1885 SAFA premiership season South Adelaide, premiers
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 HillSouth Adelaide (19 goals)
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 combined with North Parks from the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association and returned to the league in a standalone capacity for the first time since 1880 (it had merged with Kensington for the 1881 season, but resigned after five games).
The 1885 SAFA season was the first time since 1878 that all clubs played a fixed number of games.
Twenty three of the thirty games played had crowd figures quoted for an approximate average of 1,800 spectators per game.
Premiership season [ ]
Round 1 [ ]
Round 2 [ ]
Round 3 [ ]
Round 4 [ ]
Round 5 [ ]
Round 6 [ ]
Round 7 [ ]
Round 8 [ ]
Round 9 [ ]
Round 10 [ ]
Round 11 [ ]
Round 12 [ ]
Round 13 [ ]
Round 14 [ ]
Round 15 [ ]
Round 16 [ ]
Round 17 [ ]
Ladder [ ]
TEAM
P
W
L
D
GF
BF
GA
BA
1
South Adelaide
15
11
2
2
72
159
36
96
2
Norwood
15
7
7
1
42
162
54
161
3
Port Adelaide
15
6
8
1
49
159
41
146
4
Adelaide
15
4
11
0
38
111
70
188
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers
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