SANFL News
04 Aug 2014
NEW BOUNDARIES FOR SANFL CLUBS
By ZAC MILBANK | Twitter @zacmilbank
Port Adelaide’s recruiting zones have been allocated to three SANFL clubs, with Woodville-West Torrens, Norwood and North Adelaide each receiving portions of the Magpies’ area.
Under the approved changes recommended by the league’s Boundaries Commission, the Eagles will gain the majority of Port’s metropolitan zone, including Alberton and the Le Fevre Peninsula.
Norwood, which has traditionally had a small rural zone, has been allocated the Pies’ country zone on the Eyre Peninsula while North Adelaide has received Whyalla and Iron Knob from Port in the
country and a section of its metropolitan area, including Mawson Lakes.
In a process which began in October last year, the Boundaries Commission received both written and verbal presentations from each of the eight non-AFL aligned SANFL clubs.
The Boundaries Commission was chaired by SA Football Commissioner Dion McCaffrie and included fellow Commissioner Richard Allen, retired Supreme Court Judge Margaret Nyland, who was also
previously Chairperson of the SA Electoral Boundaries Commission and highly respected demographer, Professor Graeme Hugo AO of Adelaide University.
‘’The primary aim of the Boundaries Commission was to achieve an equitable realignment of SANFL club boundaries,’’ Boundaries Commission Chairman Dion McCaffrie said.
‘’As such, the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre from The University of Adelaide was commissioned to assist in the preparation of Geographical Information System mapping and population analysis to inform the reallocation process.’’
To assist throughout the reallocation process, the Boundaries Commission used five major guiding principles.
- Club boundaries should be contiguous with the clubs current metropolitan or country zone.
- The population of males aged 5 to 14 years, extracted from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2011 Census of Population and Housing at Statistical Area 1 level, would be used to guide the equal distribution of young males between club zones.
- Club heartlands would be preserved as much as possible.
- Clubs would be consulted with regard to the reallocation.
- A desire to keep country leagues allocated to as few individual clubs as possible; in particular a desire to keep the Eyre Peninsula leagues, formerly within the Port Adelaide country zone, within one club zone.
In other changes to SANFL club boundaries:
Sturt gains the majority of the Adelaide Hills with the Double Blues’ gaining the Birdwood and Kersbrook area from Norwood and Meadows, Kangarilla and Clarendon from South Adelaide.
Glenelg receives the Henley and Grange region from Woodville-West Torrens while West Adelaide has been handed areas around Flinders Park, Brompton, Kilburn and Woodville Gardens from the Eagles.
Central District will now have sections of Golden Grove, Wynn Vale and Salisbury East within its zone, areas previously controlled by Norwood and North Adelaide.
South Adelaide will benefit from the acquisition of Happy Valley and Aberfoyle Park from West Adelaide as well as Reynella, Lonsdale and O’Sullivan Beach from Glenelg.
The changes to SANFL club zones will take effect from September 22, with the Boundaries Commission to undertake a review of these changes in late 2016.
‘’The SANFL is pleased to finalise the changes made to the club boundaries after undertaking a thorough process in consultation with the clubs,’’ McCaffrie said.
‘’The Boundaries Commission benefited significantly from the invaluable input of Judge Margaret Nyland and Professor Graeme Hugo during the past nine months.’’
Click here to download the new SANFL Boundary .KMZ for Google Earth (6.4Mb) or a pdf version is attached here also
Last Modified on 12/08/2014 11:24