1896 SAFA premiership season
PremiersSouth Adelaide
5th premiership
Leading goalkickerJack Kay
South Adelaide (25 goals)
Matches played40
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The 1896 South Australian Football Association season was the 20th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

During the 1896 season a rule was introduced for North Adelaide and the Natives (renamed West Torrens for the 1897 season) allowing them to field an extra three players to be more competitive with the three more established clubs.[1] The Native team played the majority of their games at Kensington despite many of their players living in the Port area.|[2]

Ladder

1896 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D GF BF GA BA Pts
1 South Adelaide 18 16 0 2 128 134 60 86 34
2 Norwood 18 10 6 2 104 144 71 112 22
3 North Adelaide 16 5 10 1 52 105 80 118 11
4 Natives 16 4 10 2 44 81 77 118 10
5 Port Adelaide 18 4 13 1 66 118 101 143 9
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers [3]

Note – North Adelaide and Natives forfeited to South Adelaide once each.

References

  1. ^ "FOOTBALL". Evening Journal. Vol. XXVIII, no. 7977. South Australia. 1 June 1896. p. 3 (ONE O'CLOCK EDITION). Retrieved 19 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "FOOTBALL. RETROSPECT OF THE SEASON". Adelaide Observer. 19 September 1896. p. 45. Retrieved 23 December 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "FOOTBALL. RETROSPECT OF THE SEASON". Adelaide Observer. 19 September 1896. p. 45. Retrieved 23 December 2014 – via National Library of Australia.


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