Adelaide Football Club
| 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.
Throughout the 1980s, the Victorian Football League (VFL) began to expand outside of Victoria, firstly by the relocation of a team into New South Wales (Sydney Swans) in 1982, and then the expansion into Western Australia (West Coast Eagles) and Queensland (Brisbane Bears) in 1987. However, the SANFL was against a South Australian team joining the VFL under the financial terms offered throughout the 1980s. To circumvent this, the VFL negotiated directly with both the Port Adelaide and Norwood Football Clubs during the late 1980s, but did not come to an agreement.
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