A genuine desire to play football in 2020 was key to getting a TSL season over the line, according the league's two Northern coaches.
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Favoured as two of the top prospects for this season, Taylor Whitford's North Launceston and Mitch Thorp's Launceston will get their shot at silverware after all seven clubs made significant concessions to make way for a competition.
In a throwback to yesteryear, players will forego match payments over the course of a 12-week season in an effort to minimise the financial losses caused by crowd restrictions.
Thorp praised players, presidents and administrators for working to get a season going.
"It was a collaborative approach to work closely together and to play each other twice gives us a really credible season, something really worthwhile," he said.
"It shows how important this competition is to the clubs and its players - to want to do it and get it off the ground shows some real substance."
The outlook for Tasmanian football has been somewhat grim in recent weeks with the NTFA, ODFA and Darwin leagues all forced to call off their 2020 seasons.
The State League faced its fair share of question marks before a positive club presidents' meeting last month inspired confidence that a season would take place.
"I think it speaks volumes of what the competition is and how important it is to clubs and players and the stakeholders," Thorp said.
"We've seen competitions fall over left, right and centre and for us to work together, the presidents should be commended on the work they've done and I know the clubs and their players are really eager to hit the ground running.
"It'll be a really special year given the adversity everyone's faced in the first part and it could be something we reflect back on in years to come as a special season."
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The July 18 start date will give TSL, development league and TSLW clubs a launchpad of nearly six weeks before round one.
Much interest will surround the state's transition into stage three restrictions - currently slated for July 13 - when clubs will be permitted to engage in contact training.
The state moved into stage two restrictions 10 days earlier than expected and should that trend continue, clubs would have a two-week period to begin contact training before the season proper.
"It's going to be a little bit different," Whitford said of 2020.
"Obviously we haven't got the roster and training still looks different so everything's still a bit diverse to what it would normally be, but our players just want to play games and we've given them that opportunity which is great.
"The tough part for us is we're still in restriction mode - we can only have groups of 20 at training and it's still non-contact.
"We've really got to make sure we're strategic about our training and that our guys are getting what they need to get for a season."
- In The Examiner this week: TSLW clubs prepare for season 2020