2016 SANFL season

2016 SANFL season
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The 2016 South Australian National Football League season (officially the SANFL IGA League) will be the 136th season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Australian rules football competition.

Two key new rules to be introduced for the 2016 season are:^[1]

• Interchange rotations to be restricted to a total of fifty per team per game.
• A free kick to be awarded against a player who kicks or handpasses the ball if it goes out of bounds without being touched by another player.

Both rules were more aggressive variants of similar rule changes later made in the AFL in 2016: the AFL limited interchanges to ninety per game, and adopted a stricter interpretation of deliberate out of bounds without automatically applying it to all untouched disposals out of bounds.

Premiership season

Round 1

	Round 1
Thursday 24 March (7:40 pm)	Norwood 15.10 (100)	def.	Port Adelaide 12.3 (75)	Norwood Oval	[2]
Friday 25 March (2:10 pm)	South Adelaide 13.7 (85)	def.	Glenelg 11.10 (76)	Hickinbotham Oval
Friday 25 March (2:15 pm)	Central District 24.10 (154)	def.	North Adelaide 6.11 (47)	Elizabeth Oval
Saturday 26 March (2:10 pm)	West Adelaide 7.8 (50)	def. by	Adelaide 18.16 (124)	Richmond Oval
Monday 28 March (2:10 pm)	Sturt 10.6 (66)	def. by	Woodville-West Torrens 16.9 (105)	Unley Oval

Round 2

	Round 2
Sunday 2 April (1:40 pm)	Adelaide 15.14 (104)	def.	Port Adelaide 10.14 (74)	Mannum Oval	[3]
Sunday 2 April (2:10 pm)	Glenelg 21.14 (140)	def.	West Adelaide 9.11 (65)	Glenelg Oval
Sunday 2 April (2:10 pm)	South Adelaide 14.12 (96)	def.	Woodville-West Torrens 8.5 (53)	Hickinbotham Oval
Sunday 2 April (2:10 pm)	North Adelaide 18.10 (118)	def.	Norwood 8.13 (61)	Prospect Oval
Byes: Central District, Sturt

Round 3

	Round 3
Saturday 9 April (2:10 pm)	Port Adelaide 21.7 (133)	def.	North Adelaide 13.12 (90)	Alberton Oval	[4]
Sunday 10 April (1:40 pm)	Sturt 11.16 (82)	def.	Central District 9.7 (61)	Unley Oval
Sunday 10 April (2:10 pm)	South Adelaide 22.6 (138)	def.	West Adelaide 10.7 (67)	Hickinbotham Oval
Sunday 10 April (2:10 pm)	Woodville-West Torrens 8.5 (53)	def. by	Adelaide 14.12 (96)	Woodville Oval
Byes: Glenelg, Norwood

Round 4

	Round 4
Friday 15 April (7:40 pm)	Norwood 10.14 (74)	def.	Glenelg 10.8 (68)	Norwood Oval	[5]
Saturday 16 April (2:10 pm)	Central District 11.11 (77)	def. by	South Adelaide 17.6 (108)	Elizabeth Oval
Sunday 17 April (2:10 pm)	West Adelaide 6.12 (48)	def. by	Sturt 14.9 (93)	Richmond Oval
Sunday 17 April (2:10 pm)	Woodville-West Torrens 11.9 (75)	def.	North Adelaide 9.9 (63)	Woodville Oval
Byes: Adelaide, Port Adelaide

Ladder

2015 SANFL Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	%	PTS
1	South Adelaide	4	4	0	0	427	273	61.00	8
2	Adelaide	3	3	0	0	324	177	64.67	6
3	Sturt	3	2	1	0	241	214	52.97	4
4	Norwood	3	2	1	0	235	261	47.38	4
5	Woodville-West Torrens	4	2	2	0	286	321	47.12	4
6	Glenelg	3	1	2	0	284	224	55.91	2
7	Central District	3	1	2	0	292	237	55.20	2
8	Port Adelaide	3	1	2	0	282	294	48.96	2
9	North Adelaide	4	1	3	0	318	423	42.91	2
10	West Adelaide	4	0	4	0	230	495	31.72
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers								Click here for source Updated post Rd 4

References

1. Alex Malcolm (8 October 2015). "SANFL's bold new out of bounds rule and 50 rotations per game". Australian Football League. Retrieved 18 February 2016.