South Australian Country Football Championships

The South Australian Country Football Championships is an annual Australian rules football competition run by the South Australian National Football League, played between representative teams from the six country football zones.

Current Zones

The competing zones, which differ from the zones defined in the constitution of the South Australian Community Football League, ^[1] consist of the following: ^[2]

Zone	Colours	Leagues	Championships
			Men		Women
			Total	Years	Total	Years
Central Zone		Adelaide Plains Football League Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association Yorke Peninsula Football League	3	2006, 2013, 2019	1	2023
Eastern Zone		Hills Football League Murray Valley Football League Riverland Football League River Murray Football League	4	1998, 2008, 2023, 2024	2	2018, 2024
Eyre Peninsula (Western)		Eastern Eyre Football League Great Flinders Football League Port Lincoln Football League Western Eyre Football League	5	1994, 1997, 1999, 2011, 2018	0	-
Northern		Broken Hill Football League Far North Football League Northern Areas Football Association North Eastern Football League Spencer Gulf Football League Whyalla Football League	0	-	1	2021
South East		Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara Football League Limestone Coast Football League Mid South Eastern Football League	4	2014, 2016, 2017, 2022	0	-
Southern Districts		Great Southern Football League Kangaroo Island Football League Southern Football League	11	1995, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021	2	2019, 2022

Competition Results

Men

Year	Location	Champions [3]	Runner-up	3rd	4th	5th	Last	Ref.
1994		Eyre Peninsula
1995	Adelaide	Southern Districts	South East
1996	Adelaide	Southern Districts	Broken Hill / Murray Mallee
1997	Adelaide	Eyre Peninsula	Southern Districts
1998	Adelaide	Murray Mallee	Southern Districts
1999		Eyre Peninusula
2003		Southern Districts	South East
2004		Southern Districts
2005		Southern Districts
2006		Central	Southern Districts	Eyre Peninsula	Murray Mallee Barrier	South East	Northern Cities
2007	Port Pirie	Southern Districts	Central
2008		Murray Mallee Barrier Barossa	Central	South East	Southern Districts	Eyre Peninsula	Northern	[4]
2009	Berri Oval, Berri	Southern Districts	Eastern	Murray South East	Northern	Eyre Peninsula	Central	[5] [6]
2010	Berri Oval, Berri	Southern Districts	Eastern	Central	Murray South East	Eyre Peninsula	Northern	[7] [8]
2011	Memorial Oval, Port Pirie	Western	Murray South East	Southern Districts	Eastern	Northern	Central	[9] [10]
2012	Berri Oval, Berri	Southern Districts	Murray South East	Central	Northern	Eastern	Eyre Peninsula
2013	Memorial Oval, Port Pirie	Central	Murray South East	Eyre Peninsula	Southern Districts	Eastern	Northern	[11] [12] [13]
2014	Kadina Oval, Kadina	Murray South East	Eastern	Eyre Peninsula	Northern	Central	Southern Districts	[14]
2015	Central Oval, Port Augusta	Southern Districts	Murray South East	Western	Eastern	Central	Northern	[15] [16] [17]
2016	Centenary Oval, Port Lincoln	Murray South East	Southern Districts	Western	Northern	Central	Eastern	[18] [19]
2017	Johnstone Park, Murray Bridge	Murray South East	Southern Districts	Western	Eastern	Central	Northern	[20] [21]
2018	Renmark Oval, Renmark	Western	Central	Murray South East	Southern Districts	Northern	Eastern	[22] [23] [24]
2019	Memorial Oval, Port Pirie	Central	Northern	Eyre Peninsula	Southern Districts	Murray South East	Eastern	[25] [26] [27]
2020	No competition due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Victor Harbor Oval, Victor Harbor and Encounter Bay Recreation Reserve, Encounter Bay	Southern Districts	Central	Eyre Peninsula	Northern	Murray South East	Eastern	[28] [29]
2022	Bennett Oval and Memorial Oval, Whyalla	South East	Central	Eyre Peninsula	Eastern	Northern	Southern Districts	[30]
2023	Angas Recreation Park, Angaston and Centennial Oval, Nuriootpa	Eastern	Central	Southern Districts	South East	Eyre Peninsula	Northern	[31]
2024	Victor Harbor Oval, Victor Harbor and Encounter Bay Recreation Reserve, Encounter Bay	Eastern	Central	Eyre Peninsula	Southern Districts	South East	Northern	[32]

Women

Year	Location	Champions [3]	Runner-up	3rd	4th	5th	Last	Ref.
2018	Renmark Oval, Renmark	Eastern	Southern Districts	Northern	South East	Central	5 teams (2018)	[33] [34]
2019	Memorial Oval, Port Pirie	Southern Districts	Northern	Central	Murray South East	Eyre Peninsula	Eastern	[35] [36] [37]
2020	No competition due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Victor Harbor Oval, Victor Harbor and Encounter Bay Recreation Reserve, Encounter Bay	Northern	Murray South East	Southern Districts	Eyre Peninsula	Central	Eastern	[38] [39] [40]
2022	Whyalla Secondary College, Bennett Oval and Memorial Oval, Whyalla	Southern Districts	South East	Central	Northern	Eastern	Eyre Peninsula	[41]
2023	Angas Recreation Park, Angaston and Centennial Oval, Nuriootpa	Central	Eastern	Southern Districts	South East	Eyre Peninsula	Northern	[42]
2024	Victor Harbor Oval, Victor Harbor and Encounter Bay Recreation Reserve, Encounter Bay	Eastern	Central	Eyre Peninsula	South East	Southern Districts	Northern	[43]

Don McSweeny Medal

The Don McSweeny Medal is presented to the best player of the carnival, judged by the allocation of votes by the umpires of each game using the 3-2-1 method. The medal is named after South Australian Football Hall of Famer Don McSweeny OAM.

Name	Medallist [3]
2004	Matt Joraslafsky (Southern)
2005	Justin Henscke (Southern)
2006	Adam Merrett (South East)
2007	Damien Stevens (Murray Mallee Barrier Barossa)
2008	Todd Miles (Central)
2009	Mitchell Portlock (Southern)
2010	Ben Yeomans (Central) & Josh Vick (Southern)
2011	Matthew Woolford (Northern)
2012	Tyson Wait (Murray South East)
2013	Michael Liebelt (Central)
2014	Liam O'Neil (Murray South East) & Ben McIntyre (Murray South East)
2015	Xavier Watson (Eyre Peninsula) & Jack Kenny (Eyre Peninsula)
2016 [44]	Brian Fenton (Murray South East)
2017 [21]	Jack Kelly (Murray South East)
2018
2019	Leigh Ryswyk (Central)
2020	No competition due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Jordan Fuller (Northern)
2022	Matt Willson (South East)
2023	Samuel Callins (Eastern)
2024	Joel Parker-Boers (Eastern)

Bill Murdoch Medal

A Medal is presented to the Coach of the Championships. Since 2013, the medal has been named the Bill Murdoch Medal

Year	Medallist
2007	Tony Fielke (Southern Districts)
2010	Simon Dennis (Southern Districts)
2011	Symon Chase (Western)
2012	Steve Hill (Southern)
2013	Andrew Michael (Central)
2014	Luke Duncan (Murray South East)
2015 [45]	Barry Pilmore (Southern Districts)
2016 [44]	Adam Merrett (Murray South East)
2017 [21]	Adam Merrett (Murray South East)
2018
2019	Steve Lubcke (Central)
2020	No competition due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Scott Wendelborn (Southern Districts)
2022	Jack Kelly (South East)
2023	Adam Klun (Eastern)
2024	Adam Klun (Eastern)

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