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Western Tasmanian Football Association

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Founded
  
1963

Stadiums
  
Queenstown Oval

Closed
  
1994

Former names
  
Queenstown FA (founded in 1924)

Final clubs
  
Lyell Gormanston Lions Queenstown Blues Strahan Seals Zeehan Bulldogs

Former clubs
  
City Magpies Gormanston Blues Lyell Maroons Mines United Smelters Robins Railway Rosebery Saints Rosebery-Toorak Hawks Toorak Tigers Tullah-Savage River

The Western Tasmanian Football Association was an Australian Rules Football competition based on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.
The competition was made up of mostly miners living and working on the State's West Coast.

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Of all the clubs that participated in the competition, only Queenstown Football Club (now nicknamed the Crows) and Rosebery-Toorak Football Club remain in existence, participating in competitions on the North West Coast.

History

There was an earlier named entity proposed in the 1890's.

  • The League began in 1924 as the Queenstown Football Association.
  • The League underwent a name change to the Western Tasmanian Football Association in 1963.

    • In 1976, the WTFA absorbed the surviving clubs from the Murchison Football Association. The Lyell Football Club and the Gormanston Football Club merged in 1976 and formed Lyell-Gormanston Football Club.

  • In 1977, the Smelters Football Club and the City Football Club Merged and formed the Queenstown Football Club.

    • Rosebery Football Club and Toorak Football Club merged in 1987 forming the Rosebery-Toorak Football Club.

  • Rosebery-Toorak Football Club leave the WTFA and join the NWFA to start in 1990.
  • In 1991, the Strahan Football Club re-formed and entered the WTFA, they last played in the Murchison FA in 1958.
  • The WTFA closed down at the end of 1993. The Queenstown Crows were formed in 1994 and are still playing in the Darwin Assoc

    • Individual awards

  • The senior B&F was the Bartram Medal.
  • The reserves B&F was the ALB. Broadby Trophy.
  • Seniors and reserves both had leading goalkicker awards.

    • 1987 Ladder

    FINALS

    References

    Western Tasmanian Football Association Wikipedia
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