Footy training for Adelaide’s southern suburbs
The south runs from the inner suburbs down past Noarlunga to the vineyards and the coast, and the Panthers have been based at Noarlunga since 1995. For a junior in the outer south, the pathway runs through one club and one local league.
One month free, then A$24.99/month. Cancel any time. iPhone and iPad.
South Adelaide, based at Noarlunga, runs the SANFL pathway for the southern suburbs — its recruiting zone reaches from Happy Valley and Reynella down to the Fleurieu. Its metro zone league is the Southern Football League. Parts of the inner south belong to Glenelg, Sturt and West Adelaide, whose zones each include sections of the southern suburbs.
Find your club in Adelaide’s south
Every club with a home ground in each council, its ground, and the league and grades it plays — pick the council you live in.
Which club your address belongs to
South Adelaide runs the pathway for most of the south. Closer to the city, the zones of three other clubs reach in.
- South Adelaide
- Based at Noarlunga since 1995. Development zone: the southern suburbs, the Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island.
- Glenelg, Sturt and West Adelaide
- Each club’s zone includes sections of the inner southern suburbs.
Every community club in South Australia is associated with a SANFL League club. The SANFL club finder and zone map show which zone your local club sits in — the SANFL is the authority, and boundaries are reviewed (the next review is due in 2027). In the 2022 review Cove moved from Glenelg to South Adelaide.
The competitions
- Southern Football League
- Community football across Adelaide’s south — one of South Adelaide’s three zone leagues, with the Great Southern and Kangaroo Island leagues.
- SANFL under-18 and under-16
- South Adelaide’s talent teams.
- Adelaide Footy League
- Amateur clubs across the southern suburbs.
Set it up for Adelaide’s south
Four things, in the order the app asks them. None of them needs a coach.
Choose footy, then your team nights
Onboarding asks “When do you train with your team?” Pick your club nights — Southern Football League or wherever you play — and your gym and conditioning are scheduled around them, lighter the day after a big one. Tell it your equipment and any niggles and every exercise is fitted to both.
Match the program to your league’s start
The app treats March as the start of the footy season. SANFL and community footy in South Australia starts in April, so you can hold the pre-season through March by setting the phase yourself. The phase lives in Program → Your year.
Know your numbers on day one
Your first testing session is ready immediately: 2km time trial, Bench press 1RM, Max pull-ups, Trap-bar deadlift 1RM, Running vertical jump. It is re-run every 8 weeks, and the results re-price your training weights and conditioning paces.
Put your suburb on the board
In Social → Town, set where you train. Your minutes count toward that town’s weekly conditioning and strength top-10 boards — only the town is kept, never your location.
What you start with, by the month you join
Every block is four weeks — three building, one deload — so a free month is one complete block. The footy calendar and conditions are on the Adelaide guide.
Coaching a side in Adelaide’s south?
A club licence is A$8 per player, per month (minimum 5), and every player on it gets full Train Smart membership at no cost to them. You write the block once, it lands in each player’s app, and the console shows who actually did it.
Footy in Adelaide’s south: questions
Which SANFL club covers Noarlunga, Morphett Vale and Reynella?
What are South Adelaide’s zone leagues?
Where do the South Adelaide Panthers play?
Where these facts come from
Checked September 2026. Zones, grades and dates change — if something here is out of date, the governing body is right and we are wrong.
Nearby and related
Adelaide
The leagues, the season and every region across Adelaide.
OpenAdelaide’s north & the Barossa
Central District and North Adelaide zones — Elizabeth to Prospect, Gawler and the Barossa.
OpenAdelaide’s west & north-west
Woodville-West Torrens, West Adelaide and Glenelg zones — the LeFevre Peninsula down to the bay.
OpenTurn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your team nights, and your first block and testing session are ready before you leave the car park.
One month free, then A$24.99/month. Cancel any time. iPhone and iPad.