1900 SAFA season

1900 SAFA premiership season
24th SAFA season Pictured above is the 1900 North Adelaide premiership team
Teams	6
Premiers	North Adelaide (1st premiership)
Minor premiers	North Adelaide (1st minor premiership)
Matches played	45
Highest attendance	7,000 (Grand Final, North Adelaide vs. South Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker	Not awarded
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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 won their third wooden spoon, which is the club's last wooden spoon as of 2016.

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. "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.