Tasmanian Football League
The Tasmanian Football League (TFL), also known as the Tasmanian State League (TSL) (formerly known as the Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) and several other short-term names) is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.
The league has a long and convoluted history which dates back to its founding on 12 June 1879 (giving it some claim to the title of the third oldest club football league in the world), but the name TFL (also the state's football governing body) was removed after it was liquidated with crushing debts in February 1999 and replaced by an independent commission (Football Tasmania) and the competition was renamed the Tasmanian State Football League (1999) and the SWL (2000) until the number of clubs in financial difficulty made the league unsustainable and it collapsed in December 2000. After long negotiations and discussions it was reinstated as a ten club competition in 2009.
The League is commercially known as the Wrest Point Tasmanian State League under a naming-rights sponsorship agreement with Wrest Point Casino in Hobart.
Read more about Tasmanian Football League: 2012 Tasmanian State League Ladder, Clubs, Premierships, Leading Goalkickers and Records
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