Clarence Football Club

The Clarence Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Southern Football League, based in Bellerive, Tasmania. Before 1947, they existed as Bellerive Football Club.

The Club play their home games at Ninja Stadium (formerly Bellerive Oval And Blundstone Arena), Hobart's Test Cricket ground, they share the facilities with Tasmania's cricket team, the Tasmanian Tigers.

Clarence joined the Tasmanian Football League in 1947 on a two-year probationary period from the Southern District Football Association, later being granted permanent status on 7 August 1950, and continued to participate in the league until it was disbanded in December 2000.

They then joined the Southern Football League and participated until the end of the 2008 season whereby the club opted to join the newly reformed Tasmanian State League from 2009 and have won the first two premiership titles on offer since joining the competition and only in the 2015 season missed out on the finals.

After the news of the introduction of the Tasmania Devils, the Tasmanian State League disbanded after the 2024 season to focus on the VFL Program. Clarence would rejoin the Southern Football League at the beginning of the 2025 season. The Southern Football League Premier League featured the remaining southern-based Tasmanian State League teams, Glenorchy, Kingborough, Lauderdale and North Hobart. Brighton would also be promoted from the Southern Football League Regional League to create a 6 team competition.

Clarence entered the 2025 season widely regarded as underdogs. Shockingly the Roos would only lose 5 games and finish the season in second position. Clarence would face Lauderdale in the First Final, but would be narrowly defeated by 14 points, the closest they had come to beating the Bombers all season. In the Preliminary Final the Roos would face another youthful team in North Hobart, they would defeat them by 34 points lead by an inspiring performance from vice captain Oscar Paprotny. Resulting in the Roos first Grand Final appearance in 15 years. They would face Lauderdale, a team they had not beaten all season and many considered the overwhelming favourite. Clarence however would defeat Lauderdale by 39 points, claiming their first premiership since 2010.

William Leitch Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL senior football)

Tassie Medallists (Best and fairest player – TSL senior football from 2009)