Why is VFL/SANFL/WAFL/TAFL/NSWAFL /NTFL state leagues when all teams are all in one City or nearby???

[mdavideedee_man64]

Yes, shouldnt it be
Vfl should be melbourne football league
sanfl should be adelaide football league
wafl should be perth football league and the other fremantle football league
ntfl should be darwin football league
tfl should be hobart football league or whatever, like sydney football league in nsw

cos it sure aint state leagues lol, more like city leagues

 

[Fizzler]

VFL has Geelong
NTFL has Tiwi
TSL has Launceston teams

 

[mdavideedee_man64]

VFL has Geelong
NTFL has Tiwi
TSL has Launceston teams

actually forgot about that, but i wonder what is the record for the most teams in one state is for any sport?

 

[Kingpin]

The original TANFL prior to World War II had all four clubs based in the inner Hobart area. North Hobart, Cananore, Lefroy and New Town.
After the war Cananore and Lefroy both collapsed and were replaced with Hobart and Sandy Bay.
In 1947 the Clarence Football Club, based on the opposite side of the River Derwent were included as were the New Norfolk District Football Club, based 38 kilometers up the river in the Derwent Valley.
It wasn't until January 1986 when the TANFL was liquidated and became the TFL Statewide League that new clubs were included.
Both North Launceston and East Launceston, based in the central northern capital, 198 kilometers from Hobart joined the league.
East merged with City-South a few months later and became South Launceston and played their home games out of City-South's Youngtown Memorial Ground high up on the hill.
The following year the Devonport Football Club left the NWFU and joined the league playing out of the Devonport Oval, 285 kilometers from Hobart.
The same year the Cooee Bulldogs from the NWFU rebranded themselves as the Burnie Hawks and joined the TFL also.
They played (as Cooee did previously) out of the West Park Oval in Burnie, 325 kilometers from Hobart.
The Hawks merged with West Park co-tenant Burnie Tigers from the NTFL in 1995, calling themselves Burnie Dockers.
Launceston Football Club became the third TFL club to be based in the Launceston area in 1994, playing out of the Windsor Park ground in Riverside, 208 kilometres from Hobart.
They quit the TFL and rejoined the NTFL in 1998 as did South Launceston.
Sandy Bay folded in September 1997, Hobart also left the TFL at the end of 1997 and joined the Southern Football League.
Southern Cats were a brand new club to represent the Kingborough and Huon region of southern Tasmania from 1998 but played all bar two of their home matches at North Hobart, most of their supporter base were ex-Sandy Bay supporters, as were their players.
It folded in May 1999 after only 27 matches, failing to gather any enthusiasm from the region they were formed to represent.
In 1999 New Norfolk were dumped from the league and joined the Southern Football League in 2000. The league itself collapsed at the end of that season.

The current state league in Tasmania is called the TSL. That formed in October 2008.
At its inception it included Burnie, Devonport, North Launceston, South Launceston, Launceston, Hobart, North Hobart, Clarence, Glenorchy and Lauderdale - a former amateur club based some 25 kilometers south east of Hobart.
After a lot of meddling by AFL Tasmania, the TSL has struggled along with countless changes.
Hobart, South Launceston, Devonport and Burnie have all left the TSL and play in their regions.
Kingborough Tigers, a former Huon and SFL club were brought in to replace Hobart and were rebranded as Tigers FC, representing the Kingborough and Huon regions of southern Tasmania.
Curiously, they play in Kingborough's old colours and play on Kingborough's home ground at Huntingfield, about 17 kilometers south of Hobart.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Can't really speak for other states but the VFA, in it's early years, had Geelong, Ballarat, South Ballarat and Ballarat Imperial.

Even if they all didn't play each other on a regular basis due to travel and random fixtures, they were still members of the association. Hence Victorian Football Association.

 

[Gibbsy]

Kingborough Tigers, a former Huon and SFL club were brought in to replace Hobart and were rebranded as Tigers FC, representing the Kingborough and Huon regions of southern Tasmania.
Curiously, they play in Kingborough's old colours and play on Kingborough's home ground at Huntingfield, about 17 kilometers south of Hobart.

They pretty much refer to themselves everywhere as Kingborough Tigers Football Club now.

Home

KINGBOROUGH TIGERS FOOTBALL CLUB KINGBOROUGH TIGERS SPORTS CLUB INC. NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting of the Kingborough Tigers Sports Club Inc. will be held at the Kingston Twin Ovals Function Centre, 35 Twin Ovals Road Kingston on Wednesday 24th February, 2021...

www.tigersfc.net.au

 

[emuboy]

Expansion into country areas hasn't really worked that well.

In the VFL, country expansion has on the whole being a failure. Traralgon lasted just two seasons in 1996-1997, and there hasn't been another Gippsland team since then. The Murray Kangaroos were only around three seasons for 2000-2002. There were three versions of Bendigo - the Diggers (1998-2002), the Bombers (2003-2011) and the Gold (2012-2014) and none were a success, the team mainly a chopping block with winless seasons for all three incarnations in 2001, 2002, 2009, 2013 & 2014. North Ballarat did very well for years on end and won three premierships in a row from 2008-2010, but things declined for the Roosters in the mid 2000s and they left the VFL after 2017. This leaves only Geelong Cats reserves as the only country team in the VFL.

The SANFL has never attempted country expansion, but in the early 1990s the WAFL had plans to introduce country teams in large regional cities such as Mandurah, Bunbury, Albany, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton. Apart from Mandurah none of these went ahead, with Peel Thunder joining the then 8 team WAFL to make it 9 teams. However, Peel has mainly struggled through its existence.

 

[Fanster56]

Expansion into country areas hasn't really worked that well.

In the VFL, country expansion has on the whole being a failure. Traralgon lasted just two seasons in 1996-1997, and there hasn't been another Gippsland team since then. The Murray Kangaroos were only around three seasons for 2000-2002. There were three versions of Bendigo - the Diggers (1998-2002), the Bombers (2003-2011) and the Gold (2012-2014) and none were a success, the team mainly a chopping block with winless seasons for all three incarnations in 2001, 2002, 2009, 2013 & 2014. North Ballarat did very well for years on end and won three premierships in a row from 2008-2010, but things declined for the Roosters in the mid 2000s and they left the VFL after 2017. This leaves only Geelong Cats reserves as the only country team in the VFL.

The SANFL has never attempted country expansion, but in the early 1990s the WAFL had plans to introduce country teams in large regional cities such as Mandurah, Bunbury, Albany, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton. Apart from Mandurah none of these went ahead, with Peel Thunder joining the then 8 team WAFL to make it 9 teams. However, Peel has mainly struggled through its existence.

Struggled? Hmm, maybe. Apart from a couple of flags after a 'marriage of convenience' with Freo!

 

[MortlockWatcher]

Struggled? Hmm, maybe. Apart from a couple of flags after a 'marriage of convenience' with Freo!

Without Freo's help, it's highly likely they'd still be searching for their first WAFL finals appearance.