Despite State of Origin football disappearing from the AFL calendar in 1999, the medal continues to be awarded to the best player for the SANFL representative team in interstate football. Norwood's dominance of the competition would end in the 2015 season, eliminated at the first week of the finals as West Adelaide ended a 32-year premiership drought with their five-goal defeat of Woodville-West Torrens in the Grand Final. The 2022 South Australian National Football League season (officially the SANFL Hostplus League) was the 143rd season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the highest-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. PDF 2021 MATCH DAY GUIDE - imgix But the Panthers emerged from the break playing a more direct brand of footy and outscored Sturt 5.2 to 0.2 to pull ahead by 26 points at three-quarter-time. Last edited on 28 December 2022, at 08:17, South Australian National Football League, "australianfootball.com / 2021 SANFL Premiership Season", "Port Adelaide and Adelaide Crows return to SANFL competition in 2021", "OPINION: The time is now to rally around SANFL strugglers West Adelaide", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2021_SANFL_season&oldid=1130030711, 23,000 Grand Final - Eagles vs Glenelg at Adelaide Oval, This page was last edited on 28 December 2022, at 08:17. The Stanley H. Lewis Memorial Trophy, awarded annually since 1962, recognises the best combined record in all levels of SANFL competition. Although SANFL crowds now competes heavily with the two AFL national league clubs, the SANFL still has the second highest attendance of any Australian rules football league and the highest attendance for any regional league of any football code. The season was conducted with 14 rounds and a Final Four. After switching to 16-minute plus time-on quarters in 2020, the AFL has made the decision to return the traditional 20-minute length for 2021. These awards were merged in 2009 when the two under-age competitions were replaced with an U-18's league, similar to those adopted in the West Australian Football League and the VFL's TAC Cup. SANFL finals week one: South send Roosters packing, Eagles through to SANFL Player Focus: Max Litster (Woodville-West Torrens) The SANFL (South Australian National Football League) is the premier League and governing body for Australian Football in South Australia. In 1994 after a tender process put to all the SANFL clubs, the Port Adelaide Football Club secured a licence to enter the AFL. Commissioned in 2002, the medal was first won by James Gowans of Central District. The Woodville and West Torrens Clubs merged at the end of the 1990 Season and won their first premiership in 1993 against Norwood. In 1898, in an effort to stamp out rough play and improve respect of umpires, Magarey instituted the medal to be awarded to the player deemed by umpires to be the fairest and most brilliant for that season. In 1910 Adelaide University made an application to enter the competition. 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. Woodville-West Torrens made an emphatic start to its Under-16 Torrens University Cup campaign, belting Central District by 77 points in Thursday night's season opener at X Convenience Oval. At the time the Adelaide Oval doubled as both league headquarters and South Adelaide's home ground. For more than 100 years one of Port Adelaide, Norwood, North Adelaide or Sturt appeared in every Grand Final.
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