Adelaide Crows
| Adelaide Football Club | ||||
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| Names | ||||
| Full name | Adelaide Football Club | |||
| Nickname(s) | Crows | |||
| Motto | Natus Ad Magna Gerenda ("Born to Great Things"), "We Fly As One" | |||
| 2016 season | ||||
| Home-and-away season | 5th | |||
| Leading goalkicker | Eddie Betts (75) | |||
| Club details | ||||
| Founded | 1990 | |||
| Colours | Navy blue Red Gold | |||
| Competition | Australian Football League | |||
| Chairman | Rob Chapman | |||
| CEO | Andrew Fagan | |||
| Coach | Don Pyke | |||
| Captain(s) | Taylor Walker | |||
| Premierships | 2: 1997, 1998 | |||
| Ground(s) | Adelaide Oval (capacity: 53,540) | |||
| Former ground(s) | Football Park (1991-2013) | |||
| Training ground(s) | Football Park | |||
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| Official website | afc.com.au | |||
The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based in Adelaide, South Australia, playing its home matches at Adelaide Oval. The club has its training and administration base at Football Park in West Lakes, where it previously played home matches between 1991 and 2013. The club song is "The Pride of South Australia", to the tune of the Marines' Hymn.
The Crows were formed in 1990 as a composite team owned by the SANFL and played their first season in 1991. They won both the 1997 and 1998 Grand Finals, and have appeared in 12 finals series in their 25-year history.
The club is currently captained by Taylor Walker and coached by Don Pyke. Walker was appointed captain prior to the 2015 season, while Pyke permanently succeeded the late Phil Walsh as head coach in October 2015.
After the VFL was renamed the AFL for the 1990 season, the SANFL clubs unanimously resolved, in May 1990, that a team would not be entered into the AFL until season 1993. The AFL refused to accept this, and revised negotiations with individual clubs Port Adelaide and Norwood. Two months later, the Port Adelaide Football Club reached terms of agreement with the AFL to enter a team into its competition in season 1991. The other nine SANFL clubs reacted strongly and entered into litigation in an endeavour to halt Port's bid. As the terms offered were more favourable than previously offered, talks were resumed. On 19 September 1990, the AFL approved the bid for a new South Australian club to enter to the league, rather than a single existing SANFL club.
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