High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Association football in Tasmania (known locally as "soccer" but officially as "football") describes the sport of Association football being played and watched by people in the state of Tasmania in Australia. The governing body for the sport is Football Federation Tasmania is a member of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) which controls the sport at a national level. Association football is growing in popularity in terms of participation (particularly among youth). According to the Australian Bureau of Statistic, Association football is the highest participation sport amongst Tasmanian children aged 5 14 years (17.5%), attracting 23.7% males and 10.9% females. The sport in Tasmania receives a large amount of federal government funding. Soccer is also growing as a spectator sport. However it Australian rules football is the dominant code of football in the state in terms of both media coverage and attendance, despite overtaking Australian rules in overall participation during the 2000s.