All 18 AFL club presidents agreed to grant Tasmania a team licence which awaits final ratification by the commission
New stadium funding criticised amid housing and health crisisTasmania will be granted the 19th AFL team licence after being unanimously endorsed by the existing 18 clubs. The presidents reportedly took less than 20 minutes on Tuesday to reach complete agreement over the decision to add a Tasmanian team to the competition.
, said the Tasmanian team would be a priority for him and McLachlan, who will stay for a transition period until October.“It’s a really exciting time and there’s some key decisions probably to be had in the next potentially day or coming days and coming weeks about Tasmania,” Dillon said on Monday. “But all the building blocks are in place and we’re really looking forward.”
Dillon said the league was buoyed up by Saturday’s announcement of federal government funding for a new waterfront stadium in Hobart. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, pledged $240m for a stadium at Macquarie Point, but was confronted by protesters arguing for the money to be spent on health and housing.
Tasmania will be the first expansion team since Greater Western Sydney were awarded a licence in 2010 and entered the AFL in 2012. With the new Hobart stadium to be the expansion club’s home, attention would next turn to the logistics around the team entering the league, along with its proposed name and colours.
Dillon has indicated Tasmanians will be involved in choosing their team’s nickname. Tigers is out of the question but Devils would be an obvious choice, and is the name of other football clubs in the state. But there are suggestions the AFL would have to negotiate with Warner Bros which owns a trademark over its Looney Tunes character.
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