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
South Adelaide, premiers
Teams5
PremiersSouth Adelaide
4th premiership
Leading goalkickerAnthony Daly
Norwood (88 goals)
Matches played43
Highest10,000 (30 August, South Adelaide vs. Norwood)[1]

Medindie Football Club (nickname Dingoes), which joined the SAFA in 1888, were renamed North Adelaide Football Club on 14 March 1893, at a meeting held at Temperance Hall, North Adelaide. [2]

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

The league would stabilise from this point forward, with no clubs leaving since: while Woodville and West Torrens merged in 1991, the SANFL considers Woodville-West Torrens a continuation of both Woodville and West Torrens; thus, the original Adelaide Football Club is the last SANFL team to fold as of 2022.

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 [3]

References
  1. "FOOTBALL". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 2 September 1893. p. 7. Retrieved 15 March 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Football". Evening Journal (Adelaide, Sa : 1869 – 1912). 15 March 1893. p. 2.
  3. "[No heading]". Adelaide Observer. 7 October 1893. p. 39. Archived from the original on 11 March 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2014 – via National Library of Australia.


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