1893 SAFA season

The 1893 South Australian Football Association season was the 17th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

1893 SAFA premiership season
16th SAFA season
Pictured above is the 1893 South Adelaide premiership team.
Teams5
PremiersSouth Adelaide
(4th premiership)
Matches played43
Highest attendance10,000 (30 August, South Adelaide vs. Norwood)[1]
Leading goalkickerAnthony Daly
Norwood (88 goals)

The Adelaide Football Club, the first Australian rules football club in South Australia, dropped out of the SAFA and folded at the end of 1893. It has no relation to the modern day Adelaide Crows.

The league would stabilise from this point forward, with no clubs leaving until the Woodville and West Torrens merger in 1991. As the SANFL considers Woodville-West Torrens a continuation of both Woodville and West Torrens, the original Adelaide is the last SANFL team to fold as of 2020.

Ladder
1893 SAFA Ladder
TEAMPWLDGFBFGABA Pts
1 South Adelaide 18 13 2 3 153 182 68 74 29
2 Norwood 18 12 3 3 204 170 78 101 27
3 Port Adelaide 18 10 6 2 150 163 73 88 22
4 North Adelaide 16 3 13 0 43 72 147 148 6
5 Adelaide 16 1 15 0 23 41 207 217 2
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers [2]

References
  1. "FOOTBALL". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 2 September 1893. p. 7. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  2. "[No heading]". Adelaide Observer. National Library of Australia. 7 October 1893. p. 39. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
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