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Both York Park in Launceston and Bellerive Oval in Hobart will host games initially, with the Hobart-based matches moving to the new Macquarie Point Stadium in 2029. [7] In May 2023, Tasmania secured an AFL licence following a unanimous vote of AFL club presidents. [7] The club will first compete in the Victorian Football League (VFL), starting ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
After the success of the inaugural AFL Women's season the AFL announced in mid-July that a State of Origin representative match would be held for AFL Women's players during the AFL season pre-finals bye. [88] A team of players born in Victoria played a single exhibition match against Allies (a team of players from the rest of Australia) at ...
Twelve months later, it was revealed that Tasmania had secured an NBL licence and a team would enter the league in the 2021–22 season. [3] On 1 October 2020, the team name was revealed as the Tasmania JackJumpers. [4] On the eve of the team's first NBL game, Tasmanian band Luca Brasi released "Jackies Are On the March", an original theme for ...
The Tassie Mariners is an under-18 Australian rules football club representing the state of Tasmania. They currently play in the AFL Under 18 Championships and also played in the Victorian statewide under-18s competition (then known as the TAC Cup ) from 1995 until 2016.