The Longford Football Club 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...

 club based in Longford, Tasmania

Longford, Tasmania

Longford is a town in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 175 m above sea level at the convergence of the Macquarie River and the South Esk River, 21 km south of Launceston. It is just south of the Illawarra Road, a road connecting the Bass and Midland Highways. It has a...

 which currently compete in the modern Northern Tasmanian Football Association. From 1926 until 1986 they had played in the original Northern Tasmanian Football Association

Northern Tasmanian Football Association (1886 - 1986)

The Northern Tasmanian Football Association was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1886 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and North West Football Union representing the rest of the state...

. Formed in 1878, Longford are nicknamed the Tigers and wear black and gold as their club colours.

History

Longford has their strongest decade in the 1950s when they claimed three NTFA premierships, including their breakthrough triumph in 1955. They had previously never won the competition but had been runners-up in 1931, 1940 and 1953. In 1959 the club attempted to win their third premiership in a row but lost the Grand Final to City-South

South Launceston Football Club

The South Launceston Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Tasmanian Football League. They were formed through a merger between City-South and East Launceston in 1986, former Northern Tasmanian Football Association clubs...

.

The Tigers were Tasmanian State Premiers

Tasmanian State Premiership

The Tasmanian State Premiership was an Australian rules football tournament which was competed originally between the reigning TFL/TANFL and NTFA premiers, with the NWFU joining in from 1954....

 in 1957. After accounting for premierships of the NWFU Ulverstone, Longford defeated North Hobart by 21 points in the decider at York Park.

Premierships

NTFA premierships


Original (3)

• 1955
• 1957–58

Current (1)

• 1989

Tasmanian State Premierships (1)

• 1957

Medalists

Tasman Shields Trophy winners

• Len Gaffney 1926, 1927
• Leo Wescott
  Leo Wescott
  Henry 'Leo' Wescott was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL.Wescott was a back pocket specialist and started his career at Collingwood in 1922...
  
   1930
• Lloyd Bennett
  Lloyd Bennett
  R. G. W. "Lloyd" Bennett was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....
  
   1940
• Terry Cashion
  Terry Cashion
  Terry Cashion was an Australian rules footballer from Tasmania.Cashion played five VFL games for South Melbourne in 1942 while stationed in Victoria with the army and would have played more had it not been for a knee injury....
  
   1948, 1950, 1951
• Charlie Dennis 1955
• John Fitzallen 1957
• Nigel Wilson 1965

Hec Smith Memorial Medalists

• Barry Lawrence
  Barry Lawrence
  Barry K. Lawrence is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. He played for St Kilda.Barry played as a forward for Longford in Tasmania, he had once signed the play with Hawthorn in 1967 but he decided to stay in Tasmania for two more years before jioning St Kilda. he...
  
   1966
• John Davis 1970
• David Berne 1974

Team of the Century

In September 2001, the Longford named an official 'Team of the Century'.