1877 SAFA season
| 1877 SAFA premiership season | |
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| Teams | 8 |
| Premiers |
 South Adelaide Victorian(1st premiership) |
| Matches played | 52 |
| Highest attendance | 650 (Round 7, Adelaide vs. South Adelaide) |
| Leading goalkicker |
 John YoungAdelaide (14 Goals) |
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The 1877 South Australian Football Association season was the inaugural season of the top level league of Australian rules football in South Australia. The clubs participating were South Adelaide, Victoria, Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Woodville, South Park, Kensington and Bankers.
South Adelaide and Victorian would share the premiership honours after tying at the years end. The Bankers Football Club would finish the season last and would cease to exist at years end.
The newly formed South Australian Football Association decided that the playing fields for the season must be between 180-200 yards (165-183m) long and 120-150 yards (110-137m) wide and that pushing from behind be prohibited. For clubs to gain membership of the association would cost them two Guineas for the year.
Despite finishing the season with more goals and an extra draw, it was decided that Victorian would share the premiership with South Adelaide, especially considering the prior played the Bankers twice while the latter did not (their only scheduled match being forfeited by the Bankers).
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