2017 SANFL Grand Final
The 2017 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) grand final was played at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday, 24 September to determine the premiers for the 2017 SANFL season.
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| Date | 24 September 2017, 2.40 pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Adelaide Oval | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 39,813 | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Tobias Medlin, Giles Lewis, Corey Bowen[1] | |||||||||||||||
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| Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
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The Grand Final was contested by Port Adelaide and Sturt and was the first time the two teams played each other in the SANFL Grand Final since 1998.
Sturt defeated Port Adelaide by just 1 point, to record their second consecutive premiership and 15th overall.
It was the best possible finish to the season for Sturt, which became the first SANFL club to win the Under-18, Reserves and first grade premierships in the same season.[2]
Scorecard
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| Sunday 24 September (2:40 pm) | Port Adelaide | def. by | Sturt | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 39,813) | [2][3][4] |
| 2.3 (15) 3.4 (22) 3.7 (25) 7.7 (49) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
4.1 (25) 5.4 (34) 6.6 (42) 7.8 (50) |
Umpires: Corey Bowen, Toby Medlin, Giles Lewis Jack Oatey Medal: Fraser Evans  Television broadcast: Seven Network | ||
| Neade 2, T. Gray 2, Ah Chee 2, Lobbe 1 | Goals | Beard 2, M. Evans, Hone, Harms, Sutcliffe, Riley 1 | |||
| Ah Chee, Toumpas, Neade, Snelling, Summerton, Atley, Bonner | Best | F. Evans, Stephens, Kirkwood, Riley, Battersby, McMahon, Sumner, | |||
References
- "2017 SANFL Grand Final Umpires Announced". SANFL Umpires Association. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
- "Sturt win Grand Final in thrilling finish". sanfl.com.au. 24 September 2017. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017.
- "Port Adelaide Magpies vs Sturt". Australian Football. 24 September 2017.
- "Sturt win back-to-back SANFL premierships after thrilling one-point win over Port Adelaide". The Advertiser. 24 September 2017.
- @TheAdelaideOval (24 September 2017). "Fun Fact: Today's @SANFL Macca's League GF crowd of 39,813, is the biggest #SANFLGF crowd since the 1998 GF (also Port Adelaide v Sturt)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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