1894 SAFA season

1894 SAFA premiership season
Norwood, premiers
Teams4
PremiersNorwood
11th premiership
Minor premiersSouth Adelaide 1st Round
Norwood 2nd Round
Leading goalkickerAnthony Daly
Norwood (47 goals)
Matches played38
Highest9,000 (Grand Final Replay, Norwood v. South Adelaide)

The 1894 South Australian Football Association season was the 18th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

Adelaide Football Club resigns from SAFA

The Adelaide Football Club, Premiers in 1886, and who joined the SAFA in 1885 after a merger of North Adelaide Juniors and North Park from the Adelaide and Suburban Association, resigned from the SAFA before the commencement of the 1894 season and folded.

At a meeting of the committee of the SAFA on Monday, 9 March 1894, it was reported Mr. B. Shepley (Secretary of the Adelaide Football Club) wrote giving notice that his club wished to retire from the Association. The club regretted the circumstance and wished the Association every success.[1][2]

For the 1893 season, Adelaide had merged with the Eastbourne Football Club, 1891 and 1892 Premiers of the City and Suburban Association. The Eastbourne Football Club on 18 April 1894 applied for readmission to the City and Suburban Association and were accepted.

The Adelaide Club has no relationship to the modern day Adelaide Crows formed in 1990.

Season Programme

The programme as drawn up by the sub committee and adopted by the committee was as follows:—
1st Round May 5, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington):
May 12, South v. Port (Adelaide), Norwood v. North Adelaide (Kensington);
May 19, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Alberton);
May 24 (holiday), South v. Port (Adelaide);
May 26, Norwood v. North Adelaide (Adelaide);
June 2, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Alberton);
June 9, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington);
June 16, South v. Port (Adelaide);
June 20 (holiday), Norwood v. Port (Adelaide);
June 23, South v. North Adelaide (Adelaide);
June 30, Norwood v. South (Adelaide),[3] Port v. North Adelaide (Kensington);
[4]
2nd Round[5]
July 7, South v. Port (Adelaide), Norwood v. North Adelaide (Kensington);[6]
July 14, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington);
July 21, Yorke'a Peninsula v. a combined team picked by the Association (Adelaide);
July 28, Port v. North Adelaide (Adelaide);
August 4, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Kensington);
August 11, Norwood v. North Adelaide (Adelaide);
August 18, North v. South (Adelaide);
August 25, South v. Port (Adelaide), Norwood v. North Adelaide (Kensington);
September 1 (holiday), Norwood v. South (Adelaide) ;
September 8, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington);
September 15, South v. Port (Adelaide), Norwood v. North Adelaide (Kensington);
September 22, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Alberton);
September 29, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington).

Note: The season was divided into two rounds, with the winner of each round playing in a premiership play-off match.

Ladders (Minor Round)

1894 SAFA Ladder - First Round (Final Table after Playoff)
TEAM P W L D GF BF GA BA Pts
1 South Adelaide (W) 10 8 2 0 79 108 45 66 16
2 Norwood 10 7 3 0 84 87 45 73 14
3 Port Adelaide 9 3 6 0 44 71 49 71 6
4 North Adelaide 9 1 8 0 21 41 89 97 2
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (W) = Winner


As South Adelaide and Norwood finished in a tie for first place in the first round, a play-off match was required: the clubs arranged for the play-off to take place on August 11.
The match originally fixed for that day, Norwood vs North Adelaide, was moved to the following Saturday at Kensington; North Adelaide were granted £10 as compensation for losing an Adelaide Oval fixture.[7]

1894 SAFA 1st Round Premiership Playoff Football Match

1st Round Premiership Playoff
Saturday 11 August (afternoon) South Adelaide def. Norwood Adelaide Oval [8]
1.8 (1)
2.10 (2)
3.13 (3)
5.15 (5) 		Q1
Q2
Q3
Final 		0.0 (0)
0.3 (0)
0.5 (0)
3.7 (3)
1894 SAFA Ladder - Second Round
TEAM P W L D GF BF GA BA Pts
1 Norwood (W) 9 7 2 0 52 67 35 42 14
2 Port Adelaide 9 6 3 0 49 66 41 42 12
3 South Adelaide 9 5 4 0 49 71 38 67 10
4 North Adelaide 9 0 9 0 16 33 52 86 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (W) = Winner
Notes: North Adelaide forfeited two games, one each against Norwood and Port Adelaide. 		[9]

Grand final

1894 SAFA Premiership Football Match

Grand Final
Saturday 6 October (3:00 pm) Norwood drew with South Adelaide Adelaide Oval [10]
0.0 (0)
1.3 (1)
2.4 (2)
4.8 (4) 		Q1
Q2
Q3
Final 		1.5 (1)
1.5 (1)
3.8 (3)
4.8 (4)
  • Despite a provision for 20 minute periods of extra time, the match was abandoned after full time due to darkness; the result stood, and a replay was ordered.

1894 SAFA Premiership Football Match Replay

Grand Final Replay
Wednesday 10 October (2:00 pm) Norwood def. South Adelaide Adelaide Oval (crowd: 9,000) [11]
1.1 (1)
2.4 (2)
2.5 (2)
4.7 (4) 		Q1
Q2
Q3
Final 		2.4 (2)
2.4 (2)
3.5 (3)
3.5 (3)

References

  1. ^ "Football. S.a. Football Association". Adelaide Observer. 14 April 1894.
  2. ^ "Football". Adelaide Observer. 28 April 1894.
  3. ^ "Football". Evening Journal. 1894.
  4. ^ "Football Flights". Quiz and the Lantern. 1894.
  5. ^ "Football". South Australian Register. 1894.
  6. ^ "Norwood V. North Adelaide". South Australian Register. 1894.
  7. ^ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202818421
  8. ^ "Football". The Telegraph (Adelaide). Adelaide. 13 August 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 21 September 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "[FOOTBALL RETROSPECT]". The Chronicle (South Australia). 20 October 1894. p. 14. Retrieved 21 January 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "Football". South Australian Chronicle. Adelaide. 13 October 1894. p. 15. Retrieved 23 December 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "THE FINAL STRUGGLE". South Australian Chronicle. Adelaide. 13 October 1894. p. 15. Retrieved 23 December 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
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