The Tasmanian Football Community awoke to exciting news on Friday morning, with Australia and New Zealand officially announced as the host of the next FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023 bringing with it the possibility of World Cup Football on Tasmanian soil.
The joint Australia/New Zealand AsOne2023 bid, beat out the bid from Colombia in the vote that took place in a meeting of FIFA delegates overnight.
Football Tasmania CEO Matt Bulkeley said the successful Australian/New Zealand bid would help take women’s football to the next level in Tasmania.
Football Tasmania has today released the revised Season 2020 Fixtures for its top tier Statewide Competitions, the NPL Tasmania and Women’s Super League.
Both competitions will run shortened seasons due to the postponement brought about by the Covid-19 outbreak that saw the season suspended back in March.
The National Premier Leagues Tasmania competition will now consist of a 14 Round season, kicking off on July 18 and running through to October 24, with each side playing each other home and away.
The Women’s Super League will be one week longer, running a 15 Round competition that will…
The Tasmanian Football Community has awoken to exciting news, with Australia and New Zealand officially announced as the host of the next FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023 bringing with it the possibility of World Cup Football on Tasmanian soil.
The joint Australia/New Zealand AsOne2023 bid, beat out the bid from Colombia in a 23-12 vote that took place in a meeting of FIFA delegates overnight.
Football Tasmania CEO Matt Bulkeley said the successful Australian/New Zealand bid would help take women’s football to the next level in Tasmania.
Tasmanian club sides will be unable to compete on the National stage in 2020, after it was today announced that the FFA Cup and NPL National finals series tournament have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The competitions had previously been considered unlikely following Football's shut down, an FFA CEO James Johnson today confirmed the two competitions would not be proceeding this year in an announcement to members.
"Following extensive consultation with relevant stakeholders, FFA has regrettably decided to cancel the 2020 installments of both the FFA Cup and NPL finals series…
There are two upcoming junior grassroots coaching courses that may be of interest to coaches as we prepare for the restart of football for season 2020. These courses are fun, practical and require no prior football coaching experience. They will equip you with the skills to help coach at the junior level. There are links included with the information below for interested coaches.
Grassroots Coaching Course
Football Tasmania is delighted to welcome Christie Cox-Haines to the Board effective immediately. Christie will be coming on to the Board in the casual vacancy created when Mark Jefferson moved interstate earlier in the year.
Christie is a Family Lawyer with Rae and Partners in Devonport and studied a Bachelor of Arts and Laws with Honours at UTAS. She has played football since she was 14 including playing in the victorious Ulverstone Women’s Super League in 2018. She is also a qualified football referee.
President of FT, Bob Gordon said ‘We are delighted to welcome Christie as a new…
The draws for the Quarter Finals of the Statewide Cup competitions were conducted this morning at KGV Football House. The games will be played on the weekend of September 4-6.
Running over four sessions:
20 July 2020 6:00pm – 8.30pm
26 July 2020 9:00am – 4.30pm
27 July 2020 6:00pm – 8.30pm
31 July 2020 6:00pm – 8.30pm
Cost: $50.
Course includes:
Referee Accessories Whistle + Yellow & Red Cards
Access to FFA Qualified Referee Tutors
Access to an FT Mentor
Laws of the game book 2020
And First year registration free to the value of :
(Junior fee – $45, Senior fee – $75)
Please complete this link before the course https://laws.myfootballclub.com.au/
The course Fee is payable in advance of the course , It covers Laws of the game…
Football Tasmania’s Referees boss Tony Peart has paid credit to his team of Tasmanian Referees who forwent match payment throughout recent pre-season games in order to help clubs with the financial burden brought about by Covid-19.
In consultation with the Referee’s Standing committee it was agreed by an 85% majority vote held by the Match officials that they would undertake pre-season friendly matches unpaid, a gesture which has proved a big help.
The move has enabled over $4000 in total savings for clubs over the pre-season, coming at a time when many clubs have found it financially tough…
Tasmania’s most popular junior team sport is back on pitches in Burnie, Launceston and Hobart this weekend, with the 2020 junior football season finally kicking off after being delayed by COVID-19.
Deputy Premier Jeremy Rockliff officially started the season at Churchill Park in Launceston this morning, blowing the opening whistle to commence 10 junior matches simultaneously at the northern football hub. Close to 1,000 players from more than 100 teams will play at Churchill Park today.
Football Tasmania CEO Matt Bulkeley said seeing so many children enjoying the World Game again was a…
A bumper Saturday of Cup fixtures is set to the relaunch the 2020 local footballing season, as action resumes with the Round of 16 in the various Statewide Cup competitions.
Some four and a half months after the Qualifying Round of the Lakoseljac Cup was initially played, we are now finally set to have competitive games taking place. After such a lengthy layoff, this weekend represents a real venture into the unknown. The term 'unprecedented times' has been bandied about all too frequently over the past few months and yet it's certainly applicable to the resumption of play here. Who really…
Heavy victories were the order of the day in the Women's Statewide Cup Round of 16 stage, with five of the six games settled by three goals or more. With South Hobart and Beachside already drawn through to the Quarter finals, six other sides have now joined them and did so in pretty dominant fashion.
The Kingborough Lions showed now ill effects from their early start, hitting the road to Somerset and recording a resounding 7-0 win in the first game of the day. Holly Bonertz-Benn did the bulk of the damage, scoring a hat-trick in the second half as the Lions ran away with it. Earlier, Thais…
Local Football returned on Saturday with a bevy of exciting Cup Football taking place around the state including the Round of 16 of the Lakoseljac Cup.
At Birch Avenue Launceston United nearly produced the Cupset of the day, as they came within five minutes of dumping South Hobart out of the competition. A 2-1 Utd lead late into the second half had the defending Champions on the brink, but as is so often the way with South they found a way. An 85th minute leveler from Kobe Kemp was followed by a quickfire brace from Ewan Larby to secure a 4-2 win but not without a major scare.
The draws for the Quarter Finals of the Statewide Cup competitions were conducted this morning at KGV Football House. The games will be played on the weekend of September 4-6.
The NPL Tasmania season is finally set to kick off on Saturday after a delay of over 120 days since the initial Covid-19 induced postponement and the big question is; can anyone stop the Devonport Strikers?
Having claimed 3 of the past 4 league titles including the past two seasons, the side from the Portress are now eyeing off a historic league Three-Peat and despite a setback in the Lakoseljac Cup last weekend, they appear well poised to do just that.
The Strikers will return nearly all of their title winning squad from 2019 and whilst they didn't get off to the ideal start with a 2-1 cup…
The Clarence Zebras loom as the team to beat ahead of the 2020 Women's Super League season which kicks off this weekend. The WSL season will be shortened slightly, reduced from 20 games down to 15 due to the Covid-19 imposed delay that prevented the competition from kicking off back in March and on paper the Zebras would appear to be favourites, with the Olympia Warriors poised as the team best set to challenge them. Kingborough, Ulverstone, South and University will look to close the gap from the runaway top two of last year, but it would be a surprise to see a side other than Olympia or…
Football Tasmania's Referees boss Tony Peart has paid credit to his team of Tasmanian Referees who forwent match payment throughout recent pre-season games in order to help clubs with the financial burden brought about by Covid-19.
In consultation with the Referee’s Standing committee it was agreed by an 85% majority vote held by the Match officials that they would undertake pre-season friendly matches unpaid, a gesture which has proved a big help.
The move has enabled over $4000 in total savings for clubs over the pre-season, coming at a time when many clubs have found it financially tough…
