1886 SAFA season

The 1886 South Australian Football Association season was the 10th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

1886 SAFA premiership season
10th SAFA season Pictured above is the 1886 Adelaide premiership team.
Teams	4
Premiers	Adelaide 1st premiership
Leading goalkicker	Richard Stephens Adelaide (17 goals)
Attendance
Matches played	30
Total attendance	61,650 (2,055 per match)
Highest	6,000 (Round 6, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
← 1885 1887 →

This was the first season in South Australia that quarters were played, allowing ends to be changed four times per match.^[1]

The thirty games played had crowd figures quoted for an approximate average of 2,055 spectators per game.

Premiership season

Round 1

	Round 1
Monday, 26 April (3:00 pm)	South Adelaide 1.7 (1)	def. by	Norwood 4.10 (4)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 5,000)	[2]

Round 2

	Round 2
Saturday, 1 May (3:25 pm)	Norwood 5.9 (5)	def.	Adelaide 1.4 (1)	North Park Lands, Adelaide (crowd: 2,000-3,000)	[3][4]
Saturday, 1 May (3:45 pm)	Port Adelaide 1.4 (1)	def. by	South Adelaide 2.7 (2)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[5]
Norwood vs Adelaide was played on Hotham's ground (from Adelaide and Suburban Association) - located north of the Botanic Park, between the Frome and Hackney roads in the Adelaide Park Lands. (Now called Park 11: Mistletoe Park / Tainmuntilla) For the first time for several years past a senior association football match was played on an outside ground. This was rendered necessary by the exclusion of the clubs from the Adelaide and Kensington ovals, in consequence of the unfortunate dispute which has arisen between them and the custodians of the grounds mentioned respecting the percentage of the gate money each is entitled to.[6]

Round 3

	Round 3
Saturday, 8 May	Port Adelaide 1.5 (1)	def. by	Norwood 4.7 (4)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[7]
Saturday, 8 May (3:25 pm)	Adelaide 5.4 (5)	def.	South Adelaide 4.8 (4)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 1,350)	[8]

Round 4

	Round 4
Saturday, 15 May (3:25 pm)	Norwood 3.11 (3)	drew with	South Adelaide 3.8 (3)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 1,750)	[9][10]
Saturday, 15 May (3:25 pm)	Port Adelaide 1.5 (1)	def. by	Adelaide 2.9 (2)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,000)	[11][12]

Round 5

	Round 5
Saturday, 22 May (3:17 pm)	Norwood 4.9 (4)	def.	Port Adelaide 3.6 (3)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[13]
Saturday, 22 May	Adelaide 4.11 (4)	def.	South Adelaide 2.12 (2)	Kensington Oval	[14]

Round 6

	Round 6
Monday, 25 May (3:00 pm)	Adelaide 7.8 (7)	def.	Norwood 5.5 (5)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 5,500)	[15][16]

Round 7

	Round 7
Saturday, 29 May (3:17 pm)	South Adelaide 3.7 (3)	def.	Norwood 2.3 (2)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[17]

Round 8

	Round 8
Saturday, 5 June (3:10 pm)	South Adelaide 1.12 (1)	drew with	Adelaide 1.7 (1)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000)	[18]
Saturday, 5 June (3:20 pm)	Norwood 5.13 (5)	def.	Port Adelaide 2.3 (2)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 500)	[19]

Round 9

	Round 9
Saturday, 12 June (3:20 pm)	South Adelaide 2.6 (2)	def. by	Port Adelaide 3.8 (3)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[20]

Round 10

	Round 10
Saturday, 19 June (3:00 pm)	South Adelaide 3.8 (3)	def.	Norwood 2.12 (2)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000)	[21]
Saturday, 19 June	Port Adelaide 1.5 (1)	def. by	Adelaide 3.8 (3)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,000)	[22][23]

Round 11

	Round 11
Monday, 21 June	Norwood 8.13 (8)	def.	Port Adelaide 2.11 (2)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 6,000)	[24]

Round 12

	Round 11
Saturday, 26 June (3:00 pm)	Adelaide 2.8 (2)	def. by	Norwood 4.9 (4)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000)	[25]

Round 13

	Round 12
Saturday, 3 July (3:30 pm)	Adelaide 6.9 (6)	def.	Port Adelaide 4.6 (4)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[26][27]

Round 14

	Round 13
Saturday, 24 July (3:12 pm)	Adelaide 5.7 (5)	def.	South Adelaide 3.7 (3)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[28][29]
Saturday, 24 July	Port Adelaide 3.13 (3)	drew with	Norwood 3.7 (3)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,000)	[30]

Round 15

	Round 14
Saturday, 31 July (3:10 pm)	Adelaide 2.8 (2)	def. by	Norwood 4.13 (4)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,500)	[31]
Saturday, 31 July (3:25 pm)	South Adelaide 9.9 (9)	def.	Port Adelaide 5.3 (5)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 200)	[32]

Round 16

	Round 15
Saturday, 7 August (3:10 pm)	South Adelaide 4.12 (4)	def.	Norwood 3.9 (3)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000)	[33]
Saturday, 7 August (3:00 pm)	Port Adelaide 8.9 (8)	def.	Adelaide 5.7 (5)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 650)	[34][35]

Round 17

	Round 16
Saturday, 14 August (3:20 pm)	Adelaide 3.19 (3)	def.	Port Adelaide 1.5 (1)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,700)	[36][37]

Round 18

	Round 17
Saturday, 21 August	Adelaide 6.7 (6)	def.	Norwood 0.9 (0)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,500)	[38]
Saturday, 21 August	Port Adelaide 3.8 (3)	def.	South Adelaide 2.10 (2)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[39]

Round 19

	Round 18
Saturday, 28 August	Adelaide 2.15 (2)	def. by	South Adelaide 4.4 (4)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000)	[40]

Round 20

	Round 20
Wednesday, 1 September (3:17 pm)	South Adelaide 1.5 (1)	def.	Norwood 7.13 (7)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000)	[41]
Norwood originally won the game on 1 September, but the game was later awarded to South Adelaide after a player who was deemed to have been "rough" had not paid his fine.[42]

Round 21

	Round 19
Saturday, 4 September (3:30 pm)	South Adelaide 6.6 (6)	def.	Port Adelaide 3.5 (3)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500)	[43]

Ladder

1886 SAFA Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	GF	BF	GA	BA
1	Adelaide	15	9	5	1	54	131	47	118
2	South Adelaide	15	8	5	2	48	115	50	123
3	Norwood	15	7	6	2	59	146	41	104
4	Port Adelaide	15	3	11	1	41	95	64	137
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers									[44]

Attendances

The figures for club and ground attendances are only based on those given above.

By Club

1886 SAFA club attendances

Club	Avg. Per Game
Norwood	2,672
Adelaide	2,155
South Adelaide	1,882
Port Adelaide	1,503

By ground

1886 SAFA ground attendances

Ground	Games	Avg. Per Game
Adelaide Oval	18	2,619
North Park Lands Botanic Gardens	1	2,500
Alberton Oval	7	1,164
Kensington Oval	4	950

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