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

Statewide competitions

Tasmanian State Premiership (1904–1978)

Main article: Tasmanian State Premiership
Hobart's banner reads "We're Back!" prior to the 1980 Winfield Statewide Cup final.

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)

Main article: Winfield Statewide Cup

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.

Tasmanian Amateur Football League (1931–1995)

The Amateurs controlled the two competitions (one in Hobart, the other in Launceston).[1]

Northern Division

Commenced in 1931 with three clubs, Old Launcestionians, St Patricks and Associated Banks, in 1948 the competition became known as TAFL Northern Division.

Beauty Point and Beaconsfield clubs amalgamated in 1989 forming the Tamar Cats.
University and Mowbray clubs amalgamated in 1994.
Quandeine folded in 1982, Northern Districts folded in 2000.

Premiership Winners

Southern Division

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.
The Old Scholars clubs formed an Old Scholars Division in 1981 and later broke away to form the Old Scholars FA in 1987.
Clemes College amalgamated with Friends School in January 1946.
Ogilvenians renamed OTOS after Ogilvie High School became a girls-only school in 1963, later combining with New Town High School to be known as NTOS until folding in 1995.
Richmond and Campania clubs were amalgamated between 1980 and 1990.
Mangalore renamed itself Brighton in 1996 when it joined the Southern FL.

Premiership Winners

Old Scholars Division

Local Competitions

Associated Youth Clubs (1949–1975)

Clubs included Cambridge, Canes, Cascades Youth Club, Chigwell, Lachlan, Metropolitan, Moonah, Nettlefolds, New Town Methodists, Railway, South West, Swan Street Methodists, Warrane, West Hobart.

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

Premiership Winners

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 Association was forced into recess in 1915 because of World War One.
After the war the league was not resumed because of the demise of the towns goldmine and its population.

Teams in the competition included Stars, Rovers, Imperial and Battery.

Premiership Winners

Bellerive Football Association (1903)

Clubs included Bellerive and Union.
The Association lasted one season.

Premiership Winners

Bothwell District Football Association (1934)

(Also known as the Southern Tasmanian Country Football Association).

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

Premiership Winners

Bream Creek Football Association

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

Brighton Football Association

Formed in 1922.[2] Clubs over the ensuing period included Bagdad, Bothwell, Broadmarsh, Bridgewater, Brighton and Kempton.

Premiership Winners

Note:
Brighton's captain/coach in the 1929 Grand Final was the legendary Tasmanian Footballer Horrie Gorringe)
This particular Brighton club, who wore brown and gold playing colours bore no relation to the current club named Brighton which was formerly known as Mangalore up until 1995.

Buckingham Football Association

The Buckingham Football Association was most likely based around the Hobart suburb of New Town.
Clubs included New Town United, Fitzroy and Maypole Rovers.

Central Association (1923–1949)

Teams included Deloraine, Westbury, Bracknell, Meander, Mole Creek, Kimberley, Longford and Dunorlan.

Premiership Winners

Central Football Association

Clubs included Lefroy Juniors, Carlton, and New Town Juniors.

Premiership Winners

Channel Football Association (1908–1928)

A forerunner to the Kingborough Football Association.
Clubs included Gordon, Kettering, Kingston (1908), Margate, Sandfly and Woodbridge.
Member clubs competed for the Warren Shield.

Premiership Winners

Channel Junior Football Association

Clubs included Snug, Margate, and Kingston.

Chudleigh Football Association (1926–1939)

Clubs included Chudleigh, Cressy, Dairy Plains, Kimberley, Meander, Mole Creek and Red Hills.

Premiership Winners

City and Suburban Football Association

Clubs included Cressy Rovers, Timms Bridge, Blundstones and New Town Gymnasium.

City Football Association (1931–1934)

Clubs included Gray Brothers, Derwent United, Neptune Oils, Standfast, Maypole Rovers, Lindisfarne, and Bellerive Juniors.

Premiership Winners

Clare Street Football Association (1921–1926)

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

Premiership Winners

Clarence Football Association

Clubs included Lindisfarne (–1948), IXL, Bellerive, Cambridge and Aikens.

Clarence Sub District Football Association (1948–1958)

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

Premiers

Coastal Rovers Football Association (1934–1936)

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

Premiership Winners

Cullenswood Football Association

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

Premiership Winners

Deloraine Football Association (1950–1983)

Clubs included: Chudleigh, Elizabeth Town, Hagley, Meander, Mole Creek and Red Hills.
Association amalgamated with the Esk FA after the 1983 season to form the Esk-Deloraine FA.

Premiership Winners

Denison Football Association

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

Premiership Winners

Derby Football Association

Clubs included North and City.
The two clubs participated for the Diggers Cup.

Premiership Winners

Derwent Football Association (1902–1908)

Clubs included Fitzroy, Cananore, Lefroy Juniors, Crescent, Bellerive, Queen's College, Officer College, Imperials, Union, New Town, Holebrook,[3] Standfast, East Hobart and Trinity.

Premiership Winners

Derwent Juniors Football Association

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

Derwent Valley Football Association (1904–1924, 1936–1954)

Clubs included: Railway (Macquarie Plains), Derwent (Bushy Park), Valleyfield, Hawthorn, Australian Newsprint Mills (ANM), New Norfolk, Bothwell, Bronte, Butlers Gorge, Hamilton, Lachlan, Lower Derwent, Molesworth, Ouse, Plenty, Rosegarland, Upper Derwent, Westerway.

The Association went into recess from 1925 to 1935.

Premiership Winners

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 went into recess five rounds into the 1958 season and ultimately folded at the completion of that season.

Premiership Winners

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, St Leonards.

The Association amalgamated with the West Tamar Football Association after the construction of the Batman Bridge over the Tamar River in 1969.

Note:
Not to be confused with Lefroy Football Club that participated in the Tasmanian Football League from 1898–1941.

Premiership Winners

Eastern Football Association

Competing clubs included Fingal and St Helens.

Emu Bay Football League (1942)

Formed in 1942 and lasted just that season.
Premiership Winners

Esk Football Association (1926–1983)

Clubs included: Cressy, Bishopsbourne, Deloraine, Evandale, Hagley, Poatina, Perth, Westbury.

Premiership Winners

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.

Premiership Winners

Esperance Football Association (1922–1967)

Clubs included Dover, Raminea, Southport and Glendevie.

After struggling for many years with attracting players, the Esperance FA embarked on a plan of combining all four clubs to form the 'Esperance Football Club', playing out of Dover and put in an official submission to join the Huon Football Association for the 1968 season.
In September 1967 the Huon FA formally rejected the application, and as a result, in early 1968 all clubs and the Association went into recess and never restarted.

Note: The 1951 Grand Final was drawn necessitating a replay a week later.

Premiership Winners

Federal Football League (1902)

Formed in 1902 and lasted just that season. Clubs included Emu Bay and Penguin.

Premiership Winners

Fingal District Football Association (1924–1992)

Main article: Fingal District Football Association

Clubs included Avoca, Campbell Town, Cornwall, Cullenswood, Fingal, Mathinna, Mt. Nicholas, Rossarden, St. Helens, St. Marys and Swansea.
The premiership team each year was awarded the Spurr Shield.
A short history can be found here. [5]

Premiership Winners

Note:
In the 1928 Grand Final, St Marys won the first grand final but the game was ended with ten minutes to go.
Fingal protested and the Fingal FA determined that the game had to be replayed and it took place two weeks later.
In 1936 Avoca were awarded the premiership over Rovers after Rovers refused to play in the grand final replay after the original game was drawn.
Avoca Football Club went out of business in the off-season of 1989-90 owing to a lack of player numbers.
The 1989 Grand Final, which they won, was their final match.

Flinders Island Football Association

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

Forest Hills Cup Football Association (1921–1927)

Clubs included Tyenna, Westerway Upper Derwent Juniors and National Park.

This competition became the Tyenna Football Association in 1929.

Premiership Winners

Franklin Football Association

Competing clubs unknown.

George Town Football League

Competing clubs included George Town, Hillwood and Lefroy.

Premiership Winners

Glenorchy Suburban Football Association (1931–1933)

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

Premiership Winners

Greater Northern Football League (1981–1982)

Main article: Greater Northern Football League

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 (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 (1906–1909)

(Changed name to Southern Tasmanian Football Association in 1910)

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

Premiership Winners

Holebrook Football Association (1906–1910)

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

Premiership Winners

Huon Football Association (1887–1997)

Clubs included Cygnet (Lovett), Huonville (Picnic), Franklin, Kermandie (Liverpool), Channel and Kingston
Channel and Kingston entered the HFA in 1967.
The competition struggled during the 1990s and it was expected that the Association would amalgamate with the new STFL competition in 1996, however four clubs decided to remain loyal to the continuation of the Huon FA but Channel and Kingston defected to the new competition, the Huon FA folded at the end of the 1997 season with the remaining clubs also joining the STFL/SFL.
The final Huon Football Association match took place on 13 September 1997 when Franklin, in their final match, defeated Cygnet in the Grand Final at Huonville.
Huonville and Franklin merged to become the Huonville Lions in 1998, with Cygnet and Kermandie also having to adopt alternate playing uniforms and emblems upon joining the SFL.

Premiership Winners

Notes:
The 1921 Grand Final was awarded to Franklin on protest over Kermandie.
The 1934 Grand Final was awarded to Kermandie after Huonville won the Grand Final 13.5 to 10.10 over Kermandie but were found to have played an ineligible player.
In 1958 there were back-to-back drawn Grand Finals between Franklin and Kermandie necessitating an unprecedent third such decider to determine the season's premier.

Huon District Football Association (1946–1948)

Clubs included: Ranelagh, Mountain River, Glen Huon and Crabtree.

Premiership Winners

Kentish Football Association (1926–1954)

Clubs included: Barrington, Cement Rovers (Railton), Sheffield, Stoodley, West Kentish and Wilmot.

Premiership Winners

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)

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 (who absorbed the Longley Football Club) amalgamated to create the Channel Football Club. Channel and Kingston then commenced in the Huon Football Association in 1967.
Kingston later renamed themselves as Kingborough Tigers in 2004.

Premiership Winners

Note:
In 1956 Snug and Margate played a drawn Grand Final, Snug won the replay a week later.

Latrobe Football Association (1925–1953)

Clubs included Deloraine, Harford, Latrobe Rovers, Railton, Cement Rovers, Goliath, Sassafras, Sheffield and Moriarty.

Premiership Winners

Leven Football Association (1924–2015)

Premiership Winners

Lilydale District Football Association (1921–1937)

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

Premiership Winners

Lower Derwent Football Association (1932–1939)

(Later called the Derwent Valley Junior Football Association)

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

Premiership Winners

Lyell Miners Football Association (1907−1932)

Clubs included: Linda, North Lyell, Gormanston, Mechanics, Miners, Wrenns, Wanderers.

Premiership Winners

Note:
There are no records of results between 1908–1920, 1922, 1924–1927 and 1930–1931.

Marrawah Football Association (1923−1931)

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

Premiership Winners

Medhurst Football Association (1909–1910)

Clubs included: Deloraine, Westbury Wanderers and Dunorlan.

Premiership Winners

Metropolitan Football Association (1910–1929)

Clubs included: Battery Point, Glebe, Bellerive, Old Hobartians Association and Old Virgilians Association.
OVA were later referred to as St Virgils.

Premiership Winners

Note:
No information is available on Seasons' 1911–1914 or 1916–1928.

Midlands Football Association (1931−1971)

Clubs included Campbell Town, Oatlands, Ross and Tunnack.

Premiership Winners

Note:
Between 1937 and 1940 all clubs participated in the Northern Midlands FA.

Mount Farrell Football Association (1912–1936)

(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 Rosebery FA, Murchison FA, and Western Tasmanian FA competitions at different times until folding in 1988.

The competition commenced in 1912.
Teams included: Rovers, Tigers, City, Tullah, Federal, Wanderers and Zeehan.

Premiership Winners

New Norfolk Junior Football Association

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

North East Football Association (1922–1936)

A precursor to the North East Football Union that operated from 1938 to 2017.

Premiership Winners

Northern Suburban Football Association (1924)

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

Premiership Winners

Northern Tasmania District Football League (1952−1963)

Formed when the NTFA expelled second XVIII clubs so it could hold its own reserve grade competition.

Clubs included Deloraine, Exeter, Kings Meadows, Mowbray, Riverside, St. Leonards and Westbury

Premiership Winners

Northern Tasmanian Football Association (1886−1986)

Main article: Northern Tasmanian Football Association

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 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 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)

Main article: North West Football Union

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 and Northern Tasmanian Football Association representing the rest of the state.

The NWFU ran until the end of 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 Northern Tasmanian Football League.

Oatlands District (Junior) Football Association (1932–1938)

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

Premiership Winners

Pembroke Football Association (1936−1950)

Clubs included Forcett, Sorell, Nugent, Bream Creek, Dunalley, Copping, Woodsdale, and Colebrook.

The winning premiership team received the Bone Trophy.

Premiership Winners

Note:
The 1936 Grand Final resulted in a draw between Nugent and Forcett.
The two clubs played a replay the following week, again at Bream Creek, resulting in a 4-point victory to Nugent.

Peninsula Football Association (1988−2001)

Main Article: Peninsula Football Association
The Peninsula Football Association (PFA) was a league from the Tasman Peninsula area of Tasmania that operated between 1988 and 2001.
It was formed after the Nubeena Football Club withdrew from the Tasman FA.
In 2001, following Premaydena's inability to find players, the Association went into recess and promptly folded not long after, as did all member clubs.
The Peninsula FA was the only unaffiliated competition within the State of Tasmania for its entire existence.

Premiership Winners

Portland Football Association (1936−1950)

The Portland Football Association teams included Anchor, City, George's Bay, Miners, Pyengana, St Helens, Union Rovers, and Weldborough.

Premiership Winners

Protestant Churches Football Association (1932−1934)

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

Premiership Winners

Public Service Football Association (1947−1951)

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

Queenborough Football Association (1919−1956)

Clubs included: Army, Blundstones, Canes, Cascade, Claremont, Elliotts Brothers, Glenorchy Grove, Glenorchy Seconds, High School, Hydro, IXL, Jay Bee, Kingston, Long Beach, Mount Nelson, North Hobart Rovers, Old Hobartians Association (OHA), Old Technical Collegians (OTC), Postal Workers, Railway, Sandy Bay Juniors, Sandy Bay Rovers, Sutex, Teachers College, Timms Bridge, University and YCW.

Premiership Winners

Queenstown Football Association (1924–1963)

Premiership Winners

Redpa Football Association (1933−1939)

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

Premiership Winners

Richmond Football Association (1931–1936)

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

Premiership Winners

Note:
The 1935 Grand Final between Kempton and Campania ended in a draw with Kempton winning the replay the following week by 17 points.
Both Grand Finals were played at Richmond.
All clubs joined the Southern Midlands FA which had been reformed from 1937–1940.

Ridgley Football Association (1939−1951)

Clubs included: Highclere, Mooreville Road, Ridgley, West Ridgley, Tewkesbury, Wilmot.

Premiership Winners

Note:
Tewkesbury now known as Yolla.
Mooreville Road now known as Somerset.

Rosebery Football Association (1922−1962)

Clubs included: Rosebery, Strahan, Toorak, Tullah, Williamsford and Zeehan.
Rosebery and Toorak clubs amalgamated in 1987 to become Rosebery-Toorak.

Premiership Winners

Sorell Football Association (1933−1935)

Clubs that competed in the competition included Nugent, Sorell, and Bream Creek.
All clubs moved to the Pembroke Football Association in 1936.

The Association's premiership cup was known as the McHugh Trophy.

Premiership Winners

Southern Country Football Association (1923−1937)

A forerunner to the Southern District Football Association which ran from 1934 to 1970.

Clubs included: Bothwell, Ellendale, Glenorchy Flyers, Lachlan, Molesworth, Montacute, New Norfolk, Oatlands, Ouse, Richmond, Rosegarland, Upper Derwent and Waterside Workers.

Premiership Winners

Note:
In 1933 the competition referred to itself as the Bothwell FA and in 1934 was referred to as the Bothwell District FA.

South East District Football Association (1945−1979)

Clubs included Bagdad, Bothwell, Campania, Colebrook, Kempton, Mangalore, Maydena, Ouse, Richmond, Sorell, Triabunna, Tunnack and Upper Derwent.
Bagdad and Mangalore clubs briefly amalgamated in the 1940s before going their separate ways by the early 1950s.

Premiership Winners

Note:
The 1959 Grand Final between Mangalore and Sorell ended in a draw with Mangalore winning the replay the following week.
The final match for the SEDFA took place on 23 September 1979 for the Mangalore v Campania Grand Final at Pontville Oval.

Southern Districts Football Association (1934−1970)

Clubs included Australian Newsprint Mills (ANM), 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.

New Norfolk (1945 premiership winners) and Clarence (1946 premiership winners) were invited to join the now district-based TANFL for the 1947 season and accepted.
Glenorchy Rovers were absorbed by TANFL club, New Town Football Club, when they moved to KGV in early 1957 and the merged entity became the Glenorchy Magpies.

Premiership Winners

Note:
In 1968 and 1969 the premiership club from this competition played the premiership winner from the South Eastern District FA for the Southern Country title.

The final match for the Southern Districts FA took place on 6 September 1970 when Bothwell defeated Upper Derwent in the Grand Final played at Ouse.

Southern Tasmanian Football Association (1910)

Formerly the Hobart Junior Football Association

Clubs included: Crescent, Excelsior and Brisbane Rovers.

Premiership Winners

Southern Tasmanian Football Association (1976−1986)

Formerly the Associated Youth Clubs FA.

Clubs included: Bothwell, Buckingham, Cambridge, Lachlan, Maydena, Metropolitan, North Derwent, Railway, Risdon Cove, Risdon Vale, Upper Derwent & West Hobart.

Premiership Winners

Note: The final match of the Southern Tasmanian FA took place on 5 September 1986 when Lachlan defeated Maydena in the Grand Final at the Hamilton Showground.

Table Cape Football Association (1923−1952)

Clubs included: Burnie Juniors, Boat Harbour, Flowerdale, Gymnasium, Henrietta Rovers, Myalla, Mount Hicks, Rocky Cape, Seabrook, Somerset, Wynyard Juniors, Yeoman & Yolla

Premiership Winners

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 Associations merged in 1970.

Clubs included Beaconsfield, Beauty Point, Bridgenorth, Exeter, George Town, Hillwood, Karoola, Lilydale, Rosevears.

Premiership Winners

Tasman Football Association (1919−2001)

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 (North Derwent FC) and the Hobart inner suburb of New Town (Railway FC).

Tyenna Football Association (1929–1958)

Clubs included Bronte Park, Ellendale, Fitzgerald, Hamilton, Keamaree, Lachlan, Maydena, Molesworth, National Park, Ouse, Plenty, Tyenna, Upper Derwent, Upper Derwent Juniors, Wayatinah and Westerway.

Prior to the forming of Tyenna FA in 1929, the competition was known as the Russell FA (1921–1923) and the Forest Hill Cup FA (1925–1927).

Premiership Winners

Note:
The 1939 Grand Final between Ellendale and Fitzgerald was drawn, as was the replay, so a third decider was played to determine that season's premier (Ellendale)
The first two matches were played at Tyenna and the third was played at Westerway.

Waratah Football Association

Clubs included Bischoff, Magnet, Parrawe, Waratah

West Tamar Football Association (1921−1969)

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

Competition amalgamated with the East Tamar FA following the 1969 season and became the Tamar Football Association in 1970.

Premiership Winners

Western Tasmanian Football Association (1964−1993)

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.
The Western Tasmanian FA was a continuation of the former Queenstown FA that operated between 1924 and 1963.
With the closure of the Mt Lyell Mine in 1994, the loss of miners in the region meant the demise of the competition.
Queenstown (an amalgamation of City and Smelters in 1977) and Lyell-Gormanston (an amalgamation of the Lyell Maroons and Gormanston in 1976) amalgamated in 1994 to become Queenstown Crows and joined the Darwin FA.
Zeehan Bulldogs joined another North Western competition but collapsed a few years later whilst Rosebery and Toorak (who had amalgamated in 1987) had already jumped ship prior to the competition's demise and had joined the North West FA.

Premiership Winners

Zeehan Football Association (1908−1952)

Clubs included: Centrals, City, Commonwealth, East Zeehan, Renison Bell, Silver King, Smelters, Strahan, Wanderers, West Zeehan and Zeehan.*

Premiership Winners

Notes

  1. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Examiner. Vol. XCII, no. 307. Tasmania. 9 March 1934. p. 9. Retrieved 4 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Football". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas. 21 June 1922. p. 12. Retrieved 30 April 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Derwent Football Association". Mercury. 21 May 1906.
  4. ^ "ESPERANCE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION". Huon Times. Vol. 12, no. 1240. Tasmania, Australia. 2 June 1922. p. 3. Retrieved 25 February 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Fingal valley history". Archived from the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  6. ^ "District News". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas. 6 November 1950. p. 17. Retrieved 5 April 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Beven to Coach Oatlands". The Examiner. Launceston, Tas. 18 January 1951. p. 14. Retrieved 5 April 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "T.c. Association". Advocate. 9 October 1939.

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