The Tassie Mariners is an under-18

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

club representing the state of

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

. They currently play in the AFL Under 18 Championships and also played in the Victorian statewide under-18s competition (then known as the

TAC Cup The Talent League (also known as the Coates Talent League under naming rights and previously as the NAB League and TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition based in Melbourne and run by the Australian Foot ...

) from 1995 until 2016. In the late 2000’s the Tassie Mariners had returned to the boys competition as an "academy team" before graduating to full-time status as the Tasmania Devils in the

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. The girls team began competing as an "academy team" in 2019 before becoming a full-time team in the 2021 season.

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