| Competition: | safa |
| Year: | 1886 |
| Teams: | 4 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Matches: | 30 |
| Attendance: | 61650 |
| Highattend: | 6,000 (Round 6, vs.) |
| Top Goal Scorer: | Richard Stephens (17 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1885 |
| Nextseason: | 1887 |
The 1886 South Australian Football Association season was the 10th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
This was the first season in South Australia that quarters were played, allowing ends to be changed four times per match.[1]
The thirty games played had crowd figures quoted for an approximate average of 2,055 spectators per game.
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| TEAM | P | W | L | D | GF | BF | GA | BA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 54 | 131 | 47 | 118 | ||||
| 2 | South Adelaide | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 48 | 115 | 50 | 123 | ||||
| 3 | Norwood | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 59 | 146 | 41 | 104 | ||||
| 4 | Port Adelaide | 15 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 41 | 95 | 64 | 137 | ||||
| Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers | [2] | ||||||||||||
The figures for club and ground attendances are only based on those given above.
| Club | Avg. Per Game |
|---|---|
| 2,672 | |
| Adelaide | 2,155 |
| 1,882 | |
| 1,503 | |
| Ground | Games | Avg. Per Game | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Oval | 18 | 2,619 | |
| North Park Lands Botanic Gardens | 1 | 2,500 | |
| Alberton Oval | 7 | 1,164 | |
| Kensington Oval | 4 | 950 |