The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL, is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
An early football player guernsey and Cap
Port Adelaide played its early games at Bucks Flat, Glanville Hall Estate from 1870 to 1879
The Port Adelaide Football Club won their first premiership in 1884.(1884 Port Adelaide team pictured).
Adelaide's 1886 premiership team. The club which players were solely South Australians was formed from a merger of two junior clubs in 1885 - North Adelaide Juniors and North Park.
Sturt Football Club
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The Sturt Football Club, nicknamed The Double Blues, is a semi-professional Australian rules football club based in the suburb of Unley, South Australia, which plays in the South Australian National F
South Australian National Football League
…the Association allowed up to eight teams based on the State's Electoral Districts and the competition expanded to seven teams when a new football club Sturt formed by the local cricket club joined the Association in 1901 to fill the zone based on the Electoral District of Sturt, but it performed poorly…
The 1919 premiership team.