1996 SANFL Grand Final

1996 SANFL Grand Final
Central District Port Adelaide 6.8 (44) 11.14 (80)
1 2 3 4 CD 2.1 (13) 3.4 (22) 5.6 (36) 6.8 (44) PA 1.4 (10) 4.6 (30) 7.10 (52) 11.14 (80)
Date	Sunday 6 October 1996
Stadium	Football Park
Attendance	46,120
Umpires	Richard Williams, Michael Avon, and Troy Burton
Coin toss won by	Central District
Kicked toward	North End
Accolades
Best on Ground	David Brown
Broadcast in Australia
Network	ABC
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The 1996 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Grand Final saw the Port Adelaide Magpies defeat the Central District Bulldogs by 36 points. The match was played on Sunday 6 October 1996 at Football Park in front of a crowd of 46,120. ^[1] As of the 2020 SANFL Grand Final, this is the highest attendance for an SANFL Grand Final since the first year of the Adelaide Crows in the AFL (1991).

This was Port Adelaide's 34th premiership, third premiership in a row, and seventh in nine years. Port would also go on to win in 1998 and 1999.

Port had also beaten Central District in the 1995 Grand Final. Thirteen Port players from the 1995 grand final also played in the 1996 grand final. For Central District, 12 players played in both.

Central District entered the Grand Final as favourite to win as they were minor premiers (first on the ladder prior to the finals) and had beaten Port on all four occasions that the teams had met in 1996 prior to the grand final.