2017 Adelaide Football Club season
| 2017 season | |||
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| Coach |
Don Pyke (AFL) (2nd season) Bec Goddard (AFLW) (1st season) |
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| Captain(s) |
Taylor Walker (AFL) (3rd season) Erin Phillips (AFLW) (1st season) Chelsea Randall (AFLW) (1st season) |
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| Home ground |
Adelaide Oval (AFL) (Capacity: 53,583) Marrara Oval (AFLW) (Capacity: 14,000) Norwood Oval (AFLW) (Capacity: 22,000) Thebarton Oval (AFLW) (Capacity: 15,000) |
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| AFL season | 1st | ||
| Finals | 2nd | ||
| Highest home attendance | 100,021 vs. Richmond (Grand Final) | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 41,948 vs. Western Bulldogs (Round 16) | ||
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The 2017 Adelaide Football Club season is the 27th season in the Australian Football League and the 1st season in the AFL Women's competition contested by the Adelaide Football Club.
Matthew Jaensch, who suffered a knee injury in round 7 of 2015, had not played a game for the rest of that season and decided to retire from AFL at the beginning of the 2016 season. Former captain Nathan van Berlo also decided to retire at the end of 2016 after struggling to get a spot in the AFL team. He finished out the season playing in the SANFL finals campaign. The Crows also delisted Luke Lowden and Keenan Ramsey at the end of the season.
The only trade that the Crows were involved in was that of midfielder Jarryd Lyons, who was traded to Gold Coast. After the trade period they delisted two more players: midfielder Mitch Grigg and utility Ricky Henderson. Henderson went on to be signed as a delisted free agent by Hawthorn. The final player to be dropped off of the senior list was Sam Shaw, who retired due to the effects concussion was having on his career. He was later re-drafted in the rookie draft to give him access to welfare assistance.
With the Crows' first pick in the national draft they selected Jordan Gallucci, a midfielder from Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup. Originally this was selection 13, but it dropped to 15 due to bids made on academy players. Son of two-time Crows premiership player Darren Jarman, Ben Jarman, was eligible for the Crows to select him as a father-son selection. The Crows decided not to use this to select him in the national draft, but Jarman was overlooked and, when no club opted to take part in the 2017 pre-season draft, the Crows were able to select him automatically with their final selection in the rookie draft.
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