A 12-round 2020 season will begin this weekend - nearly four months later than first planned - after surviving some shaky moments through the height of Tasmania's coronavirus period.

The foregoing of player payments headlined a raft of compromises required to get the season off the ground - an achievement Kennedy labelled "really important".

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"The seven clubs did an outstanding job really driving to get not just a season, but a meaningful season where we play each other twice - it's a real credit to those clubs," Kennedy said.

"There's such great history in the TSL, you look at the clubs - six of the seven clubs are more than 100 years old and the other one is 72 years old.

"There's great history in the rivalries, from a Glenorchy point of view games against North Hobart, Clarence, North Launceston go back a long time.

"So to me this season is really meaningful and really important because the seven teams dug in and made sure there was a season so those old rivalries are going to continue and we all get the opportunity to try and knock North Launny off the perch."

Kennedy's Magpies will host Launceston in the first game of the season at 1pm on Saturday.

The Blues kept Glenorchy to just four goals in a rain-hit 60-point semi-final win last season and Kennedy said the result had stuck in his players' minds over the off-season.

"We're pretty happy we've got Launceston first," Kennedy said.

"They certainly did a great job on our home deck last year so we feel like we've got something to prove."

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