| Kingborough Tigers | ||
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| Names | ||
| Full name | Kingborough Tigers Football Club | |
| Nickname | Tigers | |
| Club song | "We're from Tigerland!" | |
| TSL 2024 season | ||
| After finals | 4th | |
| Home-and-away season | 4th | |
| Leading goalkicker | Tyler Carter (41) | |
| Best and fairest | Kieran Lovell | |
| Club details | ||
| Founded | 1886; 139 years ago (1886) First season: 1895 (STFA) 1996 (SFL) 2014 (TSL) 2025 (SFL Premier League) | |
| Colours | ||
| Competition | SFL Premier League | |
| President | Dan Wylie | |
| Coach | Trent Baumeler (TSL) Jodie Mather (SFLW) | |
| Captain(s) | Lachie Clifford (TSL) Hailee Baldwin (SFLW) | |
| Ground | Kingston Twin Ovals (capacity: 7,000[1]) | |
| Former ground | Kingston Beach Oval | |
| Uniforms | ||
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| Other information | ||
| Official website | tigersfc.net.au | |
Kingborough Tigers Football Club[2] is anAustralian rules football club currently playing in theSFL Premier League InTasmania, Australia.
The club was founded in 1886 asKingston Football Club and joined theSouthern Tasmanian Football Association in 1893 as a junior club before playing its first senior match in the competition on 4 May 1895, againstNorth Hobart at the then STFA Ground, located on the present site of the Cornelian Bay hockey fields. After leaving that competition at the completion of 1907, the club joined the Channel Football Association for one season in 1908 before joining the Kingborough Football Association, where it remained a member from 1909 to 1966. After thehorrific bushfires of Southern Tasmania in 1967, the club absorbed the Longley Football Club and joined the Huon Football Association where it remained a member until it left the Association at the completion of the 1995 season to join the newly formedSouthern Football League in 1996.
The Tigers tasted immediate success in their new environment, making a Grand Final in their first season, suffering a narrow defeat to Channel and taking out a shock win in the 1997 Grand Final overClaremont. After the SFL was split into two divisions from 2002–2008, the club was a member of the SFL Premier League where it competed amongst the Southern-based former clubs from theTFL.
In 2004 Kingston changed their name to Kingborough Tigers in order to broaden their appeal in the Kingborough region; their stint in the Premier League saw them moderately competitive, making the Elimination Final on a number of occasions but further success avoided them. AfterAFL Tasmania formed a new statewide competition to start in 2009, this one known as the Tasmanian State League, all teams from the SFL Premier League, with the exception of Kingborough and New Norfolk were invited to join.
Kingborough were knocked back by the sport's governing body due to their poor standard longtime home ground, Kingston Beach Oval (also known as "The Pit"). In 2011 the club moved into its brand new home at Huntingfield near Kingston, known as the Twin Ovals Complex which strengthened its case for future inclusion in the Tasmanian State League, the club had been earmarked as a possible merger candidate with theHobart Football Club byAFL Tasmania which was met with considerable opposition from both clubs. On September 17, 2011, the Tigers broke through for their first premiership title in fourteen years with an upset victory over the previously undefeatedNew Norfolk in the SFL Grand Final by 49 points.
Ahead of the 2014 season, Kingborough were granted a licence to compete in the State League.[3] Adam Henley coached the side in 2014.[4] Kingborough competed simply as theTigers orTigers FC in the TSL from 2014–2021. A year after returning to their Kingborough name, the club won their first TSL premiership in 2023.
The Kingston/Kingborough Football Club has worn a variety of differently playing colours throughout its history. In 1893 the club wore rose, primrose and black before changing to scarlet and dark blue the following year. In 1909 the club wore blue and white in its first season in the Kingborough Football Association before adopting a green and white uniform in 1910 which it was to wear until 1920 when it adopted red and black and then black and white before settling in 1946 on the current black and gold colours it wears today.
STFA (1893–1907)
Channel FA (1908)
Kingborough FA (1909–1966)
Huon FA (1967–1995)
SFL (1996–2013)
TSL (2014–2024)
SFL Premier League (2025-present)
| Season | Win–loss | Finishing position | Captain | Club Best & Fairest | Leading goalkicker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0-18 | 10th | Tim Peterson | Tim Peterson | Luke Graham 17 |
| 2015 | 4-14 | 9th | Tim Peterson | Mackenzie Willis | Christopher Nield 15 |
| 2016 | 2-16 | 9th | Tim Peterson | Will Cleeland | Brandon Batchelor 29 |
| 2017 | 4-14 | 7th | Tim Peterson | Mitchell Carter | Brandon Batchelor 23 |
| 2018 | 3-15 | 6th | Sam Rice | Mitchell Carter | Luke Graham 29 |
| 2019 | 6-12 | 5th | Sam Rice | Kieran Lovell | Tyler Carter & Michael Paul 27 |
| 2020 | 4-8 | 5th | Sam Rice | Kieran Lovell | Tyler Carter 21 |
