1956 SANFL season

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1956 SANFL season
Teams10
PremiersPort Adelaide
(17th premiership)
Minor premiersPort Adelaide
(26th minor premiership)
Matches played76
Attendance765,727 (10,075 per match)
Highest attendance45,514 (Grand Final, Port Adelaide vs. West Adelaide)
Ken Farmer MedallistRex Johns
Port Adelaide (70 Goals)
Magarey MedallistDave Boyd
Port Adelaide
← 1955
1957 →

The 1956 South Australian National Football League season was the 77th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

Ladder[]

1956 SANFL Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA % PTS
1 Port Adelaide (P) 18 17 1 0 1700 911 65.11 34
2 West Adelaide 18 12 5 1 1458 1124 56.47 25
3 North Adelaide 18 10 8 0 1330 1176 53.07 20
4 Norwood 18 10 8 0 1373 1407 49.39 20
5 West Torrens 18 6 11 1 1322 1365 49.20 13
6 Glenelg 18 6 11 1 1279 1612 44.24 13
7 South Adelaide 18 6 12 0 1244 1566 44.27 12
8 Sturt 18 3 14 1 1152 1697 40.44 7
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

Finals Series[]

Grand Final[]

1956 SANFL Grand Final
Saturday 29 September (2:10 pm) Port Adelaide def. West Adelaide Adelaide Oval (crowd: 45,514) Report
3.2 (20)
4.5 (29)
8.8 (56)
 12.9 (81) 		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final 		1.5 (11)
4.8 (32)
5.9 (39)
 9.11 (65)

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 June 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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