South Australian Football Hall of Fame

Sports hall of fame for AFL

The South Australian Football Hall of Fame enshrines those who have made a most significant contribution to the game of Australian Football.

The Hall of Fame was established in 2002 when 114 outstanding individuals became inaugural inductees.

Since then, the contributions of other players, administrators, media representatives and umpires have been added to this prestigious roll of honour...[1] To be eligible for hall of fame award a player must have been retired from football for at least three years.

2002

113 inductees:

  • John Abley
  • John Acraman
  • Brenton Adcock
  • Merv Agars
  • Michael Aish
  • Ken Aplin
  • Paul Bagshaw
  • Alby Bahr
  • Barrie Barbary
  • Fred Bills
  • Malcolm Blight
  • Dave Boyd
  • Don Brebner
  • Haydn Bunton, Jr
  • John Cahill
  • Peter Carey
  • Colin Churchett
  • Graham Cornes
  • Allan Crabb
  • Neil Craig
  • John Daly
  • Tony Daly
  • Peter Darley
  • Neil Davies
  • Rick Davies
  • Robert Day
  • Les Dayman
  • Jim Deane
  • Murray Ducker

2003

10 inductees:

2004

10 inductees:

2005

Eight inductees:

  • Laurie Argent
  • Brian Cunningham
  • Don Gilbourne
  • Peter Kitschke

2006

Eight inductees:[2]

2007

10 inductees:[3]

2008

Five inductees:[4]

2010

Eight inductees:[5]

  • Josh Francou
  • John 'Snowy' Hamilton
  • Horrie Riley
  • Mostyn Rutter
  • Bill Sanders
  • Terry Von Bertouch
  • Ernest Wadham
  • Bruce Winter

2012

Eleven inductees:[6]

2014

Ten inductees:

2015

Five inductees:[7]

2016

Five inductees:[8]

2017

Three inductees:[9]

2018

Three inductees:[10]

  • Peter Vivian
  • Darren Smith
  • Harry Kernahan

2019

Three inductees:[11]

2022

Four inductees:[12]

References

  1. ^ Hall of Fame page on official SANFL website
  2. ^ The Advertiser, "A grateful state says thanks", 15 August 2006
  3. ^ Sydney Morning Herald, "Bickley enters SA's footy Hall of Fame", 15 August 2007
  4. ^ Weekly Times Messenger, "Legends make their way to the great hall" Archived 16 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, 13 August 2008
  5. ^ ABC News, "Francou and Sanders join Hall of Fame", 6 August 2010
  6. ^ FIVEaa, "SA Football Hall of Fame" Archived 31 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Rucci, Michaelangelo (7 September 2015). "SANFL recognises five greats from SA football's era of massive change with Hall of Fame honour". News Corporation. The Advertiser. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  8. ^ "SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME | SANFL". sanfl.com.au. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Hall of Fame Archive - SANFL". SANFL. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  10. ^ Rucci, Michelangelo (5 September 2018). "Peter "Milky" Vivian, Darren Smith and Harry Kernahan make up the Class of 2018 in the SA Football Hall of Fame". The Advertiser. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  11. ^ Milbank, Zac. "2019 West End Hall of Fame Inductees". SANFL. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Hall of Famers Archive". SANFL. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
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