The 1919 South Australian Football League season was the 40th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

1919 SAFL premiership season
39th SAFL season
Pictured above is the 1919 Sturt premiership team.
Teams7
PremiersSturt
2nd premiership
Minor premiersSturt
2nd minor premiership
Magarey MedallistDan Moriarty
South Adelaide
Leading goalkickerLen Lackman
Port Adelaide (26 goals)
Matches played48
Highest35,000 (Grand Final Replay, Sturt vs. North Adelaide)

The Grand Final of the 1919 SAFL season ended in a draw between Sturt and North Adelaide. The Grand Final Replay was won by Sturt in what is currently the last drawn SANFL Grand Final.

Ladder

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1919 SAFL Ladder
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Sturt (P) 12 10 2 0 771 563 57.80 20
2 West Torrens 12 9 3 0 692 569 54.88 18
3 North Adelaide 12 7 5 0 610 471 56.43 14
4 Port Adelaide 12 6 5 1 693 544 56.02 13
5 South Adelaide 12 4 7 1 605 671 47.41 9
6 West Adelaide 12 4 8 0 595 854 41.06 8
7 Norwood 12 1 11 0 558 852 39.57 2
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals series

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Grand Final

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1919 SAFL Grand Final
Wednesday, 8 October Sturt def. North Adelaide Adelaide Oval (crowd: 35,000)
0.2 (2)
0.3 (3)
0.4 (4)
3.5 (23)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
0.3 (3)
1.4 (10)
2.6 (18)
2.6 (18)

References

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  1. ^ "Australian Football – SANFL Season 1919". Archived from the original on 5 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015.