Port Adelaide Football Club
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| Full name | Port Adelaide Football Club Ltd | |||
| Motto | We Are Port Adelaide | |||
| 2016 season | ||||
| Home-and-away season | 10th | |||
| Leading goalkicker | Chad Wingard (38) | |||
| Best and fairest | Robbie Gray | |||
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| Founded | May 12, 1870 | |||
| Colours | AFL: Black, white, teal SANFL: Black, white |
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| Competition |
Australian Football League Power–senior men South Australian National Football League Magpies–reserves men South Australian Women's Football League Magpies–senior women SANFL reserves Academy–development |
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| Chairman | David Koch | |||
| Coach |
Ken Hinkley (AFL) Chad Cornes (SANFL) Emma Sampson (SAWFL) |
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| Captain(s) |
Travis Boak (AFL) Steven Summerton (SANFL) Maddie Willis (SAWFL) |
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| Premierships |
AFL (1): 2004 Championship of Australia (4): 1890, 1910, 1913, 1914 SANFL pre AFL entry (34): 1884, 1890, 1897, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1921, 1928, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 SANFL post AFL entry (2): 1998, 1999 WWI Patriotic League (2): 1916, 1917 WWII Patriotic League (1): 1942 (as Port-Torrens) |
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| Ground(s) | Adelaide Oval (capacity: 53,583) | |||
| Alberton Oval (capacity: 17,000) | ||||
| Former ground(s) | Football Park (1974–2013) | |||
| Training ground(s) | Alberton Oval | |||
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| Other information | ||||
| Official website | portadelaidefc.com.au | |||
The Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, Port Adelaide, South Australia. The club's senior team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL) whilst its reserves and development teams compete in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Port Adelaide is the oldest professional football club in South Australia and the fifth-oldest club in the AFL.
Since the club's first game on 24 May 1870, it has won 36 South Australian league premierships, including six in a row. The club also won the Champions of Australia competition on a record four occasions. In 1997, the club joined the Australian Football League as the only pre-existing non-Victorian club—and subsequently added the 2004 AFL Premiership to its achievements.
By the late 1860s Port Adelaide's river traffic was growing significantly causing John Rann, Mr. Leicester and Mr. Ireland to form a sporting club to benefit local wharf workers. The Port Adelaide Football Club was established on 12 May 1870 as part of a joint Australian football and cricket club with the first training session taking place two days later. It played its first match against a team called the "Young Australians" on 24 May 1870 at inaugural club president John Hart's family property in Glanville. Football in South Australia at this stage was yet to be organised by a single body and as a result there were several sets of rules in use across the state.
In 1877 Port Adelaide joined seven other clubs to form the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), the first league of its type in Australia. It competed its first few seasons wearing magenta guernseys and white shorts. In 1878 the club hosted its first game against the recently established Norwood Football Club with the visitors winning 1-0. A rivalry between these clubs would soon develop into one of the fiercest in Australian sport (See Port Adelaide-Norwood SANFL rivalry).
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