1885 SAFA season

The 1885 South Australian Football Association season was the 9th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

A new senior Adelaide Football Club formed from a merger of North Adelaide Junior and North Parks clubs from the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association joined.

The 1885 SAFA season was the first time since 1878 that all clubs played a fixed number of games.

Twenty three of the thirty games played had crowd figures quoted for an approximate average of 1,800 spectators per game.