The 1979 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over twenty (20) roster rounds and four (4) finals series matches between 7 April and 22 September 1979. This was the centenary season of the Tasmanian Football League, the finals series was sponsored by the Winfield tobacco company to the tune of A$10,000. The Grand Final of this year set an all-time record football match attendance in Tasmania of 24,968 patrons, this was also a single-day sporting record attendance in the state of Tasmania for twenty five years until it was broken when a crowd of 30,150 attended Symmons Plains Raceway in Northern Tasmania for a V8 Supercar Championship event in 2004.

Participating Clubs

1979 TANFL Club Coaches

TANFL Reserves Grand Final

TANFL Under-19's Grand Final

TANFL Under-17's Grand Final

Interstate Matches

TFL Centenary Interstate Match (Monday, 18 June 1979) See: 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival Section One Qualifying Match (Thursday, 4 October 1979) Semi Final 1 (Saturday, 6 October 1979) 3rd Place Playoff (Monday, 8 October 1979)

Intrastate Matches

Jubilee Shield (Wednesday, 25 April 1979) Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 26 May 1979)

Leading Goalkickers: TANFL

Medal Winners

1979 TANFL Ladder

Round 1

(Saturday, 7 April 1979)

Round 2

(Saturday, 14 April & Monday, 16 April 1979)

Round 3

(Saturday, 21 April 1979)

Round 4

(Saturday, 28 April 1979)

Round 5

(Saturday, 5 May 1979)

Round 6

(Saturday, 12 May 1979)

Round 7

(Saturday, 19 May 1979)

Round 8

(Saturday, 26 May 1979)

Round 9

(Saturday, 2 June 1979)

Round 10

(Saturday, 9 June & Sunday, 10 June 1979)

Round 11

(Saturday, 23 June 1979)

Round 12

(Saturday, 30 June 1979) Note: Peter Hudson kicks all-time TANFL record of 18 goals in this match and kicks his 100th goal for the season.

Round 13

(Saturday, 7 July & Sunday, 8 July 1979)

Round 14

(Saturday, 14 July 1979)

Round 15

(Saturday, 21 July 1979)

Round 16

(Saturday, 28 July 1979)

Round 17

(Saturday, 4 August 1979)

Round 18

(Saturday, 11 August 1979) Note: Peter Hudson kicks second highest TANFL goal total of all-time (to that stage) with 16.4.

Round 19

(Saturday, 18 August 1979)

Round 20

(Saturday, 25 August 1979)

First Semi Final

(Saturday, 1 September 1979)

Second Semi Final

(Saturday, 8 September 1979)

Preliminary Final

(Saturday, 15 September 1979)

Grand Final

(Saturday, 22 September 1979)