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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) and the VFL Women's (VFLW), starting in 2026. [8] [9] AFL Tasmania will manage a Senior Talent Academy in 2025, which will include representative games against VFL and VFLW clubs ...
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 ...
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.
Football Tasmania, structured as a commission independent of clubs, was established in 1999. The body changed its name to AFL Tasmania in 2002 reflecting its control as a subsidiary of the AFL. [1] The former Victorian Football League club, the Tasmanian Devils Football Club, was also managed by AFL Tasmania.
TV audiences during the 2022 AFL season totalled 125.4 million viewers, with an average of 537,000 people watching each match; the TV audience for the 2023 AFL Grand Final was 4.98 million—plus an additional 756,000 on 7plus, for a total of 5.736 million [93] [94] [95] —and the game was seen by 100,024 stadium spectators, which was exactly ...
In 1999, the first U.S. college Australian rules football clubs formed in North Carolina when the UNC-Chapel Hill club is organized in the spring semester and the NC State club is established the following fall. [171] These two clubs established a rivalry that lasted for over a decade.
In 2008 AFL Tasmania announced plans to reintroduce the Tasmanian State League starting in 2009. Under the plan Clarence, Glenorchy, North Hobart, Hobart and Lauderdale Football Clubs from the Premier League were targeted to join.
The North West Football League (NWFL) is an Australian rules football competition in North West Tasmania. The league was previously known as the Northern Tasmanian Football League ( NTFL ) from its inception in 1987 until the end of the 2014 season.