The King Island Football Association (KIFA) is an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 competition held in Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Three clubs from small communities on King Island

King Island, Tasmania

King Island is one of the islands that make up the state of Tasmania, Australia. It is located in the Roaring Forties of Bass Strait, off the north-western tip of the main island of Tasmania, about half way between Tasmania and the mainland state of Victoria. The southernmost point is called Stokes...

  compete for the premiership every year.

History

The formation of the competition was in 1908.

One of Australia's most isolated, and almost certainly its smallest football league, the three teams play ten games each in a fifteen round competition plus finals.

Current Clubs

Jumper	Club	Nickname
	North	Bulldogs
	Grassy Grassy, Tasmania Grassy, Tasmania, Australia is nearly a ghost town on King Island in the Australian state of Tasmania. The highest population census in Grassy was at 767 people, in 1971. At the 2006 census, Grassy had a population of 219....	Hawks
	Currie Currie, Tasmania Currie is the largest township on King Island, Tasmania, at the western entrance to Bass Strait. At the 2006 census, Currie had a population of 746.-Geography:...	Robins

Published books

• Australian rules football in Tasmania , John Stoward, 2002 ,ISBN 0957751575
• Beyond the Big Sticks, Paul Daffey, 2003, ISBN 0734404980