The 2014 Southern Football League (SFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged across Southern Tasmania, Australia, over eighteen roster rounds and six finals series matches between 11 April and 13 September 2014.
The competition's major sponsor for the season was Worksafe Tasmania, Boag's Draught and Telstra.
From this season the Hobart Football Club, who had previously participated in the league from 1998-2008 rejoined the SFL after five seasons of participation in the Tasmanian State League. With AFL Tasmania's decision to issue only one licence for a club to participate in the TSL from inner-city Hobart from 2014 onwards, the sport's governing body attempted to force a merger of Hobart and North Hobart Football Clubs to participate as Hobart City in the TSL. Hobart Football Club's members voted against the proposal in favour of rejoining the SFL and were duly accepted back into the competition. North Hobart also attempted to seek a return to the league but were advised that they would be unlikely to be accepted. As a prerequisite of rejoining the SFL, Hobart were banned from seeking the recruitment of other players within the league for a period of twelve months, with almost their entire senior list seeking to remain playing at state league level, the Tigers had only two players on the training track in the pre-season and after a crisis meeting in which the club was only two days away from going out of business, Hobart were able to garner enough players in order to field a senior and reserve grade side for the season.
Participating Clubs
Brighton Football Club
Claremont Football Club
Cygnet Football Club
Dodges Ferry Football Club
East Coast Bombers Football Club
Hobart Football Club
Huonville Lions Football Club
Lindisfarne Football Club
New Norfolk District Football Club
Sorell Football Club
2014 SFL Club Coaches
Jamie Ling (Brighton) Kim Excell (Claremont) Matt Tyrrell (Cygnet) Brad Curran (Dodges Ferry) Brett Copping (East Coast) Steve Woods (Hobart) Sam Chivers (Huonville Lions) Adrian Goodwin (Lindisfarne) Jon Murray (New Norfolk) David Lewis (Sorell)
2014 SFL Leading Goalkickers
Josh Hall (New Norfolk) – 112
David Hunt (Claremont) – 72
Zeke Gardam (New Norfolk) – 65
Caden Wilson (New Norfolk) – 63
Nathan Brown (Claremont) – 58
Michael Thompson (New Norfolk) – 54
SFL Reserves Leading Goalkicker
Kris Cashion (New Norfolk) – 98
SFL Under-18s Leading Goalkicker
Jye County (New Norfolk) – 52
2014 Medal Winners
Caden Wilson (New Norfolk) – William Leitch Medal (Seniors) Matthew Tringrove (Lindisfarne) – George Watt Medal (Reserves) Jake Foster (New Norfolk) – Lipscombe Medal (Under-18s) Nathan Ross (New Norfolk) – Gorringe-Martyn Medal (Best Player in SFL Grand Final)
SFL Reserves Grand Final
New Norfolk 11.9 (75) d Claremont 10.5 (65) at KGV Football Park
SFL Under-18's Grand Final
Dodges Ferry 11.4 (70) d New Norfolk 9.11 (65) at KGV Football Park
2014 SFL Ladder
Round 1
(Friday, 11 & Saturday, 12 April 2014) Lindisfarne 20.15 (135) d Hobart 5.12 (42) at TCA Ground (Night).* Sorell 16.11 (107) d Cygnet 12.4 (76) at Cygnet Oval. East Coast 19.10 (124) d Brighton 9.10 (64) at Pontville Oval. Dodges Ferry 14.7 (91) d Huonville Lions 12.13 (85) at Huonville Recreation Ground. Claremont 15.12 (102) d New Norfolk 9.8 (62) at Abbotsfield Park (Night).* Notes: Lindisfarne's home fixture against Hobart was switched to the TCA Ground and played on the Friday evening due to Anzac Park being made unavailable by Clarence City Council two days prior to the match. Claremont's home fixture against New Norfolk was played on the Saturday evening under lights for the first time.
Round 2
(Friday, 18 & Saturday, 19 April 2014) Hobart 14.20 (104) d Cygnet 10.11 (71) at TCA Ground (Good Friday). Claremont 15.17 (107) d Brighton 10.5 (65) at Pontville Oval (Good Friday). New Norfolk 29.17 (191) d Huonville Lions 6.8 (44) at Huonville Recreation Ground (Good Friday). Dodges Ferry 11.18 (84) d Sorell 7.10 (52) at Shark Park. East Coast 15.15 (105) d Lindisfarne 11.11 (77) at Triabunna Recreation Ground.