1971 SANFL season

Last updated

1971 SANFL season
Teams10
Premiers North Adelaide
10th premiership
Minor premiers North Adelaide
10th minor premiership
Magarey Medallist Russell Ebert
Port Adelaide
Ken Farmer Medallist Fred Phillis
Glenelg (99 Goals)
Attendance
Matches played109
Total attendance1,023,433 (9,389 per match)
Highest52,228 (Grand Final, North Adelaide vs. Port Adelaide)
  1970
1972  

The 1971 South Australian National Football League season was the 92nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

Contents

Ladder

1971 SANFL Ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPA %PTS
1 North Adelaide (P)2117402076164555.7934
2 Port Adelaide 2116502197159457.9532
3 Sturt 2115602080140159.7530
4 Central District 2112902151192052.8424
5 Norwood 21101102047196251.0620
6 Glenelg 2191202132203051.2318
7 West Torrens 2181301525176746.3216
8 West Adelaide 2161501698201645.7212
9 South Adelaide 2161501615207843.7312
10 Woodville 2161501596270437.1212
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

Finals Series

Grand Final

1971 SANFL Grand Final
Saturday, 25 September
(2:10 pm)
North Adelaide def. Port Adelaide Adelaide Oval (crowd: 52,228) [2]
4.6 (30)
6.11 (47)
9.18 (72)
 10.19 (79)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
0.1 (1)
0.3 (3)
2.4 (16)
 9.5 (59)

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Port Adelaide Football Club</span> Australian rules football club

Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed the Power, whilst its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where they are nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding, the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and 4 Championship of Australia titles, in addition to an AFL Premiership in 2004. It has also fielded a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) league since 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">South Australian National Football League</span> Australian rules football competition

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Football Park</span> Former Australian rules football stadium in Adelaide, South Australia

Football Park, known commercially as AAMI Stadium, was an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia, Australia. It was built in 1973 by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and opened in 1974. Until the end of the 2013 AFL season, it served as the home ground of South Australia's AFL clubs, the Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club. It also hosted all SANFL finals from 1974 to 2013. Demolition of the stadium's grandstands began in August 2018, and finished in March 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adelaide Oval</span> Stadium in Adelaide, South Australia

Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but has also played host to rugby league, rugby union, soccer, tennis among other sports as well as regularly being used to hold concerts. Austadiums.com described Adelaide Oval as being "one of the most picturesque Test cricket grounds in Australia, if not the world." After the completion of the ground's most recent redevelopment in 2014, sports journalist Gerard Whateley described the venue as being "the most perfect piece of modern architecture because it's a thoroughly contemporary stadium with all the character that it's had in the past."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Russell Ebert</span> Australian rules footballer, 1949-2021

Russell Frank Ebert was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He is considered one of the greatest players in the history of Australian rules football in South Australia. Ebert is the only player to have won four Magarey Medals, which are awarded to the best and fairest player in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He is one of four Australian rules footballers to have a statue at Adelaide Oval, the others being Ken Farmer, Malcolm Blight and Barrie Robran. Football historian John Devaney described Ebert as coming "as close as any player in history to exhibiting complete mastery over all the essential skills of the game," and he is widely regarded as the Port Adelaide Football Club's greatest ever player. Aside from his 392 games at Port Adelaide, Ebert played 25 games for North Melbourne in the 1979 VFL season and collected over 500 possessions as a midfielder for the club, which reached the preliminary final. Ebert was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, and was posthumously elevated to Legend status in June 2022, the highest honour that can be bestowed onto an Australian footballer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fos Williams</span> Australian rules footballer and coach

Foster Neil "Fos" Williams AM was a leading Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Port Adelaide and West Adelaide Football Clubs and coached South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in a career spanning 1946–1978. He also played 34 interstate games for South Australia, captaining the team from 1954 to 1958 and he coached the team in 45 games from 1955 to 1969.

Brett William Backwell is a former Australian rules football player who achieved some international notoriety in 2005 when he had a finger amputated to enable him to continue his chosen sport. Backwell played for Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1999 to 2001, and won the J. J. Liston Trophy in 2001 and the Magarey Medal in 2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norwood Oval</span> Multipurpose stadium near Adelaide, Australia

Norwood Oval is a suburban oval in the western end of Norwood, an inner eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is owned by Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council but managed by the Norwood Football Club. Though mainly used for Australian rules football, the oval has been used for a variety of other sporting and community events including baseball, soccer, rugby league and American football. It is the home ground for the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the primary home ground of the Adelaide Crows in AFL Women's (AFLW).

The Australian Football League stages the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in the country.

The 1974 South Australian National Football League season was the 95th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1973 South Australian National Football League season was the 94th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1970 South Australian National Football League season was the 91st season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1968 South Australian National Football League season was the 89th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1964 South Australian National Football League season was the 85th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1967 South Australian National Football League season was the 88th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1966 South Australian National Football League season was the 87th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1963 South Australian National Football League season was the 84th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1962 South Australian National Football League season was the 83rd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 2018 South Australian National Football League season was the 139th season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Australian rules football competition. The season commenced on Friday, 30 March and concluded with the SANFL Grand Final on Sunday, 23 September. North Adelaide, who had finished last in 2017 and fifth place at the end of the home-and-away season, defeated minor premier Norwood by 19 points to win their fourteenth premiership, their first since 1991.

References

  1. "Australian Football – SANFL Premiership season – Season 1971". Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  2. "Australian Football – SANFL Season 1971". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2018.