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1940 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
The South Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club that competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Known as the Panthers, their home ground is Flinders University Stadium, located in Noarlunga Downs in the southern suburbs of Adelaide.
Perth Oval, currently branded HBF Park and called Perth Rectangular Stadium for international football matches, is a sports stadium in Perth, the capital of the Australian state of Western Australia. Located close to Perth's central business district, the stadium currently has a maximum capacity of 20,500 people for sporting events and 25,000 people for concerts, with the ground's record attendance of 32,000 people set during an Ed Sheeran concert in 2015. The land on which the stadium was built was made a public reserve in 1904, with the main ground developed several years later.
Lindsay G. White was an Australian rules footballer who represented Geelong and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s.
Keith Sylvester Shea was an Australian rules footballer who played at high levels in both Victoria and Western Australia. His senior VFL playing career spanned from 1932 to 1945, although it was interrupted by the war and he continued on playing country football until 1950.
Sampson Hosking was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian Football League (SAFL). He was twice a recipient of the Magarey Medal, an individual award given in recognition of being the best and fairest player in the SAFL. After his playing career Hosking was also an accomplished football coach successfully leading Port Adelaide and the West Torrens Football Club to a combined six premierships. In 1929 he was described in the Register as "one of the most prominent figures in the game during the past 20 years. Combining exceptional pace with a football brain of rare fertility".
The North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) was an Australian rules football league in New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. The league was formed in November 2010, and its inaugural competition was in 2011. It was a second division league, sitting below the national Australian Football League (AFL) and featured the reserves teams of the region's four AFL clubs playing alongside six non-AFL affiliated NEAFL senior teams. Nine NEAFL seasons were contested between 2011 and 2019, before the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the league was amalgamated into the Victorian Football League from 2021.
Ethelbert Luxmore "Bert" Renfrey was an Australian rules footballer who played in the South Australian Football Association, Victorian Football League and West Australian Football Association.
The 1940 WANFL season was the 56th season of the various incarnations of the Western Australian National Football League. It saw Claremont win its third consecutive premiership, but its last before returning to the status of cellar-dweller it occupied during its first decade in the WA(N)FL – between 1943 and 1978 Claremont played finals only five times for one premiership. South Fremantle, after a lean period in the middle 1930s, displaced perennial power clubs East Fremantle and East Perth as the Tigers’ Grand Final opponent, and established some of the basis, in spite of three disastrous wartime under-age seasons, for the club's fabled dynasty after the war.
The 1914 South Australian Football League season was the 38th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1879 South Australian Football Association season was the 3rd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1880 South Australian Football Association season was the 4th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1913 South Australian Football League season was the 37th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1931 South Australian National Football League season was the 52nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1932 South Australian National Football League season was the 53rd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1935 South Australian National Football League season was the 56th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1939 South Australian National Football League season was the 60th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1941 South Australian National Football League season was the 62nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1945 South Australian National Football League season was the 66th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
Parker Thomas "Bo" Morton was an Australian rules footballer, coach and administrator for the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
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- ↑ "Australian Football – SANFL Season 1940". Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
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