1953 SANFL season

1953 SANFL season
Teams	8
Premiers	West Torrens 4th premiership
Minor premiers	Port Adelaide 23rd minor premiership
Magarey Medallist	Jim Deane South Adelaide (26 votes)
Ken Farmer Medallist	Max Mayo Norwood (78 Goals)
Attendance
Matches played	76
Total attendance	738,703 (9,720 per match)
Highest	42,949 (Grand Final, West Torrens vs. Port Adelaide)

The 1953 South Australian National Football League season was the 74th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

Ladder

1953 SANFL Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	%	PTS
1	Port Adelaide	18	15	3	0	1669	1161	58.98	30
2	West Torrens (P)	18	15	3	0	1822	1305	58.27	30
3	Norwood	18	10	8	0	1609	1497	51.80	20
4	Glenelg	18	9	9	0	1701	1552	52.29	18
5	North Adelaide	18	8	10	0	1465	1518	49.11	16
6	West Adelaide	18	5	13	0	1372	1546	47.02	10
7	Sturt	18	5	13	0	1505	1885	44.40	10
8	South Adelaide	18	5	13	0	1170	1849	38.75	10
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers

Finals Series

Grand Final

Main article: 1953 SANFL Grand Final

	1953 SANFL Grand Final
Sunday 6 October (2:10 pm)	West Torrens	def.	Port Adelaide	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 42,949)
	3.3 (21) 6.8 (44) 7.10 (52) 9.13 (67)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	4.3 (27) 6.7 (43) 8.10 (58) 8.12 (60)	Jack Oatey Medallist:
Bradford, L. Head, Willis 2 Cockshell, R.Hank, Pyatt 1		Goals	2 W. Dittmar, G. Motley, F. Williams 1 Hayes, Jaggard
Clingly, Cockshell, Coverlid, Prior, Pyatt, Bradford, L. Head		Best	Clift, G. Motley, Parham, Russell, Jaggard, Boyd