South Australian Football Hall of Fame explained

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

• Russell Ebert
• Ken Eustice
• Tim Evans
• Brian Faehse
• Ken Farmer
• Grantley Fielke
• Len Fitzgerald
• Des Foster
• Percy Furler
• Frank Golding
• Michael Graham
• John Halbert
• Bob Hammond
• Jim Handby
• Bob Hank
• Neville Hayes
• Lindsay Head
• Richard Head
• Ned Hender
• Thomas Hill
• Kym Hodgeman
• Sampson Hosking
• Laurie Jervis
• George Johnston
• Neil Kerley
• Stephen Kernahan
• Ron Kneebone
• Ray Kutcher
• Tom Leahy

• Bob Lee
• Percy Lewis
• Alick Lill
• Don Lindner
• Tom MacKenzie
• Peter Marker
• Frank Marlow
• John Marriott
• Chris McDermott
• Bruce McGregor
• Tony McGuinness
• Ian McKay
• Bob McLean
• Peter Mead
• Mark Mickan
• Hugh Millard
• Dan Moriarty
• Geof Motley
• Max Murdy
• Mark Naley
• Michael Nunan
• Jack Oatey
• Robert Oatey
• Doug Olds
• Harold Oliver
• Jack Owens
• Dennis Phillis
• Greg Phillips
• Ron Phillips

• John Platten
• Jeff Potter
• Bob Quinn
• John Quinn
• Michael Redden
• Dinny Reedman
• Colin Richens
• Don Roach
• Barrie Robran
• Len Sallis
• Rick Schoff
• Gordon Schwartz
• Walter Scott
• Ralph Sewer
• Bob Shearman
• Bernie Smith
• Laurie Sweeney
• Michael Taylor
• Jack Tredrea
• Frank Tully
• Topsy Waldron
• Bill Wedding
• Paul Weston
• Ted Whelan
• Syd White
• Fos Williams
• John Woods

2003

10 inductees:

Max Basheer Jack Cockburn Norm Grimm Ray Huppatz David Marshall

Jeff Pash Vic Richardson Alton Smith Colin Smith Mark Williams

2004

10 inductees:

Wayne Jackson Vic Johnson Tony Kenny Bruce Lindsay P. T. (Bo) Morton

Wally Miller Sandy Nelson Rodney Pope Allan "Bull" Reval Allan Roberts

2005

Eight inductees:

Laurie Argent Brian Cunningham Don Gilbourne Peter Kitschke

Andrew Rogers Cliff Semmler Clayton Thompson Gary Window

2006

Eight inductees:^[2]

Craig Bradley John Forrester Darren Jarman Rick Kinnear

Jack Lynch Shaun Rehn Neville Roberts Bob Simunsen

2007

10 inductees:^[3]

Bruce Abernethy Mark Bickley Jeff Bray Ian Day Max Hall

Scott Hodges Andrew Jarman Andrew McKay Kevin McSporran John Taylor

2008

Five inductees:^[4]

• Geoff Kingston
• Nigel Smart
• Doug Thomas
• Keith Thomas
• Peter Woite

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]

• K. G. Cunningham
• Kevin Duggan
• Simon Goodwin
• Ben Hart
• Garry McIntosh
• Andrew McLeod
• Don McSweeny
• Mark Ricciuto
• Warren Tredrea
• Gavin Wanganeen
• Richard Williams

2014

Ten inductees:

• Laurie Cahill
• Chad Cornes
• Tyson Edwards
• Phil Gallagher
• Chris Gowans
• James Gowans
• Darel Hart
• Tony Modra
• Tim Pfeiffer
• Matthew Primus

2015

Five inductees:^[7]

• Tim Ginever
• Brett James
• Rodney Maynard
• John Paynter
• Leigh Whicker

2016

Five inductees:^[8]

• Brenton Phillips
• Roger James
• Stephen Williams
• John Wynne
• Brian Sando

2017

Three inductees:^[9]

• Stuart Palmer
• Michael O'Loughlin
• John Condon

2018

Three inductees:^[10]

• Peter Vivian
• Darren Smith
• Harry Kernahan

2019

Three inductees:^[11]

• Peter Motley
• Greg Anderson
• W. (Bill) Mayman

2022

Four inductees:^[12]

• Kane Cornes
• Matthew Pavlich
• Bruce Schultz
• Darren Wilson

Notes and References

1. http://www.sanfl.com.au/hall_of_fame/sa_football_hall_of_fame/ 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", 13 August 2008
5. ABC News, "Francou and Sanders join Hall of Fame", 6 August 2010
6. FIVEaa, "SA Football Hall of Fame"
7. News: Rucci. Michaelangelo. SANFL recognises five greats from SA football's era of massive change with Hall of Fame honour. 12 September 2015. The Advertiser. News Corporation. 7 September 2015.
8. Web site: SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME SANFL . sanfl.com.au . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170216054349/http://sanfl.com.au/south-australian-football-hall-of-fame-2/ . 2017-02-16.
9. Web site: Hall of Fame Archive - SANFL . SANFL . 21 April 2020.
10. News: Rucci . Michelangelo . Peter "Milky" Vivian, Darren Smith and Harry Kernahan make up the Class of 2018 in the SA Football Hall of Fame . 11 September 2019 . The Advertiser . 5 September 2018.
11. Web site: Milbank . Zac . 2019 West End Hall of Fame Inductees . SANFL . 10 September 2019.
12. Web site: Hall of Famers Archive . 2023-04-03 . SANFL . en-US.