 The record crowd for an Australian rules game in Hobart was 24,968 for the 1979 TANFL Grand Final at North Hobart Oval.In August 2019 a Tasmanian Parliamentary Committee heard from the Tasmanian Football Board regarding a new purpose built stadium at Macquarie Point as part of a bid for an AFL team.Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania housing nearly 90,000 people which is comparable in population to the Federal Division of Fremantle.