1889 SAFA season

1889 SAFA Premiership season
Teams 6
Premiers Norwood
(9th premiership)
Minor premiers Norwood
Port Adelaide
(1st minor premiership)
Matches played 48
Highest attendance 11,000 (Grand Final, Norwood v. Port Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker Charlie Fry
Port Adelaide (32 goals)
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The 1889 South Australian Football Association season was the 13th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The season ended with Norwood and Port Adelaide tied on premiership points. Subsequently the first ever dedicated championship deciding match for a major Australian rules football competition was held with Norwood winning to be the 1889 SAFA premiers.

Ladder

1889 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D GF BF GA BA Pts
1 Norwood (P) 17 14 2 1 102 165 30 75 29
1 Port Adelaide 17 14 2 1 127 177 33 63 29
3 Adelaide 17 8 9 0 57 95 78 161 16
4 Gawler 11 4 7 0 21 65 76 104 8
5 South Adelaide 17 6 11 0 54 132 71 120 12
6 Medindie 15 0 15 0 19 56 90 158 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

Grand Final

Main article: 1889 SAFA Grand Final

1889 SAFA Premiership Football Match

Grand Final
Saturday, 5 October (3:00 pm) Norwood def. Port Adelaide Adelaide Oval (Crowd: 11,000) [2][3]
3.1 (3)
4.1 (4)
5.3 (5)
7.3 (7)		 Q1
Q2
Q3
Final		 3.1 (3)
3.3 (3)
4.7 (4)
5.9 (5)
McGaffin, Rawson, Dixon, Daly, J. Woods, Shaw, Roberts, O. Bertram Best Hamilton, Kempster, Kwers, Gardiner, Tomlin, J.McKenzie, Phillips, Hills, Fry

References

  1. ↑ "FOOTBALL.". Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904) (SA: National Library of Australia). 12 October 1889. p. 18. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Football.". South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1895) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 12 October 1889. p. 15. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "FOOTBALL.". The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 21 June 1887. p. 7. Retrieved 25 February 2015.