


So what would it look like? Source: FOX SPORTSĪnd again, that’s the optimistic view. Tasmania looks set to be handed the license for a 19th AFL club. Gold Coast and GWS led the way with $25 million each. This would place them in the same region as the smaller Victoria clubs, with North Melbourne and St Kilda receiving around $18-19 million last year. In the 2020 report tabled to Tasmanian Parliament, it was suggested the club would need “approximately $15-17 million from an AFL dividend”. Financial documents created by groups backing a bid for a new sporting franchise are always rosy, but even they have conceded the Tasmanian club will be one of the smaller ones in the AFL.
