1989 SANFL Grand Final

1989 SANFL Grand Final
Port Adelaide North Adelaide 15.18 (108) 1.8 (14)
1 2 3 4 PA 5.5 (35) 9.7 (61) 11.11 (77) 15.18 (108) NA 0.2 (2) 0.3 (3) 1.6 (12) 1.8 (14)
Date	Saturday, 7 October (2:10 pm)
Stadium	Football Park
Attendance	50,487
Umpires	Laurie Argent, Michael Abbott[1]
Coin toss won by	Port Adelaide
Kicked toward	South End
Accolades
Jack Oatey Medallist	Russell Johnston[2]
Australian Football Hall of Fame	John Cahill (2002) Darren Jarman (2007) Greg Phillips (2020)
Broadcast in Australia
Network	Channel 9
Commentators	Ian Day, Kym Dillon, Neville Roberts, Graham Campbell, Peter Carey, Brian Cunningham
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The 1989 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the North Adelaide Football Club, held at Football Park on 7 October 1989. It was the 88th annual Grand Final of the South Australian National Football League, staged to determine the premiers of the 1989 SANFL season. The match, attended by 50,487 spectators, was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 94 points, marking that clubs twenty-ninth premiership.^[3]

Played in blustery conditions the normally precise North Adelaide could not hit the mark with their passes and were dominated at ground level by a well coached Port Adelaide.

In a pre-game press conference before the game North Adelaide coach Mick Nunan quipped that "We have one goal in mind".^[4] North Adelaide would end up only kicking one for the whole Grand Final.^[4]

Game entertainment was provided by the Pembroke Girls choir, under the direction of Mr. Colin Curtis.

Scorecard

	1989 SANFL Grand Final
Saturday 7 October (2:10 pm)	Port Adelaide	def.	North Adelaide	Football Park (crowd: 50,487)
	5.5 (35) 9.7 (61) 11.11 (77) 15.18 (108)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.2 (2) 0.3 (3) 1.6 (12) 1.8 (14)
Hodges, D. Smith – 4		Goals	1 – Burton

0Port Adelaide0
B:	4 George Fiacchi	7 Roger Delaney	22 Greg Boyd
HB:	5 Bruce Abernethy	20 Greg Phillips	32 Paul Northeast
C:	27 David Hutton	10 Stephen Williams	12 Simon Tregenza
HF:	13 Rohan Smith	28 Darren Smith	14 Wayne Mahney
F:	15 David Hynes	11 Scott Hodges	21 David Brown
Foll:	1 Russell Johnston (c)	3 Andrew Obst	2 Tim Ginever
Int:	35 Russell Boyd	6 Phil Harrison
Coach:	John Cahill

References

1. "TV replay". SAfootballarchive. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
2. "List of Jack Oatey Medal winners". South Australian National Football League. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
3. "Australian Football - SANFL Season 1989". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
4. "Footy players in the 1980s". Gold Coast Bulletin. 11 July 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2021.