Kingborough Football Club

Kingborough Tigers Football Club
Tigers FC
Full name Kingborough Tigers Football Club or Tigers FC
Nickname Tigers
Sport Australian rules football
Founded 1886
First season 1895 (STFA), 1996 (SFL),
2014 (TSL)
League Tasmanian State League
Home ground Twin Ovals Complex
Colours Black and gold
Anthem "We're from Tigerland!"
President Steve Old[1]
Head coach Adam Henley[2]
2015 (TSL) 9th

The Kingborough Tigers Football Club (known officially as Tigers FC[3][4]) and nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club, based at Kingston, Tasmania that formerly competed in the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia[5] before progressing to representation in the statewide Tasmanian State Football League (TSL) in 2014.[6]

Club origins

The club was founded in 1886 as Kingston Football Club and joined the STFA in 1893 as a junior club before playing its first senior match in the competition on 4 May 1895, against North Hobart at the then STFA Ground, located on the present site of the Cornelian Bay hockey fields. After leaving that competition at the completion of 1907, the club joined the Channel Football Association for one season in 1908 before joining the Kingborough Football Association, where it remained a member from 1909 to 1966. After the horrific bushfires of Southern Tasmania in 1967, the club absorbed the Longley Football Club and joined the Huon Football Association where it remained a member until it left the Association at the completion of the 1995 season to join the newly formed Southern Football League in 1996.

The Tigers tasted immediate success in their new environment, making a Grand Final in their first season, suffering a narrow defeat to Channel and taking out a shock win in the 1997 Grand Final over Claremont.
After the SFL was split into two divisions from 2002–2008, the club was a member of the SFL Premier League where it competed amongst the Southern-based former clubs from the TFL.
In 2004 Kingston changed their name to Kingborough Tigers in order to broaden their appeal in the Kingborough region, their stint in the Premier League saw them moderately competitive, making the Elimination Final on a number of occasions but further success avoided them. After AFL Tasmania formed a new statewide competition to start in 2009, this one known as the Tasmanian State League, all teams from the SFL Premier League, with the exception of Kingborough and New Norfolk were invited to join.

Kingborough Football Club were knocked back by the sport's governing body due to their poor standard longtime home ground, Kingston Beach Oval (also known as "The Pit"). In 2011 the club moved into its brand new home at Huntingfield near Kingston, known as the Twin Ovals Complex which has strengthened its case for future inclusion in the Tasmanian State League, the club has been earmarked as a possible merger candidate with the Hobart Football Club by AFL Tasmania which has been met with considerable opposition from both clubs. On September 17, 2011, the Tigers broke through for their first premiership title in fourteen years with an upset victory over the previously undefeated New Norfolk in the SFL Grand Final by 49-points. Ahead ot the 2014 season, Kingborough were granted a licence to compete in the State League.[7] Adam Henley is the coach of the side in 2014.[8]

Club colours

The Kingston/Kingborough Football Club has worn a variety of differently playing colours throughout its history. In 1893 the club wore rose, primrose and black before changing to scarlet and dark blue the following year. In 1909 the club wore blue and white in its first season in the Kingborough Football Association before adopting a green and white uniform in 1910 which it was to wear until 1920 when it adopted red and black and then black and white before settling on the current black and gold colours it wears today.

History

Premiership titles

Tasmanian State League Premierships (2014–present)

Kingborough Football Association premierships

Huon Football Association premierships

Southern Football League premierships

Tasmanian State Premierships

State League results

Season Win-Loss Finishing position Captain(s) Club Best & Fairest Leading goalkicker
2014 0-18 10th Brad Symmons[9] Tim Peterson Luke Graham 17
2015 4-14 9th - Mackenzie Willis Christopher Nield 15

Individual medal winners

William Leitch Medal winners

Hodgman Medal winners

Ivan Short Medal winners

Tony Martyn Medal winners

Competition leading goalkickers

Huon Football Association leading goalkickers

SFL leading goalkickers

Club records

Club record score

Most goals in match

Most goals in a season

Club record games holder

Club record match attendance

References

External links

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