| Competition: | safa |
| Year: | 1887 |
| Teams: | 7 |
| Count: | 7 |
| Matches: | 55 |
| Highattend: | 11,000 (Round 8, vs.) |
| Top Goal Scorer: | Alf Bushby (25 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1886 |
| Nextseason: | 1888 |
The 1887 South Australian Football Association season was the 11th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
On 15 March 1887 the West Torrens Football Club held a meeting at the Foundry Hotel, Hindley Street in Adelaide where it decided to change the name of the club to West Adelaide and apply for inclusion in the upcoming 1887 SAFA season. The Club has previously applied to join in 1879.
1887 saw Gawler Albions, Hotham and West Adelaide join the SAFA with the last of those bearing no relation to the modern day Bloods.
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| TEAM | P | W | L | D | GF | BF | GA | BA | Pts | Adj Pts | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwood | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 119 | 257 | 40 | 73 | 28 | 28.00 | ||||
| 2 | Port Adelaide | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 110 | 220 | 46 | 103 | 26 | 27.53 | ||||
| 3 | Adelaide | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 67 | 195 | 43 | 109 | 21 | 23.63 | ||||
| 4 | South Adelaide | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 102 | 221 | 72 | 101 | 20 | 21.18 | ||||
| 5 | Hotham | 15 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 37 | 98 | 77 | 227 | 8 | 9.60 | ||||
| 6 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 48 | 72 | 197 | 3 | 4.91 | |||||
| 7 | West Adelaide | 16 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 18 | 52 | 114 | 288 | 4 | 4.50 | ||||
| Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, Pts = Points, Adj Pts = Points adjusted for match ratio, (P) = Premiers | [1] | ||||||||||||||
Notes: Programme was arranged by the individual clubs hence the uneven number of games played. At the end of the season Port Adelaide requested to play an additional game against Hotham but it was rejected by the Association. They also requested to play Norwood in a premiership playoff. Norwood and Port Adelaide had played each other 4 times with the result being 2 wins and 2 draws in favour of Norwood. The premiership hence was awarded to Norwood.