Adelaide Football Club (SAFA)
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| Full name | Adelaide Football Club | |
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| Founded | 26 April 1860 | |
| Dissolved | October 1893 | |
| Colours | black, red, and white | |
| Competition | Interclub competition 1860-1872, 1875-1876 SAFA 1877-1881, 1885-1893 |
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| Premierships | 1870, 1871, 1886 | |
| Ground(s) | Adelaide Oval | |
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The Adelaide Football Club was an Australian rules football club, based in Adelaide, that played interclub football between 1870 to 1872 and 1875 to 1876, and then played in the South Australian Football Association (SAFA) from 1877–81 and 1885–93, winning the interclub premiership in 1870-1871 and the SAFA premiership in 1886. The club bears no relation to the present Adelaide Football Club playing in the Australian Football League.
The Adelaide Football Club was formed on Thursday 26 April 1860 at the Globe Inn Hotel, Rundle Street with John Brodie Spence chairing the meeting. It was the first in South Australia, and initially only played matches internally: North (of the River Torrens) v. South. J. B. Spence led one side and John Acraman the other. The first such match was played on the North Parklands on Saturday 28 April 1860. The club had its own game rules. The first recorded match against a rival club was played in 1862 against the Modbury Football Club on a strip of grass near the Modbury Hotel. Adelaide won the game two goals to nil. The two teams met again the next year, and "the game was kept up with the greatest spirit and good feeling, and so equally were the sides matched that not a goal was obtained".
Adelaide stopped playing games against other clubs in 1873 after the Kensington club rules became popular amongst the other clubs at the time but resumed playing games against other clubs in the 1876 season.
In 1877 Adelaide captain Nowell Twopenney was influential in establishing the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), and the club was one of the founding members of the SAFA (now the SANFL). In the SAFA's original season, Adelaide finished third, winning ten, losing three and drawing three of its 16 matches, and finishing with a goal differential of 18. Adelaide finished fifth out of seven teams in each of the next two seasons, and last in 1880.
The team's poor performances on and off-field forced the club to merge with Kensington for the 1881 season due to a lack of players. These problems continued, forcing the combined team to resign from the competition on June 1st 1881 after playing four matches, with a fifth being forfeited when the team failed to appear. During the years 1882 to 1884, the club did not play in the SAFA.
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