The NWFA was the senior football body on the coast until a break away group of teams formed the NWFU in 1910.

The NWFA was then looked upon as a junior competition feeding the NWFU and later the TFL Statewide League until their demise and later the NTFL teams.

Clubs such as Burnie Tigers, Cooee, Penguin, Mole Creek, Wilmot, Barrington, Don, East Devonport, Moriarty, Sassafras, Melrose and Gowrie Park are among many to have played in the NWFA.

[2] Upon its resumption after World War II, the NWFA returned to playing under the traditional rules.

(1933-40) Folded after 1939 season List of NWFA Seniors Premiership teams.