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The team's name was announced as the Tasmania Devils, with the nickname acknowledging the carnivorous marsupial extinct in the mainland and found only in Tasmania. [24] The devils nickname has previously been used by the state's Victorian Football League (VFL) and Talent League sides and was confirmed only after negotiations with Warner Bros ...
The Tasmania Devils (also known as the Tassie Devils) is an Australian rules football club that competes in the Talent League Boys and Talent League Girls competitions. The team is made up of footballers based in Tasmania aged between 17 and 19 years of age, and competes against other representative teams based in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, as part of the Australian Football ...
At the end of the 2008 season, AFL Tasmania decided to withdraw the Devils from the VFL in favour of restarting a new Tasmanian league encompassing the entire state. Tasmania will return to the VFL in 2025 or 2026 after a successful Tasmanian AFL bid in 2023, with the new AFL team, Tasmania Devils, to field a side before entering the AFL in ...
The pathway to Tasmania's successful bid took its first major step in 2019, when AFL advised the Government of Tasmania its guideline prerequisites for an AFL team: [24] at least 50,000 members; up-front capital of $40,000,000; a unified Tasmanian football community; AFL standard venues; a minimum of 10 Tasmanian-raised players in the AFL; and ...
Tasmania is the only state without a team in the AFL or AFL Women's (AFLW). However, after 30 years of campaigning , the league's 18 clubs unanimously approved a 19th license to the state on 1 May 2023, and it is expected to debut in 2028 [ 9 ] along with the construction of the new Macquarie Point Stadium to be completed by 2029.
Tassie Mariners: 1998, 2002: 12: 1: Raised Mark Harwood: Tassie Mariners: 1998-2001: 30: 19: Raised Justin Wood: Glenorchy, Tassie Mariners: 1998: 7: 5: Born and raised in and recruited from Hobart Russell Robertson: Tassie Mariners: 1997–2009: 228: 428: Raised in Penguin and Burnie Gerrard Bennett: North Hobart, Tassie Mariners: 1997–2002: ...
AFL Tasmania is the Australian Football League (AFL) subsidiary in Tasmania and its governing body for Australian rules football in Tasmania. The organisation is responsible for AFL-linked Australian rules football development in the state.
Three regional leagues absorbed the clubs from the Statewide League. This was represented by the 2 main north–south leagues and subsidiary regional leagues which underpinned the Tasmanian Devils VFL team, created in 2001 which was owned and funded by the Australian Football League and administered by AFL Tasmania.