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1886 SAFA season

1886 SAFA premiership season
Adelaide Football Club 1886.jpg
10th SAFA season
Pictured above is the 1886 Adelaide premiership team.
Teams 4
Premiers Adelaide SAFA design.jpg Adelaide
(1st premiership)
Matches played 31
Attendance 61,590 (1,987 per match)
Highest attendance 6,000 (Round 6, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker Adelaide SAFA design.jpg Richard Stephens
Adelaide (17 goals)
1885
1887

The 1886 South Australian Football Association season was the 10th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

This was the first season in South Australia that ends were changed four times per match.

Thirty of the thirty one games played had crowd figures quoted for an approximate average of 1,987 spectators per game.

The figures for club and ground attendances are only based on those given above.


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