2000 SWL season

The 2000 Football Tasmania SWL premiership season was an Australian rules football competition, staged across Tasmania, Australia over seventeen (17) roster rounds and four (4) finals series matches between 24 March and 9 September 2000.
This was the fifteenth and final season of statewide football and was the third separate statewide competition in three years after the TSFL was abandoned in favour of starting up a new statewide league known simply as the SWL which detailed six clubs from the six highest populated cities across Tasmania.
The SWL was sponsored to the tune of A$750,000 under a funding agreement with the Australian Football League which was overseen and managed by the sport's governing body in the state (Football Tasmania) to control.

Shortly after the season had been completed, Burnie Dockers announced that they would be leaving the competition to rejoin the NTFL in 2001, a short time later both Northern Bombers and Devonport followed suit leaving an unsustainable three club statewide competition, with Football Tasmania also under considerable pressure from both the Hobart City Council over possible legal action against them for breaking a contract by moving the Grand Final away from North Hobart Oval to York Park this season and looming legal threats by the remaining SWL clubs over a restraint of trade, the statewide competition was abandoned by Football Tasmania in January 2001, the remaining clubs resumed playing league matches in their regional areas in both the SFL and the NTFL until the end of the 2008 season.

2000 SWL Season
General Information
Founded 12 June 1879 in Hobart, Tasmania
Previous names TFA (1879–1886)
STFA (1887–1896)
STFL (1897)
STFA (1898–1905)
TFL (1906–1927)
TANFL (1928–1985)
TFL Statewide League (1986–1998)
TSFL (1999)
General Manager Mr Scott Wade
Participating Clubs Burnie Dockers
Clarence Kangaroos
Devonport Power
Glenorchy Magpies
Hobart Demons
Northern Bombers
Stadiums North Hobart Oval
KGV Football Park
York Park
Bellerive Oval
Devonport Oval
West Park Oval
2000 SWL Season.
Premiers Clarence 15.15 (105) v Northern Bombers 8.8 (56)
Minor Premier Northern Bombers (7th)
Wooden Spooners Devonport (3rd)
Grand Final attendance 6,124 at York Park
Total Roster Series attendance 60,632 for 51 matches at 1,188
Total Finals Series attendance 12,410 for 4 matches at 3,102
Total aggregate attendance 73,042 for 55 matches at 1,328

Participating Clubs

2000 SWL Club Coaches

SWL Under-21s Grand Final
  • Clarence 9.13 (67) v Northern Bombers 8.14 (62) – York Park

SWL Under-18s Grand Final
  • Glenorchy (A) 13.9 (87) v Hobart Demons (B) 4.3 (27) – York Park

Leading Goalkickers: SWL
  • Scott Allen (Clarence) – 80

Medal Winners
  • Nathan Howard (Northern Bombers) – William Leitch Medal
  • Scott Allen (Clarence) – Darrel Baldock Medal (Best player in SWL Grand Final)
  • Justin Cotton (Northern Bombers) & Heath Fox (Northern Bombers) – George Watt Medal (U-21s)
  • Jamie Walker (Glenorchy) – V.A Geard Medal (Under-18s)

Intrastate Matches

Intrastate Match (Saturday, 10 June 2000)

  • South 16.13 (109) v North 9.9 (63) – Att: 2,302 at York Park

2000 SWL Ladder
Team Played Won Lost Draw For Against Percentage Points
Northern Bombers 1715201632928175.86%60
Clarence 17134019761062186.06%52
Burnie Dockers 17107014621026142.49%40
Hobart Demons 178901333164680.98%32
Glenorchy 1751201459157292.81%20
Devonport Power 170170684219931.10%0

Round 1

(Friday, 24 March & Saturday, 1 April 2000)

  • Hobart Demons 5.12 (42) v Clarence 3.13 (31) – Att: 1,628 at North Hobart Oval (Friday Night)
  • Northern Bombers 17.10 (112) v Glenorchy 13.18 (96) – Att: 1,343 at KGV Football Park (Saturday)
  • Burnie Dockers 14.20 (104) v Devonport 1.4 (10) – Att: 1,930 at West Park Oval (Saturday)

Round 2

(Saturday, 8 April 2000)

Round 3

(Saturday, 15 April & Sunday, 16 April 2000)

  • Clarence 20.10 (130) v Glenorchy 14.15 (99) – Att: 1,418 at Bellerive Oval
  • Burnie Dockers 13.7 (85) v Hobart Demons 5.13 (43) – Att: 1,215 at West Park Oval (Night)
  • Northern Bombers 19.22 (136) v Devonport 2.4 (16) – Att: 804 at Devonport Oval (Sunday)

Round 4

(Saturday, 29 April & Sunday, 30 April 2000)

Round 5

(Saturday, 6 May & Sunday, 7 May 2000)

Round 6

(Saturday, 13 May & Sunday, 14 May 2000)

Round 7

(Saturday, 20 May & Sunday, 21 May 2000)

  • Hobart Demons 20.12 (132) v Burnie Dockers 13.6 (84) – Att: 703 at North Hobart Oval
  • Glenorchy 13.20 (98) v Devonport 5.11 (41) – Att: 675 at Devonport Oval
  • Northern Bombers 14.14 (98) v Clarence 13.7 (85) – Att: 3,417 at York Park (Sunday)

Round 8

(Saturday, 27 May & Sunday, 23 July 2000)

  • Clarence 18.18 (126) v Hobart Demons 9.10 (64) – Att: 1,053 at Bellerive Oval
  • Northern Bombers 18.10 (118) v Glenorchy 10.10 (70) – Att: 1,108 at York Park
  • Burnie Dockers 15.16 (106) v Devonport 4.9 (33) – Att: 1,026 at Devonport Oval (Sunday, 23 July) *

Note: This match was moved forward to be played on 23 July on the weekend of Round 14 for unspecified reasons.

Round 9

(Saturday, 3 June 2000)

Round 10

(Saturday, 17 June 2000)

  • Clarence 15.15 (105) v Glenorchy 9.9 (63) – Att: 1,139 at Bellerive Oval
  • Northern Bombers 14.20 (104) v Burnie Dockers 4.8 (32) – Att: 1,169 at York Park
  • Hobart Demons 22.13 (145) v Devonport 8.10 (58) – Att: 641 at Devonport Oval

Round 11

(Saturday, 24 June 2000)

Round 12

(Saturday, 1 July 2000)

Round 13

(Saturday, 8 July 2000)

Round 14

(Saturday, 15 July, Sunday, 16 July & Saturday, 22 July 2000)

  • Glenorchy 24.16 (160) v Devonport 5.6 (36) – Att: 904 at KGV Football Park (15 July)
  • Burnie Dockers 17.11 (113) v Hobart Demons 8.13 (61) – Att: 562 at North Hobart Oval (16 July)
  • Clarence 12.8 (80) v Northern Bombers 6.10 (46) – Att: 5,625 at York Park (22 July - Night) *

Note: This match set the all-time Statewide League attendance record.

Round 15

(Saturday, 29 July & Sunday 30 July 2000)

  • Glenorchy 12.18 (90) v Hobart Demons 11.5 (71) – Att: 1,002 at North Hobart Oval
  • Clarence 21.9 (135) v Burnie Dockers 7.8 (50) – Att: 1,205 at West Park Oval
  • Northern Bombers 29.14 (188) v Devonport 6.10 (46) – Att: 1,552 at York Park (Sunday)

Round 16

(Saturday, 5 August 2000)

  • Clarence 32.17 (209) v Hobart Demons 3.8 (26) – Att: 1,210 at Bellerive Oval
  • Burnie Dockers 15.12 (102) v Devonport 6.6 (42) – Att: 809 at West Park Oval
  • Northern Bombers 17.10 (112) v Glenorchy 10.15 (75) – Att: 2,210 at York Park (Night)

Round 17

(Saturday, 12 August 2000)

First Semi Final

(Saturday, 19 August 2000)

  • Hobart Demons: 1.3 (9) | 6.7 (43) | 9.8 (62) | 17.9 (111)
  • Burnie Dockers: 6.4 (40) | 7.6 (48) | 10.7 (67) | 11.9 (75)
  • Attendance: 1,037 at West Park Oval

Second Semi Final

(Saturday, 26 August 2000)

  • Clarence: 4.1 (25) | 10.5 (65) | 17.10 (112) | 21.10 (136)
  • Northern Bombers: 3.3 (21) | 5.6 (36) | 9.7 (61) | 14.10 (94)
  • Attendance: 3,669 at York Park

Preliminary Final

(Sunday, 2 September 2000)

  • Northern Bombers: 3.7 (25) | 8.8 (56) | 14.12 (96) | 21.17 (143)
  • Hobart Demons: 4.1 (25) | 8.2 (50) | 10.2 (62) | 11.2 (68)
  • Attendance: 1,580 at North Hobart Oval

Grand Final

(Sunday, 9 September 2000)

  • Clarence: 4.0 (24) | 6.6 (42) | 8.13 (61) | 15.15 (105)
  • Northern Bombers: 1.4 (10) | 2.7 (19) | 4.7 (31) | 8.8 (56)
  • Attendance: 6,124 at York Park

Source: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury, Launceston Examiner and North West Advocate publications.

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