South Australian National Football League

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The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or S-A-N-F-L), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877, the SANFL is the oldest surviving football league of any code in the world. For most of its existence, the league was considered one of the traditional "big three" Australian rules football leagues, along with the Victorian Football League and West Australian Football League. Since the introduction of two South Australia-based clubs into the Australian Football League – the Adelaide Crows in 1991 and the Port Adelaide Power in 1997 – the popularity and standard of the league has decreased to the point where it is considered a feeder competition to the Australian Football League. The SANFL has always been a single-division competition, and with the admission of the Adelaide Crows reserves in 2014...

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