Tassie Tigers

Tassie Tigers

Full name	Tassie Tigers
League	Hockey One
Founded	17 April 2019;6 years ago (2019-04-17)
Home ground	Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart, Australia (Capacity 4,000)
Website	hockeytasmania.com.au

Tassie Tigers is an Australian professional field hockey club based in Hobart, Tasmania. The club joined the Australian Hockey League in 1992 as a men's team. In 2019, the Tassie Tigers expanded to encompass both Tasmanian men's and women's teams, Tassie Van Demons, as one of 7 clubs to compete in Hockey Australia's new premier domestic competition, Hockey One. ^[1]

Tassie Tigers will compete in the inaugural season of Hockey One, which will be contested from late September through to mid November 2019. ^[2]

In 2014 the Tigers became the AHL champions, drawing 2-2 with the WA Thundersticks in the gold medal game, but eventually winning 3-2 in penalty shoot-outs. ^[3]

Home Stadium

Tassie Tigers are based out of the Tasmanian Hockey Centre in Tasmania's capital city, Hobart. Throughout the Hockey One league, Tassie Tigers will play a number of home games at the stadium. ^[4]

Teams

Men's team

The men's all time appearances and goals have been calculated to the end of the 2024 Season.

2024 Squad

#	Name	Appearances (all time)	Goals (all time)
1	Magnus McCausland	7	0
2	Harvey Bessell	2	0
3	Keenan Johnson	0	0
4	Hayden Beltz	50	8
5	Max Johnstone	2	0
6	Josh Brooks	23	4
7	Josh Mardell	20	0
8	Ryan Jones	0	0
9	Jeremy Edwards	87	7
10	Sam Payne	0	0
11	Eddie Ockenden	129	51
12	Jack Pritchard	1	0
13	Joshua Beltz	45	1
14	Jack Welch	46	14
15	Oscar Pritchard	6	0
16	Alex Hogan-Jones	7	0
17	Oliver Pritchard	14	0
18	Grant Woodcock	16	0
19	Tim Deavin	132	11
20	Ehren Hazell	14	5
21	Leon Hayward	2	0
22	Oliver Stebbings	4	0
26	Oliver Smith	17	1
28	Lachlan Rogers	8	1
	Oscar Sproule	0	0

Women's team

Details and team rosters to be confirmed.

History

Old Tassie Tigers AHL club logo

Year	Position
2013	5th
2014	1st
2015	3rd
2016	7th
2017	7th
2018	3rd
2019	3rd
2020	Not Held
2021	Not Held
2022	5th
2023	4th
2024	5th

One Hockey Cup

New in 2023, the One Hockey Cup, presents an opportunity to celebrate the combined performances of Men's and Women's teams from the 7 Hockey One League clubs. The One Hockey Cup will be awarded to the Club that ranks highest based on the aggregate scores of their Women's and men's teams at the end of the Regular Season (Rounds 1 - 7).

Year	Position
2023	7th
2024	5th

Awards

Individual

Player of the Tournament:

• Todd Williams - 1993
• Daniel Sproule - 1998
• Matthew Wells (2) - 2001, 2003
• Zain Wright - 2002
• Eddie Ockenden (5) - 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2024

Tournament Highest Goalscorer:

• Craig Keegan (2) - 1999 (15 Goals), 2000 (10 Goals)
• Marcus Richardson - 2007 (12 Goals)
• Eddie Ockenden - 2011 (11 Goals)
• Kieron Arthur - 2017 (9 Goals)

Player of the Final:

• Tristan Clemons - 2014

Team

Tournament Champions: 2014

Play the Whistle Award: 2014, 2015

References

1. "New Look Tassie Tigers Launch With Hockey One". Hockey Tasmania. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
2. "Tassie Tigers".
3. "TAS Tigers, NSW Arrows win". Hockey Australia. 11 October 2014. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019.
4. "Hockey One - WHAT'S THE FORMAT?". hockeyone.com.au. Retrieved 18 April 2019.