A suburban Adelaide Australian rules football team has been booted from its league for shocking episodes of on-field violence, and its captain banned for life after he broke an opponent's jaw with his knee.

Key points: An Adelaide suburban football club is banned from its league after an opponent had his jaw broken

An Adelaide suburban football club is banned from its league after an opponent had his jaw broken Salisbury West captain Adam Jones was reported multiple times in the same match

Salisbury West captain Adam Jones was reported multiple times in the same match It comes amidst debate about the introduction of a send-off rule in AFL

Salisbury West captain Adam Jones was reported four separate times after Saturday's match against Trinity Old Scholars for offences including intentional striking.

He was last night found guilty by the league tribunal of all of those charges.

Jones was found to have used his elbow and his knee against opposing players, including Trinity's Carl Teusner, who required surgery after having his jaw fractured in two places.

"The league has subsequently suspended all Salisbury West Football Club senior teams from competition effective immediately," the Adelaide Footy League said in a statement.

"We do not subscribe to a notion of clubs not being held to account for the behaviour of individuals within a club."

The tribunal handed Jones a 27-week suspension in total, which was well above its life-ban threshold of 12 weeks. On its own, the strike on Teusner attracted a 10-week ban.

Footage shows Teusner going for a loose ball, when Jones raises his knee into the side of his face.

The on-field hit left Carl Teusner with two fractures to his jaw. ( Supplied )

The club itself was already on a good behaviour agreement with the league, and has now been kicked out for the rest of the season.

Teusner spent seven hours in the Lyell McEwin hospital on Saturday night, where his jaw was X-rayed.

The 29-year-old said he remembers little about the incident.

"I really had no idea who hit me or what hit me," he told Channel Nine.

"I've got a fracture that goes through a quarter of my jaw, it goes right through then comes through my last tooth, just fractured the roots through there.

"I've got a quarter of my jaw that's actually separated as well, so two fractures and I'll be needing screws and wiring my jaw together.

"It's not part of footy."

Salisbury West captain Adam Jones (wearing sunglasses) outside his league's tribunal. ( ABC News: Alina Eacott )

Following the Andrew Gaff punch on Andrew Brayshaw, there has been deep debate within football ranks about introducing a red card rule to allow umpires to send off players who have been reported.

Teusner has previously required surgery because of on-field incidents and said he has been told never to play again.

It is understood he has made a statement to police.

The bans come after Salisbury North Football Club was also removed from the Adelaide Footy League for the rest of 2018.

League president John Kernahan told ABC Radio Adelaide the league was disappointed on a "range of levels" about the incident.

"We can't do too much about what a player has done," he said.

"What I'm reasonably pleased about in contrast to that is the processes we have as a league make sure that even if there is a breakdown at the coalface [where the incident was not reported by field umpires] we're able to make amends down the track."

He said the penalty of banning clubs was introduced to make clubs accountable.