
President John McCann provides an overview of happenings in 2020, and looks ahead to 2021.
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The Glenorchy RSEA Magpies are delighted to welcome Darrean Wyatt to KGV.
Wyatt, a 203cm utility, started his senior football career as a Collingwood rookie, before playing in the VFL with Frankston and Coburg, where he was coached by Magpies mentor Paul Kennedy.
The Clarence Glenorchy and Launceston Football Clubs are strongly committed to maintaining high-level women's football in Tasmania.
Following AFL Tasmania's decision to cease operating the Tasmanian State League Women (TSLW), our three clubs are now investigating all options to maintain a high-level women's competition, both on an interim basis for 2021 and a sustainable long-term basis beyond.
Captain Josh Arnold has capped an incredible 2020 season by taking out his first Roy Cazaly Medal as Best & Fairest of the senior side.
Arnold started 2020 by being elevated to the position of co-captain, after six years as Brayden Webb's deputy, then produced a scintilating season across half-back to earn his first TSL Team of the Year selection.
That form was duly reflected in the club's Best & Fairest polling, with Arnold receiving votes in every game, and remarkably topping the voting six times in the 12-game season.
A long-time club contributor has been rewarded for a remarkably selfless 2020 with the prestigious Danny Ling Medal as the Glenorchy District Football Club's best clubman.
When the community called out for help during the initial stages of COVID, the club answered emphatically, and Leigh McAdam was an enormous part of that response.
Leigh stepped up to pack food hampers at Foodbank Tasmania, deliver food parcels for the West Moonah Community Centre and then added to his huge contributions by also doing food deliveries for the Migrant Resource Centre, who are located at KGV.
1878……New Town Football Club founded.
1879……New Town Football Club commenced competition in the newly formed Tasmanian Football Association.
1887……New Town amalgamated with Glenorchy Football Club to form the Victoria Football Club that played in a Junior competition.
1905……New Town had reformed under its original name to compete in the Southern Tasmanian Football Association until it became defunct in 1907.
1919……A group of enthusiastic football supporters came together in late 1918 to reform the New Town Football Club. The Club competed in a local junior competition during the early part of the 1919 season before joining the newly formed Southern Tasmanian Junior Football Association.
1921……New Town Football Club joined the senior competition, namely the Tasmanian Football League.
1942–1944……The Tasmanian Football League went into recess following the outbreak of the 2nd World War and resumed in 1945.
1945……The Tasmanian Football League resumed competition under the banner of a District Boundary system. Clubs in the competition adopted the word District to their respective names, hence the : New Town District Football Club.
1957……New Town changed its name to Glenorchy District Football Club and moved from its New Town oval to King George Fifth oval at Glenorchy.
1957……Glenorchy FC merged with New Town, forming the new Glenorchy District FC.
Read about the start of a new era
2014……Glenorchy esrblished a senior womens team to play in the Tasmanian Women's Football League
2017……Glenorchy women's team joined the Tasmania State League Womans's league.
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