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The South Australian National Football League (SANFL) is the premier league and governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in the state of South Australia. 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
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For the song, see South Australia (song). ...
The Central District Bulldogs is an Australian rules football club based in the city of Elizabeth about 35km to the north of Adelaide, South Australia. ...
Glenelg is an Australian Rules Football club, who play in the South Australian National Football League. ...
The North Adelaide Roosters are a South Australian National Football League club. ...
The Norwood Football Club, known as the Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club belonging to the South Australian National Football League in the state of South Australia. ...
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The Sturt Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League. ...
The South Adelaide Football Club competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). ...
West Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club, nicknamed The Bloods in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). ...
Woodville-West Torrens Eagles is an Australian rules football club playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). ...
This article is about the Australian Football League. ...
West Torrens Football Club was an Australian Rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1897 to 1990 when it merged with neighbouring Woodville Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. ...
Woodville Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League from 1964 to 1990, when it merged with the West Torrens Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. ...
The North Adelaide Roosters are a South Australian National Football League club. ...
This page is for the Australian Rules Football Club in Adelaide. ...
AAMI Stadium, formerly known as Football Park, is an AFL stadium located in West Lakes, Adelaide, South Australia. ...
The Magarey Medal is an Australian Rules Football award, given annually since 1897 to the best and fairest player in the South Australian National Football League as adjudged by the field umpires. ...
A sport governing body comes in several forms. ...
High marking is a key skill and spectacular attribute of Australian rules football Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Australian rules football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of...
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The SANFL owns AAMI Stadium (also known as Football Park), which is the largest stadium in South Australia. The league has a total audience including television and radio of over 1.5 million and has the highest attendance of a regional league of any football code in Australia with an average of over 3,000 spectators a match. AAMI Stadium, formerly known as Football Park, is an AFL stadium located in West Lakes, Adelaide, South Australia. ...
Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on the 30th of April (see 'History, 1877-1900', below) of 1877, the semi-professional league currently comprises nine clubs traditionally representing different areas of metropolitan Adelaide. 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ...
Consisting of a single division competition, the season is based around a 22 week "home-and-away" (regular) season starting in April through to September. The top five teams play off in a series of finals culminating in the Grand Final, always held at AAMI Stadium in October, generally the week after the AFL Grand Final. Part of the pre-match entertainment at the 2006 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ...
When not playing with the two Adelaide-based AFL clubs, Port Adelaide Power or Adelaide Crows, AFL-listed players can play for their SANFL clubs. Those recruited to the AFL clubs who have not previously played for an SANFL club are allocated to a club by means of a "mini-draft"[2]. This article is about the Australian Football League. ...
The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Adelaide, South Australia. ...
Clubs
Several clubs share their nicknames with AFL/VFL clubs. This is purely coincidental: the teams are not named after each other. The SANFL's Eagles, for example, came into existence almost 90 years before the AFL's Eagles. This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ...
West Torrens Football Club was an Australian Rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1897 to 1990 when it merged with neighbouring Woodville Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. ...
West Coast Eagles Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League. ...
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The Central District Bulldogs is an Australian rules football club based in the city of Elizabeth about 35km to the north of Adelaide, South Australia. ...
Hamra Homes Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Elizabeth, Australia. ...
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Glenelg is an Australian Rules Football club, who play in the South Australian National Football League. ...
Challenge Recruitment Oval (formerly Glenelg Oval) is located on Brighton Road, Glenelg, South Australia. ...
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The North Adelaide Roosters are a South Australian National Football League club. ...
Prospect Oval is located at Menzies Crescent, Prospect, in the City of Prospect, South Australia. ...
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The Norwood Football Club, known as the Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club belonging to the South Australian National Football League in the state of South Australia. ...
Coopers Stadium (formerly Norwood Oval) is a multi-use stadium in Norwood, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. ...
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Alberton Oval is located on Queen St, Alberton. ...
The South Adelaide Football Club competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). ...
Alan Hickinbotham Oval (formerly Noarlunga Oval) is an Australian rules football oval in Noarlunga Centre, South Australia. ...
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The Sturt Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League. ...
Unley Oval is a multi-use stadium in Unley, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. ...
West Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club, nicknamed The Bloods in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). ...
Broadspectrum Oval (formerly Richmond Oval) is an Australian rules football oval in Richmond, South Australia. ...
Woodville-West Torrens Eagles is an Australian rules football club playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). ...
Woodville Oval is primarily an Australian rules football oval found on Oval Avenue in Woodville, South Australia. ...
Former clubs In the period 1877 to 1886 South Park, Willunga, North Adelaide (the original club of that name, not the current North Adelaide), Prince Alfred College, Gawler, Kapunda, Bankers, Woodville, and Victorian all left the Association. A brief profile of some of these clubs follows: - Adelaide (the original club) - formed in 1860; disbanded in 1873; reformed in 1876; merged with Kensington in 1881; disbanded in 1882; reformed and merged with North Park in 1885. Their colours were black, red and white and they were premiers in the SAFA (forerunner of the SANFL) in 1886.In 1888 the touring British Rugby team played South Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Norwood and Adelaide at Australian Rules. They defeated Port by a goal [3]. The tourists played 19 games of Australian Rules overall,winning six and drawing one. They were coached by two Essendon footballers, Jack Lawlor and FG McShane.
- Bankers - formed in 1877 and after losing all 15 of the matches it contested that year it disbanded at the end of the season.
- Kensington - formed in the early 1870's, Kensington affiliated with SAFA in 1877, but by 1881 it had merged with the Adelaide club. The clubs colours were scarlet and white and its home ground was Kensington Oval.
- South Park - formed in 1877 and disbanded in 1884.
- Victorian - formed in 1877 and with their home ground at Montefiore Hill, the Victorian team were premiers in 1877 (equal with South Adelaide). The clubs colours were orange and black. The club changed their name to North Adelaide in 1883, although it was not linked to the modern day North Adelaide, which formed from the Medindie club. Victorian disbanded after the 1884 season.
- Willunga - formed in 1874, and affiliated with SAFA from 1877 to 1885. Willunga then joined the newly formed Southern Football Association, a rural league.
- Woodville (the original club) - formed about 1868 and affiliated with SAFA 1877, the club forfeited two matches in its first season due to lack of numbers and disbanded at the end of the season. Many of the Woodville players then moved to the newly formed Norwood club[4].
- Kapunda - formed in 1866 and is possibly the oldest football club in Australia to enjoy an uninterrupted identity.
- Gawler - formed in 1868, joining the SAFA in 1887 until 1890, folding by 1894. The Gawler Football Association was created out of its demise.
At the end of the 1990 season the Woodville and West Torrens clubs merged to for Woodville-West Torrens which competed for the first time in 1991. The Southern Football League (SFL) is an amateur Australian rules football league in South Australia. ...
West Torrens Football Club was an Australian Rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1897 to 1990 when it merged with neighbouring Woodville Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. ...
Woodville Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League from 1964 to 1990, when it merged with the West Torrens Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. ...
Audience
Media
Official Magazine The Football Budget is a 32-page magazine sold at all SANFL League games. A special edition is produced for the Grand Final. The word 'Budget' is an old term, similar to 'digest'.
Television SANFL is broadcast locally in South Australia on ABC Southern. Until early 2008, it was also broadcast nationally on ABC2 television. Despite a large number of complaints, ABC removed national coverage in early 2008. The SANFL measured a total of 1,415,000 television viewers in 2007.[5] ABC Southern is a statewide television network, airing the programs of the national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ...
This article is about the Australian television channel. ...
Radio It is also covered by local radio stations such as Life FM (live), 5RPH (live) and ABC Local Radio. Life FM (callsign: 5RAM) is a Christian radio station in Adelaide, South Australia. ...
Radio 5RPH 1197 kHz is a volunteer manned AM band radio broadcast station in Adelaide, South Australia Australia. ...
ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly-owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ...
Attendance Although SANFL crowds now competes heavily with the 2 AFL national league clubs, the SANFL still has the second highest attendance of any Australian rules football league and the highest attendance for any regional league of any football code. It continues to publish attendance figures. A aerial view of the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the 1992 Cricket World Cup final packed with 90,000 people. ...
A crowd of 30,493 attended the 2007 SANFL Grand Final between Central District and North Adelaide at AAMI Stadium.[6] AAMI Stadium, formerly known as Football Park, is an AFL stadium located in West Lakes, Adelaide, South Australia. ...
Patrons at the SANFL pay at the gates. The following are the most recent attendance figures
| Year | Home & Away | Finals | #games played | Total | Average | Grand Final | | 2007 | ? | | 96 | 322,835[7] | 3,165 | 30,493[8] | | 2006 | 255,468 | 54,406 | 96 | 309,874 | 3,228[9] | 25,130 | | 2005 | 259,331 | 44,023 | 96 | 303,354 | 2,974[10] | 28,637 | | 2004 | | 59,200[11] | 96 | | | 24,207 | | 2003 | | 53,078[12] | 94 | | | 28,199 |
History
Pre-1877 The earliest recorded football club in South Australia was Adelaide Football Club, formed in 1860[13]. The early years of football were poorly organised and dogged by argument over which set of rules to adopt. In fact, after a match between Port Adelaide and Kensington in 1873, it was remarked that neither side understood the rules clearly, and there was uncertainty over which team had won. However, as they years progressed, there became a growing push for uniformity and structure in South Australian football.
1877-1900
Port Adelaide's magenta uniform (c.1896) In 1877, 12 of South Australia's football clubs met to develop a uniform set of rules and establish a governing body. The South Australian Football Association was formed on the 30th of April[14] of that year, the first governing body of its type for football in Australia, and adopted rules similar to those used in Victoria. The inaugural 1877 season was contested by those 12 clubs: South Park, Willunga, Port Adelaide, Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prince Alfred College, Gawler, Kapunda, Bankers, Woodville, South Adelaide and Victorian. Port Adelaides magenta uniform (c. ...
South Adelaide have worn blue and white since establishment (c.1890) Norwood joined the Association the following season in 1878, and went on to win the next six premierships. Norwood, along with South Adelaide and Port Adelaide, dominated the early years, winning 23 of the first 24 premierships between them. However, club numbers were diminishing. South Park, Willunga, North Adelaide, Prince Alfred College, Gawler, Kapunda, Bankers, Woodville, and Victorian all left the Association within the first 10 years. By 1886, the Association had been reduced from 12 to four clubs. South Adelaide have worn their blue and white since establishment. ...
But the Association experienced a resurgence in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The addition of West Adelaide (1887), North Adelaide (1893), West Torrens (1897) and only the demise of Adelaide (1893), meant the Association comprised of six clubs by the turn of the century. In 1898, the Magarey Medal was awarded to the fairest and most brilliant player for the first time (see #Magarey Medal).
1901-1913 The Sturt Football Club joined the Association in 1901, but performed poorly initially, finishing last in its first three seasons. In 1902, Port Adelaide adopted its now famous black and white colours, and the competition was beginning to take a more familiar form. In 1907, the Association changed its name to the South Australian Football League.
Heavyweights Norwood and Port Adelaide continued their domination of the league, and were joined by West Adelaide and North Adelaide and between them, the four clubs won all premierships between 1901 and 1913. Amazingly, West Adelaide followed three straight wooden spoons from 1904-06 with four out of the five premierships from 1908-1912. This was to be the most successful period in West Adelaide's history.
Port Adelaide v Sturt, 1914 Grand Final Port Adelaide v Sturt at Adelaide Oval (c. ...
World War I The SAFL managed to maintain competition for the first two years of World War I, 1914 and 1915, with Sturt winning their first premiership in 1915. But by 1916, clubs were sustaining high losses to war and competition was suspended and did not resume until 1919. “The Great War †redirects here. ...
1919-1938 Sturt won the first premiership of the post-WWI era, beating North Adelaide in the Challenge Final replay. Glenelg became the newest addition to the league in 1921 and started poorly with five consecutive wooden spoons. In 1927, the South Australian Football League changed its name for a third time, adopting the now familiar, South Australian National Football League. Meanwhile, Port Adelaide celebrated a golden era during the inter-war years, with 12 grand finals yielding five premierships.
World War II As with World War I, the SANFL managed to continue competition for the first few years of World War II. However, by 1942, the war forced all clubs to merge in order to field a side. Mergers were geographically determined with Port Adelaide merging with West Torrens, West Adelaide merging with Glenelg, Sturt merging with South Adelaide and Norwood merging with North Adelaide. This wartime competition continued from 1942-44. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
1946-1959 Norwood began the post-war era in superb style winning three premierships by 1950. However, this period was dominated by Fos Williams' Port Adelaide, winning seven premierships, including an amazing six in a row from 1954-59 (although the 1959 premiership was won under the stewardship of Geof Motley as Captain-Coach). Fos Williams was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Port Adelaide Magpies in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). ...
Geof Motley OAM was an Australian Rules Football player and coach who played for SANFL side Port Adelaide. ...
1960-1969 Port Adelaide continued their dominance of the competition with three more premierships by 1965. In 1964, for the first time in 60 years, the SANFL admitted two new clubs, Central District and Woodville. Both clubs performed poorly, and many questioned the purpose of introducing two more teams, in particular Woodville, who were closely surrounded by existing clubs, Port Adelaide and West Torrens. Meanwhile a new power, Sturt, hit the competition, winning five straight premierships from 1966-70. Sturt shared a fierce rivalry with Port Adelaide whom they played in four consecutive Grand Finals. Woodville Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League from 1964 to 1990, when it merged with the West Torrens Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. ...
1970-1979 Sturt began the 1970s by defeating Glenelg in a rain-effected Grand Final by 21 points. North Adelaide secured back-to-back premiership victories over Port Adelaide in 1971 and 1972 and defeated VFL premier Carlton by one point in the end-of-season Champions of Australia match. Port Adelaide continued their success, winning two premierships themselves (1977, 1979), and finishing lower than 3rd only once for the decade. Other premiership winning clubs in the 1970s were Sturt (1970, 1974, 1976), Glenelg (1973), and Norwood (1975, 1978). The SANFL made the biggest shift in its history, moving all operations to the new Football Park in 1974. Central District and North Adelaide played the first ever match at the ground on May 4, 1974. The first SANFL Grand Final was played at the Ground the same year, the first away from Adelaide Oval (Sturt versus Glenelg). In front of a crowd of 58,042 people, Sturt won by 15 points despite kicking into a stiff breeze in the last quarter after leading by just 5 points at three-quarter time. The 1975 season was highlighted by Glenelg's score of 49.23 (317) against Central District. In fact, the winning margin of 238 points was larger, at that time, than the previous highest score ever recorded by a side in a single game. In 1976, Sturt defeated Grand Final favourites Port Adelaide by 41 points in front of a record Football Park crowd of 66,897. Norwood won the 1978 premiership in their centenary year by beating Sturt in the Grand Final by the narrowest of margins - one point - after Sturt had lost just one game for the entire season. During the 1970s, football in South Australia experienced an increase in players moving across the border to play in the higher standard VFL competition.
1980-1989 The exodus of quality players to the VFL continued in the 1980s and inevitably the quality of competition began to drop. Sensing the change, in 1981 the SANFL submitted a bid to enter a composite South Australian team in the VFL, but were rejected. Following this failed attempt, the SANFL introduced a Player Retention Scheme in 1988. The aim of the Scheme was to provide financial incentives to top players to remain in South Australia. While this Scheme saw a short-term increase in the quality of the competition, attandences soon began to drop again.
Meanwhile, on-field, night football came to the SANFL in 1984 with floodlights installed at Football Park following a long battle with nearby residents. The heavyweights Port Adelaide, Norwood and Glenelg dominated the competition, winning eight premierships between them.
1990-1999 The 1990s was the most turbulent decade in the history South Australian football. The SANFL continued to resist the temptation to enter a side in the AFL. However matters came to an abrupt head on July 31, 1990, when the Port Adelaide Football Club, feeling it was subsidising the other SANFL clubs, made an independent bid to the join the AFL. The shock announcement took everyone by surprise and instigated the most controversial period in South Australian football. This article is about the Australian Football League. ...
The SANFL was left with little option but to submit its own bid to enter the AFL. In a thirty-minute meeting the SANFL formed the Adelaide Football Club, a composite side made up of players from all SANFL clubs. While Port Adelaide had by far the largest supporter base in South Australia, they could not compete with the SANFL's offer of a composite club and the use of Football Park.
In November 1990, following a vicious legal battle, the AFL announced the Adelaide Football Club had been granted the licence and would enter the competition in 1991.
After a tumultuous summer, the Adelaide Crows debuted in 1991 wearing the state colours of navy blue, red and yellow. While the Adelaide Crows enjoyed crowds of over 40,000 every week and dominated local media coverage, crowds at local SANFL matches plummeted. The 1990s was the first decade in the SANFL's history that it was not South Australia's premier football event every weekend.
In 1997, Port Adelaide finally achieved their goal of joining the Australian Football League under the new nickname, the Power, as the 'Magpies' nickname was already used by the AFL club Collingwood. After just missing out on the finals in their first season, the Power finally made their first finals series in 1999.
The Crows were the first of SA's two clubs to taste premiership success in the big league, winning back-to-back cups in 1997 and 1998.
Locally, Port Adelaide Magpies dominated the competition winning seven premierships in the 1990s.
2000s The first decade of the 21st Century has been dominated by Central District Bulldogs, who have won six of the eight premierships so far. Sturt won a premiership over Central in 2002, and the Eagles, who had been consistent runners-up to the Bulldogs, including a 125-point thumping in the 2004 Grand Final, finally triumphed in 2006, defeating the Bulldogs by 76 points. Central District bounced back and dominated season 2007, finishing minor premier then beating North Adelaide in the Grand Final by 65 points. 20XX redirects here. ...
The Central District Bulldogs is an Australian Rules Football Club based in the city of Elizabeth about 40km to the north of Adelaide, South Australia. ...
The Sturt Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League. ...
Also see: 2002 (number). ...
The North Adelaide Roosters are a South Australian National Football League club. ...
In 2006, Central District hosted night games for the first time at Hamra Homes Oval (Elizabeth). The first game under lights in Round 1 against Sturt attracted a crowd of over 7,000.
- See also: List of SANFL Premiers
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with SANFL. (Discuss) This page is a chronological listing of Australian rules football League premiers in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) - the premier league for the sport in the state of South Australia. ...
Future & Expansion Plans There has been talks of expanding the SANFL to include teams from other states, especially those in regions unwanted by the AFL, and to serve as a second-tier national league.
The most pushed for expansion team from Darwin, Northern Territory, formed as a representative club of the Northern Territory Football League. The first of a series of trial matches was held in 2006, with a long term view of admitting a Darwin side into the SANFL. A strong crowd at Marrara Oval witnessed North Adelaide defeat a composite NTFL squad by 27 points, demonstrating that a Darwin team could be competitive. There is a push to make the event an annual match.[15] The push for a Northern Territory team in June 2007 intensified, with Darwin and Alice Springs (with the proposed venue being Traeger Park) both competing for a licence, with the NT government supporting Darwin and businesspeople like Dick Pratt supporting the bid of Alice Springs.[16][17][18] Port Darwin redirects here. ...
The NTFL is a 7 team Australian rules football semi-professional league operating in Darwin in the Northern Territory. ...
Marrara Oval is a sports ground in Darwin, Australia Hosted two cricket Tests 2003-04 ...
Alice Springs on a large scale map Alice Springs is a large town in the Northern Territory of Australia located at 23°42′ S 133°52′ E. Its population of 28,178 (2001 Census) makes it the second-largest settlement in the Territory (the only other towns of significant size...
Traeger Park is a small stadium located in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. ...
Although there have also been rumours of inclusion of a Tasmanian club from both Hobart and Launceston in mid-September of 2007, the Tasmanian Devils Football Club, run by AFL Tasmania, committed themselves to the Victorian Football League for a further five years. Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. ...
Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia, population approximately 90,000 (Greater urban and 99,100 statistical division), located at the juncture of the North Esk, South Esk, and Tamar rivers. ...
The Tasmanian Devils Football Club is an Australian rules football team, in the Victorian Football League in Australia. ...
AFL Tasmania is the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in Tasmania, Australia. ...
This article is about the present day Victorian state football league. ...
Ladder Percentage Unlike most Australian rules football leagues, like the AFL (where the percentage is worked out by: "For" ÷ "Against" × "100"), the percentage on a SANFL ladder is worked out by: "For" ÷ "For and Against" × "100". High marking is a key skill and spectacular attribute of Australian rules football Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Australian rules football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of...
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Umpires Umpires for the SANFL Matches come from two sources: - The SANFL Senior Panel - Providing umpires for the League, Reserves & U/19 Competitions.
- The SANFL Academy - Providing umpires for the U/17 Competition.
This includes Field, Boundary & Goal Umpires.
Umpires are selected on the basis of fitness, skills & ability. Most umpires have followed a pathway to get to SANFL level.
Umpires have an extremely hard task each game, and can only see as much as the human eye can. Abuse of umpires occurs frequently and we appeal to each and every one of you to restrain yourself before commenting or abusing an umpire.
The Magarey Medal is awarded to the fairest and most brilliant player in the SANFL each season and is the oldest of its type in Australia. The Magarey Medal is an Australian Rules Football award, given annually since 1897 to the best and fairest player in the South Australian National Football League as adjudged by the field umpires. ...
The 1929 Magarey medal. ...
The Magarey Medal is an Australian Rules Football award, given annually since 1897 to the best and fairest player in the South Australian National Football League as adjudged by the field umpires. ...
The medal is named after William Ashley Magarey, a former SANFL administrator. In 1897, Magarey became chairman of the South Australian Football Association, as it was then known. In 1898, in an effort to stamp out rough play and improve respect of umpires, Magarey instituted the medal to be awarded to the player deemed by umpires to be the fairest and most brilliant for that season. The inaugural winner of the medal was Norwood's Alby Green. Magarey died in 1929, but his name lives on and the Magarey Medal is still awarded to the fairest and most brilliant SANFL player each season. The 2004 Magarey medal. ...
Best and Fairest (also known as Fairest and Best in some competitions, notably the Australian Football League) is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or...
See also - List of SANFL clubs
- List of SANFL players
- List of Magarey Medallists
- South Australian Football Hall of Fame
- SANFL Grand Finals
The Magarey Medal is awarded every year to the Fairest and Most Brilliant player in the South Australian National Football League. ...
Sources
References - ^ SANFL Website
- ^ [1]
- ^ Football's Forgotten Tour, ISBN 0958101809
- ^ SANFL
- ^ SANFL Website
- ^ Australian Stadiums :: SANFL GF: Central v N.Adelaide
- ^ SANFL Website
- ^ Australian Stadiums :: SANFL GF: Central v N.Adelaide
- ^ http://www.sanfl.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&aid=112669]
- ^ Main Page - FootySA
- ^ Australian Stadiums :: SANFL Finals
- ^ Australian Stadiums :: SANFL Finals
- ^ 1858 to 1879
- ^ Page 5 of 'League Football in South Australia' (circa 1978). Official SANFL publication describing the SANFL's history up to and including its 1977 Centenary season.
- ^ NTFL vs North Adelaide
- ^ Storm brews over NT AFL team from foxsports.com.au
- ^ NT AFL Team Should be Based in Darwin from newsroom.nt.gov.au
- ^ AFL Central Australia opposes Darwin-based team from abc.net.au
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