1888 SAFA premiership season
12th SAFA season
Pictured above is the 1888 Norwood Championship of Australia team.
Teams7
PremiersNorwood
8th premiership
Leading goalkickerCharles Woods
Norwood (29 goals)
Matches played57
Highest9,000 (Round 9, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
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The 1888 South Australian Football Association season was the 12th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. The Norwood Football Club won their 8th premiership by winning 1 premiership point, or a half a win, more than Port Adelaide. Hotham Club which joined in 1887 was renamed North Adelaide for the 1888 Season and would also add a blue hoop to their red and white guernseys and wear blue and white hose so as not to clash with the new club Medindie whose colours were also Red and White. The North Adelaide (Hotham) club disbanded at the end of the Season following a merger with Adelaide. It has no connection with the North Adelaide Football Club currently in the SANFL which joined in 1888 as Medindie and would later be renamed North Adelaide for the 1893 Season.

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 1
Saturday, 5 May (3:15 pm) Adelaide 7.5 (7) def. South Adelaide 5.3 (5) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [1][2]
Saturday, 5 May Norwood 8.11 (8) def. North Adelaide 2.2 (2) Kensington Oval (crowd: 300) [3]

Round 2

Round 2
Saturday, 12 May (3:00 pm) Norwood 1.0 (1) drew with South Adelaide 1.2 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [5][6]
Saturday, 12 May Port Adelaide 3.8 (3) def. Medindie 0.3 (0) Alberton Oval (crowd: 150) [7][8]
Saturday, 12 May (3:30 pm) Adelaide 4.5 (4) def. North Adelaide 0.3 (0) Kensington Oval (crowd: 150) [9][10]
Bye
Gawler

Round 3

Round 3
Saturday, 19 May (3:10 pm) Adelaide 5.7 (5) def. Port Adelaide 4.7 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) [12]
Saturday, 19 May (3:27 pm) South Adelaide 5.10 (5) def. North Adelaide 2.2 (2) Kensington Oval (crowd: 300) [13]

Round 4

Round 4
Saturday, 26 May South Adelaide 6.4 (6) def. by Port Adelaide 7.9 (7) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) [14]
Saturday, 26 May Gawler 1.2 (1) def. by Adelaide 7.9 (7) Gawler (crowd: 350) [15]
Saturday, 26 May North Adelaide 5.14 (5) def. Medindie 0.4 (0) Kensington Oval (crowd: 100) [16]
Bye
Norwood

Round 5

Round 5
Saturday, 2 June (3:11 pm) Norwood 9.10 (9) def. Adelaide 3.7 (3) Kensington Oval (crowd: 4,000) [17]
Saturday, 2 June (3:15 pm) South Adelaide 9.31 (9) def. Medindie 1.3 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 300) [18]
Saturday, 2 June (3:25 pm) Port Adelaide 7.17 (7) def. North Adelaide 1.3 (1) Alberton Oval (crowd: 300) [19]
Bye
Norwood

Round 6

Round 6
Saturday, 9 June (3:08 pm) Norwood 10.10 (10) def. South Adelaide 5.4 (5) Kensington Oval (crowd: 2,000) [20]
Saturday, 9 June (3:10 pm) Adelaide 4.8 (4) def. by North Adelaide 5.3 (5) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,000) [21][22]
Saturday, 9 June (Time pm) Gawler 4.5 (4) def. Medindie 1.3 (1) Gawler (crowd: 200) [23]
Bye
Port Adelaide

Round 7

Round 7
Saturday, 16 June (Time pm) Port Adelaide 8.11 (8) def. South Adelaide 1.3 (1) Alberton Oval (crowd: 2,000) [24][25]
Saturday, 16 June (3:11 pm) Norwood 12.8 (12) def. North Adelaide 1.1 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) [26][27]
Saturday, 16 June (Time pm) Adelaide 10.12 (10) def. Medindie 3.2 (3) Kensington Oval (crowd: 150) [28]

Round 9

Round 9
Wednesday, 20 June (3:00 pm) Norwood 2.7 (2) drew with Port Adelaide 2.5 (2) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 9,000) [29]
Wednesday, 20 June (Time pm) North Adelaide 1.4 (1) def. Medindie 0.6 (0) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 100) [30]
Wednesday, 20 June (Time pm) Gawler 1.8 (1) def. by South Adelaide 4.9 (4) Gawler (crowd: 450) [31]

Round 10

Round 10
Saturday, 23 June (Time pm) Adelaide 4.7 (4) def. South Adelaide 3.9 (3) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [32]
Saturday, 23 June (3:15 pm) Port Adelaide 12.12 (12) def. Medindie 1.1 (1) Alberton Oval [33]
Saturday, 23 June (Time pm) Gawler 2.5 (2) def. by Norwood 8.8 (8) Gawler (crowd: 350) [34]

Round 11

Round 11
Saturday, 30 June (Time pm) Adelaide 5.8 (5) def. by Norwood 10.15 (10) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 4,500) [35]
Saturday, 30 June (3:20 pm) South Adelaide 12.5 (12) def. Medindie 1.1 (1) Kensington Oval (crowd: Attendance) [36]
Saturday, 30 June (Time pm) Port Adelaide 7.23 (7) def. Gawler 0.1 (0) Alberton Oval (crowd: 450) [37]

Round 12

Round 12
Saturday, 21 July Port Adelaide 11.9 (11) def. Adelaide 1.2 (1) Alberton Oval (crowd: 500) [38]
Saturday, 21 July South Adelaide 2.5 (2) def. North Adelaide 1.2 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,000) [39]
Saturday, 21 July Norwood 1.12 (1) def. Medindie 0.4 (0) Kensington Oval [40]

Round 13

Round 13
Saturday, 28 July Norwood 11.21 (11) def. Port Adelaide 3.6 (3) Kensington Oval (crowd: 7,000) [41]
Saturday, 28 July (3:15 pm) Adelaide 10.18 (10) def. Medindie 0.4 (0) Adelaide Oval [42]
Saturday, 28 July (3:35 pm) Gawler 2.7 (2) def. by North Adelaide 4.5 (4) Gawler (crowd: 250) [43]
  • The Round 13 match between Norwood and Port Adelaide effectively functioned as a premiership decider.

Round 14

Round 14
Saturday, 4 August (3:15 pm) South Adelaide 5.11 (5) def. Adelaide 4.5 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [44]
Saturday, 4 August (Time pm) Norwood 6.6 (6) def. North Adelaide 3.4 (3) Kensington Oval (crowd: 200) [45]
Saturday, 4 August (Time pm) Port Adelaide 14.12 (14) def. Medindie 0.1 (0) Alberton Oval (crowd: 400) [46]

Round 15

Round 15
Saturday, 25 August Norwood 11.21 (11) def. Medindie 1.1 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 800) [47]
Saturday, 25 August Adelaide 12.8 (12) def. North Adelaide 4.3 (4) Kensington Oval [48]
Saturday, 25 August (3:30 pm) Gawler 2.5 (2) def. by South Adelaide 7.12 (7) Gawler [49]

Round 16

Round 16
Saturday, 1 September (Time pm) Norwood 5.14 (5) def. Adelaide 1.5 (1) Adelaide Oval [50]
Saturday, 1 September (3:30 pm) Port Adelaide 9.7 (9) def. North Adelaide 3.2 (3) Alberton Oval [51]
Saturday, 1 September (Time pm) South Adelaide 9.9 (9) def. Medindie 4.0 (4) Kensington Oval [52]

Ladder

1888 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D GF BF GA BA Pts
1 Norwood 17 14 1 2 127 205 38 82 30
2 Port Adelaide 17 14 2 1 129 187 46 96 29
3 Adelaide 17 10 7 0 103 147 75 119 20
4 South Adelaide 17 9 7 1 87 165 72 97 19
5 North Adelaide 17 5 12 0 37 66 97 43 10
6 Gawler 12 2 10 0 20 52 65 123 4
7 Medindie 17 1 16 0 20 43 127 206 2
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers [53]

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