page_title: South Australian National Football League
section_title: 2000–2009: Central District domination
hierarchical_section_title: South Australian National Football League / History / 2000–2009: Central District domination
caption_attribution_description: English: AAMI Stadium during an AFL game between Adelaide and Essendon under clear skies. April 1 2007.
context_page_description: The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL, is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia.
  Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877, the SANFL is the oldest surviving football league of any code in Australia and one of the oldest football competitions in the world, forming just a few years after the United Hospitals Challenge Cup, the oldest rugby football competition, and over a decade before The Football League, although later than the FA Cup.
  Consisting of a single division competition, since 2014 the season has been an 18-round "home-and-away" season from April to September. The top five teams play-off in a final series culminating in the grand final for the Thomas Seymour Hill Premiership Trophy. The grand final had traditionally been held at Football Park in October, generally the week after the AFL Grand Final, though this was altered ahead of the 2014 season resulting in Adelaide Oval hosting the grand final in the penultimate weekend of September.
context_section_description: There was a changing of the guard as the new century started. For more than 100 years one of Port Adelaide, Norwood, North Adelaide or Sturt appeared in every Grand Final. The year 2000 saw the two newest teams Central District and Woodville-West Torrens played off in the Grand Final. Central District appeared in every Grand Final from 2000 to 2011, collecting nine premierships (2000-1, 2003–5, 2007–2010).  Only Sturt (2002) and Woodville-West Torrens (2006 & 2011) interrupted Centrals' run during this period. Under-age divisions were restructured, with under 17 and under 19 competitions dissolved in favour of under 16 and under 18 leagues, the latter coming into line with Victoria's TAC Cup competition and under the sponsorship of McDonald's would be known as the Macca's Cup. The former would become the Macca's Shield, the season length is around half that of the other levels of competition. Night games would become a feature at Elizabeth Oval, with Central District hosting Saturday night matches from 2006.
caption: Central District's won nine Grand Finals at Football Park between 2000 and 2010
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