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A 2018 study of Internet traffic showed 79% of Tasmanians (424,459) were interested in it, the highest rate in the country, [12] which was, according to Roy Morgan, a figure higher than the number of supporters of around half of existing AFL clubs. [13] The notion of a Tasmanian team in the VFL/AFL competition had long been suggested, with ...
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 2028.
South Launceston, Tassie Mariners, Tasmanian Devils: 2009-2016: 88: 1: Raised in and recruited from Launceston Aaron Cornelius: Tasmanian Devils: 2009-2013: 25: 35: Raised and recruited Aaron Joseph: Glenorchy, Tassie Mariners: U18 (2007) 2009-2013: 73: 10: Raised in and recruited from Hobart Tom Bellchambers: Tasmanian Devils: 2008-2020: 136: 77
While the AFL admitted that the state had put together a stronger business case, it was once again rejected by the league. AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou was quoted to have said to the Tasmanian premier Paul Lennon "Not now, not ever". [32] Hobart's major daily newspaper The Mercury started a petition in response to this news on 16 April 2008. [33]
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. The Tasmanian Football Association was formed on 12 June 1879 as the colony's first governing body for ...
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 ...
Long standing AFL bidder, SANFL club Norwood made an official bid for the 20th license in 2024. There is speculation that the AFL has been entertaining the idea for some time, with the Norwood Oval hosting AFLW matches and being one of the grounds used during Gather Round, hosting its first AFL matches and drawing large crowds and interest. [54]
Unnamed Tasmanian football club → – With the concurrent existence of both Tasmanian A-League bid and History of the Tasmanian AFL bid, the current title is not WP:PRECISE enough, especially for a team based in Australia, where "football" can mean at minimum three different sports. An argument was made on more than one occasion that this is ...