Tasmania Devils Football Club<\/a>,” the AFL’s statement read.<\/p>\n“Since the announcement of the club on May 3, 2023, the Devils have made great progress, ticking off milestones along the journey, and pleasingly today, through parliament, the Tasmanian people have spoken.<\/p>\n
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Tassie Devils\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n
“Along the journey so far, more than 210,000 members have signed up and pledged their support, the club launched its colours and name, and were granted entry into the VFL and VFLW competitions, and now a new roofed stadium at Macquarie Point has been endorsed and approved by the Tasmanian government and work can progress on getting it built and delivered for all Tasmanians.<\/p>\n
“This is an incredibly important outcome for everyone who has worked tirelessly to see a Tasmanian footy club compete on the national stage, and for the hundreds of thousands of Tasmanians who have stood behind the Devils with such passion.<\/p>\n
“Creating a new AFL\/AFLW club from scratch is no small task, there is much still to be done by the Club to be ready for 2028. However, given the progress to date we could not be more confident that the Devils will make an immediate impact.<\/p>\n
“On behalf of the AFL and the 18 clubs we will continue to do all we can to support the establishment of the Devils and our newest club in the proud footy state of Tasmania.”<\/p>\n
The AFL maintained that if the stadium wasn’t built, the Tassie Devils would not come to be.<\/p>\n
We will now never find out if any percentage of that was a bluff to get their shiny new stadium.<\/p>\n
The venue will also hold cricket in the summer, with the state government and Cricket Australia coming to an agreement on using the venue for international cricket. <\/p>\n
AFL chief Andrew Dillon will speak on Friday morning in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official vote to confirm that Tasmania will build the Macquarie Point stadium in Hobart has gone through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-332600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}