Port Adelaide Football Club
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Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed the Power, while its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where they are nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding, the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and 4 Championship of Australia titles, in addition to an AFL Premiership in 2004. It has also fielded a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) league since 2022.
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| Full name | Port Adelaide Football Club Limited[1] | |||
| Nickname(s) | AFL/AFLW: Power SANFL: Magpies Indigenous rounds: Yartapuulti | |||
| Former nickname(s) | Cockledivers, Seaside Men, Seasiders, Magentas, Portonians, Ports | |||
| Motto | We Exist To Win Premierships[2] | |||
| Club song | AFL/AFLW: Power to Win SANFL: Cheer, Cheer the Black and the White | |||
| 2022 season | ||||
| After finals | 11th | |||
| Home-and-away season | 11th | |||
| Leading goalkicker | Todd Marshall (45 goals) | |||
| John Cahill Medal | Connor Rozee | |||
| Club details | ||||
| Founded | 12 May 1870; 152 years ago (1870-05-12) | |||
| Colours | AFL: Black White
Teal Silver SANFL: Black White | |||
| Competition | AFL: Senior men AFLW: Senior women SANFL: Reserves men | |||
| Chairman | David Koch | |||
| CEO | Matthew Richardson | |||
| Coach | AFL: Ken Hinkley AFLW: Lauren Arnell SANFL: Tyson Goldsack | |||
| Captain(s) | AFL: Tom Jonas AFLW: Erin Phillips SANFL: Cameron Sutcliffe | |||
| Premierships | AFL (1)Championship of Australia (4)SANFL (36) SA Patriotic League (2)SANFL merger league (1) | |||
| Ground(s) | AFL: Adelaide Oval (capacity: 53,583) | |||
| AFLW: Alberton Oval (capacity: 17,000) | ||||
| SANFL: Alberton Oval (capacity: 17,000) | ||||
| Former ground(s) | Glanville Hall Estate (1870–1879) | |||
| Football Park (1974–2013) | ||||
| Training ground(s) | All Teams: Alberton Oval | |||
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| Official website | portadelaidefc.com.au | |||
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Founded in 1870, Port Adelaide is the oldest professional football club in South Australia. Port Adelaide was a founding member of the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), later renamed as the SANFL. Port Adelaide has repeatedly asserted itself as a dominant force within South Australian football, going undefeated in all competitions in 1914, and enjoying sustained periods of success under coaches Fos Williams and John Cahill, sharing a combined 19 premierships between them. After entering the AFL in 1997, the club claimed three minor premierships and a premiership under coach Mark Williams between 2002 and 2004. Port Adelaide holds a unique status among AFL clubs, being the only pre-existing non-Victorian club to have entered the AFL from another league.[3]
Port Adelaide has a long-standing rivalry with fellow SANFL club Norwood, as well as an intense rivalry with the Adelaide Crows in the AFL; it is a fixture referred to as the 'Showdown'. The club has played at their SANFL home ground, Alberton Oval, since 1880 and has used their AFL home ground, Adelaide Oval, since 2014. Port Adelaide first adopted the colours black and white in 1902, with their 'Prison Bar' guernsey. Following its entry to the AFL, the club adopted the colours of teal and silver, in order to differentiate it from Collingwood.