# 1900 SAFA season

The 1900 South Australian Football Association season was the 24th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The North Adelaide Football Club won their first premiership and Port Adelaide collected their third wooden spoon, which is the club's last as of 2021.

## Minor rounds

The minor rounds comprised twelve matches. North Adelaide finished as the minor premiers, one win ahead of West Torrens.
1900 SAFA Ladder :
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts |
| 1 | North Adelaide (P) | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 584 | 355 | 62.19 | 19 |
| 2 | West Torrens | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 443 | 389 | 53.25 | 17 |
| 3 | South Adelaide | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 432 | 435 | 49.83 | 14 |
| 4 | Norwood | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 505 | 473 | 51.64 | 12 |
| 5 | West Adelaide | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 428 | 578 | 42.54 | 6 |
| 6 | Port Adelaide | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 335 | 497 | 40.26 | 4 |

## Major rounds

For the second time, the major premiership was contested under the same system which had been adopted by the Victorian Football League in 1898, except adapted for six teams instead of eight. The six teams were broken into two sections: section A comprised North Adelaide (1st), South Adelaide (3rd) and West Adelaide (5th); section B comprised West Torrens (2nd), Norwood (4th) and Port Adelaide (6th). Each section played an individual round-robin; then, the section winners played off in a final. The minor premiers, North Adelaide, would then have the right to challenge the winner of the final to a grand final for the major premiership.

### Sectional matches

| | Sectional matches – Section A | Sectional matches – Section A | Sectional matches – Section A | |
| Saturday, 11 August | North Adelaide 5.8 (38) | def. | West Adelaide 2.5 (17) | Adelaide Oval |
| Saturday, 18 August | South Adelaide 10.12 (72) | def. | West Adelaide 6.7 (43) | Jubilee Oval |
| Saturday, 25 August | South Adelaide 2.12 (24) | def. | North Adelaide 3.4 (22) | Adelaide Oval |
| | Sectional matches – Section B | Sectional matches – Section B | Sectional matches – Section B | |
| Saturday, 18 August | Norwood 3.4 (22) | def. | Port Adelaide 3.2 (20) | Adelaide Oval |
| Saturday, 25 August | Port Adelaide 2.9 (21) | def. by | West Torrens 8.3 (51) | Alberton Oval |
| Saturday, 1 September | Norwood 4.1 (25) | def. | West Torrens 1.11 (17) | Adelaide Oval |
| Norwood defeated West Torrens on 1 September, despite being held scoreless in the first, third and final quarters of the game. ||||||
1900 Section A Ladder :
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts |
| 1 | South Adelaide | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 65 | 59.63 | 4 |
| 2 | North Adelaide | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 41 | 59.41 | 2 |
| 3 | West Adelaide | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 110 | 35.29 | 0 |
1900 Section B Ladder :
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts |
| 1 | Norwood | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 37 | 55.95 | 4 |
| 2 | West Torrens | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 46 | 59.65 | 2 |
| 3 | Port Adelaide | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 73 | 35.96 | 0 |

### Finals

| | 1900 SAFA Preliminary Final | 1900 SAFA Preliminary Final | 1900 SAFA Preliminary Final | |
| Monday, 3 September | South Adelaide 3.10 (28) | def. | Norwood 1.8 (14) | Adelaide Oval |
| | 1900 SAFA Grand Final | 1900 SAFA Grand Final | 1900 SAFA Grand Final | |
| Saturday, 8 September | North Adelaide | def. | South Adelaide | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 7,000) |
| | 1.0 (6) 1.1 (7) 1.2 (8) 4.3 (27) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 0.2 (2) 0.3 (3) 0.5 (5) 1.8 (14) | |
| McNamara 2, Matthews, Shaw | McNamara 2, Matthews, Shaw | Goals | Kruss | Kruss |