1908 SAFL season

1908 SAFL Premiership season

32nd season
Pictured above is the 1908 West Adelaide premiership team.
Teams 7
Premiers West Adelaide
(1st premiership)
Minor premiers Norwood
(4th minor premiership)
Matches played 46
Highest attendance 22,000 (Grand Final, West Adelaide vs. Norwood)
Leading goalkicker J Mathieson
Port Adelaide (33 goals)
Magarey Medallist James Tierney
West Adelaide
1907
1909

The 1908 South Australian Football League season was the 32nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

West Adelaide won their 1st SAFL premiership along with their 1st Championship of Australia against Carlton.

Ladder

1908 SAFL Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA % PTS
1 Norwood 12 10 1 1 792 498 61.40 21
2 West Adelaide (P) 12 10 2 0 676 529 56.10 20
3 Port Adelaide 12 8 4 0 716 522 57.84 16
4 North Adelaide 12 6 5 1 697 632 52.45 13
5 West Torrens 12 4 8 0 605 739 45.01 8
6 South Adelaide 12 3 9 0 665 768 46.41 6
7 Sturt 12 0 12 0 449 912 32.99 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

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