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| Formerly | List
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|---|---|
| Sport | Australian rules football |
| Founded | 12 June 1879 |
| No. of teams | 7 |
| Headquarters | Hobart |
| Region |  Tasmania |
| Most recent champion(s) | North Launceston (8th premiership) |
| Most titles | North Hobart (27 premierships) |
| TV partner(s) | Southern Cross Seven |
| Official website | tasmanianstateleague.com.au |
The Tasmanian State League (TSL), colloquially known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL) (formerly known as the Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) and several other short-term names) was the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.
The league has a long and convoluted history which dates back to its founding on 12 June 1879 as the Tasmanian Football Association (giving it some claim to the title of the third oldest club football league in the world), but the name "TFL" (also the state's football governing body) was removed after it was liquidated with crushing debts in February 1999 and replaced by an independent commission (Football Tasmania) and the competition was renamed the Tasmanian State Football League (1999) and the SWL (2000) until the number of clubs in financial difficulty made the league unsustainable and it collapsed in December 2000. After long negotiations and discussions it was reinstated as a ten club competition in 2009.