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South Australian Football League

SANFL
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event2016 SANFL season
South Australian National Football League logo.png
Formerly South Australian Football Association
(1877–1906)
South Australian Football League
(1907–1927)
Sport Australian rules football
Founded 30 April 1877
Inaugural season 1877
CEO Jake Parkinson
No. of teams 10
Country Australia
Most recent
champion(s)
Sturt Football Club
(14th premiership)
Most titles Port Adelaide
(36 premierships)
TV partner(s) Seven Network
Sponsor(s) McDonalds
Official website www.sanfl.com.au

The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL, is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia.

Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877, the SANFL is the oldest surviving football league of any code in Australia and one of the oldest football competitions in the world, forming just a few years after the United Hospitals Challenge Cup (1874), the oldest rugby football competition, and over a decade before The Football League (soccer).

Consisting of a single division competition, the season is an 18-round "home-and-away" (regular) season from April to September. The top five teams play-off in a final series culminating in the grand final for the Thomas Seymour Hill Premiership Trophy. The grand final had traditionally been held at Football Park in October, generally the week after the AFL Grand Final, though this was altered ahead of the 2014 season resulting in Adelaide Oval hosting the grand final in the penultimate weekend of September.

The league owned the sub-licences for South Australia's two AFL clubs – Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club until March 2014, when South Australian Football Commission reached an agreement with the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs – endorsed by the AFL – which will see the two AFL licences transferred to the clubs in return for payments totalling more than $18 million.


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