The Northern Championship is an association football (soccer) league in Northern
Tasmania
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. Nationally it sits under the
A-League
A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...
and
NPL Tasmania, equal to the
Southern Championship
The Southern Championship is an association football league in Southern Tasmania. It is jointly with the Northern Championship, the second highest level soccer competition in Tasmania. Nationally, it sits below the A-League and NPL Tasmania. ...
. It is controlled by the
Football Federation Tasmania
Football Tasmania (FT) is the governing body for soccer in the Australian state of Tasmania. The federation oversees competitions across Tasmania, Tasmanian representative teams, and development of the sport in the state. The federation was kno ...
(FFT), the state's governing body.
Prior to the 2015 season it was known as the Northern Premier League and for sponsorship reasons as the Forestry Tasmania Northern Premier League. Between 2001 and 2012 the Southern and Northern Premier Leagues were the state's highest level of soccer competition. In this period the top four teams from the Northern Premier League and the top four teams from the Southern Premier League play-off in a knock-out final series to decide the state champion. This system came into existence in 2009 and replaced the previous system whereby the Northern and Southern champions played off. The Northern Championship is determined by the team finishing top of the ladder being named league champion, in contrast to many Australian competitions which use a finals series.
There is no promotion or relegation in the Northern Championship.
2020 Northern Championship clubs
Honours
External links
Football Federation Tasmania – official websiteWeltfussballarchivNorthern Premier League Unofficial Blog
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Soccer leagues in Tasmania
Recurring sporting events established in 1912
1912 establishments in Australia
Sports leagues established in 1912