.It competed in the Tasmanian Football League as a junior club from 1901 to 1907, and as a senior club between 1908 and 1941....

  • 1905 Crescent
  • 1906 Imperials
  • 1907 Bellerive
  • 1908 Crescent

Derwent Juniors Football Association

Clubs included Imperials, Lefroy Juniors, Cananore Juniors, and Bellerive.

East Coast Football Association (1st Version)

Clubs included Swansea and Spring Bay.

Premiers
  • 1924 Swansea defeated Spring Bay

East Coast Football Association (1946-1958)

Teams included Swansea, Cranbrook, Spring Bay, Triabunna
Triabunna Roos
The East Coast Bombers Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia....

, Sorell
Sorell Eagles
The Sorell Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

, Buckland-Orford, Woodsdale, Nugent, Copping, and Forcett.

The League began in 1945 after the second world war but folded after the 1958 season.

Premierships
  • 1945 Triabunna v Nugent (result unknown)
  • 1946 Spring Bay 8.7.55 defeated Copping 4.14.37
  • 1947 Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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     defeated Buckland by 18 points
  • 1948 Buckland-Orford 10.11.71 defeated Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
    The East Coast Bombers Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia....

     9.12.66
  • 1949 Swansea defeated Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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      by 10 points
  • 1950 Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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     9.10.64 defeated Buckland-Orford 6.17.53
  • 1951 Swansea 6.24.60 defeated Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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     6.20.56
  • 1952 Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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     19.8.122 defeated Swansea 8.20.68
  • 1953 Swansea defeated Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
    The East Coast Bombers Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia....

     by 45 points
  • 1954 Sorell
    Sorell Eagles
    The Sorell Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

     defeated Swansea
  • 1955 Swansea 12.9.81 defeated Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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     7.11.53
  • 1956 Swansea 10.15.75 defeated Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
    The East Coast Bombers Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia....

     10.10.70
  • 1957 Swansea 10.15.75 defeated Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
    The East Coast Bombers Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia....

     9.9.63
  • 1958 Swansea
  • 1959 Recess


Best and Fairest
  • 1955 Phil McConnon (Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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    )
  • 1956 Phil McConnon (Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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    )
  • 1957 Phil McConnon (Triabunna
    Triabunna Roos
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    )

East Coast Union Football Association

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.

Premiers
  • 1947 - Lefroy 9.11.65 d Lilydale 4.9.33
  • 1948 - Lefroy 12.5.77 d Karoola 9.8.62
  • 1949 - Lefroy 10.10.70 d Lilydale 8.8.56
  • 1950 - Lilydale 9.7.61 d Karoola 9.5.59
  • 1951 - Lilydale 8.10.58 d Hillwood 4.6.30
  • 1952 - Lilydale 6.11.47 d Lebrina 5.10.40
  • 1956 - Lilydale 7.11.53 d Hillwood 5.5.35
  • 1957 - George Town 7.5.47 d Lilydale 4.4.28
  • 1958 - George Town 14.12.96 d Lilydale 5.13.43
  • 1959 - Hillwood 12.11.83 d Lilydale 7.11.53
  • 1960 - Hillwood 13.4.82 d Lilydale 9.8.62
  • 1962 - Karoola 9.10.64 d Lilydale 8.9.57
  • 1963 - George Town 14.16.100 d Lilydale 12.13.85
  • 1965 - George Town 16.11.107 d Lilydale 6.7.43
  • 1969 - Lilydale 10.6.66 d Hillwood 7.3.45

Emu Bay Football League (1942)

Formed in 1942 and lasted just that season.

Premiers
  • 1942 Emu Bay

Esk Football Association (1926-1983)

Clubs included: Cressy, Bishopbourne, Deloraine, Evandale, Hagley, Poatina, Perth, Westbury

Merged with the Deloraine FA to form Esk-Deloraine Football Association.

Esk-Deloraine Football Association (1984-1997)

All clubs joined Northern Tasmanian Football Association
Northern Tasmanian Football Association
The Northern Tasmanian Football Association is an Australian rules football competition in northern Tasmania.This competition was formed in 1996 as a change of name from the Northern section of the Tasmanian Amateur Football League...

 in 1998.

Esperance Football Association(1930-1967)

Clubs included Dover, Raminea, Southport and Glendevie.

Premiers
  • 1938 Southport defeated Dover
  • 1939 Southport defeated Dover
  • 1940 Southport defeated Dover
  • 1941-45 Recess
  • 1946 Dover defeated Southport
  • 1947 Dover defeated Southport
  • 1948 Dover defeated Southport
  • 1949 Dover defeated Southport
  • 1950 Southport defeated Dover
  • 1951 Southport defeated Dover
  • 1952 Unknown
  • 1953 Southport defeated Glendevie
  • 1954 Raminea defeated Southport
  • 1955 Dover defeated Glendevie
  • 1956 Glendevie defeated Dover
  • 1957 Glendevie defeated Southport
  • 1958 Glendevie defeated Raminea
  • 1959 Glendevie defeated Southport
  • 1960 Glendevie defeated Dover
  • 1961 Dover defeated Raminea
  • 1962 Glendevie defeated Dover
  • 1963 Glendevie defeated Raminea
  • 1964 Raminea defeated Glendevie
  • 1965 Raminea defeated Glendevie
  • 1966 Dover defeated Glendevie
  • 1967 Dover defeated Glendevie


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
  • 1902 Emu Bay defeated Penguin

Fingal District Football Association

Clubs included Avoca, Campbell Town, Cornwall, Cullenwood, 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 Upper Derwent Juniors and National Park.

George Town Football League

Competing clubs included Georgetown, Hillwood and Lefroy.
  • 1932 Lefroy 15.14.104 defeated Hillwood 5.3.33

Glenorchy Suburban Football Association

Clubs included Glenorchy, Claremont Flyers, Bellerive, Bridgewater, Montrose, Derwent Rovers and Granton.

Premiers
  • 1931 Glenorchy
  • 1932 Montrose
  • 1933 Bellerive

Greater Northern Football League (1981-1982)

The Greater Northern Football League (GNFL) 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 (NTFA), and the North West Football Union
North West Football Union
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...

 (NWFU) 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

(Changed name to Southern Tasmanian Football Association in 1910)

Clubs included: Collingwood, Empire, Derwent, North Hobart Juniors, Hobart Central, and Crescent "B".

Premierships
  • 1906 - Collingwood
  • 1907 - Collingwood
  • 1908 - Collingwood
  • 1909 - unknown

Holebrook Football Association

Clubs included: Training College, Presbyterian, Melville Street, New Town, Rovers and Buckingham.

Premiers
  • 1906 - Training College
  • 1907 - unknown
  • 1908 - Presbyterians
  • 1909 - unknown
  • 1910 - Buckingham

Huon Football Association

Clubs included Channel, Cygnet, Huonville, Franklin, Kermandie and Kingston

The competition struggled during the 1990s with Franklin going into recess at one point, 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.

Huon District Football Association

Clubs included: Ranelagh, Mountain River, Glen Huon and Crab Tree.

Premiers
  • 1946 - Ranelgah 12.7.79 defeated Mountain River 5.3.33
  • 1947 - Glen Huon
  • 1948 - Glen Huon 13.13.79 defeated Mountain River 10.0.60

Kermandie Football Association(1912)

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)

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

The Kingborough and Huon association 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 Saints
The Channel Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playingin the Old Scholars Football Association , also known as Old Scholars...

. Channel and Kingston then commenced in the Huon Football Association.

Lilydale District Football Association

Competing clubs included: Lilydale, Lebrina, Karoola, Tunnel, Pipers River, Bangor, Nabowla, Scottsdale, Scottsdale Juniors and Bridstowe Rovers.

Premiers
  • 1921 - Lebrina
  • 1922 - unknown
  • 1923 - Lilydale 7.0.42 defeated Bangor 1.6.12
  • 1924-1925 - unknown
  • 1926 - Scottsdale Juniors defeated Lebrina by 18 points
  • 1927 - unknown
  • 1928 - Lilydale 7.6.48 defeated Scottsdale Juniors 6.11.47
  • 1929-1932 - unknown
  • 1933 - Lebrina 8.6.54 defeated Karoola 8.5.53
  • 1934-1936 - unknown
  • 1937 - Scottsdale 10.11.71 defeated Lilydale 10.7.67

Lower Derwent Football Association

(Later called the Derwent Valley Junior Football Association)

Clubs included: Lower Derwent, Lachlan, Plenty, Molesworth, Upper Derwent and Rosegarland.

Premiers
  • 1932 - Lower Derwent
  • 1933 - Lower Derwent
  • 1934 - Lower Derwent
  • 1935-1938 - unknown
  • 1939 - Lachlan

Marrawah Football Association (1925-1932)

Clubs included: Centerals, Railway, West, Marrawah, East Marrawah and Welcome Swamp Reclaimers.

Premiers
  • 1925 - East Marrawah
  • 1926-1932 - unknown

Medhurst Football Association

Clubs included: Deloraine, Westbury Wanderers and Dunorlan.

Premiers
  • 1909 - Deloraine 6.7.43 defeated Dunorlan 2.7.19
  • 1910 - Westbury Wanderers

Metropolitan Football Association

Clubs included: Battery Point, Glebe, Bellerive, Old Hobartians Association and Old Virgilians Association

Premiers
  • 1910 - Bellerive were defeated
  • 1911-1914 - unknown
  • 1915 - Bellerive defeated
  • 1916-1928 - unknown
  • 1929 - Old Hobartians Association 13.6.84 defeated Old Virgilians Association 4.12.36

Mount Farrell Football Association

(Tullah Football Association)

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: Tullah, Federal and Wanderers.

Premiers
  • 1912-1926 - unknown
  • 1927 - Federal
  • 1928-1930 - unknown
  • 1931 - Tullah 8.20.68 defeated Federal 9.9.63
  • 1932-1934 - unknown
  • 1935 - Tullah 16.24.120 defeated Federal 12.14.86
  • 1936-? - unknown

New Norfolk Junior Football Association

Clubs included: Lachlan, Plenty, Lower Derwent, New Norfolk Juniors, Molesworth and New Norfolk Rovers.

Northern Suburban Football Association

Clubs included: Druids, South Launceston, Caledonians, East Launceston.

Premiers
  • 1924 - Druids

Northern Tasmania District Football League (1952-1963)

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
  • 1952 - Deloraine
  • 1953 - St Leonards
  • 1954 - Mowbray
  • 1955 - Mowbray
  • 1956 - Mowbray
  • 1957 - Mowbray
  • 1958 - Deloraine
  • 1959 - Deloraine
  • 1960 - Riverside
  • 1961 - Deloraine
  • 1962 - Deloraine
  • 1963 - Mowbray

Northern Tasmanian Football Association (1886-1986)

The Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) 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
Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...

 and surrounding districts.

Two teams (North Launceston and East Launceston) were to field reserve grade teams at senior level in the competition in 1986 upon joining the TFL Statewide League
Tasmanian Football League
Tasmanian State League is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.The league has a long and convoluted history which dates back to its founding on 12 June 1879 Tasmanian State League (TSL) (formerly known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), Tasmanian...

 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 (NWFU) to form the Northern Tasmanian Football League, losing both North Launceston and the merged East Launceston/City-South (South Launceston) club.

North West Football Union (1910-1986)

The North West Football Union (NWFU) 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
Tasmanian Football League
Tasmanian State League is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.The league has a long and convoluted history which dates back to its founding on 12 June 1879 Tasmanian State League (TSL) (formerly known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), Tasmanian...

 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 (NTFA) to form the current Northern Tasmanian Football League
Northern Tasmanian Football League
The Northern Tasmanian Football League is an Australian rules football competition in northern Tasmania.-History:The Northern Tasmanian Football League was founded in 1987 to replace the former Northern Tasmanian Football Association - no relation to the current NTFA - and the North Western...

.

Oatlands District (Junior) Football Association

Clubs included: Mt Pleasant, Oatlands, Tunnack, Tunbridge, Mt Seymour and Parratah.

Premiers
  • 1932 - Oatlands 12.10.82 defeated Tunnack 8.11.59
  • 1933 - 1936 unavalible
  • 1937 - Tunnack defeated Mt Seymour
  • 1938 - Mt Pleasant defeated Oatlands

Pembroke Football Association (1936-1950)

Clubs included Forcett, Sorell
Sorell Eagles
The Sorell Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

, Nugent, Bream Creek, Dunalley, Copping, Woodsdale, and Colebrook.

Premiers (Bone Trophy)
  • 1936 Nugent defeated Forcett
  • 1937 Sorell
    Sorell Eagles
    The Sorell Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

     8.11.59 defeated Nugent 7.7.49
  • 1938 Sorell
    Sorell Eagles
    The Sorell Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

     8.11.59 defeated Nugent 7.8.50
  • 1939 Sorell
    Sorell Eagles
    The Sorell Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

     11.9.75 defeated Dunalley 3.14.32
  • 1940-1946 Recess (WW2)
  • 1947 Forcett 14.3.87 defeated Dunalley 11.10.76
  • 1948 Copping 8.11.59 defeated Dunalley 5.10.40
  • 1949 Dunalley defeated Copping
  • 1950 Dunalley defeated Nugent

Peninsula Football Association(1988-2001)

Main Article: Peninsula Football Association
Peninsula Football Association (Tasmania)
The Peninsula Football Association is a former non-professional Australian Rules football league from south-eastern Tasmania, Australia that operated between 1988 and 2001.-Peninsula Football Association:...

 

The Peninsula Football Association (PFA) 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
  • 1947 - George's Bay 10.19.79 d Pyengana 6.4.40
  • 1948 - George's Bay 9.13.67 d St Helens 8.18.66
  • 1950 - Pyengana 13.18.96 d St Helens 7.5.47

Protestant Churches Football Associstion ( -1934)

Clubs included: Baptists, Methodists, University, Congregationalists, Battery Point Methodists and Hobart Baptists.

Premiers
  • 1932 - Combined Methodists 16.11.107 defeated University 14.8.92
  • 1933 - Combined Methodists 13.12.90 defeated Battery Point Methodists 9.12.66
  • 1934 - Into Recess

Public Service Football Association (1947-1951)

Clubs included: Hydro Electric, Public Works, Politax, Railways and Tasmanian Government Printers.

Queensborough 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

Redpa Football Association (1933-1939)

Teams included: Top End, Bottom End, Salmon River, Central, Railway, Marrawah, Redpa Wanderers.

Premiers
  • 1933 - Season abandoned no premiership rewarded
  • 1934 - Central 8.7.55 defeated Railway 1.4.10
  • 1935-1936 - unavalible
  • 1937 - Season cancelled
  • 1938-1939 - unavalible

Richmond Football Association

Clubs included: Richmond, Campania, Colebrook, Brighton, Bagdad, Kempton, Dunalley and Sorell.

Premiers
  • 1932 - Tea Tree
  • 1933 - Campania
  • 1934 - unavailable
  • 1935 - Kempton 7.8.50 defeated Campania 5.9.39
  • 1936 - unavalible
  • 1937-1939 - Reformed as South Midlands Association
  • 1940 - unavailable

Rosebery Football Association

Clubs included: Rosebery, Strachan, Toorak, Tullah, Williamsford, Zeehan
  • 1928 - Toorak 10.9.69 to Williamsford 9.13.67
  • 1960 - Rosebery 11.14.80 to Toorak 9.7.61
  • 1961 - Rosebery 16.19.115 to Toorak 8.4.52

Sorell Football Association (1934-1935)

Clubs that competed in the competition included Nugent, Sorell
Sorell Eagles
The Sorell Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League , also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

, and Bream Creek. All the clubs moved to the Pembroke Football association in 1936.

Premiership cup was known as the McHugh Trophy.

South East District Football Association (1945-1979)

Clubs included Bagdad, Bothwell, Campania, Colebrook, Kempton, Mangalore, Maydena, Richmond, Sorell, Triabunna, Tunnack and Upper Derwent.

Southern Districts Football Association (1934-1970)

Clubs included Bagdad, Bothwell, Bridgewater, Glenorchy Rovers, Hamilton, Kempton, Mangalore, Maydena, Richmond, Upper Derwent, New Norfolk, Clarence, Brighton, Forcett and South Hobart.

Southern Tasmanian Football Association

Formerly the Hobart Junior Football Association

Clubs included: Crescent, Excelsior and Brisbane Rovers.

Premiers
  • 1910 - Excelsior

Southern Tasmanian Football Association (1976-1986)

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
  • 1976 - Lachlan 17.12.114 def Metropolitan 13.8.86
  • 1977 - Railway 15.15.105 def West Hobart 11.14.80
  • 1978 - Buckingham 12.5.77 def Railway 8.5.53
  • 1979 - Lachlan 14.17.101 def Railway 12.2.74
  • 1980 - Lachlan 8.13.61 def Bothwell 5.9.39
  • 1981 - Lachlan 16.12.108 def West Hobart 14.13.97
  • 1982 - West Hobart 21.13 139 def Bothwell 11.3.69
  • 1983 - Bothwell 10.12.72 def Lachlan 10.8.68
  • 1984 - Lachlan 15.16.106 def Bothwell 7.3.45
  • 1985 - Bothwell 10.10.70 def Lachlan 6.12.48
  • 1986 - Lachlan 14.11.95 def Maydena 11.9.75

Table Cape Football Association (1924-1952)

Clubs included: Burnie Juniors, Boat Harbour, Flowerdale, Henrietta Rovers, Myalla, Rocky Cape, Seabrook, Wynyard Jrs, Yeoman & Yolla
  • 1927 - Burnie Juniors
  • 1930 - Yeoman
  • 1931 - Yeoman 8.16.64 d Flowerdale 7.10.52
  • 1937 - Boat Harbour
  • 1938 - Myalla
  • 1939 - Myalla
  • 1946 - Rocky Cape 8.10.58 Def Myalla 7.7.49
  • 1947 - Boat Harbour 10.11.71 Def Myalla 4.14.38
  • 1948 - Myalla 6.11.47 Def Rocky Cape 6.9.45
  • 1949 - Rocky Cape 7.5.47 Def Myalla 4.3.27
  • 1950 - Flowerdale 9.7.61 Def Myalla 8.11.59
  • 1951 - Mt Hicks 5.11.41 Myalla 3.4.22
  • 1952 - Flowerdale Vs Mt Hicks

Tamar Football Association (1970-1984)

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.

Tasman Football Association (1919-2001)

Main Article:Tasman Football Association
Tasman Football Association
The Tasman Football Association was a former Australian rules football competition in Tasmania, Australia. The association had origins back to 1902 when games were played at random. In 1919 a proper association was set up...



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 (Railway FC).

Tyenna Football Association

Clubs included Lachlan, Brushy Park, Molesworth, Plenty, Fitzgerald, Maydena, Ellendale and Wayatinah.

Premiers
  • 1949 Ellendale defeated Maydena by 2 points.
  • 1950-1951 Unknown
  • 1952 Ellendale defeated Maydena
  • 1953 Molesworth defeated Plenty
  • 1954 Plenty defeated Lachlan
  • 1955 Molesworth defeated Brushy Park
  • 1956 Plenty defeated Maydena
  • 1957 Maydena defeated Wayatinah
  • 1958 Maydena defeated Wayatinah

West Tamar Football Association (1920-1969)

Clubs included Beaconsfield, Beauty Point, Bridgenorth, Exeter, Frankford, Rosevears, Rowella & Sidmouth.

Western Tasmanian Football Association (1924-1994)

Main Article: Western Tasmanian Football Association
Western Tasmanian Football Association
The Western Tasmanian Football Association was a former Australian Rules Football competition based on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.The competition was made up of mostly miners living and working on the State's West Coast....



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.
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