Tamar FC
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Tamar Football Club was a football (soccer)
club which represented Launceston in the Northern Premier league
in the years before World War II
. Tamar won the inaugural northern league in 1912, and went on to gather a further 6 prior to the war. Like many clubs that existed before the war, they failed to resume after the war ended. Like their northern pre-war rivals, Invermay
, they failed to convert their northern dominance into state championships.
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club which represented Launceston in the Northern Premier league
Northern Premier League (Tasmania)
The Tasmania North Premier League is the highest level of association football competition in Northern Tasmania. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League and is controlled by the Football Federation Tasmania , the state's governing body...
in the years before World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. Tamar won the inaugural northern league in 1912, and went on to gather a further 6 prior to the war. Like many clubs that existed before the war, they failed to resume after the war ended. Like their northern pre-war rivals, Invermay
Invermay FC
Invermay Soccer club was a football club which represented the Launceston suburb of Invermay in the Northern Premier league. Although highly successful in the northern competition which they won 8 times, they were never quite able to convert that success to a statewide level...
, they failed to convert their northern dominance into state championships.
Honours
- State Championship Runners-up: 5 times (1921,1931,1932,1933,1934)
- Northern PremiershipsNorthern Premier League (Tasmania)The Tasmania North Premier League is the highest level of association football competition in Northern Tasmania. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League and is controlled by the Football Federation Tasmania , the state's governing body...
: 7 times (1912,1913,1921,1931,1932,1933,1934)