Photo of the Adelaide Oval grandstands in 1889 by photographer Ernest Gall.
Norwood
Port Adelaide
7.4
5.9
1
2
3
4
NOR
3.1
4.1
5.3
7.4
PTA
3.1
3.3
4.7
5.9
Date
Saturday 5 October (2:45 pm)
Stadium
Adelaide Oval
Attendance
7,227 tickets sold (11,000 estimated as season ticket holders entered free)
Favourite
Norwood[1]
Umpires
Field umpire: John Trait Goal umpires: I.A. Fisher and J. McKenzie
Coin toss won by
Norwood
Kicked toward
Scoreboard End
Accolades
Best on Ground
Alfred Waldron (field umpire's choice)
Australian Football Hall of Fame
John Daly (1996)
1894 →
The 1889 SAFA Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood and Port Adelaide, held at the Adelaide Oval on the 5 October 1889. The match is recognised as "the first ever grand final in Australian football".[2] The game resulted in a victory for Norwood, who beat Port Adelaide by two goals, marking the club's ninth premiership and third in a row.[3]
Norwood's captain, Alfred Waldron, was considered the best player on the ground by field umpire John Trait. The match was attended by an estimated 11,000 people.
^"Football". Evening Journal. Vol. XXI, no. 5957 (Second ed.). South Australia. 7 October 1889. p. 4. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^Dodd, Geoff (10 May 2008). "A rivalry etched in SA history". afl.com.au. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
^"1889 SAFA Premiership Play-Off: Norwood vs. Port Adelaide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
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