History
In the 1940s the Port Adelaide rugby union club split itself into four rugby league clubs, which formed the basis of the first organised rugby league competition in the state, run under the banner of the Amateur South Australian Rugby League. The first South Australian representative team was formed in the early 1950s and traveled to play the South Sydney Rabbitohs in Sydney, NSW where they lost 45–10.
The first iteration of the South Australian Rugby League was created in the 1950s when Australian soldiers formed a small four team competition based out of the Woomera Test Range. This body ceased to exist when the soldiers were transferred to the Northern Territory.
The current SARL was incorporated on 28 July 1976 and originally featured teams from North Adelaide, South Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Glenelg, Norwood and West Lakes.
Today the competition features eight senior clubs and seven junior clubs, competitions are run from Under 7's through to First Grade.
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