The Old Scholars Football Association is an
Australian rules football competition in southern
Tasmania
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Australia.
The competition currently stages an eighteen-round roster season which is cut to a top four at the end of the roster series for a four match finals series played according to the
McIntyre system
The McIntyre System, or systems as there have been five of them, is a playoff system that gives an advantage to teams or competitors qualifying higher. The systems were developed by Ken McIntyre, an Australian lawyer, historian and English lect ...
, culminating in the grand final.
History
The former
Tasmanian Amateur Football League
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(Southern Division) known also as the Southern Amateurs split into two divisions at the start of the 1981 season, forming a District division and an Old Scholars division.
In 1987, the clubs in the TAFL (Old Scholars Division) broke away to form the Old Scholars Football Association.
With the admission of the Richmond Football Club in 2001 and Channel Football Club in 2009, the competition saw the loss of New Town Old Scholars in 1995 and The Friends' School Old Boys Football Club (formed in 1934) in the 2005 season.
Current OSFA clubs
Timeline
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pos:(320,350) fontsize:L text:Old Scholars Football Association Clubs
Premiership winners
Tasmanian Amateurs Old Scholars Division
*1981 – Hutchins'
*1982 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
*1983 – Hutchins'
*1984 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
*1985 – Tasmanian University
*1986 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
Old Scholars Football Assoc
*1987 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
*1988 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
*1989 – Friends'
*1990 – Friends'
*1991 – Friends'
*1992 – Tasmanian University
*1993 – Tasmanian University
*1994 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
*1995 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
*1996 – St Virgil's
*1997 – Friends'
*1998 – St Virgil's
*1999 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
*2000 – Hutchins'
*2001 – St Virgil's
*2002 – Hutchins'
*2003 – Hutchins'
*2004 – Richmond
*2005 – Richmond
*2006 – Hutchins'
*2007 – Hutchins'
*2008 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
*2009 – Richmond
*2010 – Hutchins'
*2011 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
*2012 – Hutchins'
*2013 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
*2014 – Hutchins'
*2015 – Richmond
*2016 – Tasmanian University
*2017 – Richmond
*2018 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
*2019 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
*2020 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
*2021 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
*2022 – Hutchins'
2016 Ladder
2017 Ladder
2018 Ladder
2019 Ladder
2020 Ladder
Notes
External links
Old Scholars Football Association websiteTasmanian University Football Club websiteOld Hobartians Association websiteOSFA Sporting Pulse page
{{Old Scholars Football Association
Australian rules football competitions in Tasmania
Sports leagues established in 1987