The team, consisting of five father-daughter combos, a brother and sister duo and niece and uncle, will take on East Launceston for the first youth girls grand final on Sunday.

“They (the girls) grew up watching their dads play and now they can actually play,” Evandale operations manager Michael Rigby said. 

“There’s a lot of joking when the brothers and sisters are playing that ‘I’m better than you’, but nothing is ever serious… there is always competition to see who can get the best players.”

The connections are made up of current players, locals who played at the club 30 years ago, six-time premiership players and a current NTFA board member.   

“Who would have thought 10 years ago there would have been a pathway for girls to play footy.

“Full credit to the NTJFA and its clubs for embracing youth girls football and giving them a competition to play in.”

Having a youth team has brought former players back to the club to watch their daughters play.

“Not only does it give the girls an opportunity to play, it brings people back to the footy,” Rigby said.

“You’ve got your junior girls and their families who probably wouldn’t have ever come to the footy before.

The youth team has ‘massive benefits’ for the club.  

“You get more members in your club and it just grows bigger and bigger,” Rigby said.

The youth girls grand final starts at 2.25pm at Aurora Stadium.