1885 SAFA season
| 1885 SAFA premiership season | |
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9th SAFA season
Pictured above is the 1885 premiership team. |
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| Teams | 4 |
| Premiers |
 South Adelaide(2nd premiership) |
| Matches played | 30 |
| Attendance | 54,000 (1,800 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 8,000 (Round 6, Adelaide vs. South Adelaide) |
| Leading goalkicker |
H R Hill South Adelaide (19 goals) |
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The 1885 South Australian Football Association season was the 9th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The Adelaide Football Club returned to the league in a standalone capacity for the first time since 1880.
The 1885 SAFA season was the first time in the competitions history that all clubs played an equal number of games.
Twenty three of the thirty games played had crowd figures quoted for an approximate average of 1,800 spectators per game.
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