1886 SAFA season

1886 SAFA premiership season
10th SAFA season
Pictured above is the 1886 Adelaide premiership team.
Teams4
PremiersAdelaide
1st premiership
Leading goalkickerRichard Stephens
Adelaide (17 goals)
Attendance
Matches played30
Total attendance61,650 (2,055 per match)
Highest6,000 (Round 6, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
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The 1886 South Australian Football Association season was the 10th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

This was the first season in South Australia that quarters were played, allowing ends to be changed four times per match.[1]

The thirty games played had crowd figures quoted for an approximate average of 2,055 spectators per game.

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 1
Monday, 26 April (3:00 pm) South Adelaide 1.7 (1) def. by Norwood 4.10 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 5,000) [2]

Round 2

Round 2
Saturday, 1 May (3:25 pm) Norwood 5.9 (5) def. Adelaide 1.4 (1) North Park Lands, Adelaide (crowd: 2,000-3,000) [3][4]
Saturday, 1 May (3:45 pm) Port Adelaide 1.4 (1) def. by South Adelaide 2.7 (2) Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,500) [5]

Norwood vs Adelaide was played on Hotham's ground (from Adelaide and Suburban Association) - located north of the Botanic Park, between the Frome and Hackney roads in the Adelaide Park Lands. (Now called Park 11: Mistletoe Park / Tainmuntilla)
For the first time for several years past a senior association football match was played on an outside ground.
This was rendered necessary by the exclusion of the clubs from the Adelaide and Kensington ovals, in consequence of the unfortunate dispute which has arisen between them and the custodians of the grounds mentioned respecting the percentage of the gate money each is entitled to.[6]

Round 3

Round 3
Saturday, 8 May Port Adelaide 1.5 (1) def. by Norwood 4.7 (4) Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,500) [7]
Saturday, 8 May (3:25 pm) Adelaide 5.4 (5) def. South Adelaide 4.8 (4) Kensington Oval (crowd: 1,350) [8]

Round 4

Round 4
Saturday, 15 May (3:25 pm) Norwood 3.11 (3) drew with South Adelaide 3.8 (3) Kensington Oval (crowd: 1,750) [9][10]
Saturday, 15 May (3:25 pm) Port Adelaide 1.5 (1) def. by Adelaide 2.9 (2) Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,000) [11][12]

Round 5

Round 5
Saturday, 22 May (3:17 pm) Norwood 4.9 (4) def. Port Adelaide 3.6 (3) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [13]
Saturday, 22 May Adelaide 4.11 (4) def. South Adelaide 2.12 (2) Kensington Oval [14]

Round 6

Round 6
Monday, 25 May (3:00 pm) Adelaide 7.8 (7) def. Norwood 5.5 (5) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 5,500) [15][16]

Round 7

Round 7
Saturday, 29 May (3:17 pm) South Adelaide 3.7 (3) def. Norwood 2.3 (2) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [17]

Round 8

Round 8
Saturday, 5 June (3:10 pm) South Adelaide 1.12 (1) drew with Adelaide 1.7 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [18]
Saturday, 5 June (3:20 pm) Norwood 5.13 (5) def. Port Adelaide 2.3 (2) Kensington Oval (crowd: 500) [19]

Round 9

Round 9
Saturday, 12 June (3:20 pm) South Adelaide 2.6 (2) def. by Port Adelaide 3.8 (3) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [20]

Round 10

Round 10
Saturday, 19 June (3:00 pm) South Adelaide 3.8 (3) def. Norwood 2.12 (2) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [21]
Saturday, 19 June Port Adelaide 1.5 (1) def. by Adelaide 3.8 (3) Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,000) [22][23]

Round 11

Round 11
Monday, 21 June Norwood 8.13 (8) def. Port Adelaide 2.11 (2) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 6,000) [24]

Round 12

Round 11
Saturday, 26 June (3:00 pm) Adelaide 2.8 (2) def. by Norwood 4.9 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) [25]

Round 13

Round 12
Saturday, 3 July (3:30 pm) Adelaide 6.9 (6) def. Port Adelaide 4.6 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [26][27]

Round 14

Round 13
Saturday, 24 July (3:12 pm) Adelaide 5.7 (5) def. South Adelaide 3.7 (3) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [28][29]
Saturday, 24 July Port Adelaide 3.13 (3) drew with Norwood 3.7 (3) Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,000) [30]

Round 15

Round 14
Saturday, 31 July (3:10 pm) Adelaide 2.8 (2) def. by Norwood 4.13 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,500) [31]
Saturday, 31 July (3:25 pm) South Adelaide 9.9 (9) def. Port Adelaide 5.3 (5) Kensington Oval (crowd: 200) [32]

Round 16

Round 15
Saturday, 7 August (3:10 pm) South Adelaide 4.12 (4) def. Norwood 3.9 (3) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [33]
Saturday, 7 August (3:00 pm) Port Adelaide 8.9 (8) def. Adelaide 5.7 (5) Alberton Oval (crowd: 650) [34][35]

Round 17

Round 16
Saturday, 14 August (3:20 pm) Adelaide 3.19 (3) def. Port Adelaide 1.5 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,700) [36][37]

Round 18

Round 17
Saturday, 21 August Adelaide 6.7 (6) def. Norwood 0.9 (0) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,500) [38]
Saturday, 21 August Port Adelaide 3.8 (3) def. South Adelaide 2.10 (2) Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,500) [39]

Round 19

Round 18
Saturday, 28 August Adelaide 2.15 (2) def. by South Adelaide 4.4 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [40]

Round 20

Round 20
Wednesday, 1 September (3:17 pm) South Adelaide 1.5 (1) def. Norwood 7.13 (7) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) [41]
  • Norwood originally won the game on 1 September, but the game was later awarded to South Adelaide after a player who was deemed to have been "rough" had not paid his fine.[42]

Round 21

Round 19
Saturday, 4 September (3:30 pm) South Adelaide 6.6 (6) def. Port Adelaide 3.5 (3) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [43]

Ladder

1886 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D GF BF GA BA
1 Adelaide 15 9 5 1 54 131 47 118
2 South Adelaide 15 8 5 2 48 115 50 123
3 Norwood 15 7 6 2 59 146 41 104
4 Port Adelaide 15 3 11 1 41 95 64 137
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers [44]

Attendances

The figures for club and ground attendances are only based on those given above.

By Club

1886 SAFA club attendances
Club Avg. Per Game
Norwood 2,672
Adelaide 2,155
South Adelaide 1,882
Port Adelaide 1,503

By ground

1886 SAFA ground attendances
Ground Games Avg. Per Game
Adelaide Oval 18 2,619
North Park Lands
Botanic Gardens 		1 2,500
Alberton Oval 7 1,164
Kensington Oval 4 950

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