Australian rules football association in Western Tasmania
Western Tasmanian Football Association
General Information
Founded
1963
Former names
Queenstown FA (founded in 1924)
Closed
1994
Final clubs
Lyell Gormanston Lions Queenstown Blues Strahan Seals Zeehan Bulldogs
Former clubs
City Magpies Gormanston Blues Lyell Maroons Mines United Smelters Robins Railway Rosebery Saints Rosebery-Toorak Hawks Toorak Tigers Tullah-Savage River
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 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.[1]
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.[2]
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 and are still playing in the Darwin Assoc
