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Hi everyone

As a new addition to this years SA Football Media Guide we are doing a year by year SANFL History Chronology.

Attached is the list as it stands.

I would appreciate if anyone thinks
- an item is incorrect
- an important event in SANFL history is missed
that they post it for consideration.

Cheers
Phil Herden

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1843
-The first official record of football being played in South Australia.

1860
- The first South Australian football club, Adelaide Football Club, formed.

1862
- Adelaide plays its first game against another club, Modbury.

1870
- Port Adelaide Football Club formed

1876
- South Adelaide Football Club formed. Their original colours, blue & white remain to this very day.

1877
- The South Australian Football Association (SAFA) formed. Its eight inaugural clubs are, Adelaide, Bankers, Kensington, Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, South Park, Victorian and Woodville Football Clubs.
- South Adelaide win the SAFA’s first premiership conceding just one goal all season.
- Woodville and Bankers disband at the end of the season.

1878
- Norwood admitted and go on to win the next six premierships.

1879
- The first State match is played between South Australia and Victorian in Melbourne.

1881
- Adelaide merge with Kensington. New team known as Adelaide.
1884
- South Park and Victorian disband.

1885
- Adelaide and North Park merge, team still known as Adelaide.

1886
- The SAFA reduced to four clubs: Adelaide, Norwood, Port Adelaide, and South Adelaide.

1887
- West Adelaide, Hotham and Gawler Football Clubs admitted.

1888
- Medindie Football Club admitted.
- Hotham renamed North Adelaide.

1889
- Adelaide merged with North Adelaide. New team known as Adelaide.

1890
- Gawler leaves the competition and later forms the Gawler Football Association.

1893
- Adelaide folds at the end of the season.
- Medindie changes its name to North Adelaide.

1895
- Port Natives Football Club admitted.

1897
- West Adelaide admitted.
- Port Natives change their name to West Torrens.

1898
- Magarey Medal instituted. First winner is Norwood rover Alby Green.

1901
- Sturt Football Club admitted,
- Norwood moves to The Parade, its home for the past 107 years.

1902
- Port Adelaide adopts its now famous black and white colours.

1907
- The SAFA changes its name to the South Australian Football League (SAFL).

1916
- The competition suspended due to World War I.

1919
- The competition resumes.

1921
- Glenelg join SAFL A Grade, lose first 56 games and claim next five wooden spoons.

1927
- The SAFL changes its name to the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

1934
- Glenelg win first premiership defeating Port in Grand Final.

1940
- North’s Ken Farmer kicks 123 goals, the 11th straight season he breaks the 100 goal mark. Kicks Australian Record 1419 goals over 13 seasons. SANFL Leading Goal Scorer now wins the Ken Farmer Medal.

1942
- World War II forced all clubs to merge to field a side. The clubs, Port -Torrens, Norwood-North, South-Sturt and West-GleneIg, played a shortened competition until 1944.

1954
- Port Adelaide win the first of six consecutive premierships.

1964
- Central District and Woodville Football Clubs admitted.
- South Adelaide go from worst to first under Neil Kerley to win their first flag in 26 years over Port Adelaide.

1966
- Sturt win the first of five consecutive premierships.

1969
- First Coca-Cola Mini League games played, a half time tradition that celebrates its 40th season in 2008.

1970
- West Torrens Lindsay Head becomes the first SANFL footballer to play 300 games.

1972
- North Adelaide become Champions of Australia defeating Carlton at the Adelaide Oval.

1973
- In what many regard as the greatest SANFL game ever played, Glenelg defeat North Adelaide by 7 points in the last grand final played at Adelaide Oval
1974
- The SANFL moves its playing headquarters away from the Adelaide Oval to Football Park in West Lakes.
- May 4: Central District defeat North Adelaide in the first game at Football Park.

1975
- Glenelg defeat Central District 49.23 (317) to 11.13 (79) by 238 points. Both the Glenelg score & winning margin remain SANFL highs.

1976
- Sturt defeat Port Adelaide by 41 points in front of a record Football Park crowd of 66,897. Jack Oatey wins 10th premiership as coach. Grand Final Best on Ground now wins the Jack Oatey Medal.

1977
- SANFL celebrates its Centenary Season as Port defeats Glenelg in Grand Final.

1978
- In their centenary season Norwood defeat Sturt by 1 point to claim the premiership.

1979
- Woodville play finals & Central finish minor premiers, both for the first time, and South play first Grand Final since 1964 but Port win the premiership.

1980
- Port Adelaide’s Russell Ebert wins a record fourth Magarey Medal.

1983
- West Adelaide win first flag since 1961. Neil Kerley coached both with 1964 South and 1973 Glenelg premierships in between.

1984
- Football Park stages its first match under lights.

1988
- South Australia win the Bicentenial Carnival final defeating Victoria by 60 points at Football Park.
- Glenelg’s Peter Carey retires after a record 448 SANFL games.
- The SANFL introduces a player retention scheme that provided financial incentives for the league’s top players to remain in South Australia.

1990
- July 31: Port Adelaide makes an independent bid to join the AFL. The SANFL then submits its own bid.
- November: The AFL grants the SANFL a license for the inclusion of a 15th team the Adelaide Football Club from the 1991 season.
- Woodville and West Torrens agree to merge to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. Ironically, Woodville and West Torrens play their last game against each other at Adelaide Oval.

1993
- The Eagles win their first premiership, defeating Norwood.
- South Australia defeats Victoria @ MCG, it’s first win at the ground in 30 years.

1994
- Port Adelaide granted South Australia’s second AFL sub license by the SANFL.

1995
- South Adelaide move to new home ground at Noarlunga.
- Central District play in first ever grand final but lose to Port.

1997
- Port Adelaide Football Club, enter the AFL as the Power. A new entity, the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club is formed which retains the Magpies colours, history & guernsey within in the SANFL.

1999
- Port Magpies defeat Norwood in the Grand Final to claim Port’s 36th premiership and their 7th in the decade.

2000
- Central District break 36 year drought to win first premiership over Woodville-West Torrens

2002
- July: Football Park renamed AAMI Stadium.
- August, 13: The South Australian Football Hall of Fame is established with 114 people inducted.
- September: Finals return to Adelaide Oval for the first time since 1973.

2003
- July 24: Max Basheer AM retires as SANFL president after a record 25-year term.

2004
- Central District win their fourth flag in five years belting Woodville West Torrens by a Grand Final record 125 points.

2005
- SANFL defeats the VFL by 4 points at Port Melbourne reversing a loss in 2002.
- League football returns to Thebarton Oval for the first time since 1989 when the Eagles defeat West by 72 points.

2006
- Central District hosts its first night game at Hamra Homes Oval, Elizabeth against Sturt in round one.
- After losing four grand finals to the Bulldogs in the past six years Woodville- West Torrens reverse the result to claim their second premiership.

2007
- With Adelaide Oval unavailable early in the season country games are played in Encounter Bay and Berri whilst the Anzac Day game is relocated to Thebarton Oval.
- Central win 8th straight Second Semi Final & play in 8th straight Grand Final, both SANFL records. They go onto defeat North in the Grand Final to claim sixth premiership in eight seasons.

3 possible additions:

PAFC champions of Australia 1914

SA beat Vic for first time at MCG in 63.

Dan Moriarty first player to win 3 consecutive Magarey Medals 1919, 1920, 1921

PhilH wrote:1887
- West Adelaide, Hotham and Gawler Football Clubs admitted. - No relation of current West Adelaide .This version of West Adelaide only last one season
1888
- Medindie Football Club admitted.
- Hotham renamed North Adelaide. - No relation to current North Adelaide

1889
- Adelaide merged with North Adelaide. New team known as Adelaide. - Finally someone get's it right!!!
1890
- Gawler leaves the competition and later forms the Gawler Football Association.

1893
- Adelaide folds at the end of the season.
- Medindie changes its name to North Adelaide at the start of the season

1895
- Port Natives Football Club admitted.

1897
- West Adelaide admitted.
- Port Natives change their name to West Torrens.
- Behinds are added as part of the score for the first time. Previously they had been recorded but not included.

Maybe include when boundary umpires started, two umpires, 19th,20th man and interchange were introduced.
I know the 19th man started in 1946 not sure on the 20th and interchange started in 77 or 78 need to confirm. I think boundary umpires officially started in 1907 but once again would have to confirm.

GWW wrote:3 possible additions:

PAFC champions of Australia 1912

SA beat Vic for first time at MCG in 63.

Dan Moriarty first player to win 3 consecutive Magarey Medals 1919, 1920, 1921

First time since 1926 not actually the first time but agreed a very significant event.

Leaping Lindner wrote:Maybe include when boundary umpires started, two umpires, 19th,20th man and interchange were introduced.
I know the 19th man started in 1946 not sure on the 20th and interchange started in 77 or 78 need to confirm. I think boundary umpires officially started in 1907 but once again would have to confirm.

1977 Interchange started I have the budget somewhere here at home..

1985 Grand rationalisations start Sturt play their last game at Unley oval for 13 years - from 1986 to 1997 they play their home games at Adelaide Oval

1990 Torrens move to Football Park for home games
1991 Glenelg play their home games at Football park thus breaking the longest use of an oval for home games of 70 years 1921 to 1990.

To be technical Torrens and Woodville merged in 1990

1990 last grand final pre-AFL

1994 Port chosen as the SANFLs preferred option if a 2nd licence granted

Not officially given an AFL license until 1996 IIRC

2 field umpires were introduced in 1977 and 3 field umpires in 1995. Both were implemented during the season - I've got the rounds down somewhere, will get back to you on that.

Also you could put:
1908 - West Adelaide win first premiership
1924 - West Torrens win first premiership
1962 - Stanley H. Lewis trophy awarded for the first time
1973 - Centre diamond introduced
1975 - Centre diamond changed to square
1976 - Goal umpires wait for all clear to indicate a score. Previously, the goal umpire only needed the all clear to wave the flag(s).

3 field umpires introduced in Round 8 1995

1984 - Norwood become 1st senior team to win premiership from 5th place.

All great, please keep them coming.

Malcolm Blight's Magarey Medal win - the first leg of a quinella that would see him also win the Brownlow. The first person to win both....

1996: Scott Hodges (SANFL record holder for most goals kicked in a season – 153)

If we're including Champions of Australia, such as North in 1972, then we should also include West Adelaide becoming Champions of Australia in 1908 (defeating Carlton 12.9 to 7.10) and again in 1911 (defeating Essendon 8.9 to 7.12). Ah the 19-noughties...great days.

Phil H West Adelaide Champions of Australia 1908 and 1911

You might also include the fact that 1983 was the first and only time that four players kicked more than 100 goals in the one season (R.Davies, N. Roberts, G.Dietrich and R. Luders).

PhilH wrote:
1843
-The first official record of football being played in South Australia.

1860
- The first South Australian football club, Adelaide Football Club, formed.

1862
- Adelaide plays its first game against another club, Modbury.

1870
- Port Adelaide Football Club formed

1876
- South Adelaide Football Club formed. Their original colours, blue & white remain to this very day.

1877
- The South Australian Football Association (SAFA) formed. Its eight inaugural clubs are, Adelaide, Bankers, Kensington, Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, South Park, Victorian and Woodville Football Clubs.
- South Adelaide win the SAFA’s first premiership conceding just one goal all season.
- Woodville and Bankers disband at the end of the season.

1878
- Norwood admitted and go on to win the next six premierships.

1879
- The first State match is played between South Australia and Victorian in Melbourne.

1881
- Adelaide merge with Kensington. New team known as Adelaide.
1884
- South Park and Victorian disband.

1885
- Adelaide and North Park merge, team still known as Adelaide.

Phil, am I reading this wrong, or in 1885, North Park merged, but it is not stated that they actually began anywhere prior?

The years that various different finals systems operated.

ie; change from round robin, to McIntyre four, to McIntyre five etc

(I don't know those years by the way, but someone obviously will)

Dogwatcher wrote:1996: Scott Hodges (SANFL record holder for most goals kicked in a season – 153)

1990

Broke the record in the Grand Final.

Tassie, Pseudo, bayman, Snouts et al will verify.

Mr66 wrote:1984 - Norwood become 1st senior team to win premiership from 5th place.

Still just an ugly rumour...

rogernumber10 wrote:The years that various different finals systems operated.

ie; change from round robin, to McIntyre four, to McIntyre five etc

(I don't know those years by the way, but someone obviously will)

The same for Magarey Medal voting changes

Ebert's record tally in '76 under the single voting 3,2,1 system

Awarding of retrospective Magarey Medals for previous ties

Broadcast highlights for both tv and radio in games and medal count.