Tasmanian FL

The Tasmanian Football League (also known as the Tasmanian State League) is the main competition in Tasmania formed in 1879.
==History==
The league was created in 1879 with three founding clubs; Cricketers, Railway and City. Over two seasons the number grew to five clubs with Holebrook joining in 1880 and North Hobart joining in 1881. This remained stable until after the 1885 season when Cricketers folded. With the exception of the one year appearance by Union in 1887, the competition stayed at four clubs until Kingston joined in 1893. After 1894 though Holebrook folded, and after 1896 the two other foundation clubs Railway and City also folded.
In 1897 Kingston and North Hobert were joined by South Hobart who only lasted a year, but in 1898 Lefroy, Wellington and Summerton restored the competition to five clubs. Summerton would also only last a year, but the remaining four clubs kept the competition stable again until after the 1905 season when Wellington folded. They were replaced by Derwent in 1906 but they only lasted the two seasons and after the 1907 season Kingston departed as well. Lefroy and North Hobart were joined by Cananore in 1908 and those three clubs would be the foundation of the competition right through to World War 2. From 1916 to 1918 the league was in recess due to World War 1 and in 1919 the recess was extended by a year by the Spanish Flu epidemic. The only change before the second world war was the addition of Newtown in 1921.
As the war was coming to an end the league agreed to a restructure as Cananore and Lefroy had ceased operations. This led to the admission of Hobart and Sandy Bay for the 1945 season. The competition then increased in size to a record six clubs in 1947 with the admission of Clarence and New Norfolk. The firm foundation was only altered once - when Newtown was absorbed by Glenorchy for the 1957 season. For the next 28 years the league would be unchanged.
In 1986 though changes were afoot with the TFL changing it's structure to admit clubs from elsewhere in the state. East Launceston and North Launceston came in with East becoming South Launceston at the end of May after a merger with City South. In 1987 Devonport and Cooee would join, the latter changing their name to Burnie despite there already being a Burnie Football Club. This remained stable until 1994 when Launceston joined. The following year the two Burnie clubs would merge with no change to the structure but after 1997 the clubs lost four clubs at once - Hobart, Launceston, South Launceston and Sandy Bay.
In 1998 the Southern Cats - a joint venture by the former Sandy Bay with Kingston and Channel created the Southern Districts club for an eight team competition. But early in 1999 season they folded and at the end of that season New Norfolk departed. After the 2000 season, the league was forced to wind up when North Launceston, Burnie and Devonport departed.
In 2009 after many years absent the league was reformed with Clarence, Glenorchy, Hobart, North Hobart, North Launceston, South Launceston, Launceston, Burnie and Devonport all returning. There was also a new addition in Lauderdale. This failed to stick as after the 2013 season South Launceston departed. They were replaced by a new club called the Western Storm. Kingston also returned to the competition under the new name of Kingborough, at the expense ultimately of Hobart who left the competition after wanting nothing to do with a league driven merger with North Hobart to form Hobart City.
Just before the 2016 season the Western Storm could not field a senior team dropping the club numbers to nine. In 2018 North Hobart restored it's name, but the competition dropped to seven clubs when first Devonport and then Burnie departed the competition.
==Ladders (recent)==
1990 	HOBA 	NLAU 	CLAR 	SANB 	NNOR 	BURN 	DEVO	NHOB	GLEN	SLAU	
1991 	NHOB 	NLAU 	CLAR 	BURN 	HOBA 	DEVO 	GLEN	NNOR	SANB	SLAU	
1992 	NHOB 	HOBA 	NLAU 	CLAR 	DEVO 	SLAU 	NNOR	BURN	SANB	GLEN	
1993 	CLAR 	NLAU 	NHOB 	GLEN 	BURN 	NNOR 	HOBA	SANB	SLAU	DEVO	
1994 	CLAR 	NNOR 	SANB 	DEVO 	BURN 	GLEN 	NHOB	NLAU	SLAU	HOBA	LAUN
1995 	NLAU 	CLAR 	NNOR 	BURN 	DEVO 	GLEN 	NHOB	SANB	SLAU	HOBA	LAUN
1996 	CLAR 	BURN 	NLAU 	DEVO 	NNOR 	GLEN 	LAUN	SLAU	SANB	HOBA	NHOB
1997 	CLAR 	BURN 	GLEN 	DEVO 	NNOR 	NLAU 	SLAU	NHOB	LAUN	SANB	HOBA
1998 	NLAU 	CLAR 	DEVO 	BURN 	SDIS 	GLEN 	NHOB	NNOR	 	 	
1999 	GLEN 	NLAU 	CLAR 	BURN 	NHOB 	NNOR 	DEVO	 	 	 	
2000 	CLAR 	NLAU 	HOBA 	BURN 	GLEN 	DEVO 	 	 	 	 	
League in recess	League in recess	League in recess	League in recess	League in recess	League in recess	League in recess	 	 	 	 	
2009 	CLAR 	GLEN 	BURN 	DEVO 	LAUN 	NHOB 	NLAU	HOBA	LAUD	SLAU	
2010 	CLAR 	DEVO 	LAUN 	NHOB 	GLEN 	NLAU 	BURN	LAUD	HOBA	SLAU	
2011 	LAUN 	BURN 	CLAR 	GLEN 	NHOB 	LAUD 	NLAU	HOBA	SLAU	DEVO	
2012 	BURN 	LAUN 	CLAR 	LAUD 	GLEN 	NHOB 	SLAU	NLAU	DEVO	HOBA	
2013 	SLAU 	BURN 	LAUN 	CLAR 	LAUD 	GLEN 	NHOB	NLAU	DEVO	HOBA	
2014 	NLAU 	WSTO 	CLAR 	LAUD 	GLEN 	BURN 	HOBC	DEVO	LAUN	KING	
2015 	NLAU 	GLEN 	BURN 	LAUD 	DEVO 	HOBC 	CLAR	LAUN	KING	WSTO	
2016 	GLEN 	NLAU 	BURN 	LAUD 	DEVO 	HOBC 	CLAR	LAUN	KING	 	
2017 	NLAU 	LAUD 	LAUN 	CLAR 	GLEN 	HOBC 	KING	DEVO	BURN	 	
2018 	NLAU 	LAUD 	GLEN 	LAUN 	CLAR 	KING 	NHOB	 	 	 	
2019 	NLAU 	LAUD 	LAUN 	GLEN 	KING 	CLAR 	NHOB	 	 	 	
2020 	LAUN 	NLAU 	LAUD 	CLAR 	KING 	NHOB 	GLEN	 	 	 	
2021 	LAUN 	NLAU 	CLAR 	KING 	LAUD 	GLEN 	NHOB	 	 	 	
2022 	LAUN 	KING 	CLAR 	LAUD 	NLAU 	NHOB 	GLEN	 	 	 	
2023 	KING 	NLAU 	CLAR 	LAUN 	NHOB 	LAUD 	GLEN	 	 	 	
==Abbreviations==
HOBA - Hobart; NLAU - North Launceston; CLAR - Clarence; SANB - Sandy Bay; NNOR - New Norfolk; BURN - Burnie; DEVO - Devonport; NHOB - North Hobart; GLEN - Glenorchy; SLAU - South Launceston; LAUN - Launceston; SDIS - Southern Districts; LAUD - Lauderdale; KING - Kingborough; WSTO - Western Storm
==Colour Coding==
GREY SHADING - Teams that made the finals
Category:National & State Leagues