The 2023
South Australian National Football League (SANFL)
Grand Final was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
match played at
Adelaide Oval on Sunday, 24 September 2023. It was the 135th SANFL grand final, staged to determine the
premiers for the
2023 SANFL season. The match was contested by
Glenelg and
Sturt, and the Glenelg Tigers won by 24 points to win their sixth premiership.
It was the fourth meeting between the Glenelg Tigers and the Sturt Double Blues, who last met in the
1974 Grand Final at
Football Park with a victory to Sturt, but it would ultimately be the Tigers' first-ever premiership over the Double Blues and their second premiership in the last five years.
The
Jack Oatey Medal was awarded to
Lachlan Hosie for his incredible six-goal performance, and he was additionally awarded the
Ken Farmer Medal
The Ken Farmer Medal is named in honour of the Australian rules footballer, North Adelaide Football Club full forward Ken Farmer. The medal is awarded to the South Australian Football League
The South Australian National Football League, or ...
for being the leading goalkicker in the home-and-away rounds.
Background
Glenelg finished the
2023 SANFL season as the minor premiers and the winners of the Stanley H. Lewis Trophy for the first time since
2021 SANFL season
The 2021 South Australian National Football League season (officially the SANFL Statewide Super League) was the 142nd season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the highest-level Australian rules football competition in Sou ...
.
Glenelg had the first week off the finals, as they finished as the minor premiers.
Central District beat
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the ...
in an elimination final, while
Adelaide beat
Sturt during the last quarter of the qualifying final.
Week 2 of the finals saw Central District defeated by Sturt in an initially very close semi-final, and they saw Glenelg play against the Adelaide side after they defeated Sturt the week before, where they defeated the Adelaide side to book themselves into a third date with the Thomas Seymour Hill Cup.
The third week of the finals was the Preliminary Final, which was a rematch between Sturt and the Adelaide side which saw a 17-point win for Sturt,
who would the following week play against Glenelg in their fourth Grand Final meeting.
References
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South Australian National Football League Grand Finals
SANFL Grand Final, 2023