Western Tasmanian Football Association

{{Short description|Australian rules football association in Western Tasmania}}

class="infobox" style="width: 25em; font-size: 95%;" \|+ style="font-size: larger;" \| Western Tasmanian Football Association
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colspan="2" bgcolor="#b0c4de" \| General Information
style="vertical-align: top;" \| Founded \| 1963
Former names \| Queenstown FA (founded in 1924)
Closed \| 1994
\| Final clubs \| Lyell Gormanston Lions Queenstown Blues Strahan Seals Zeehan Bulldogs
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\| Former clubs \| City Magpies Gormanston Blues Lyell Maroons Mines United Smelters Robins Railway Rosebery Saints Rosebery-Toorak Hawks Toorak Tigers Tullah-Savage River
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\| Stadiums \| Queenstown Oval
colspan="2" bgcolor="#b0c4de" \| 1993 WTFA Season
style="vertical-align: top;" \| Premiers \| Lyell-Gormanston
Minor Premiers \| Lyell-Gormanston
Wooden spoon \| Strahan.
\| Bartram Medalist \| Not available.
\| Leading Goalkicker \| P Schleigh (Lyell-Gormanston) 53

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|+ style="font-size: larger;" | Western Tasmanian Football Association

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colspan="2" bgcolor="#b0c4de" | General Information

style="vertical-align: top;"

| Founded

| 1963

Former names

| Queenstown FA (founded in 1924)

Closed

| 1994

| Final clubs

| Lyell Gormanston Lions
Queenstown Blues
Strahan Seals
Zeehan Bulldogs

style="vertical-align: top;"

| Former clubs

| City Magpies
Gormanston Blues
Lyell Maroons
Mines United
Smelters Robins
Railway
Rosebery Saints
Rosebery-Toorak Hawks
Toorak Tigers
Tullah-Savage River

style="vertical-align: top;"

| Stadiums

| Queenstown Oval

colspan="2" bgcolor="#b0c4de" | 1993 WTFA Season

style="vertical-align: top;"

| Premiers

| Lyell-Gormanston

Minor Premiers

| Lyell-Gormanston

Wooden spoon

| Strahan.

| Bartram Medalist

| Not available.

| Leading Goalkicker

| P Schleigh (Lyell-Gormanston) 53

The Western Tasmanian Football Association was an Australian Rules Football competition based on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.

The competition was made up of mostly miners living and working on the State's West Coast.

Of all the clubs that participated in the competition, only the Queenstown Football Club (now nicknamed the Crows) and Rosebery-Toorak Football Club remain in existence, participating in competitions on the North West Coast.

History

There was an earlier named entity proposed in the 1890s.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79702879 |title=Western Tasmanian Football Association. |newspaper=Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Hobart, Tas. : 1890 - 1922) |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=13 July 1894 |access-date=5 July 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

The League began in 1924 as the Queenstown Football Association.
The League underwent a name change to the Western Tasmanian Football Association in 1963 as it absorbed the clubs from the Rosebery Football Association.

In 1976, the WTFA absorbed the surviving clubs from the Murchison Football Association.

The Lyell Football Club and the Gormanston Football Club merged in 1976 and formed Lyell-Gormanston Football Club.

In 1977, the Smelters Football Club and the City Football Club Merged and formed the Queenstown Football Club.

Rosebery Football Club and Toorak Football Club merged in 1987 forming the Rosebery-Toorak Football Club.[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030910140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/34349/20030911-0000/www.footypedia.com/00004242.htm] {{cbignore|bot=medic}}see for 1979-1980's merges and participants

Rosebery-Toorak Football Club leave the WTFA and join the NWFA to start in 1990.
In 1991, the Strahan Football Club re-formed and entered the WTFA, they last played in the Murchison FA in 1958.
The WTFA closed down at the end of 1993. The Queenstown Crows were formed in 1994 from the merger of Lyell-Gormanston and the Queenstown Blues and are still playing in the Darwin Association.

Clubs

= Final clubs =

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; width:100%" ! rowspan="2" \|Club ! rowspan="2" \|Colours ! rowspan="2" \|Nickname ! rowspan="2" \|Home Ground ! rowspan="2" \|Former League ! rowspan="2" \|Est. ! rowspan="2" \|Years in WTFA ! colspan="2" \|WTFA Senior Premierships ! rowspan="2" \|Fate
Total !Years
style="text-align:left" \|Lyell-Gormanston \|File:Lyell-Gormanston Football Club colours.jpg \| align="left" \|Lions \| align="left" \|Queenstown Oval, Queenstown \|– \|1976 \|1976-1993 \|11 \| align="left" \|1976, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 \| align="left" \|Merged with Queenstown to form Queenstown Crows in Darwin FA after 1993 season
style="text-align:left" \|Queenstown \|File:Queenstown Football Club colours.jpg \| align="left" \|Blues \| align="left" \|Queenstown Oval, Queenstown \|– \|1977 \|1977-1993 \|3 \| align="left" \|1978, 1983, 1984 \| align="left" \|Merged with Lyell-Gormanston to form Queenstown Crows in Darwin FA after 1993 season
style="text-align:left" \|Strahan \|File:Strahan Football Club colours.jpg \| align="left" \|Seals \| align="left" \|Strahan Recreation Ground, Strahan \|{{Tooltip\|SFA\|Murchison Football Association}} \| \|1991-1993 \|0 \| align="left" \| - \| align="left" \|Folded when WTFA closed down after 1993 season
style="text-align:left" \|Zeehan \|File:Woodville Football Club colours (1964 to 1982).svg \| align="left" \|Bulldogs \| align="left" \|Zeehan Cricket Ground, Zeehan \|{{Tooltip\|MFA\|Murchison Football Association}} \| \|1976-1993 \|1 \| align="left" \|1985 \| align="left" \|Moved to Leven FA after 1993 season

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! rowspan="2" |Club

! rowspan="2" |Colours

! rowspan="2" |Nickname

! rowspan="2" |Home Ground

! rowspan="2" |Former League

! rowspan="2" |Est.

! rowspan="2" |Years in WTFA

! colspan="2" |WTFA Senior Premierships

! rowspan="2" |Fate

Total

!Years

style="text-align:left" |Lyell-Gormanston

|File:Lyell-Gormanston Football Club colours.jpg

| align="left" |Lions

| align="left" |Queenstown Oval, Queenstown

|–

|1976

|1976-1993

|11

| align="left" |1976, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993

| align="left" |Merged with Queenstown to form Queenstown Crows in Darwin FA after 1993 season

style="text-align:left" |Queenstown

|File:Queenstown Football Club colours.jpg

| align="left" |Blues

| align="left" |Queenstown Oval, Queenstown

|–

|1977

|1977-1993

| align="left" |1978, 1983, 1984

| align="left" |Merged with Lyell-Gormanston to form Queenstown Crows in Darwin FA after 1993 season

style="text-align:left" |Strahan

|File:Strahan Football Club colours.jpg

| align="left" |Seals

| align="left" |Strahan Recreation Ground, Strahan

|{{Tooltip|SFA|Murchison Football Association}}

|1991-1993

| align="left" | -

| align="left" |Folded when WTFA closed down after 1993 season

style="text-align:left" |Zeehan

|File:Woodville Football Club colours (1964 to 1982).svg

| align="left" |Bulldogs

| align="left" |Zeehan Cricket Ground, Zeehan

|{{Tooltip|MFA|Murchison Football Association}}

|1976-1993

| align="left" |1985

| align="left" |Moved to Leven FA after 1993 season

= Former clubs =

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; width:100%" ! rowspan="2" \|Club ! rowspan="2" \|Colours ! rowspan="2" \|Nickname ! rowspan="2" \|Home Ground ! rowspan="2" \|Former League ! rowspan="2" \|Est. ! rowspan="2" \|Years in WTFA ! colspan="2" \|WTFA Senior Premierships ! rowspan="2" \|Fate
Total !Years
style="text-align:left" \|City \|File:Collingwood_icon.svg \| align="left" \|Magpies \| align="left" \|Queenstown Oval, Queenstown \|– \| \|1924-1976 \|13 \| align="left" \|1926, 1934, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1963 \| align="left" \|Merged with Smelters to form Queenstown in 1977
style="text-align:left" \|Gormanston \|File:Sunbury Football Club colours.jpg \| align="left" \|Blues, Mountain Men \| align="left" \|Gormanston Recreation Ground, Gormanston \|{{Tooltip\|LFA\|Lyell Football Association}} \| \|1933-1941, 1945-1975 \|8 \| align="left" \|1936, 1949, 1950, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 \| align="left" \|Merged with Lyell to form Lyell-Gormanston in 1976
style="text-align:left" \|Lyell \|File:Lyell Football Club colours.svg \| align="left" \|Maroons \| align="left" \|Queenstown Oval, Queenstown \|– \|1942 \|1942-1975 \|10 \| align="left" \|1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1951, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964 \| align="left" \|Merged with Gormanston to form Lyell-Gormanston in 1976
style="text-align:left" \|Mines United \|Dark with light monogram \| \| align="left" \|Queenstown Oval, Queenstown \|– \| \|1930-1943 \|3 \| align="left" \|1932, 1933, 1935 \| align="left" \|Folded after 1943 season
style="text-align:left" \|Railway \|{{Colour box\|green\|3=\|border=silver}}{{Colour box\|gold\|3=\|border=silver}}{{Cite news \|date=1927-04-08 \|title=QUEENSTOWN ASSOCIATION. \|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51415795?searchTerm=queenstown%20association \|access-date=2025-04-01 \|work=Examiner}} \| \| align="left" \|Queenstown Oval, Queenstown \|– \| \|1924-1929 \|1 \| align="left" \|1925 \| align="left" \|Folded after 1929 season
style="text-align:left" \|Rosebery \|File:St_Kilda_Football_Club_colours.svg \| align="left" \|Saints \| align="left" \|Rosebery Park Oval, Rosebery \|{{Tooltip\|RFA\|Rosebery Football Association}} \| \|1964-1986 \|6 \| align="left" \|1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980 \| align="left" \|Merged with Toorak to form Rosebery-Toorak in 1987
style="text-align:left" \|Rosebery-Toorak \|File:Hawthorn_Football_Club_Colours.svg \| align="left" \|Hawks \| align="left" \|Rosebery Park Oval, Rosebery \|– \|1987 \|1987-1990 \|0 \| align="left" \| - \| align="left" \|Moved to North Western FA in 1990
style="text-align:left" \|Smelters \|File:Essendon_Football_Club_colours.svg \| align="left" \|Robins \| align="left" \|Queenstown Oval, Queenstown \|– \| \|1924-1941, 1944-1976 \|11 \| align="left" \|1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1938, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959 \| align="left" \|Merged with City to form Queenstown in 1977
style="text-align:left" \|Toorak \|File:RichmondDesign.svg \| align="left" \|Tigers \| align="left" \|Rosebery Park Oval, Rosebery \|{{Tooltip\|RFA\|Rosebery Football Association}} \| \|1964-1986 \|2 \| align="left" \|1967, 1977 \| align="left" \|Merged with Rosebery to form Rosebery-Toorak in 1987
style="text-align:left" \|Tullah-Savage River \|File:Murrumbeena Football Club colours.jpg \| align="left" \|Roos, River Raiders \| align="left" \|Tullah Recreation Ground, Tullah \|{{Tooltip\|RFA\|Rosebery Football Association}} \| \|1964-1988 \|0 \| align="left" \| - \| align="left" \|Folded after 1988 season

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! rowspan="2" |Club

! rowspan="2" |Colours

! rowspan="2" |Nickname

! rowspan="2" |Home Ground

! rowspan="2" |Former League

! rowspan="2" |Est.

! rowspan="2" |Years in WTFA

! colspan="2" |WTFA Senior Premierships

! rowspan="2" |Fate

Total

!Years

style="text-align:left" |City

|File:Collingwood_icon.svg

| align="left" |Magpies

| align="left" |Queenstown Oval, Queenstown

|–

|1924-1976

|13

| align="left" |1926, 1934, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1963

| align="left" |Merged with Smelters to form Queenstown in 1977

style="text-align:left" |Gormanston

|File:Sunbury Football Club colours.jpg

| align="left" |Blues, Mountain Men

| align="left" |Gormanston Recreation Ground, Gormanston

|{{Tooltip|LFA|Lyell Football Association}}

|1933-1941, 1945-1975

| align="left" |1936, 1949, 1950, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970

| align="left" |Merged with Lyell to form Lyell-Gormanston in 1976

style="text-align:left" |Lyell

|File:Lyell Football Club colours.svg

| align="left" |Maroons

| align="left" |Queenstown Oval, Queenstown

|–

|1942

|1942-1975

|10

| align="left" |1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1951, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964

| align="left" |Merged with Gormanston to form Lyell-Gormanston in 1976

style="text-align:left" |Mines United

|Dark with light monogram

| align="left" |Queenstown Oval, Queenstown

|–

|1930-1943

| align="left" |1932, 1933, 1935

| align="left" |Folded after 1943 season

style="text-align:left" |Railway

|{{Colour box|green|3=|border=silver}}{{Colour box|gold|3=|border=silver}}{{Cite news |date=1927-04-08 |title=QUEENSTOWN ASSOCIATION. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51415795?searchTerm=queenstown%20association |access-date=2025-04-01 |work=Examiner}}

| align="left" |Queenstown Oval, Queenstown

|–

|1924-1929

| align="left" |1925

| align="left" |Folded after 1929 season

style="text-align:left" |Rosebery

|File:St_Kilda_Football_Club_colours.svg

| align="left" |Saints

| align="left" |Rosebery Park Oval, Rosebery

|{{Tooltip|RFA|Rosebery Football Association}}

|1964-1986

| align="left" |1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980

| align="left" |Merged with Toorak to form Rosebery-Toorak in 1987

style="text-align:left" |Rosebery-Toorak

|File:Hawthorn_Football_Club_Colours.svg

| align="left" |Hawks

| align="left" |Rosebery Park Oval, Rosebery

|–

|1987

|1987-1990

| align="left" | -

| align="left" |Moved to North Western FA in 1990

style="text-align:left" |Smelters

|File:Essendon_Football_Club_colours.svg

| align="left" |Robins

| align="left" |Queenstown Oval, Queenstown

|–

|1924-1941, 1944-1976

|11

| align="left" |1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1938, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959

| align="left" |Merged with City to form Queenstown in 1977

style="text-align:left" |Toorak

|File:RichmondDesign.svg

| align="left" |Tigers

| align="left" |Rosebery Park Oval, Rosebery

|{{Tooltip|RFA|Rosebery Football Association}}

|1964-1986

| align="left" |1967, 1977

| align="left" |Merged with Rosebery to form Rosebery-Toorak in 1987

style="text-align:left" |Tullah-Savage River

|File:Murrumbeena Football Club colours.jpg

| align="left" |Roos, River Raiders

| align="left" |Tullah Recreation Ground, Tullah

|{{Tooltip|RFA|Rosebery Football Association}}

|1964-1988

| align="left" | -

| align="left" |Folded after 1988 season

Premierships

Queenstown FA premiership winners: 1924-1963

1924 ― Smelters
1925 ― Railway
1926 ― City
1927 ― Smelters
1928 ― Smelters
1929 ― Smelters
1930 ― Smelters
1931 ― Smelters
1932 ― Mines United
1933 ― Mines United
1934 ― City
1935 ― Mines United
1936 ― Gormanston
1937 ― City
1938 ― Smelters
1939 ― City
1940 ― City
1941 ― City
1942 ― Lyell
1943 ― Lyell

1944 ― Lyell
1945 ― Lyell
1946 ― Lyell
1947 ― City
1948 ― City
1949 ― Gormanston
1950 ― Gormanston
1951 ― Lyell
1952 ― City
1953 ― City
1954 ― Smelters
1955 ― Smelters
1956 ― Smelters
1957 ― City
1958 ― Lyell
1959 ― Smelters
1960 ― City
1961 ― Lyell
1962 ― Lyell
1963 ― City"King Football" - Hobart Mercury - Monday, 28 May 1973 (page 29)

{{col-break}}WTFA Premiership winners: 1964-1993

1964 ― Lyell 15.17 (107) v Gormanston 9.5 (59)
1965 ― Gormanston 9.10 (64) v Lyell 4.14 (38)
1966 ― Gormanston 16.11 (107) v Lyell 13.9 (87)
1967 ― Toorak 8.9 (57) v Rosebery 6.17 (53)
1968 ― Gormanston 10.16 (76) v Toorak 8.12 (60)
1969 ― Gormanston 12.14 (86) v Rosebery 8.5 (53)
1970 ― Gormanston 19.11 (125) v Toorak 16.13 (109)
1971 ― Rosebery 20.18 (138) v Toorak 19.12 (126)
1972 ― Rosebery 11.12 (78) v Toorak 10.10 (70)
1973 ― Smelters 15.13 (103) v Toorak 12.14 (86)
1974 ― Rosebery 16.17 (113) v Smelters 7.12 (54)
1975 ― Rosebery 15.17 (107) v Toorak 15.13 (103)
1976 ― Lyell-Gormanston 26.25 (181) v City 8.12 (60)
1977 ― Toorak 15.21 (111) v Lyell-Gormanston 12.18 (90)
1978 ― Queenstown 16.26 (122) v Toorak 14.15 (99)
1979 ― Rosebery 15.12 (102) v Toorak 13.12 (90)
1980 ― Rosebery 12.17 (89) v Toorak 10.12 (72)
1981 ― Lyell-Gormanston 20.18 (138) v Rosebery 13.13 (91)
1982 ― Lyell-Gormanston 14.14 (98) v Toorak 9.17 (71)
1983 ― Queenstown 7.13 (55) v Lyell-Gormanston 4.4 (28)
1984 ― Queenstown 15.19 (109) v Lyell-Gormanston 7.21 (63)
1985 ― Zeehan 22.10 (142) v Lyell-Gormanston 14.14 (98)
1986 ― Lyell-Gormanston 12.15 (87) v Queenstown 12.14 (86)
1987 ― Lyell-Gormanston 9.16 (70) v Tullah-Savage River 7.14 (56)
1988 ― Lyell-Gormanston 11.18 (84) v Zeehan 7.9 (51)
1989 ― Lyell-Gormanston 14.22 (106) v Queenstown 16.8 (104)
1990 ― Lyell-Gormanston 22.21 (153) v Queenstown 16.8 (104)
1991 ― Lyell-Gormanston 18.18 (126) v Strahan 14.7 (91)
1992 ― Lyell-Gormanston 20.19 (139) v Zeehan 13.12 (90)
1993 ― Lyell-Gormanston 17.19 (121) v Queenstown 12.12 (84)

Individual awards

The senior B&F was the Bartram Medal.
The reserves B&F was the ALB. Broadby Trophy.
Seniors and reserves both had leading goalkicker awards.

1987 Ladder

style="color:crimson" \| West Tasmanian FA ! style="color:crimson" \|Wins ! style="color:crimson"\|Byes ! style="color:crimson" \|Losses ! style="color:crimson" \|Draws ! style="color:crimson" \|For ! style="color:crimson" \|Against ! style="color:crimson" \|% ! style="color:crimson" \|Pts
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\| Rosebery-Toorak	10	0	5	1	1403	1071	131.00%	42
\| Lyell-Gormanston	9	0	7	0	1447	1336	108.31%	36
\| Tullah-Savage River	9	0	7	0	1264	1220	103.61%	36
\| Zeehan	7	0	9	0	1210	1473	82.15%	28
\| Queenstown	4	0	11	1	1387	1611	86.10%	18

FINALS

style="color:green" \|Final ! style="color:green" \|Team ! style="color:green" \|G ! style="color:green" \|B ! style="color:green" \|Pts ! style="color:green" \|Team ! style="color:green" \|G ! style="color:green" \|B ! style="color:green" \|Pts
class="wikitable"
1st Semi	Tullah-Savage River	13	11	89	Zeehan	9	14	68
2nd Semi	Lyell-Gormanston	14	16	100	Rosebery-Toorak	12	8	80
Preliminary	Tullah-Savage River	13	17	95	Rosebery-Toorak	10	8	68
Grand	Lyell-Gormanston	9	16	70	Tullah-Savage River	7	14	56

Western Tasmanian Football Association

History

Clubs

= Final clubs =

= Former clubs =

Premierships

Individual awards

1987 Ladder

Notes

See also