Australian rules football season
Australian rules football season
1985 TANFL season Teams Premiers Glenorchy Minor premiers Clarence 5th minor premiership Matches played 64 Total attendance 132,461 (2,070 per match)
The 1985 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL ) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over twenty roster rounds and four finals series matches between 30 March and 21 September 1985.
The League was known as the Winfield League under a commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with Winfield tobacco company and was to be the final season of the original TANFL (as it had been known since 1928) with the competition switching from a regional to statewide format from 1986.
The TANFL was also the governing body of the sport within Tasmania and it was liquidated in January 1986 to form the TFL Statewide League .
Participating Clubs
1985 TANFL Club Coaches
Dux Hotwater Systems League (Under-19's) Grand Final
Leading Goalkickers: TANFL
Wayne Fox (New Norfolk) – 130
Scott Adams (Clarence) – 91
Cary Millhouse (Hobart) – 82
David Pearce (Glenorchy) – 71
Medal Winners
Graham Hunnibell (New Norfolk) – William Leitch Medal
Tony Kline (North Hobart) – George Watt Medal (Reserves)
Sam Synott (Sandy Bay) – V.A Geard Medal (Under-19's)
Jason Taylor (New Norfolk) – D.R Plaister Medal (Under-17's)
Interstate Matches
Foster's NFL Shield (Saturday, 4 May 1985)
Foster's NFL Shield (Saturday, 25 May 1985)
Foster's NFL Shield (Saturday, 30 June 1985)
Intrastate Match
Interstate Match (Sunday, 9 June 1985)
1985 TANFL Ladder
Roster season
Round 1
(Saturday, 30 March 1985)
Round 2
(Saturday, 6 April & Monday, 8 April 1985)
Round 3
(Saturday, 13 April 1985)
Round 4
(Saturday, 20 April 1985)
Round 5
(Saturday, 27 April & Sunday, 28 April 1985)
Round 6
(Saturday, 11 May 1985)
Round 7
(Saturday, 18 May 1985)
Round 8
(Saturday, 1 June 1985)
Round 9
(Saturday, 8 June 1985)
Round 10
(Saturday, 15 June 1985)
Round 11
(Saturday, 22 June 1985)
Round 12
(Saturday, 29 June 1985)
Round 13
(Saturday, 6 July 1985)
Round 14
(Saturday, 13 July 1985)
Round 15
(Saturday, 20 July 1985)
Round 16
(Saturday, 27 July 1985)
Round 17
(Saturday, 3 August 1985)
Note: Wayne Fox (New Norfolk) kicks his 100th goal for the season.
Round 18
(Saturday, 10 August 1985)
Round 19
(Saturday, 17 August 1985)
Round 20
(Saturday, 24 August 1985)
Finals Series
First Semi Final
(Saturday, 31 August 1985)
Nth Hobart: 10.5 (65) | 13.8 (86) | 18.13 (121) | 24.15 (159)
New Norfolk: 7.1 (43) | 9.4 (58) | 15.8 (98) | 18.13 (121)
Attendance : 5,345 at North Hobart Oval
Second Semi Final
(Saturday, 7 September 1985)
Glenorchy: 5.6 (36) | 8.14 (62) | 12.14 (86) | 20.17 (137)
Clarence: 4.2 (26) | 7.9 (51) | 11.14 (80) | 14.18 (102)
Attendance : 6,567 at North Hobart Oval
Preliminary Final
(Saturday, 14 September 1985)
Clarence: 3.4 (22) | 9.7 (61) | 14.8 (92) | 21.11 (137)
Nth Hobart: 1.3 (9) | 7.8 (50) | 13.11 (89) | 17.13 (115)
Attendance : 7,729 at North Hobart Oval
Grand Final
(Saturday, 21 September 1985)
Glenorchy: 2.5 (17) | 3.10 (28) | 6.13 (49) | 10.15 (75)
Clarence: 3.3 (21) | 4.6 (30) | 5.8 (38) | 10.11 (71)
Attendance : 16,561 at North Hobart Oval
Clubs
Seasons Grounds Honours