The 1979 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over twenty (20) roster rounds and four (4) finals series matches between 7 April and 22 September 1979.
This was the centenary season of the Tasmanian Football League, the finals series was sponsored by the Winfield tobacco company to the tune of A$10,000.
The Grand Final of this year set an all-time record football match attendance in Tasmania of 24,968 patrons, this was also a single-day sporting record attendance in the state of Tasmania for twenty five years until it was broken when a crowd of 30,150 attended Symmons Plains Raceway in Northern Tasmania for a V8 Supercar Championship event in 2004. (1)
The Tasmanian State League (TSL), colloquially known as the "Tasmanian Football League (TFL)" is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.
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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'.
General Information | |
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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 Don Fenton |
Participating Clubs | Clarence Kangaroos Glenorchy Magpies Hobart Tigers New Norfolk Eagles North Hobart Demons Sandy Bay Seagulls |
Stadiums | North Hobart Oval Bellerive Oval KGV Football Park TCA Ground Boyer Oval Queenborough Oval |
1979 TANFL Premiership Season. | |
Premiers | Clarence 12.11 (83) v Glenorchy 11.14 (80) |
Minor Premiers | Glenorchy |
Wooden Spooners | Hobart (9th) |
Grand Final attendance | 24,968 at North Hobart Oval |
Total Roster Series attendance | 111,643 for 60 matches at 1,860 |
Total Finals Series attendance | 49,307 for 4 matches at 12,326 |
Total aggregate attendance | 160,950 for 64 matches at 2,514 |
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TFL Centenary Interstate Match (Monday, 18 June 1979)
See: 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival
Section One Qualifying Match (Thursday, 4 October 1979)
Semi Final 1 (Saturday, 6 October 1979)
3rd Place Playoff (Monday, 8 October 1979)
Jubilee Shield (Wednesday, 25 April 1979)
Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 26 May 1979)
Team | Played | Won | Lost | Draw | For | Against | Percentage | Points |
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Glenorchy | 20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2661 | 1430 | 186.08% | 72 |
Clarence | 20 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 1784 | 1679 | 106.25% | 56 |
Sandy Bay | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1507 | 1591 | 94.72% | 40 |
North Hobart | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 1699 | 2139 | 79.42% | 36 |
New Norfolk | 20 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 1669 | 1885 | 88.54% | 24 |
Hobart | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 1667 | 2253 | 73.54% | 12 |
(Saturday, 7 April 1979)
(Saturday, 14 April & Monday, 16 April 1979)
(Saturday, 21 April 1979)
(Saturday, 28 April 1979)
(Saturday, 5 May 1979)
(Saturday, 12 May 1979)
(Saturday, 19 May 1979)
(Saturday, 26 May 1979)
(Saturday, 2 June 1979)
(Saturday, 9 June & Sunday, 10 June 1979)
(Saturday, 23 June 1979)
(Saturday, 30 June 1979)
Note: Peter Hudson kicks all-time TANFL record of 18 goals in this match and kicks his 100th goal for the season.
(Saturday, 7 July & Sunday, 8 July 1979)
(Saturday, 14 July 1979)
(Saturday, 21 July 1979)
(Saturday, 28 July 1979)
(Saturday, 4 August 1979)
(Saturday, 11 August 1979)
Note: Peter Hudson kicks second highest TANFL goal total of all-time (to that stage) with 16.4.
(Saturday, 18 August 1979)
(Saturday, 25 August 1979)
(Saturday, 1 September 1979)
(Saturday, 8 September 1979)
(Saturday, 15 September 1979)
(Saturday, 22 September 1979)
Source: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury and Saturday Evening Mercury (SEM) publications.
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The League was known as the Winfield League under a commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with the Winfield tobacco company.
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