The Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1886 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania , with the Tasmanian Football League and North West Football Union representing the rest of the state. It was based in the city of Launceston . The three most successful clubs of the old NTFA, Launceston , North Launceston and City-South , went on to compete in the short-lived TFL Statewide League .
7-803: From 1947 to 1983 the NTFA was a six team competition, in 1984 George Town and Deloraine joined to make eight teams. In 1987, the NTFA merged with the North West Football Union to form the Northern Tasmanian Football League . At the end of 1995 the Tasmanian Amateur Football Association disbanded, The southern clubs help form the Southern Football League , The northern clubs formed a competition called
14-677: 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. Throughout and after the 1986 season, greater northern Tasmania's two senior football competitions – the Launceston-based Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) and the north-western coast's North Western Football Union (NWFU) – each lost several clubs to
21-620: The Northern Tasmanian Football Association . There is no relationship between the old and new NTFA. This was contested semi regularly between the premiers of the Tasmanian Football League , North West Football Union and the NTFA. The winners from the NTFA were – Hardesty Cup Tasman Shields Trophy Hec Smith Memorial Medal Northern Tasmanian Football League The North West Football League ( NWFL )
28-644: The North West Football League (NWFL). In 2015, Burnie and Devonport rejoined the competition, each fielding its reserves team in the NWFL seniors while continuing to field its senior team in the Statewide League reserves; this increased the league numbers up to eight. In early 2017, Burnie withdrew from this arrangement, which dropped the number of teams down to seven. Then, in 2018, Burnie and Devonport withdrew their senior teams from
35-481: The collapse of the Statewide League at the end of 2000, the northern and coastal clubs from that competition returned to the NTFL and dominated the competition for the next eight years (Burnie and Launceston won the next eight premierships between them). With the revival of the Statewide League in 2009, the same five clubs left the NTFL again (North Launceston, South Launceston, Launceston, Burnie and Devonport), resulting in
42-409: The contraction of the league to a six-club coastal composition. In the early years, the NTFL was contested by a mixture of smaller northern and north-western clubs, but the northern clubs gradually departed, and since 2009 the league has been contested solely by clubs from the north-western coast, all with a NWFU history. Consequently, at the end of the 2014 season, the name of the league was changed to
49-572: The new TFL Statewide League in 1986. The NTFA had lost North Launceston, East Launceston and City-South: and the NWFU had lost Devonport and Cooee. As a result, the two leagues were wound up, and the Northern Tasmanian Football League was established in 1987 to feature all of the remaining clubs. The NTFL was considered a lower tier than the Statewide League, unlike its predecessors, which were of equal seniority. After
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