1977 SANFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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![]() Official match program. Pictured top are Port Adelaide's John Cahill and Russell Ebert in discussion. Inset below is Glenelg coach John Nicholls. | ||||||||||||||||
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Date | Saturday, 24 September (2:10 pm) | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Football Park | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 56,717 | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | Peter Mead, Robin Bennet | |||||||||||||||
Coin toss won by | Port Adelaide | |||||||||||||||
Kicked toward | South End | |||||||||||||||
Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
Best on Ground | Brian Cunningham[1][2] | |||||||||||||||
Australian Football Hall of Fame | John Nicholls (1996; Legend) Russell Ebert (1996) John Cahill (2002) Peter Carey (2009) Graham Cornes (2012) Greg Phillips (2020) | |||||||||||||||
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The 1977 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Glenelg Football Club, held at Football Park on Saturday 24 September 1977. It was the 79th annual Grand Final of the South Australian National Football League, staged to determine the premiers of the 1977 SANFL season. The match, attended by 56,717 spectators, was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 8 points, marking that club's twenty-fourth premiership victory.[3]