16 Facts About South Adelaide

South Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club that competes in the South Australian National Football League .

Recently, South Adelaide won back-to-back SANFLW premierships in 2018 and 2019.

South Adelaide was joint SAFA Club Champions along with the Victorians in the inaugural SAFA season of 1877.

Between 1885 and 1900 South Adelaide won seven premierships and was runner-up eight times between 1881 and 1903 .

South Adelaide was led from 1888 to 1898 by captain and "proto-coach" Dinny Reedman who is generally seen as the first to view team combination and planning as a critical component of success in football.

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South Adelaide was runner-up in 1903 to Port Adelaide, but won only 26 and drew two of 108 games between 1906 and 1914, including a winless season in 1909 and two consecutive one-win seasons in 1910 and 1911.

In 1915, South Adelaide improved to second before lack of finals experience took its toll in the semi-final.

However, after his retirement South Adelaide took four consecutive wooden spoons from 1926 to 1929 and did not finish above sixth in an eight-team competition between 1925 and 1934, winning only thirty and drawing three of 160 games.

Between 1947 and 1951 South Adelaide won only seven games out of eighty-six, and from 1945 to 1963 South Adelaide never won more than six games in a season, nor finished above any rival except Glenelg and Sturt.

South Adelaide rose rapidly in 1964, losing only three minor round games before defeating Port Adelaide by 27 points in the Grand Final.

Under Bunton, the Panthers, playing fast, skilful football firmly rooted in the South Adelaide "tradition", contested the major round for the first time in eleven years in 1977 and reached the Grand Final in 1979.

In 1979, South Adelaide's recruiting zone in the southern suburbs was extended to cover all the developing areas around O'Halloran Hill, giving the club a potential community base for the first time in its long history.

South Adelaide was under severe pressure to enter into a merger with another SANFL club, but was argued that if South Adelaide made the long-proposed move to Noarlunga it would be able to capture expanding suburbs in the future.

Under John Reid, South Adelaide developed rapidly after a one-win season and twenty-six successive losses during 1988 and early 1989.

South Adelaide's clubrooms were based at Panther Park but home games continued to be played at Adelaide Oval until 1995 when the club moved to Noarlunga and its new ground Flinders University Stadium .

South Adelaide christened their new home at Noarlunga in Round 8 of the 1995 SANFL season.