North Launceston Football Club

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The North Launceston Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club based in Launceston, Tasmania. Australia. Since 2009 they have played in the newly formed Tasmanian State League.

History

The club started as "Railway Football Club" in 1893 and were known as "Essendon" in the 1898 season. It fielded a team in the NTFA Junior Competition for three years, and began playing in the senior competition in 1896.^[1]

Its first season under the North Launceston name was in 1899 when it played in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association.

The club has remained in the top tier of state competition ever since, playing in the Tasmanian Football League and Northern Tasmanian Football League upon the competition restructures in the state. The club won the Tasmanian State Premiership in 1905 and 1906 (both unofficial), 1947, 1949, 1950, 1995 and 1998.

The club accepted an invitation to join the new Tasmanian State League that commenced in 2009. Since 2014, the club has been a dominant force in the league, reaching every Grand Final between 2014 and 2021 for five premierships: 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.^[1]

Honours

• Tasmanian Football League (7): 1995, 1998,^{[note 1]} 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Tasmanian State Premiership (3): 1947, 1949, 1950

Notes

Senior coaches

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Coach	Years	Competition	Premierships
Bill Adams	1930	NTFA
Alan Scott	1931–1932	NTFA	1931
H. Cunningham	1933–1935	NTFA
P. W. Snowball	1936	NTFA
Gordon Strang	1937	NTFA
F. Barnes	1938	NTFA
Cecil Pettiona	1939–1940	NTFA
Joe Sankey	1941	NTFA
Gavin Luttrell	1945–1951	NTFA	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
Doug Williams	1952	NTFA
John Leedham	1953	NTFA
Jack Hawksley	1954	NTFA
Raynor Summers	1955	NTFA
Jim Ross	1955–1957	NTFA
Raynor Summers	1958	NTFA
Jack Hawksley	1959	NTFA
Bob Withers	1960–1967	NTFA	1961, 1963
Trevor Somerville	1968	NTFA
Kevin McLean	1969–1971	NTFA
Tony Haenen	1972–1974	NTFA
Peter Daniel	1975–1982	NTFA	1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
Tony Young	1983–1987	NTFA, TFL Statewide	1983
Steve Goulding	1988–1992	TFL Statewide
David Rhys-Jones	1993–1995	TFL Statewide	1995
Wes Lewis	1996–1997	TFL Statewide
Matthew Armstrong	1998	TFL Statewide	1998
Rod Hill	1999	TSFL
Garry McIntosh	2000–2001	SWL, NTFL
Rod Keogh	2002–2006	NTFL
Shane Wager	2007	NTFL
Chris Whitford	2008–2009	NTFL, TSL
Paul Atkins	2010	TSL
Jeff Dunne	2011	TSL
Zane Littlejohn	2012–2016	TSL	2014, 2015
Tom Couch	2017	TSL	2017
Taylor Whitford	2018-2020	TSL	2018, 2019
Brad Cox-Goodyer	2021-	TSL

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