1894 SAFA season

1894 SAFA premiership season
Norwood, premiers
Premiers	Norwood 11th premiership
Minor premiers	Norwood 2nd minor premiership
Leading goalkicker	Anthony Daly Norwood (47 goals)
Matches played	38
Highest	9,000 (Grand Final Replay, Norwood v. South Adelaide)

The 1894 South Australian Football Association season was the 18th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The Adelaide Football Club which were Premiers in 1886, joined in 1885 after a merger of North Adelaide Juniors and North Park from the Adelaide and Suburban Association, resigned from the SAFA before the commencement of the 1894 season. It has no relationship to the modern day Adelaide Crows formed in 1990.

At a meeting of the committee of the SAFA on Monday evening 9th March 1894, it was reported Mr. B. Shepley (Secretary of the Adelaide Football Club) wrote giving notice that his club wished to retire from the Association. The club regretted the circumstance and wished the Association every success.

Season Programme

The programme as drawn up by the sub committee and adopted by the oommittee was as follows:— May 5, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington): May 12, South v. Port (Adelaide), Norwood v. North Adelaide (Kensington); May 10, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Alberton); May 24 (holiday), South v. Port (Adelaide); May 26, Norwood v. North Adelaide (Adelaide); June 2, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Alberton); June 9, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington); June 16, South v. Port (Adelaide); June 20 (holiday), Norwood v. Port (Adelaide); June 23, South v. North Adelaide (Adelaide); June 30, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Kensington); July 7, South v. Fort (Adelaide), Norwood v. North Adelaide (Kensington); July 14, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington); July 21, Yorke'a Peninsula v. a combined team picked by the Association (Adelaide); July 28, Port v. North Adelaide (Adelaide); August 4, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Kensington); August 11, Norwood v. North Adelaide (Adelaide); August 18, North v. South (Adelaide); August 25, South v. Port (Adelaide), Norwood v. North Adelaide (Kensington); September 1 (holiday), Norwood v. South (Adelaide) ; September 8, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington); September 15, South v. Port (Adelaide), Norwood v. North Adelaide (Kensington); September 22, Norwood v. South (Adelaide), Port v. North Adelaide (Alberton); September 29, Norwood v. Port (Adelaide), South v. North Adelaide (Kensington).

Ladder

As Norwood and South Adelaide were level on premiership points, a playoff match for the premiership was required.

1894 SAFA Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	GF	BF	GA	BA	Pts
1	Norwood (P)	18	13	5	0	131	147	82	113	26
2	South Adelaide	18	13	5	0	125	174	79	128	26
3	Port Adelaide	18	9	9	0	95	140	85	112	18
4	North Adelaide	18	1	17	0	37	76	145	184	2
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers Notes: North Adelaide forfeited 2 games - one each against Norwood and Port Adelaide

Grand final

1894 SAFA Premiership Football Match

	Grand Final
Saturday 6 October (3:00 pm)	Norwood	drew with	South Adelaide	Adelaide Oval
	0.0 (0) 1.3 (1) 2.4 (2)  4.8 (4)	Q1 Q2 Q3  Final	1.5 (1) 1.5 (1) 3.8 (3)  4.8 (4)
Despite a provision for 20 minute periods of extra time, the match was abandoned after full time due to darkness; the result stood, and a replay was ordered.

1894 SAFA Premiership Football Match Replay

	Grand Final Replay
Wednesday 10 October (2:00 pm)	Norwood	def.	South Adelaide	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 9,000)
	1.1 (1) 2.4 (2) 2.5 (2)  4.7 (4)	Q1 Q2 Q3  Final	2.4 (2) 2.4 (2) 3.5 (3)  3.5 (3)