Tasmania Devils (under-18s team)

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Tasmania Devils
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Names
Full nameTasmania Devils
Nickname(s)Devils
2023 season
After finals3rd
Home-and-away season1st
Club details
Colours  Bottle green
  Primrose
  Maroon
Competition Talent League Boys (2019–present) [1]
Talent League Girls (2021–present) [1]
Coach Jeromey Webberley
Ground(s) Blundstone Arena (capacity: 20.000)
Uniforms
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The Tasmania Devils (also known as the Tassie Devils) is an Australian rules football club that competes in the Talent League Boys and Talent League Girls competitions. The team is made up of footballers based in Tasmania aged between 17 and 19 years of age, and competes against other representative teams based in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, as part of the Australian Football League's (AFL) talent pathway systems for male and female players.

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History

The Victorian statewide under-18 competition has had a Tasmanian presence since 1995, when a team named the Tassie Mariners entered the boys league and competed until the end of the 2002 season. [2] By the late 2000s, Tasmania had returned to the boys competition as an "academy team" (which played only some matches against select Victorian teams and was not eligible for the league finals series or premiership), before graduating to full-time status as the Tasmania Devils in the 2019 season. [3] The girls team began competing as an "academy team" in 2019 before becoming a full-time team in the 2021 season. [4]

Home grounds

The Devils split home matches between York Park in Launceston and Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

Honours

Boys

Tasmania NAB League Boys
SeasonW–L–DLadderFinals resultBest & Fairest Leading goalkicker Captain(s)Coach
2019 4–11–014thWildcard Final Oliver Davis [5] Jackson Callow (24) Nic Baker, Jared Dakin & Oliver Davis [6] Adrian Fletcher
2020 Season cancelled due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 5–3–05thNot PlayedZach Morris Jye Menzie (11) Sam Banks Adrian Fletcher

Girls

Tasmania NAB League Girls
SeasonW–L–DLadderFinals resultBest & Fairest Leading goalkicker Captain(s)Coach
2021 6–2–02ndElimination Final Perri King Amy Prokopiec (12)TBCTBC

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References

  1. 1 2 "THE DEVILS ARE BACK - AFL Tasmania". AFL Tasmania. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. "TAC Cup History - NAB League".
  3. Andrew Mathieson (25 August 2019). "Tasmanian NAB League season ends against Cannon Calders". The Examiner.
  4. "Devils' season ends in heartbreak, but future is bright in Tassie". womens.afl. 4 May 2021.
  5. "Davis, King claim top honours at 2019 Tasmania Devils Awards". AFL Tasmania. 13 October 2019.
  6. "Talented trio to lead Devils in 2019". AFL Tasmania. 26 March 2019.