The 2000 SWL season was the 116th season of the Statewide League (SWL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Tasmania. This was the first and only season under the SWL name, replacing the Tasmanian State Football League (TSL) name that had been used during the 1999 season. The season began on 24 March and concluded on 9 September, comprising an 17-match home-and-away season, followed by a four-week finals series. 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 (Football Tasmania) 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

2000 SWL Club Coaches

SWL Under-21s Grand Final

SWL Under-18s Grand Final

Leading Goalkickers: SWL

Medal Winners

Intrastate Matches

Intrastate Match (Saturday, 10 June 2000)

2000 SWL Ladder

Round 1

(Friday, 24 March & Saturday, 1 April 2000)

Round 2

(Saturday, 8 April 2000)

Round 3

(Saturday, 15 April & Sunday, 16 April 2000)

Round 4

(Saturday, 29 April & Sunday, 30 April 2000)

Round 5

(Saturday, 6 May & Sunday, 7 May 2000)

Round 6

(Saturday, 13 May & Sunday, 14 May 2000)

Round 7

(Saturday, 20 May & Sunday, 21 May 2000)

Round 8

(Saturday, 27 May & Sunday, 23 July 2000) Note: This match was moved forward to be played on 23 July on the weekend of Round 14 for unspecified reasons.

Round 9

(Saturday, 3 June 2000)

Round 10

(Saturday, 17 June 2000)

Round 11

(Saturday, 24 June 2000)

Round 12

(Saturday, 1 July 2000)

Round 13

(Saturday, 8 July 2000)

Round 14

(Saturday, 15 July, Sunday, 16 July & Saturday, 22 July 2000) Note: This match set the all-time Statewide League attendance record.

Round 15

(Saturday, 29 July & Sunday 30 July 2000)

Round 16

(Saturday, 5 August 2000)

Round 17

(Saturday, 12 August 2000)

First Semi Final

(Saturday, 19 August 2000)

Second Semi Final

(Saturday, 26 August 2000)

Preliminary Final

(Sunday, 2 September 2000)

Grand Final

(Sunday, 9 September 2000) Source: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury, Launceston Examiner and North West Advocate publications.