2000 SWL season
The 2000 Football Tasmania SWL premiership season was an Australian rules football competition, staged across Tasmania, Australia over seventeen roster rounds and four finals series matches between 24 March and 9 September 2000.
This was the fifteenth and final season of statewide football and was the third separate statewide competition in three years after the TSFL was abandoned in favour of starting up a new statewide league known simply as the SWL which detailed six clubs from the six highest populated cities across Tasmania.
The SWL was sponsored to the tune of A$750,000 under a funding agreement with the Australian Football League which was overseen and managed by the sport's governing body in the state to control.
Shortly after the season had been completed, Burnie Dockers announced that they would be leaving the competition to rejoin the NTFL in 2001, a short time later both Northern Bombers and Devonport followed suit leaving an unsustainable three club statewide competition, with Football Tasmania also under considerable pressure from both the Hobart City Council over possible legal action against them for breaking a contract by moving the Grand Final away from North Hobart Oval to York Park this season and looming legal threats by the remaining SWL clubs over a restraint of trade, the statewide competition was abandoned by Football Tasmania in January 2001, the remaining clubs resumed playing league matches in their regional areas in both the SFL and the NTFL until the end of the 2008 season.
Participating Clubs
- Burnie Dockers Football Club
- Clarence District Football Club
- Devonport Power Football Club
- Glenorchy District Football Club
- Hobart Demons Football Club
- Northern Bombers Football Club
2000 SWL Club Coaches
- Mick McGuane
- Grant Fagan
- Dale Perry
- Shayne Stevenson
- Darren Trevena
- Garry McIntosh
SWL Under-21s Grand Final
- Clarence 9.13 v Northern Bombers 8.14 – York Park
SWL Under-18s Grand Final
- Glenorchy 13.9 v Hobart Demons 4.3 – York Park
Leading Goalkickers: SWL
- Scott Allen – 80
Medal Winners
- Nathan Howard – William Leitch Medal
- Scott Allen – Darrel Baldock Medal
- Justin Cotton & Heath Fox – George Watt Medal
- Jamie Walker – V.A Geard Medal
Intrastate Matches
- South 16.13 v North 9.9 – Att: 2,302 at York Park
2000 SWL Ladder
Round 1
- Hobart Demons 5.12 v Clarence 3.13 – Att: 1,628 at North Hobart Oval
- Northern Bombers 17.10 v Glenorchy 13.18 – Att: 1,343 at KGV Football Park
- Burnie Dockers 14.20 v Devonport 1.4 – Att: 1,930 at West Park Oval
Round 2
- Northern Bombers 21.10 v Hobart Demons 7.10 – Att: 929 at North Hobart Oval
- Clarence 15.13 v Burnie Dockers 12.5 – Att: 1,067 at Bellerive Oval
- Glenorchy 28.19 v Devonport 5.6 – Att: 636 at Devonport Oval
Round 3
- Clarence 20.10 v Glenorchy 14.15 – Att: 1,418 at Bellerive Oval
- Burnie Dockers 13.7 v Hobart Demons 5.13 – Att: 1,215 at West Park Oval
- Northern Bombers 19.22 v Devonport 2.4 – Att: 804 at Devonport Oval
Round 4
- Clarence 21.13 v Hobart Demons 7.8 – Att: 1,056 at North Hobart Oval
- Northern Bombers 10.12 v Glenorchy 6.4 – Att: 1,184 at KGV Football Park
- Burnie Dockers 22.17 v Devonport 4.12 – Att: 1,035 at West Park Oval
Round 5
- Hobart Demons 23.10 v Devonport 8.9 – Att: 633 at North Hobart Oval
- Burnie Dockers 13.12 v Glenorchy 9.12 – Att: 869 at KGV Football Park
- Clarence 19.12 v Northern Bombers 8.15 – Att: 1,406 at Bellerive Oval
Round 6
- Glenorchy 15.17 v Hobart Demons 8.6 – Att: 1,274 at KGV Football Park
- Clarence 17.14 v Devonport 6.3 – Att: 614 at Devonport Oval
- Northern Bombers 11.11 v Burnie Dockers 5.14 – Att: 1,010 at West Park Oval
Round 7
- Hobart Demons 20.12 v Burnie Dockers 13.6 – Att: 703 at North Hobart Oval
- Glenorchy 13.20 v Devonport 5.11 – Att: 675 at Devonport Oval
- Northern Bombers 14.14 v Clarence 13.7 – Att: 3,417 at York Park
Round 8
- Clarence 18.18 v Hobart Demons 9.10 – Att: 1,053 at Bellerive Oval
- Northern Bombers 18.10 v Glenorchy 10.10 – Att: 1,108 at York Park
- Burnie Dockers 15.16 v Devonport 4.9 – Att: 1,026 at Devonport Oval *
Round 9
- Hobart Demons 15.11 v Glenorchy 14.7 – Att: 985 at KGV Football Park
- Northern Bombers 18.15 v Devonport 10.7 – Att: 521 at Devonport Oval
- Burnie Dockers 14.15 v Clarence 5.14 – Att: 1,075 at West Park Oval
Round 10
- Clarence 15.15 v Glenorchy 9.9 – Att: 1,139 at Bellerive Oval
- Northern Bombers 14.20 v Burnie Dockers 4.8 – Att: 1,169 at York Park
- Hobart Demons 22.13 v Devonport 8.10 – Att: 641 at Devonport Oval
Round 11
- Hobart Demons 9.24 v Glenorchy 10.10 – Att: 892 at North Hobart Oval
- Clarence 34.9 v Devonport 7.8 – Att: 613 at Bellerive Oval
- Northern Bombers 12.15 v Burnie Dockers 6.11 – Att: 1,039 at West Park Oval
Round 12
- Clarence 21.19 v Glenorchy 5.13 – Att: 998 at KGV Football Park
- Northern Bombers 20.17 v Hobart Demons 6.9 – Att: 854 at York Park
- Burnie Dockers 23.14 v Devonport 6.4 – Att: 766 at Devonport Oval
Round 13
- Hobart Demons 17.15 v Devonport 10.5 – Att: 515 at North Hobart Oval
- Northern Bombers 15.9 v Clarence 11.7 – Att: 1,039 at York Park
- Burnie Dockers 25.15 v Glenorchy 7.8 – Att: 774 at West Park Oval
Round 14
- Glenorchy 24.16 v Devonport 5.6 – Att: 904 at KGV Football Park
- Burnie Dockers 17.11 v Hobart Demons 8.13 – Att: 562 at North Hobart Oval
- Clarence 12.8 v Northern Bombers 6.10 – Att: 5,625 at York Park *
Round 15
- Glenorchy 12.18 v Hobart Demons 11.5 – Att: 1,002 at North Hobart Oval
- Clarence 21.9 v Burnie Dockers 7.8 – Att: 1,205 at West Park Oval
- Northern Bombers 29.14 v Devonport 6.10 – Att: 1,552 at York Park
Round 16
- Clarence 32.17 v Hobart Demons 3.8 – Att: 1,210 at Bellerive Oval
- Burnie Dockers 15.12 v Devonport 6.6 – Att: 809 at West Park Oval
- Northern Bombers 17.10 v Glenorchy 10.15 – Att: 2,210 at York Park
Round 17
- Clarence 17.14 v Glenorchy 8.6 – Att: 876 at KGV Football Park
- Hobart Demons 15.14 v Devonport 6.12 – Att: 459 at Devonport Oval
- Northern Bombers 14.11 v Burnie Dockers 7.5 – Att: 3,165 at York Park
First Semi Final
- Hobart Demons: 1.3 | 6.7 | 9.8 | 17.9
- Burnie Dockers: 6.4 | 7.6 | 10.7 | 11.9
- Attendance: 1,037 at West Park Oval
Second Semi Final
- Clarence Roos: 4.1 | 10.5 | 17.10 | 21.10
- Northern Bombers: 3.3 | 5.6 | 9.7 | 14.10
- Attendance: 3,669 at York Park
Preliminary Final
- Northern Bombers: 3.7 | 8.8 | 14.12 | 21.17
- Hobart Demons: 4.1 | 8.2 | 10.2 | 11.2
- Attendance: 1,580 at North Hobart Oval
Grand Final
- Clarence Roos: 4.0 | 6.6 | 8.13 | 15.15
- Northern Bombers: 1.4 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 8.8
- Attendance: 6,124 at York Park