The North Hobart Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Southern Football League Premier Division. The club was a part of the Tasmanian Football League from the early 1900s until 2001, when it joined the Southern Football League. In 2009, North Hobart was invited into the second reincarnation of the statewide league, where it remained until 2013. After the 2013 season, its position in the league was effectively filled by the Hobart City Football Club. North Hobart returned to the Tasmanian State League in 2018. However, following the cessation of the TSL in 2024, the club rejoined the Southern Football League in 2025
In 2014, the North Hobart Football Club Inc. changed from an incorporated body to a company limited with 100% ownership of the Hobart City Football Club, with the Hobart City Demons now the trading name of North Hobart Football Club Ltd.[1]
On October 9, 2017 the paying members of the Hobart City Demons voted 371-118 in favour of returning the playing name of the club to the North Hobart identity for season 2018 and beyond.[2]
In 1967 TANFL Season North Hobart went on to win the premiership after winning just once in their first eight games of the season. The team won nine of their last 11 games to finish fourth on the ladder, before going on to beat New Norfolk by 5 points in the Semi-Final, followed by a 9 point victory over an inaccurate Clarence team in the preliminary final. The team then went on the beat Glenorchy by 14 points in front of 17,523 in the TANFL Grand Final.
After winning the TANFL Premiership, the club qualified to compete against NWFU Premiers Wynyard in the 1967 Tasmanian State Premiership Final at West Park Oval in Burnie. The match turned out to be one of the most controversial is Tasmanian football history.
1967 Tasmanian State Premiership Final
Wynard 1.1 9.7 10.9 13.14 (92)
North Hobart 3.8 5.11 11.17 12.19 (91)
Result: No Result
One of the most controversial games in Australian rules football history, the match was declared no result and the premiership was withheld after fans invaded the field and eventually took down the goal posts, preventing North Hobart full-forward David Collins from taking a kick after the siren which would likely have won or tied the game for North Hobart.
The 1987 Grand Final saw North Hobart hoping to end a premiership drought extending back to 1974, Glenorchy aiming for a hat-trick of TFL premierships. The match was eerily similar to the Second Semi Final clash between the same sides two weeks earlier with Glenorchy getting out a fast start and North Hobart reeling them in and racing away with match. North Hobart booted a Grand Final record 11.3 (69) in the second quarter to go into half-time 19-points to the good of the Magpies, then inflicting further damage in the third quarter by racing out a 56-point lead at the final change. This was the beginning of a dominant era for North Hobart who went on to win four premierships in the space of six seasons.
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