About: Australian rules football in South Australia

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Australian rules football in South Australia has long been the most popular sport in the state. Forms of football were played very early in the history of the Colony of South Australia pre-dating the organisation of Australian rules football in Victoria and rivalled football's popularity there. In 1877, the colony officially adopted the code in order to compete in the very first intercolonial representative football match in Australia against Victoria. The first governing body, the South Australian Football Association formed on 13 April 1877, remains the oldest competition in Australia.

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  • Australian rules football in South Australia has long been the most popular sport in the state. Forms of football were played very early in the history of the Colony of South Australia pre-dating the organisation of Australian rules football in Victoria and rivalled football's popularity there. In 1877, the colony officially adopted the code in order to compete in the very first intercolonial representative football match in Australia against Victoria. The first governing body, the South Australian Football Association formed on 13 April 1877, remains the oldest competition in Australia. Since the Federation of Australia, South Australia has been the second strongest of all the states in the sport. From 1976 to 2003 South Australia held the record for the largest attendance in the sport outside of Victoria. South Australia holds the world record for a non-VFL/AFL attendance with the 1976 SANFL Grand Final drawing an estimated 80,000 spectators which remains the record crowd for any code of football in the state and the third highest official attendance outside of Victoria. The SANFL remains the second most attended league worldwide in the sport. Several South Australian clubs have been crowned Champions of Australia, with Port Adelaide having held the title the most times most overall (4). The South Australian state football team (the "Croweaters") have defeated every state in Interstate matches in Australian rules football including Victoria with the intense rivalry inspiring the popular catchcry "Kick a Vic". South Australia in 2019 had the highest participation rate (4.8%) of any state in Australia (and second only to the Northern Territory) and is the only state or territory in Australia where Australian rules football participation is higher than soccer. There are two professional Australian Football League clubs based in the state: the Adelaide Football Club (1990) and Port Adelaide Football Club (1870), the latter having the distinction of being the only pre-existing club to have entered the AFL from another league, as a founding member of the SAFA (SANFL). These two clubs compete against each other in the "Showdown". The state has produced some of the greatest Australian Footballers of all time, including the Australian Football Hall of Fame legends: Barrie Robran, Malcolm Blight, Jack Oatey and Russell Ebert. Craig Bradley holds the record for the most AFL games for a born and raised South Australian with 375, while Stephen Kernahan has kicked the most AFL goals with 738. In women's Australian rules, Erin Phillips is arguably the greatest with 2 AFLW best and fairests and also has kicked the most goals, while Ebony Marinoff has played the most AFLW games. (en)
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  • The 2014 South Australia National Football League Grand Final at the Adelaide Oval (en)
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  • OIC norwood oval 1.jpg (en)
  • Supreme Court of South Australia.jpg (en)
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  • in regards to impacts of gate revenue sharing adopted by the SANFL for the 1985 season on Norwood and Port Adelaide (en)
  • in regards to the other SANFL clubs opposing Port Adelaide's entry. (en)
  • coach and inaugural coach Graham Cornes's address to the Port Adelaide change-rooms post the 1990 SANFL Grand Final. (en)
  • Inside Football, June 1994 (en)
  • champion, August 1994 (en)
  • upon accepting the 1990 Jack Oatey Medal for best on ground at the 1990 SANFL Grand Final. (en)
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  • Australian rules football (en)
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  • "What would be left of the SA league without the great clubs such as Norwood and Port Adelaide? It would drop to a miserable fourth-class contest. No one could blame Norwood and Port Adelaide for wanting to get out of the SA league into national ranks if they are further threatened by the dragging down process. (en)
  • "In my opinion coming second [not getting the second South Australian AFL licence] means you die" (en)
  • "In 1988 a deputation from Norwood Football Club had announced it was interested in joining the VFL 'at any time in the future' and ... a private consortium headed by Ken Eustice was interested in grabbing a licence". (en)
  • "The sub-licence should be granted to an amalgamation of two SANFL clubs" (en)
  • "I only hope petty jealousies and fears within the S.A.N.F.L. don't short circuit a Port Adelaide proposal which clearly seems better than any other" (en)
  • "These twenty blokes, everyone who has helped us, are sensational people and all the views that you have read in the press the one thing that really matters is that there will always be a Port Adelaide Football Club." (en)
  • "They [the SANFL clubs] are not going to make that decision until they are at the lowest possible ebb. They'd be voting themselves into obscurity [opting for a composite team] in their state." (en)
  • "I want to tell you that you want to enjoy this moment for what it is because the good times are well and truly gone. Apart from Jack and the players there are a couple of individuals out there who are responsible for that and make sure you enjoy tonight because the good times will not happen again." (en)
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  • South Australian Football Commission (en)
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  • Australian rules football in South Australia has long been the most popular sport in the state. Forms of football were played very early in the history of the Colony of South Australia pre-dating the organisation of Australian rules football in Victoria and rivalled football's popularity there. In 1877, the colony officially adopted the code in order to compete in the very first intercolonial representative football match in Australia against Victoria. The first governing body, the South Australian Football Association formed on 13 April 1877, remains the oldest competition in Australia. (en)
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  • Australian rules football in South Australia (en)
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