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65-784: The association first affiliated with the South Australian Football League in 1921. In 1927, the association made a special request to the SAFL for financial assistance. The remaining clubs at the end of the 1986 season were distributed in 1987 as follows: Joined SAFA – Brighton , Mitchell Park Joined Hills Football League – Blackwood Joined Southern Football League - Marion , Morphettville Park , Plympton Joined Central District Football Association – Ovingham Merged and joined SAAFL - Camden (merged with Greek FC) Clubs in Bold indicate teams playing in

130-428: A National Soccer League game during the early-mid 1990s. The record football crowd at Football Park was 66,897 when Sturt defeated Port Adelaide in the 1976 SANFL Grand Final , though police believe the attendance figure was closer to 80,000. To avoid a crush, spectators were allowed on the field between the boundary line and the fence, and thousands were turned away by police as the house full signs went up. It

195-401: A SANFL match between Central District and North Adelaide . The first goal was kicked by North Adelaide's Barry Hearl, but Central District won the game defeating North Adelaide by 30 points. Intended to have a capacity of around 80,000, Football Park was originally standing room only in the outer (along with the usual crush barriers) with bench seating in the main grandstand and ended up with

260-402: A capacity of approximately 62,000. Bench seating was gradually added to the stadium's bowl section, and the concourse roof was finished in 1982, by which time the grounds capacity had settled to around 55,000. The new roof gave the outer of the ground a limited number of under cover seats, as well as opening up more space for advertising boards. Television screens showing the games in progress at

325-792: A combined Adelaide Team from the Association against a combined team from the 3 country clubs – Gawler, Kapunda and Willunga was played on the Adelaide Ground. With the Adelaide team winning 5 goals to 1. In 1880 it was proposed to create a Junior Football Association, similar to the Cricket Association, from Clubs such as the North Parks, St. Peter's College, Prince Alfred College, Royal Parks, West Torrens, Woodville, South Suburban, Hotham, and Middlesex. In 1881 - Adelaide and Kensington merged at

390-479: A meeting held on 11 April it was decided that the colour of the merged club be black-and scarlet guernsey, hose, and cap, and navy blue knickerbockers. The SAFA was notified in writing of the amalgamation which was read at a meeting held on 27 April 1881. The merged club played 4 games before resigning on 1st June. In 1882 - The first general meeting of the committee of the Junior Football Association

455-592: A meeting of the South Adelaide Football Club , which had formed the previous year, was held at the Arab Steed Hotel. There was a good attendance, and officers and Committee for the season were elected. Dissatisfaction was expressed relative to the rules by which matches were conducted last season, and the Secretary was instructed to communicate with the various Clubs in order to arrange for regulations. It

520-552: A seven team competition. Medindie was a foundation member in 1885 of the South Australian Junior Football Association, before spending the 1886 and 1887 seasons competing in the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association. Hotham which renamed to North Adelaide for 1888 merged with Adelaide for the 1889 season. On Friday 5 April 1889 At the Annual General Meeting held on Friday 5 April 1889 in

585-523: A spirit of friendly rivalry, thus making the game enjoyable and interesting not only to players, but to spectators. He then moved that the rules played in Victoria should be considered. They differed but slightly from the old Adelaide rules. If such rules were adopted he felt sure that football would be carried on far more successfully than had bean the case lately, and there would be a greater probability of intercolonial matches being arranged, as he hoped would be

650-536: A uniform set of rules and establish a governing body. The South Australian Football Association was formed at a meeting called at the Prince Alfred Hotel in King William Street, Adelaide on 30 April 1877, and adopted rules similar to those used in Victoria upon the urging of Charles Cameron Kingston . The use of an oval ball, bouncing the ball and pushing from behind forbidden amongst the rules agreed at

715-515: A university league team. However the application was ultimately rejected by the competition out of fear a university side would compromise the electorate system, also referred to as zones, introduced to equalise the state competition. Football Park Adelaide Football Club Port Adelaide Football Club (1997–2013) Football Park , known commercially as AAMI Stadium , was an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes ,

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780-565: A western suburb of Adelaide , the state capital of South Australia , Australia . It was built in 1973 by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and opened in 1974. Until the end of the 2013 AFL season , it served as the home ground of South Australia's AFL clubs, the Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club . It also hosted all SANFL finals from 1974 to 2013. Demolition of

845-650: Is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia . It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877, the SANFL is the oldest surviving football league of any code in Australia and is the 7th-oldest club football league in the world . Consisting of a single-division competition since

910-732: The Kerry Packer -run World Series Cricket competition of the late 1970s when the upstart competition was shut out of major grounds such as the Adelaide Oval. And from 1984–1988 after the stadium got lights, Football Park also hosted the South Australian state one-day team in day/night McDonald's Cup games that the Adelaide Oval could not host due to it not getting lights until 1997. The stadium has also hosted International rules football games between Australia and Ireland , as well as being used for rock concerts . Football Park also hosted

975-694: The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on 21 November 1986 and Robbie Williams . Bon Jovi performed at Football Park in December 2013, while One Direction performed in February 2015. After it was built, Football Park underwent several additions including: Further upgrades, which largely did not eventuate, were proposed in June 2008. Proposed upgrades to the stadium were abandoned following confirmation that both Adelaide and Port Adelaide would move matches to

1040-528: The Adelaide Oval from 2014 . The SANFL announced a long-term development plan for the precinct in November 2014 with property developers Commercial & General for AU$ 71 million. It was announced that the land will be redeveloped for 1,600 new houses, a library, retail area and a five-storey, 120-bed aged care facility. Following the announcement, most of the seating at the ground was removed and given to local football clubs, before full-scale demolition work on

1105-460: The Association comprised six clubs until the turn of the century. The three newer clubs (North, West Adelaide and West Torrens) continued to struggle against the older three clubs (Norwood, Port and South Adelaide). In the First Round both West Adelaide (vs Norwood) and West Torrens (vs Port Adelaide) failed to score for the whole game. There were also a number of walkovers throughout the season when

1170-467: The Clubs in and around Adelaide to appoint delegates to consider the question of adopting a uniform code of rules. Nothing, however, had followed the issuing of the circular, and the meeting that evening was called in consequence. He was extremely pleased to see so large an attendance, as it augured well for a revival of the manly game, which, owing to what he considered a foolish modification of what were known as

1235-578: The Crows defeat the Power by 83 points in the 2005 First Semi Final . A pre-season match was played at the ground between the two sides in March 2015, in what was the last official event to be held at the ground. Major artists held concerts at Football Park, including The Beach Boys , ABBA , Neil Diamond , Alice Cooper , Dire Straits , Electric Light Orchestra , U2 , The Rolling Stones , Genesis , Elton John with

1300-739: The Electoral of East Adelaide and delegates from the Port Natives Football Club stated they would rename and take the West Torrens District. 1897 again saw a number of changes, District football based on the State Electoral Districts was introduced optionally with the aim of zoning players to a SAFA club (and became compulsory in 1899) and was the first season of football in South Australia where behinds contributed to

1365-525: The Gawler Association again was affiliated with the SAFA. Subsequently, it tried to rejoin the competition a number of times but was rejected. In 1913, it was admitted but withdrew before the season started. On 14 March 1893, at a meeting held at Temperance Hall, North Adelaide Medindie renamed itself to North Adelaide Football Club . In March 1894, Adelaide withdrew from the Association in writing before

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1430-650: The Old Adelaide Club, Port Suburban (founded in 1868 and renamed Woodville in 1870), Port Adelaide and Young Australians both formed in 1870 and Kensington were the principal clubs that were organising interclub matches. Country clubs had also been established at Gawler , Kapunda and Willunga and the City clubs would sometimes be hosted by these clubs principally on Public Holidays. The early years of interclub football began to be dogged by arguments over which set of rules to adopt. A meeting of three delegates from each of

1495-516: The SAFA introduced electorate football , meaning that players were allocated to clubs based on the district in which they resided. and the playing teams were reduced from 20 to 18. At a meeting held on Monday 8 May 1899 with a large number of delegates present the Secretary was instructed to write to the Gawler and Port Pirie Associations to inform them that their applications to join the SAFA would not be entertained this year as purely electorate football

1560-620: The Trades Exchange with all the clubs present the United Football Association renamed itself to South Australian Football Association. Gawler after its 4th season notified the Association in writing in April 1891 that it would no longer be joining (principally due to being given only 5 home games at Gawler and 10 away games in Adelaide for the 1890 season). In 1889 it had created its own Junior League consisting of 3 clubs. In May 1892,

1625-661: The admission of the Adelaide Crows reserves in 2014, the season has since been a 10-team, 18-round home-and-away (regular) season from April to September. The top five teams play off in a final series culminating in the grand final for the Thomas Seymour Hill Premiership Trophy. The grand final had traditionally been held at Football Park in October, generally the week after the AFL Grand Final , though this

1690-479: The case at no distant date. (Applause.) Mr. A. Crooks having seconded the motion, the Melbourne Football Rules were considered seriatim and adopted In their entirety, with the exception of Rules 6, 7, and 8. which were amended in a manner to assimilate somewhat to the old Adelaide rules. An addition to Rule 6 provided that no player having claimed his mark should run with the ball. Rule 7 was struck out, and

1755-657: The competition by the start of the 1885 Season. Only Port Adelaide and South Adelaide hadn't folded or resigned. In 1885, a new Adelaide Club joined the senior competition and won the Premiership the following season. The club was formed from a merger of North Adelaide Juniors (which had renamed to Adelaide in 1884) and North Parks. Upon merger and admission the Club took up the Old Adelaide colours of Black and Red. In 1887 another three Clubs were admitted Hotham and West Adelaide and

1820-415: The country clubs Gawler and Kapunda on public holidays but these weren't counted in the premiership table at the end of the season. South Adelaide and Victorian were declared joint Club Champions. In 1878, a brand new club Norwood was formed following the entire collapse of Woodville by a number of former players and it joined the Association for the season. An end of season match on 31 August between

1885-733: The final season (1986) The H.S. Rugless Medal was awarded to the player adjudged the Fairest and Most Brilliant in the competition. During the Sturt Football Association years (1912–19) it was known as the Thomas Medal. In 1936 the Morrow Medal was established for the fairest and most brilliant player in the then B-Grade competition. South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League , or SANFL ( / ˈ s æ n f əl / or S-A-N-F-L ),

1950-512: The five premierships from 1908 to 1912 (including Championship of Australia in 1908 and 1913), the most successful period in West Adelaide's history. The Constitution of the Association allowed up to eight teams based on the State's Electoral Districts and the competition expanded to seven teams when a new football club Sturt formed by the local cricket club joined the Association in 1901 to fill

2015-426: The following substituted:— " The ball may be taken in hand at any time, but the player shall be liable to be held or thrown until he drops it." An addition to Rule 8 provided that pushing from behind should only be allowable when the player was running. The chief alterations in the game as hitherto played in Adelaide are the dispensing with the cross bar and top rope in favour of two upright posts of unlimited height, and

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2080-513: The grandstands began in August 2018. The demolition of the grandstands was completed in March 2019. The playing surface covered approximately 2 hectares, with the average distance between the boundary line and fence being six metres. The ground dimensions from fence to fence were 177 m × 145 m (194 yd × 159 yd) and the playing area inside the boundary lines was 165 m × 135 m (180 yd × 148 yd) and

2145-492: The ground are also in place under the concourse roof, as well as in the members area. After long-term negotiations with the State Government and the local council, as well as local residents, the SANFL started building the ground's four light towers in late 1983. These were finished by early 1984, with all night games in Adelaide moving from the suburban grounds ( Norwood Oval and Thebarton Oval ) to league headquarters for

2210-421: The introduction of Clubs being zoned to Electoral Districts South Adelaide lost the dominance it had between 1892 and 1900 (six flags and runner up three times) and was replaced by Norwood and Port Adelaide, who were joined by West Adelaide and North Adelaide; between them, the four clubs won all premierships between 1901 and 1913. West Adelaide followed three straight wooden spoons from 1904 to 1906 with four out of

2275-572: The introduction of the Electoral System. In 1896, North Adelaide and the Natives were permitted to field 23 players (3 extra players). At an Association committee meeting held on 10th August 1896, a proposal was tabled to introduce having no more than eight clubs in the association and that all clubs and any new players be zoned based on the state electoral districts . At an adjourned meeting on Monday 26 Oct 1896, South Adelaide agreed to be zoned to

2340-569: The local Irish community in 1843 to celebrate St Patrick's Day. In 1844, there was debate amongst the South Australian Legislative Council whether it be allowed that "foot-ball" be played on Sundays, with arguments against preferring the quiet worship of God. In 1859, the Gawler Institute ran a rural fete which included a game of football being staged. The earliest recorded Australian rules football club in South Australia

2405-495: The main scoreboard. After years of speculation, Football Park's members grandstand was extended in 2001 with the opening of the new Northern Grandstand, opening up 7,000 new seats. The new grandstand was fitted with individual plastic seats, and the rest of the stadium was finally brought into line with this in 2004, seeing an end to the unpopular aluminum bench seating, and dropping capacity to 51,240. In addition to football, Football Park has also hosted cricket matches, including

2470-450: The management of all levels of football in the state. This includes junior football, country football, amateur football and specific programs rolled out across schools, indigenous communities (including the APY Lands in the state's north) and newly arrived migrant communities. The SANFL owned Football Park , formerly the largest stadium in South Australia. The stadium, which opened in 1974,

2535-399: The meeting. The clubs that sent 2 delegates each to the meeting were: South Park, Willunga, Port Adelaide, Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prince Alfred College, Gawler, Kapunda, Bankers, Woodville, South Adelaide, Kensington, and Victorian. The inaugural 1877 SAFA season was contested by 8 clubs. A total of 4 games were also played by Adelaide and Woodville when they were hosted twice each by

2600-465: The move in 2026. During this time, the local council approved an application by the SANFL to a 42-year lease on the Football Park oval, enabling SANFL offices to return to Football Park in a newly designed building adjacent to the oval and have exclusivity of the oval for approximately three hours on weeknights and five hours on weekends. The SANFL Grand Final was moved back to its original home at

2665-457: The newer clubs failed to field a team. In 1898, the Magarey Medal was awarded to the fairest and most brilliant player for the first time. In 1899, after a period of declining public interest in football due to the long term inequality between the three traditional clubs ( Port Adelaide , South Adelaide and Norwood) and the three younger clubs (West Adelaide, West Torrens and North Adelaide),

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2730-614: The newly redeveloped Adelaide Oval , which has a capacity of 53,583 and is located very close to the city . Adelaide Football Club continued to use the oval as their headquarters, and have their own clubrooms, administrative offices and indoor training facilities on the eastern side of the ground, a similar arrangement to what fellow AFL club Hawthorn have with Waverley Park in Melbourne . The club announced their intention to move their training headquarters to an upgraded Thebarton Oval sports precinct in June 2024, and are expected to complete

2795-458: The next 16 years. Following Adelaide joining the AFL in 1991, and being joined by Port Adelaide in 1997, new corporate "superboxes" were built on top of the southern concourse, stretching from the scoreboard around to the members grandstand. The following year (1998) the stadium got its first video superscreen, although the old scoreboard located above the tunnel in the south-east corner remained in place as

2860-505: The old Adelaide rules, had sadly degenerated. The regulations generally known as the Kensington roles had during the last two seasons in which they had been adopted only provoked continual disputes when matches were engaged in. He was sure they all desired to see the game prosper in the colony, and that by a suitable code of rules encouragement should be given to the exhibition of skill, strength, and pluck, while all matches might be played under

2925-448: The only country team ever admitted Gawler Albion but all only lasted for a few seasons. West Adelaide folded after just one season (1887), their resignation was accepted at the Annual General Meeting held on 5th April 1888, as they were unable to get a team together. At the same meeting permission was given for Hotham to change their name to North Adelaide and for Gawler to remove the word Albion from their name. The 1888 SAFA season

2990-474: The question of a uniform code of rules to be adopted by the various Clubs. There were 56 persons present, including representatives from the Old Adelaide, South Adelaide, Woodville, and Victorian Clubs. Mr. T. Lotchford presided. Mr. C. C. Kingston, in explaining the object of the meeting, mentioned that a circular bad been issued about six weeks previously by the Kensington Football Club , calling upon

3055-444: The season commenced. This reduced the number of senior clubs to just 4 - Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, Norwood and North Adelaide (originally called Medindie). In March 1895, a new club called Natives applied to join as the 5th Senior Club. It was formed from players from various districts and a group of former Port Adelaide players from a junior club called Port Natives. "The Natives" was adopted so as to prevent any feeling that it

3120-486: The senior Association (SAFA) with the Junior Association (called the Adelaide and Suburban Association) was started with 5 delegates from each Association to confer as what steps can be taken but was in the end rejected by the SAFA. Of the original senior clubs – Bankers (1877), Woodville (1877), Adelaide and Kensington (1881 after merging), South Park (1884), Victorian (1884) - i.e. 6 of the original 8 had all left

3185-541: The stadium's grandstands began in August 2018, and finished in March 2019. Despite the demolition of all grandstands, the stadium's playing surface was retained. The surface is used by the Adelaide Football Club as its primary training ground, and is also accessible to the public. Ground was broken for Football Park in 1971, giving the SANFL its own venue after years of playing out of the Adelaide Oval , which

3250-522: The sub-licences for South Australia's two AFL clubs— Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club —until March 2014, when South Australian Football Commission reached an agreement with the Adelaide and Port Adelaide clubs—endorsed by the AFL—which will see the two AFL licences transferred to the clubs in return for payments totalling more than $ 18 million. The league is also responsible for

3315-650: The substitution of an oval football for the round one. Messrs. C. C. Kingston, A. Crooks, J. A. Osborne, T.Letchford, and C. D. Perkins were appointed a Committee to confer with the Secretaries of other Clubs with a view to securing their concurrence in the action taken by the meeting. They were also empowered to consider the question of offering a Challenge Cup for next season. The meeting then closed. In 1877, following an initial meeting called by Richard Twopeny on Thursday 19 April 1877 at Prince Alfred Hotel delegates from 13 of South Australia's football clubs met to develop

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3380-602: The three clubs— Adelaide , Kensington and Port Adelaide —held a meeting on 10 March 1873, with Charles Kingston from Adelaide voted as chair in an attempted to draw up a standard code of playing rules. However, after a match between Port Adelaide and Kensington in July 1873, it was remarked that neither side understood the rules clearly. As the years progressed, there became a growing push for uniformity and structure in South Australian football. On Wednesday 22 March 1876,

3445-571: The total score, not just goals. (which brought it in to line with the VFA ). On 5 April 1897, The Association approved the application of the current West Adelaide Football Club to join the SAFA from the Suburban Association and The Native Football Club (1895–1896) altered its name to West Torrens Football Club ,. Despite the constitution allowing 8 clubs based on the Electoral Districts

3510-618: The zone based on the Electoral District of Sturt , but it performed poorly initially, finishing last in its first four seasons. In 1902, Port Adelaide adopted its now famous black and white colours. In 1907, the association changed its name to the South Australian Football League. In 1910 Adelaide University made an application to enter the competition as the 8th team. This led to players such as Jack Londrigan leaving league clubs such as Sturt in anticipation for

3575-462: Was Adelaide Football Club (unrelated to the modern day Adelaide Football Club ), formed in April 1860. An advertisement, sponsored by John Acraman , W.J. Fullarton and R. Cussen noted that group had already gathered 30 members. The club initially only played internal matches between players located North and South of the River Torrens. By 1871 a number of new clubs were formed. In addition to

3640-400: Was after this game that the original intended capacity of 80,000 was deemed unworkable for safety reasons so capacity was capped at around 62,000. Adelaide and Port Adelaide played their last home games at Football Park in 2013, with both clubs moving to the Adelaide Oval in 2014. The record Showdown attendance at Football Park was recorded at Showdown XIX on 10 September 2005 when 50,521 saw

3705-510: Was altered ahead of the 2014 season , resulting in Adelaide Oval hosting the grand final in the penultimate weekend of September. The semi-professional league is considered the strongest competition after the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL) and the strongest state-based competition with its representative team has been undefeated in competition against the Victorian Football League since 2020. The league owned

3770-544: Was being tried. In mid to late 1900 there was growing interest to form a senior club in the Sturt Electoral District based around Unley to join the SAFA. In 1900, North Adelaide won the Grand Final against South Adelaide breaking the dominance of the 3 old traditional Clubs – Norwood (11), South Adelaide (8) and Port Adelaide (3) which together had won 22 of the first 23 premierships (1877–1899). With

3835-505: Was confined to any given locality. Principally the members were drawn from the Port Natives, who were the premiers of the Adelaide and Suburban Association. After initially having their application refused. At a meeting on the 5th April 1895 the Natives then submitted a list of 50 players to show their strength. They were then admitted by 13 votes to 5 against. This new senior club would rename itself and be called West Torrens in 1897 with

3900-553: Was controlled by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA). Due to ongoing conflicts with the SACA, the SANFL had wanted to leave Adelaide Oval and move into their own home stadium for a number of years, finally settling on the undeveloped swampland at West Lakes in 1970 (the same year as the similarly designed, but larger VFL Park opened in Melbourne ). The stadium hosted its first football game on 4 May 1974,

3965-486: Was held at the Prince Alfred Hotel on Monday evening, March 27. All the clubs - North Parks, North Adelaide Juniors, Kensington, Kent Town, Albion, Triton, and West Torrens were represented. Later some of these clubs would be admitted to the Senior Association - North Parks would merge with North Adelaide Juniors and join as Adelaide in 1885 and West Torrens as West Adelaide in 1887. In May 1884 - A proposal to merge

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4030-470: Was primarily used for Australian Football League matches up until 2013 and had a capacity of over 51,000 prior to being demolished. The stadium was the headquarters for the league from 1974 to 2013. The SANFL competition is the second highest attended Australian rules football league behind the AFL. The first recorded game of any "football" in South Australia was that of 'Caid' played in Thebarton by people of

4095-518: Was remarked that scarcely a game was played last season without some misunderstanding arising, some playing by the Old Adelaide Club , and others the Kensington Club rules. After a lengthy discussion the meeting adjourned to receive a report from the Secretary and Committee. A meeting of those interested in football was held at the Prince Alfred Hotel on Thursday evening, July 20, to consider

4160-413: Was started under a cloud, as a dispute arose when the old senior clubs Adelaide, Port Adelaide and South Adelaide all withdrew and resigned from the SAFA and created their own Association and had invited a junior club Medindie to join them. The split meant Norwood was the only senior club left in the original SAFA along with the two new clubs which had just joined the year before Gawler and Hotham. The result

4225-444: Was the old South Australian Football Association being wound up and a new one formed termed 'The South Australian United Football Association' . The three remaining SAFA clubs Norwood, Gawler and Hotham (North Adelaide) then had to applied to join this new Association which had a number of new rules. In 1888, a junior club Medindie (which would rename itself North Adelaide Football Club in 1893) joined this new Association to maintain

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