1900 SAFA premiership season
24th SAFA season
Pictured above is the 1900 North Adelaide premiership team
Teams6
PremiersNorth Adelaide
1st premiership
Minor premiersNorth Adelaide
1st minor premiership
Leading goalkickerNot awarded
Matches played45
Highest7,000 (Grand Final, North Adelaide vs. South Adelaide)
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The 1900 South Australian Football Association season was the 24th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The North Adelaide Football Club won their first premiership and Port Adelaide collected their third wooden spoon, which is the club's last as of 2021.

Minor rounds

The minor rounds comprised twelve matches. North Adelaide finished as the minor premiers, one win ahead of West Torrens.

1900 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA % PTS
1 North Adelaide (P) 12 9 2 1 584 355 62.1 19
2 West Torrens 12 8 3 1 443 389 53.2 17
3 South Adelaide 12 7 5 0 432 435 49.8 14
4 Norwood 12 6 6 0 505 473 51.6 12
5 West Adelaide 12 3 9 0 428 578 42.5 6
6 Port Adelaide 12 2 10 0 335 497 40.3 4
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

Major rounds

The major premiership was contested under the same system which had been adopted by the Victorian Football League in 1898 (except adapted for six teams instead of eight). The six teams were broken into two sections: section A comprised North Adelaide (1st), South Adelaide (3rd) and West Adelaide (5th); section B comprised West Torrens (2nd), Norwood (4th) and Port Adelaide (6th). Each section played an individual round-robin; then, the section winners played off in a final. The minor premiers, North Adelaide, would then have the right to challenge the winner of the final to a Grand Final for the major premiership.

Sectional matches

Sectional matches – Section A
Saturday, 11 August North Adelaide 5.8 (38) def. West Adelaide 2.5 (17) Adelaide Oval [2]
Saturday, 18 August South Adelaide 10.12 (72) def. West Adelaide 6.7 (43) Jubilee Oval [2]
Saturday, 25 August South Adelaide 2.12 (24) def. North Adelaide 3.4 (22) Adelaide Oval [2]
Sectional matches – Section B
Saturday, 18 August Norwood 3.4 (22) def. Port Adelaide 3.2 (20) Adelaide Oval [2]
Saturday, 25 August Port Adelaide 2.9 (21) def. by West Torrens 8.3 (51) Alberton Oval [2]
Saturday, 1 September Norwood 4.1 (25) def. West Torrens 1.11 (17) Adelaide Oval [2]
  • Norwood defeated West Torrens on 1 September, despite being held scoreless in the first, third and final quarters of the game.[2]
1900 Section A Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1 South Adelaide 2 2 0 0 96 65 59.6 4
2 North Adelaide 2 1 1 0 60 41 59.4 2
3 West Adelaide 2 0 2 0 60 110 35.3 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = percentage, PTS = Premiership points.
1900 Section B Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1 Norwood 2 2 0 0 47 37 55.9 4
2 West Torrens 2 1 1 0 68 46 59.6 2
3 Port Adelaide 2 0 2 0 41 73 36.0 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = percentage, PTS = Premiership points.

Finals

1900 SAFA Preliminary Final
Monday, 3 September South Adelaide 3.10 (28) def. Norwood 1.8 (14) Adelaide Oval [2]


1900 SAFA Grand Final
Saturday, 8 September North Adelaide def. South Adelaide Adelaide Oval (crowd: 7,000) [3]
1.0 (6)
1.1 (7)
1.2 (8)
 4.3 (27) 		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final 		0.2 (2)
0.3 (3)
0.5 (5)
 1.8 (14)
McNamara 2, Matthews, Shaw Goals Kruss

References

  1. ^ Goalpost (11 August 1900). "Football notes". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 7.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "1900 SAFA premiership season". Australian Football. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  3. ^ Goalpost (10 September 1900). "Football – North Adelaide win the premiership". The Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 4.
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