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The 1958 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian Rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over eighteen (17) roster rounds and four (4) finals series matches between 5 April and 13 September 1958.
The eighteenth roster round scheduled for 16 August was postponed due to inclement weather conditions and was abandoned altogether two days later.

Tasmanian Football League Australian rules football league in Tasmania

The Tasmanian State League (TSL), colloquially known as the "Tasmanian Football League (TFL)" is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.

Hobart City in Tasmania, Australia

Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. With a population of approximately 225,000, it is the least populated Australian state capital city, and second smallest if territories are taken into account. Founded in 1804 as a British penal colony, Hobart, formerly known as Hobart Town or Hobarton, is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney, New South Wales. Prior to British settlement, the Hobart area had been occupied for possibly as long as 35,000 years, by the semi-nomadic Mouheneener tribe, a sub-group of the Nuennone, or South-East tribe. The descendants of these Aboriginal Tasmanians often refer to themselves as 'Palawa'.

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1958 TANFL Premiership Season
General Information
Founded 12 June 1879 in Hobart, Tasmania
Previous Names TFA (1879–1886)
STFA (1887–1896)
STFL (1897)
STFA (1898–1905)
TFL (1906–1927)
TANFL President Mr Merv McNeair
Participating Clubs Clarence Kangaroos
Glenorchy Magpies
Hobart Tigers
New Norfolk Eagles
North Hobart Robins
Sandy Bay Seagulls
Stadiums North Hobart Oval
Bellerive Oval
KGV Park
Boyer Oval
Queenborough Oval
1958 TANFL Premiership Season.
Premiers Glenorchy 15.15 (105) v Sandy Bay 11.11 (77)
Minor Premiers New Norfolk (1st)
Wooden Spooner Clarence (7th)
Grand Final attendance 15,643 at North Hobart Oval
Total Roster Series attendance 157,447 for 51 matches at 3,087
Total Finals Series attendance 49,680 for 4 matches at 12,420
Total aggregate attendance 207,127 for 55 matches at 3,766

Participating Clubs

Clarence Football Club

The Clarence Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Tasmanian State League, based in Bellerive, Tasmania.

Glenorchy Football Club

The Glenorchy District Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Tasmanian State League and the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.

Hobart Football Club

Hobart Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Hobart, Tasmania. They play their home fixtures at the TCA Ground on the Queens Domain, in Hobart and from 2014, the club has been a member of the Southern Football League after voting to withdraw from the Tasmanian State League at the end of the 2013 season after five seasons in that competition.

1958 TANFL Club Coaches

John L. Leedham was an Australian rules footballer who is the vice captain of and ruck-rover in the official Tasmanian Football Team of the Century. He is also a 'legend' in the state's Football Hall of Fame.

Gordon Bowman was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

TANFL Reserves Grand Final

North Hobart Oval

North Hobart Oval is a sports venue in North Hobart, Tasmania, used for Australian rules football.

TANFL Under-19's Grand Final

State Schools Old Boys Football Association (SSOBFA)

State Preliminary Final

(Saturday, 20 September 1958)

Attendance is the concept of people, individually or as a group, appearing at a location for a previously scheduled event. Measuring attendance is a significant concern for many organizations, which can use such information to gauge the effective ness of their efforts and to plan for future efforts.

State Grand Final

(Saturday, 27 September 1958)

Devonport Oval

Devonport Oval is an Australian rules football, cricket and athletics stadium in Devonport, Tasmania. It is the home stadium for the Devonport Football Club in the Tasmanian State League (TSL) and for the Devonport Cricket Club in the NWTCA competition. The oval also hosts the Devonport Athletics & Cycling Carnival each year and regularly attracts interstate competitors. The stadium has a capacity of 13,000 people and has recently undergone upgrades for increased lighting to be used for night football matches in the TSL in 2009. There has been recent talk of selling the Devonport Oval, along with the East Devonport Oval and two other local recreation facilities, to fund a new sporting precinct in Devonport.

Intrastate Matches

Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 10 May 1958)

Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 14 June 1958)

Interstate Matches

See: 1958 Australian National Football Carnival

Match One (Tuesday, 3 July 1958)

Match Four (Thursday, 5 July 1958)

Match Six (Saturday, 7 July 1958)

Match Eight (Monday, 9 July 1958)

Leading Goalkickers: TANFL

Medal Winners

1958 TANFL Ladder

TeamPlayedWonLostDrawForAgainstPercentagePoints
New Norfolk 17143014261169121.98%56
Glenorchy 17125015251172130.11%48
North Hobart 1798015291450105.44%36
Sandy Bay 178901369149391.69%32
Hobart 1761011314133398.57%26
Clarence 1711511098153471.57%6

Round 1

(Saturday, 5 April. Monday, 7 April & Saturday, 12 April 1958)

Round 2

(Saturday, 19 April 1958)

Round 3

(Saturday, 26 April 1958)

Round 4

(Saturday, 3 May 1958)

Round 5

(Saturday, 10 May & Saturday, 17 May 1958)

Round 6

(Saturday, 24 May 1958)

Round 7

(Saturday, 31 May 1958)

Round 8

(Saturday, 7 June 1958)

Round 9

(Monday, 16 June 1958)

Round 10

(Saturday, 21 June 1958)

Round 11

(Saturday, 28 June 1958)

Round 12

(Saturday, 5 July 1958)

Round 13

(Saturday, 12 July 1958)

Round 14

(Saturday, 19 July 1958)

Round 15

(Saturday, 26 July 1958)

Round 16

(Saturday, 2 August 1958)

Round 17

(Saturday, 9 August 1958)

Round 18

(Saturday, 16 August 1958)

Note: This round was abandoned due to inclement weather conditions.

First Semi Final

(Saturday, 23 August 1958)

Second Semi Final

(Saturday, 30 August 1958)

Preliminary Final

(Saturday, 6 September 1958)

Grand Final

(Saturday, 13 September 1958)

Source: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury and Saturday Evening Mercury (SEM) publications.

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