document_title: Port Adelaide Football Club

question_text: when was the last time port adelaide won a premiership

question_tokens: when was the last time port adelaide won a premiership

text: Port Adelaide Football Club

text: Club history[edit]

text: 1870–1876: Formation years[edit]

text: 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.

text: 1877–1889: SAFA founder, Alberton Oval and first premiership[edit]

text: In 1877 Port Adelaide joined seven other clubs to form the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), the first league of its type in Australia.[8] It competed its first few seasons wearing magenta guernseys and white shorts.[9] 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).[10]

text: In 1880 the club moved to Alberton Oval. In 1881 the club played an interstate team for the first time against Carlton at Adelaide Oval. Later that year the club travelled to Victoria and played its first game outside South Australia against Sale.[11] During the 1882 season Port Adelaide overcame Norwood for the first time after nine previous attempts winning by 1 goal at Adelaide Oval. On 2 July 1883 Port Adelaide played its first game at the MCG against Melbourne.[12] In 1884 Port Adelaide won its first SAFA premiership, ending Norwood's run of six premierships. On 25 May 1885, Port Adelaide played at the MCG against South Melbourne, drawing with the eventual VFA premiers in front of 10,000 spectators.[13]

text: In 1887 immense interest led into the round 8 meeting against Norwood as the previous two matches between the clubs resulted in draws. Norwood won in front of a then-record 11,000 spectators at Adelaide Oval.[14] During 1889 the club played against the Richmond at Punt Road, with Port prevailing by a goal.[15] The 1889 SAFA season ended with Port Adelaide and Norwood equal top, leading to the staging of Australia's first grand final. Norwood went on to defeat Port Adelaide by two goals.

text: 1890–1901: First national success and last wooden spoon[edit]

text:
1890 Championship of Australia
G
B
Score

 Port Adelaide
7
10
7

 South Melbourne
6
13
6

Venue: Adelaide Oval

text: In 1890 Port Adelaide won its second SAFA premiership and would go on to be crowned "Champions of Australia" for the first time after defeating VFA premiers South Melbourne. In 1891 the club defeated Fitzroy at Adelaide Oval with Indigenous Australian Harry Hewitt playing for Port Adelaide.[16]

text: During the 1890s Australia was affected by a severe depression and many players were forced to move interstate to find work translating into poor on field results. By 1896, the club was in crisis and finished last causing the clubs committee to meet with the aim of revitalising the club. Historian John Devaney suggested that there was a "conscious and deliberate cultivation by both the committee and the team's on field leaders of a revitalised club spirit, whereby playing for Port Adelaide became a genuine source of pride".[17] It had immediate results and in 1897 Port Adelaide won a third premiership finishing the season with a record of 14-2-1 with a scoring record two and a half times its conceded total. This is one of only four occurrences since 1877 that the team that finished last won a premiership the following year. Stan Malin won Port Adelaide's first Magarey Medal in 1899.

text: During the 19th century the club had nicknames including the Cockledivers, the Seaside Men, the Seasiders and the Magentas. In 1900, Port finished bottom in the six-team competition, which it has not done in any senior league since.

text: 1902–1915: Black and white and the pre-war invincibles[edit]

text: In 1902, Port Adelaide took the field in black and white guernseys for the first time after it was having trouble finding dyes that would last for its blue and magenta guernseys.[18] The first year in the new guernsey would be a controversial year for the club. After finishing the 1902 season on top of the ladder was disqualified from a game with South Adelaide after disputing the use of an unaccredited umpire.[19] The 1902 SAFA premiership would subsequently be awarded to North Adelaide after they defeated South Adelaide in the Grand Final a week later.[20] Port Adelaide offered to play North Adelaide in a premiership deciding match, but the association refused.[21] The first premiership after the dispute came the following year when Port Adelaide defeated South Adelaide 6.6 (42) to 5.5 (35) in the 1903 SAFA Challenge Final. A further premiership came in 1906 when Port defeated North Adelaide 8.12 (60) to 5.9 (39) in the year's Grand Final. During the early stages of the 1907 season, Port Adelaide travelled to Sydney to play a combination of the cities best players. The game was marketed as 'Port Adelaide vs. Sydney' with the harbour city side taking the honours 8.9 (57) to 5.14 (44).[22]

text:
1910 Port Adelaide vs. WAFL[23]
G
B
Total

 WAFL
6
12
48

 Port Adelaide
6
17
53

Venue: Fremantle Oval

text:
1910 Championship of Australia
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
15
20
110

 Collingwood
7
9
51

Venue: Adelaide Oval

text: Port Adelaide won the SAFL premiership in 1910 defeating Sturt 8.12 (60) to 5.11 (41) in the Grand Final. The club would go on to defeat Collingwood for the 1910 Championship of Australia title. During the 1910 post season, seeking revenge for their loss the year before, Port Adelaide travelled to Western Australia and beat East Fremantle by 12 points. To conclude the trip Port Adelaide played a combination of some of the WAFL's best players and achieved a remarkable victory scoring 6.17 (53) to 6.12 (48), with Sampson Hosking named best on ground.[24] Along with beating the premiers from South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia in 1910, Port Adelaide also invited North Broken Hill, the premier team of New South Wales, to a game at Adelaide Oval. Port Would win this game 14.20 (104) to 5.5 (35).[25]

text: The following two seasons for Port Adelaide would be frustrating dropping only one game during the 1911 minor round and going undefeated the following year in 1912 only to be knocked out of contention by West Adelaide both times, the second of these encounters in front of a pre war South Australian record crowd of 28,500. During the 1912 preseason, Port Adelaide travelled to Tasmania and took on a combination of players from various Tasmanian Football League (TFL) sides. The game would prove to be very competitive with Port Adelaide defeating the TFL combination 7.13 (55) to 6.6 (42).[26]

text:
1913 Championship of Australia
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
13
16
94

 Fitzroy
4
7
31

Venue: Adelaide Oval

text: During the 1913 preseason, Port Adelaide travelled back to Western Australia to play East Fremantle again with the local side winning for a second time 6.6 (42) to 4.12 (36). Despite this inauspicious preseason the club would break through in 1913, dropping only two games during the minor round and eventually defeating North Adelaide 7.12 (54) to 5.10 (40) for the SAFL premiership and Fitzroy 13.16 (94) to 4.7 (31) for the 1913 Championship of Australia.

text:
1914 Port Adelaide vs. SAFL[27]
G
B
Total

 SAFL
5
10
40

 Port Adelaide
14
14
98

Venue: Jubilee Oval

text:
1914 Championship of Australia
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
9
16
70

 Carlton
5
6
36

Venue: Adelaide Oval

text: The 1914 Port Adelaide Football Club season is widely regarded as one of the best in Australian rules football history. It won all its pre season matches, won all fourteen SAFL games by an average margin of 49 points and the 1914 SAFL Grand Final where it held North Adelaide to a single goal for the match 13.15 (93) to 1.8 (14). The club would then meet VFL premiers Carlton on Adelaide Oval, defeating the Victorian club by 34 points to claim a record fourth Championship of Australia. At the end of 1914 season a combined team from the six other SAFL clubs played Port Adelaide and lost to the subsequently dubbed "Invincibles" by 58 points.[28] Key players from this team are Harold Oliver, Angelo Congear and Sampson Hosking who all share the unique distinction of playing in three Championships of Australia together as well all taking part in South Australia's first victorious Australian National Football Carnival in 1911.[29]

text: 1919–1949: Two World Wars, the Great Depression and post war struggles[edit]

text: During World War I the club lost three players—William Boon, Joseph Watson and Albert Chaplin—to the war. A scaled-back competition referred to as the 'Patriotic League' was organised during wartime in which Port Adelaide won the 1916 and 1917 instalments.

text:
1921 SAFL Grand Final
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
4
8
32

 Norwood
3
6
24

Venue: Adelaide Oval
crowd: 34,000

text: After World War I, Harold Oliver, arguably the state's best player, was close to retiring from league football playing only 1 game in 1919 and 8 in 1920. However keen supporters of the club hoping to replicate its pre-war success raised funds and bought him a motorbike so he could commute from his farm in Berri for the 1921 season.[30] Oliver would captain the club to the 1921 premiership, winning his fourth in the process. In 1922 after playing only 5 league matches for the season his football career came to an end due to commitments regarding his farm and disputes regarding game compensation. His contract termination meant he was paid ₤76 of ₤100 pounds for the season making him one of the highest-paid footballers of the era.[31] At the end of the 1922 SAFA season, Port Adelaide travelled to Sydney and played a combined New South Wales side on the Sydney Cricket Ground winning the match.[32] In following seasons most of Port Adelaide's champion players from before the war started to retire and the club's performances declined.[33] As was the case in the 1890s, the depression of the early 1930s hit the club hard with players moving interstate to secure employment.[33]

text:
1939 SANFL Grand Final
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
16
28
124

West Torrens
11
11
77

Venue: Adelaide Oval
crowd: 44,885

text: By the late 1930s, the economy and Port Adelaide's form both recovered and after two narrow grand final losses in 1934 and 1935 the club won premierships in 1936, 1937 and 1939. During 1939, Bob Quinn, in his third year as a player for the club, coached the team to a Grand Final win over West Torrens. Many Port Adelaide players also enlisted for military service during this time.[34] In 1941 Port Adelaide suffered its first player casualties from war since World War I with Lloyd Rudd and Jack Wade both killed on the Allies' front in France. Four more players would be killed through the war: Maxwell Carmichael, George Quinn, Christopher Johnston and Halcombe Brock.[35][36]

text:
1942 Wartime fundraiser
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide/West Torrens
20
23
113

 "The Rest"
20
21
111

Venue: Adelaide Oval

[37]

text: Just as had happened in 1914, the league was being hit hard by player losses in World War II. Due to a lack of able men the league's eight teams were reduced to four with Port Adelaide merging with nearby West Torrens from 1942 to 1944. The joint club would play in all three Grand Finals during this period, winning the 1942 instalment but losing the 1943 and 1944 editions to the Norwood-North Adelaide combination. Normal competition resumed in 1945. After finishing his military service Haydn Bunton Sr., now a triple Brownlow and Sandover medallist, joined the club for his final season.[38] However, despite this addition Port Adelaide was unable to regain its pre-war success and played in only one grand final for the rest of the 1940s.

text: 1950–1973: Fos Williams era and Jack Oatey rivalry[edit]

text: At the end of the 1949, having missed two finals series in a row, the Port Adelaide Football Club had become desperate to improve its on-field performances. The club's committee subsequently sought out a coach that could win the club its next premiership.

text: Eventually a decision was made which would influence the next 50 years of the Port Adelaide Football Club with Foster Neil Williams, a brilliant rover from West Adelaide, being appointed captain-coach of the club. Williams brought to the club a new coaching style based on success at any cost which was succinctly encapsulated in the legendary club creed he eventually wrote in 1962. During his second season as coach in 1951, Williams led Port to their first official premiership (excluding World War II competition) for 9 seasons, defeating North Adelaide by 11 points. At the end of the 1951 season the VFL premiers Geelong visited South Australia to play the local premiers Port Adelaide on Adelaide Oval. Geelong won the match 8.14 (62) to 6.18 (54) in front of 25,000 people.[39] Port Adelaide would make the Grand Final again in 1953 against local rivals West Torrens in what would be the Eagles last appearance before merging with Woodville. West Torrens would disappoint Port Adelaide, winning the 1953 premiership by 7 points.

text:
1957 SANFL Grand Final
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
15
15
105

 Norwood
13
16
94

Venue: Football Park
Crowd: 58,924

text: Port Adelaide's run of disappointment from the 1952 and 1953 seasons would prove to be short lived with the club subsequently going on to win a national record six Grand Finals in a row from 1954 to 1959. The club had a win-loss-draw record of 105-16-1 (86%) over the six-year period. During the 1950s Port Adelaide and Melbourne, often the premiers of South Australian and Victorian leagues, played exhibition matches at Norwood Oval. The most notable game was the 1955 match with an estimated crowd of 23,000. The game being a thriller going down to the last 15 seconds with Frank Adams kicking a behind and sealing the game 9.11 (65) to 9.10 (64) in favour of Norm Smith's demons.[40][41] The following year Melbourne was full of praise for their cross border challenger with those in the Demons camp agreeing that "Port Adelaide could take their place in the V.F.L. competition and do themselves credit".[42]

text: Geof Motley took over the captain-coaching role at the club in 1959 when Williams left to take a break from the game. That year the club won the premiership setting a national record of sixth consecutive Grand Final victories. Port Adelaide's hope of winning 7 consecutive premierships was brought to an end in the 1960 preliminary final when Norwood won by 27 points. For the following two seasons Port Adelaide would finish third.

text:
1965 SANFL Grand Final
Fos Williams ninth premiership.
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
12
8
80

 Sturt
12
5
77

Venue: Adelaide Oval
Crowd: 62,543[43]

text: Fos Williams returned in 1962 and Port Adelaide won three of the next four premierships taking his personal tally to nine and the clubs record to 10 of the last 15 premierships. The 1965 premiership, the last that Williams coached, was played in front of 62,543 people, the largest ever crowd at Adelaide Oval. In that game Port Adelaide defeat Sturt by 3 points. After the 1965 Grand Final, Port Adelaide would be frustrated by the dominance of Sturt, which won seven premierships over this period under the leadership of Jack Oatey. In all, despite playing in 6 of the next 10 grand finals, Port Adelaide would fail to win a premiership until 1977.

text: 1974–1998: John Cahill, SANFL domination and AFL entry[edit]

text: One of Port Adelaide's finest players during the Fos Williams era was John Cahill. He eventually became William's protégé and ultimately took over as coach in 1974. In 1975 a dispute between the Port Adelaide City Council and the SANFL over the use of Alberton Oval forced Port Adelaide to move its home matches to Adelaide Oval for two seasons. In 1976 Cahill would subsequently take Port Adelaide to its first Grand Final under his leadership against Sturt with an official attendance of 66,897, the record for football in South Australia. The actual crowd was estimated at 80,000, much bigger than the official figure as Football Park ran out of tickets early and were forced to shut the gates 90 minutes before the bounce as people were being crushed on entry.[44] Sturt won in an upset by 41 points. In 1977 the dispute regarding Alberton Oval was resolved and the club moved back to its home ground and won that years premiership breaking an 11-year drought which at the time was Port Adelaide longest since competing in an organised football competition.

text:
1977 SANFL Grand Final
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
17
11
113

 Glenelg
16
9
105

Venue: Football Park
Crowd: 56,717[45]

text: It has taken us a bloody long time but by gee it was worth it!

text: The 1980 season was Port Adelaide's most dominant since 1914. All SANFL divisions of the club made finals with both the league and reserve sides winning their respective premierships. Russell Ebert won his record 4th Magarey Medal. Tim Evans set the then-league goal kicking record of 146 goals in a season. The club provided seven players to the state league team (Ebert, Evans, Cunningham, Phillips, Williams, Giles and Faletic). The club set a new record for most points scored during the whole season at 3,421 whilst also having the best defence conceding only 1,851 points. Overall Port Adelaide lost 2 games from 24 for the year.

text: Russell Ebert became coach in 1983 when Cahill left to coach Collingwood for two seasons. This period saw the club fail to reach the grand final. The period also marked the rise of the VFL as Australia's premier football competition. Many SANFL players were moving to the VFL larger salaries. In 1982 the SANFL, Norwood and East Perth all approached the VFL in regards to entering the league. All were ignored at the time.[47] Port Adelaide's report from 1982 showed that the failure of these attempts impacted the understanding of its future.[48] From this point onwards the club restructured in regards to economics, public relations and on-field performance for an attempt to enter the league. There was genuine feeling that failure to do this would result in the club ceasing to exist in the future.[47] Talk of a side from South Australia entering the VFL was fast tracked in 1987 when a team from Western Australia, the West Coast Eagles, and a team from Brisbane, the Brisbane Bears joined the VFL. South Australia was left out as the only mainland state without a team.

text: John Cahill returned as coach for the 1988 season. During that year, one of Fos Williams sons, Anthony, was tragically killed in a building accident. The following day the club played against Norwood and managed to overcome an early deficit to win the emotional charged game. The club would go on to win the 1988 premiership.

text: In 1989 seven out of ten SANFL clubs were recording losses and the combined income of the SANFL and WAFL had dropped to 40% of that of the VFL.[49] During early 1990 the SANFL decided to wait three years before making any further decision in regards to fielding a South Australian side in the VFL until it could be done without negatively affecting football within the state. Frustrated with lack of progress, Port Adelaide were having secret negotiations in the town of Quorn for entry in 1991.[50] From these discussions Port Adelaide Football Club accepted an invitation from the VFL to join what had now become the AFL. The AFL signed a Heads of Agreement with the club in expectation that Port would enter the competition in 1991, meaning the Port Adelaide Football Club would field two teams, one in the AFL and one in the SANFL. During the 1990 preseason Port Adelaide played a practice match against the Geelong at Football Park in front of 35,000 spectators with Gary Ablett Snr and Gavin Wanganeen prominent.

text: When knowledge of Port Adelaide's negotiations to gain an AFL licence were made public, many in the SANFL saw it as an act of treachery. SANFL clubs urged Justice Olssen to make an injunction against the bid, which he agreed to.[51] The AFL suggested to the SANFL that if they didn't want Port Adelaide to join the AFL, they could put forward a counter bid to enter a composite South Australian side into the AFL. After legal action from all parties, the AFL finally agreed to accept the SANFL's bid and the Adelaide Football Club was born.[52]

text: "These twenty blokes are sensational people and to our friends in the press the one thing that really matters is that there will always be a Port Adelaide Football Club."

text:
1990 SANFL Grand Final
Last season without AFL in SA.
G
B
Total

 Glenelg
13
15
93

 Port Adelaide
16
12
108

Venue: Football Park
Crowd: 50,589[54]

text: During December 1994 Max Basher announced that Port Adelaide had won the tender for the second South Australian AFL licence.[55] However a licence did not guarantee entry and although a target year of 1996 was set, this was reliant upon an existing AFL club folding or merging with another. In 1996, the cash-strapped Fitzroy announced it would merge with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions. A spot had finally opened and it was announced that in 1997, one year later than expected, Port Adelaide would enter the AFL.

text: Once an entry date had been confirmed, the Port Adelaide Football Club set about forming a side fit for competition in the AFL. It was announced that existing Port Adelaide coach, John Cahill would make the transition to the AFL and Stephen Williams would take over the SANFL coaching role. Cahill then set about forming a group which would form the inaugural squad. Brownlow Medallist and 1990 Port Adelaide premiership player, Gavin Wanganeen was poached from Essendon and made captain of a team made up of six existing Port Adelaide players, two from the Adelaide Crows, seven players from other SANFL clubs and 14 recruits from interstate. Of the 35 players on Port Adelaide's inaugural AFL list 13 had played for the club before. The AFL's father son rule for the club was set at 200 games for players before 1997. This compared to only 100 for Victorian clubs.

text:
1997 West End Showdown I
G
B
Total

 Adelaide Crows
11
6
72

 Port Adelaide
11
17
83

Venue: Football Park
Crowd: 47,265

text: On 29 March 1997, Port Adelaide played its first AFL premiership match against Collingwood at the MCG, suffering a 79-point defeat. Port won its first AFL game in round 3 against Geelong, and defeated cross town rivals and eventual premiers Adelaide by 11 points in the first Showdown in round 4. At the conclusion of round 17, the side sat fifth – only one win and percentage off the top spot in what was an unusually close season – but it fell out of the finals after recording only a draw from its final five games. Port Adelaide finished its first season 9th, missing the finals on percentage behind Brisbane. The 1998 season was looking very similar to the previous year as they hovered around ninth position for most of the year and looked like a threat for finals after round 14; but they lost six of their last eight games to finish in 10th place, with a record of 9 wins, 12 losses and 1 draw.

text: 1999–2012: Mark Williams, first AFL premiership and Primus period[edit]

text: In 1999 Mark Williams took over as coach of Port Adelaide. The earned a spot in the AFL finals for the first time. They were eliminated by eventual premier, North Melbourne, by 44 points in the Qualifying Final. After finishing 14th in 2000, Port Adelaide had a very successful 2001 season, starting with a maiden pre-season competition victory, defeating the Brisbane Lions. Port Adelaide finished their 2001 home and away season in third place with 16 wins and six losses. The club travelled to Brisbane for the Qualifying Final, losing by 32 points, then lost its home Semi Final against sixth-placed Hawthorn to be eliminated. Port Adelaide started 2002 strongly, winning the pre-season competition for the second time in a row, defeating Richmond by 9 points. The side built on its success and won its first AFL minor premiership with an 18–4 record. However, they lost to the eventual premiers, the Brisbane Lions, by 56 points in the preliminary final. Port Adelaide continued its minor round dominance in 2003 and again finished top to claim the minor premiership; however like the previous year, Port Adelaide was eliminated in the preliminary final, losing to Collingwood by 44 points.

text: Port Adelaide opened the 2004 season well with four straight wins, but then won only four of its next eight games. From rounds 12–17, Port Adelaide turned their fortunes around and had six consecutive wins, and with five rounds remaining were equal top of the ladder with Brisbane, St Kilda and Melbourne. After losing in round 18 to Essendon, Port Adelaide won its remaining four games – including wins against minor premiership contender Melbourne and cross town rivals Adelaide to claim the minor premiership for the third consecutive year. Port Adelaide easily won its qualifying final against Geelong, earning a home preliminary final. Port Adelaide made it through to its first AFL grand final after defeating St Kilda in a thrilling preliminary final by just six points with Gavin Wanganeen kicking the winning goal with a minute to go.

text: The following week Port Adelaide faced a highly fancied Brisbane side attempting to win a record-equalling fourth straight AFL premiership. Only one point separated the sides at half time, however late in the third quarter Port Adelaide took the ascendency to lead by 17 points at three-quarter time, and dominated the final term to win by 40 points: 17.11 (113) to 10.13 (73). Byron Pickett was awarded with the Norm Smith Medal after being judged the best player in the match, tallying 20 disposals and kicking three goals.

text:
2004 AFL Grand Final
G
B
Total

 Port Adelaide
17
11
113

 Brisbane Lions
10
13
73

Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground
Crowd: 77,671

text: "Port Adelaide are the winningest team in Australia. The old Port Adelaide have won 36 premierships, today, at the MCG, may just be their finest hour."

text: After a slow start to the 2005 season, Port finished eighth on the ladder, and defeated the Kangaroos by 87 points in the elimination final. In the semi-final, Port faced minor premiers Adelaide and lost by 83 points.

text: After missing the finals in 2006 Port Adelaide made a strong recovery in 2007, and with strong performances from midfielders Shaun Burgoyne and Chad Cornes and strong debut seasons from Justin Westhoff, Robert Gray and Travis Boak, Port Adelaide finished the minor round second on the ladder with 15-7 record. Port Adelaide started their finals campaign against the West Coast Eagles at Football Park and won by three points. That win gave Port the bye, and they easily defeated the Kangaroos in the preliminary final to win by 87 points. This win delivered Port its second Grand Final berth in four years. However, in the grand final they were defeated by Geelong by an AFL record margin of 119 points, 24.19 (163) to Port Adelaide's 6.8 (44) in a crowd of 97,302.

text: The 2008 season was disappointing one for a Port Adelaide side keen to build on its 2007 grand final appearance, dropping to 13th on the ladder and out of the finals. By 2009 Port Adelaide had accumulated a consolidated debt totaling $5.1 million and was unable to pay its players; they had lost $1.4 million the season before. Financial assistance was denied by the league, with AFL Chief Executive Andrew Demetriou saying that they would have to undergo an intensive application process and work with the SANFL, who owned Port Adelaide's AFL licence.[57] On 20 May, Port were handed $2.5 million in debt relief by the SANFL, and on 15 June were handed a $1 million grant by the AFL commission.[58][59] The SANFL had announced it would not support Port Adelaide in both the AFL and SANFL. Plans for a re-merging the two teams was rejected by the SANFL. Amidst these off-field struggles, the club finished 10th in 2009. The 2010 season would see Mark Williams step down as senior coach marking the end of the Williams era for the club.

text: "He (Demetriou) said he could not imagine an AFL competition without Port Adelaide in it. I thought that was a really strong statement of leadership.”

text: Matthew Primus took over as caretaker coach for Port Adelaide after Mark Williams stood down.[61] The club finished the 2010 season with five wins from its last seven games to finish tenth. On 9 September, Matthew Primus was appointed as the senior coach of the club for the next three years. The SANFL sought to take control of Port Adelaide in 2011. Despite underwriting $5 million of Port's debt in 2010, the takeover failed when the SANFL was unable to get a line of credit to cover Port Adelaide's future debts. The AFL announced it would underwrite $1.25 million in debt to protect its $1.25 billion television rights. AFL Chief executive Andrew Demetriou, offered $9 million over the next three years to help the club, ahead of the move to the Adelaide Oval. The AFL gave the money to the SANFL with strict conditions that they give Port Adelaide three million dollars a year, for three years.[62] Statistically, 2011 was Port Adelaide's worst season in 141 years, finishing 16th with only three wins from 22 games. Rounds 20 and 21 saw the club lose to Collingwood and Hawthorn by record margins of 138 and 165 respectively. The 2012 season was marginally better but a loss against Greater Western Sydney resulted in senior coach Matthew Primus stepping down. Assistant coach, Garry Hocking, took over for the remaining four games, with a draw in the final round against Richmond the best result.

text: 2013–present: Ken Hinkley, Adelaide Oval return and independence[edit]

text: On 8 October 2012, Ken Hinkley was announced as the new senior coach of the club. This marked the first time that the club had appointed someone not associated with the club before since Fos Williams in 1950. Television personality David Koch was named chairman of the club and numerous board members were replaced. The 2013 preseason also saw Travis Boak succeed Domenic Cassisi as captain of the club.[63] The club finished the home and away season 7th on the ladder, making it the first time that they had qualified for the finals since 2007. Port travelled to Melbourne to play Collingwood at the MCG in an Elimination Final where they won by 24 points; they then lost to Geelong by 16 points the following week in a Semi Final.

text: The 2014 season saw both Port Adelaide and Adelaide move their home ground from Football Park to the redeveloped Adelaide Oval. Port Adelaide signed up a record 55,715 members for the 2014 season and averaged 44,429 at home games, a 65% increase from the previous year. Port Adelaide had its best first half of an AFL season, sitting first with ten wins from eleven matches. They then won only four of their remaining eleven matches to finish fifth on the ladder. They hosted Richmond in the elimination finals, kicking the first seven goals of the game and leading by as much as 87 points before recording a 57-point victory. After defeating Fremantle in the semi-finals the club's 2014 season ended with a three-point loss to Hawthorn in the preliminary finals.

text: With great expectation Port Adelaide started the 2015 season playing all of the year's finalists in the opening 10 rounds and entered the mid-season break with a 5-7 record. The club had a better second half of the year, recording 7-3, but would miss out on finals by one win.

text: On 11 February 2016, the men's Port Adelaide Football Club merged with the Port Adelaide Women's Football Club.

text: In 2017, Port Adelaide had made a massive improvement from the previous 2 seasons, winning 14 of 22 games to finish 5th on the ladder. Port Adelaide's season came to an end in an elimination final loss to West Coast by 2 points in extra time. After the match, Koch expressed skepticism over whether the club should have put more experienced players in the team rather than a younger side, and said that if players weren't committed to helping the club win a premiership then they weren't wanted at Port Adelaide.[64]

text: SANFL presence post AFL entry[edit]

text: When the Port Adelaide Football Club entered the AFL, a new state league team was created at the request of the SANFL and its clubs to fill the void left by the club. The new club was called the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club as opposed to the original counterpart, the Port Adelaide Football Club, now playing in the national competition.[65] Australian football historian John Devaney described the forced separation of Port Adelaide's SANFL and AFL operations as being "akin to the enforced splitting up of families associated with military conquest or warfare".[66] On 20 August 2010, the "One Port Adelaide Football Club" movement was launched by former player Tim Ginever to merge the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club as one club. A website was created that claimed 50,000 signatures were needed for the two entities to merge. On 15 November 2010, all nine SANFL clubs and agreed that the off-field merger between the two clubs would proceed.[67][68] On 10 September 2013, Port Adelaide and the SANFL agreed to a model to allow all its AFL-listed players (not selected to play for Port Adelaide in the AFL) to play for the club in the SANFL League competition. From 2015 onward, the club lost its recruiting zones and could no longer field sides in the junior SANFL competition. Port Adelaide subsequently started an Academy team composed of 18 to 22-year-olds.[69]

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External video

 The journey of the Port Adelaide Magpies since 1999 - Port Adelaide FC official YouTube channel (September 2017)

text: On the field in the SANFL, Port Adelaide struggled to replicate their historic dominance of the competition. The club won back-to-back premierships in 1998 and 1999 but have failed to win a premiership since then. The Magpies went through a barren spell through most of the 2000s, often missing out on finals and struggling for success. In 2014, in the first season of being permitted to select AFL-listed players, Port Adelaide won the minor premiership but lost to arch-rivals Norwood in the Grand Final. The club next returned to the SANFL Grand Final in 2017, though once more fell at the final hurdle, being defeated by Sturt by just one point. The current captain of Port Adelaide's SANFL team is Steven Summerton and the coach is Chad Cornes.[70][71]

text: Women's teams[edit]

text: An early example of a Port Adelaide Women's team was in 1918 when a game took place at Alberton Oval against a club representing Thebarton. Port Adelaide was captained by Eileen Rend.[72]

text: The Port Adelaide Women's Football Club was founded in 2003 and competes in the South Australian Women's Football League. In 2016 the club merged with the men's club with the intention of further developing the game among women in the Port Adelaide area and South Australia more generally.[73]

text: Club symbols and identity[edit]

text: Guernsey[edit]

text: The Port Adelaide Football Club won 32 grand finals after adopting the black and white "Wharf Pylon" guernsey in addition to the Champions of Australia three times. When Port Adelaide entered the AFL, it was forced to find a new nickname to replace its longtime nickname of "Magpies." Existing AFL club Collingwood were already using the magpie emblem and "Magpies" nickname, so when Port Adelaide initially sought to join the AFL in 1990, the league simply asked Port Adelaide to simply find a new nickname and logo to avoid a clash.[74] However, after the unsuccessful 1990 bid, Collingwood successfully lobbied the AFL to force Port Adelaide to change not only its logo and nickname but also its guernsey and colours. In 1995, a new guernsey was created incorporating teal.

text: In May 2007 chief executive John James stated that Port Adelaide received more correspondence from its supporters about the heritage guernsey than all other issues and that the club would "fight for its heritage and what is right". Port Adelaide decided not to participate in the 2006 heritage round when the AFL declined the club's 1980s guernsey for its 80s-themed heritage round.[75]

text: In 2007 the club was waiting for confirmation from the AFL that it could wear its 1970s' "Wharf Pylon" guernsey for a match against the Western Bulldogs and wanted confirmation it would be able to continue to honour its heritage in any future heritage rounds. On 14 May 2007 the AFL and Port Adelaide reached an agreement whereby the club could wear its traditional guernsey in the heritage round, with the proviso that in future seasons its players can only wear it in home heritage round games and provided that such a game is not against Collingwood.[76] No heritage rounds have been held since this agreement was reached.

text: "This team from South Australia – this Port Power – why would they pick black and white? Did the competition really need another club in navy or dark colours?".

text: Collingwood club president Eddie McGuire has been a vocal opponent of Port Adelaide wearing the "Wharf Pylon" guernsey, claiming that Collingwood has an exclusive right to wear black and white in the AFL, even in the heritage round.

text: "It should have nothing to do with Eddie McGuire and Collingwood ... I'll say that for a start."

text: Support for the guernsey remains extremely high with a limited batch of jumpers raising over $400,000 for the club for the one off game against Carlton in 2013.[79] The most recent instance of the club trying to wear its traditional guernsey was in celebration of 100 years since its 1914 Championship of Australia.[80] The AFL denied the club the right. There was controversy in 2014 during the lead-up to the final against Richmond when the AFL told Port Adelaide they had to wear their clash guernsey. On 2 September 2014 the AFL cleared them to use the traditional guernsey for the match.

text: "I've always regarded that strip that Port are wearing today as the best uniform in Australian Football".

text: Current guernseys[edit]

text:
Home
2010–present [note 1]

Clash
2010–present [note 2]

Heritage/SANFL
1902–present [note 3]

text:
Jump up ^ Worn in 2009 as the winning design from a competition, it became permanent in 2010.
Jump up ^ Clash guernsey.
Jump up ^ the Wharf Pylon ("Prison Bar") guernsey was adopted in 1902 and has been worn on four occasions in the AFL. It is the home guernsey in the SANFL.

text: Old guernseys[edit]

text:
Inaugural
Home 1870–1876 [note 1]

Magenta
Home 1883–1901 [note 2]

Wharf pylons
Home 1902–1996 [note 3]

First AFL home
Home 1997–2009 [note 4]

text:
Jump up ^ The first uniform worn by the club.
Jump up ^ The "Magenta" uniform, worn until 1901.
Jump up ^ With this guernsey the club had won 32 Grand Finals since 1902. Nevertheless, Collingwood FC successfully lobbied the AFL to force Port Adelaide to change not only its logo and nickname but also its guernsey and colours. As a result, a new guernsey was created incorporating teal in 1995.
Jump up ^ "First AFL Home" guernsey adopted upon entry into AFL to avoid clash with Collingwood.

text: Club songs[edit]

text: The AFL side's victory song is "Power to Win", written for the club by Quentin Eyers and Les Kaczmarek. Since 2016, an alternative Pitjantjatjara language version of the song ('Nganana wanangara kanyini' - literally, 'We have the lightning bolt') has been used by the club on occasions such as Indigenous Round.

text: The SANFL side's victory song is "Cheer, Cheer the Black and the White", to the tune of "Notre Dame Victory March".

text: "Never Tear Us Apart"[edit]

text: Since March 2014, Port Adelaide has used "Never Tear Us Apart" by the Australian band INXS as the club's unofficial anthem leading up to the opening bounce at its new home of Adelaide Oval. The song is used as a reference to the various and unique difficulties the club faced when trying to enter the AFL.

text: Port Adelaide's use of the song stemmed from a trip the club took to Anfield in November 2012 while they were in England to play an exhibition match against the Western Bulldogs.[82] In light of the very positive reviews given by the club's players towards the Anfield crowd's rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone", Matthew Richardson, Port's general manager of marketing and consumer business, along with the club's management, sought to replicate the pre-match experience they experienced at Anfield. At a meeting in mid-2013, the idea of an anthem was raised; a number of various songs were suggested, including "Power and the Passion" by Midnight Oil and "Power to the People" by John Schumann. Eventually, "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS was suggested by Port Adelaide's events manager, Tara MacLeod. It was eventually accepted, due to the fact that the song resonated with the club's history.[82]

text: Initially the song was introduced to coincide with the 60-second countdown before the start of a match, with the music playing over the top of a video montage. The song proved to be a success among the fans, with them adopting the song as well as raising scarves above their heads as the song was being sung.[82] So successful was the song that by June 2014, the club were forced to print club coloured scarves with the words "Never Tear Us Apart" on them that fans would hold aloft and sing in unison prior to the start of matches.

text: Home grounds[edit]

text: On 15 May 1880, Port Adelaide played its first match at Alberton Oval. In 1881 the decision was made by the club to start leasing the oval from the Port Adelaide Council for the sum of 10 shillings a year. Situated at the eastern end of the suburb of Alberton in Adelaide, the playing surface is surrounded by the Allan Scott club headquarters, the Robert B. Quinn MM Stand, the Fos Williams Family Stand, the Port Adelaide Bowling Club and the N.L. Williams Scoreboard. As well as the facilities facing the oval, along Queen Street there is The Port Club and The Port Store.[83]

text:
Glanville Hall Estate
SAFA: 1870–1879

Alberton Oval
SANFL: 1880–present
AFL (training): 1997–present

Football Park
AFL: 1997–2013

Adelaide Oval
SANFL:1975-1976
AFL: 2011, 2014–present

text: Current playing list[edit]

text:
Port Adelaide Football Club

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Senior List
Rookie list
Coaching Staff

 1 Travis Boak (c)
 2 Sam Powell-Pepper
 3 Jake Neade
 4 Paddy Ryder
 5 Matthew Broadbent
 6 Angus Monfries
 7 Brad Ebert
 8 Hamish Hartlett
 9 Robbie Gray
11 Aaron Young
12 Jackson Trengove
13 Todd Marshall
14 Billy Frampton
15 Karl Amon
16 Ollie Wines (vc)
17 Tom Clurey
18 Jimmy Toumpas
19 Matthew White
20 Chad Wingard

21 Jared Polec
22 Charlie Dixon
23 Matthew Lobbe
24 Jarman Impey
25 Logan Austin
26 Riley Bonner
28 Joe Atley
29 Jasper Pittard
30 Willem Drew
31 Aidyn Johnson
32 Dougal Howard
33 Darcy Byrne-Jones
36 Jack Hombsch
37 Jesse Palmer
39 Justin Westhoff
41 Brendon Ah Chee
42 Tom Jonas
46 Sam Gray
48 Nathan Krakouer

27 Brett Eddy
34 Will Snelling
38 Peter Ladhams
40 Jarrod Lienert
43 Dan Houston
44 Cameron Hewett
45 Emmanuel Irra (B)

Head coach

Ken Hinkley

Assistant coaches

Matthew Nicks (senior assistant)
Michael Voss (midfield manager)
Brendon Lade (forward/ruck)
Nathan Bassett (defence)
Aaron Greaves (head of development)
Stuart Cochrane (midfield development)
Trent Hentschel (forward development)
Jacob Surjan (defence development)
Chad Cornes (SANFL coach)
Mark Clayton (academy coach)

Legend:

(c) Captain
(vc) Vice captain
(B) Category B rookie

Updated: 15 September 2017
Source(s): Playing list, Coaching staff

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Port Adelaide SANFL squad (Magpies)

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SANFL list

Coaching Staff

1 Steven Summerton (c)
5 Tom Gray
6 Sidney Masters
7 Louis Sharrad
10 Luke Reynolds

12 Thomas Corcoran
21 Jonathon Ross
23 Keiran Agius
29 Anthony Biemans
50 Robbie Young

Head coach

Chad Cornes

Assistant coaches

Darren Beer
Stuart Cochrane
Trent Hentschel
Jacob Surjan
Mark Clayton (Academy coach)

Legend:

(c) Captain
(vc) Vice captain

Updated: 1 December 2014
Source(s): [84]

text: Note: Port Adelaide AFL-listed players (not selected to play AFL) are allowed to play for the SANFL squad.

text: Corporate[edit]

text:
Guernsey sponsors

Period
Front sponsor
Back sponsor

1978
Lensworth Finance

1979

1980
Jetspress

1981

1982

1983
Standard Chartered

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988
Standard Chartered

1989

1990

1991

1992
Alpine Retreat

1993
Bee-Jays Roadlink

1994
Seaton Hotel
Cash Converters

1995
Scott's Transport

1996

1997
Vodafone

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008
Bianco Construction & Industrial Supplies

2009

2010
MyATM
AussieATM

2011
Soaring Securites

2012
VIP Home Services
Foodbank

2013
Renault^
VIP Home Services

2014
EnergyAustralia
Renault^

2015

2016

2017
OAK^

text: Administrative positions[edit]

text:
Chairman: David Koch
Chief executive: Keith Thomas
Football operations: Chris Davies
Board members:

Kevin Osborn (deputy chairman)
Cos Cardone
George Fiacchi
Ross Haslam
Holly Ransom
Jamie Restas
Richard Ryan
Trevor Thiele
Amanda Vanstone

text: Sponsors[edit]

text: Current major sponsors[edit]

text:
Renault
OAK (Parmalat)

text: Key China game sponsors[edit]

text:
Ausgold
Cathay Pacific
Shanghai Cred
Haneco Lighting

text: Current clothing sponsor[edit]

text: ISC (2013–present)

text: Former clothing sponsors[edit]

text:
Nike (1997–2006)
Reebok (2007–2012)

text: China partnership[edit]

text: On 14 April 2016, Port Adelaide announced a three-year multimillion-dollar partnership with leading Chinese property developer Shanghai Cred. Within this partnership, Port Adelaide will take primary responsibility for developing Australian rules football in China. The partnership will see Port Adelaide hold annual training camps and provide sponsorship in China, as well as producing AFL programs and broadcasting games in the country via China Central Television and other networks.[85] The first AFL game played for premiership points was played in May 2017 between the Gold Coast Suns and Port Adelaide.[86]

text: Supporters[edit]

text: The Port Adelaide Football Club has historically drawn its supporter base in and around historical working class Port Adelaide. However, this support has spread to many coastal locations in Adelaide (from Outer Harbour down to West Beach), in much of the inner-Western suburbs, throughout the North-Eastern suburbs in Campbelltown and Tea Tree Gully, in many of the Southern suburbs (such as Aberfoyle Park and Flagstaff Hill), as well as throughout the Adelaide Hills and country South Australia.

text: After historically being the largest football club in South Australia, Port Adelaide has reemerged as one of the largest sporting organisations in Australia, with over 60,000 members and an average attendance nearing 45,000 in 2015.

text: Supporter groups[edit]

text: Port Adelaide has many supporter groups, with every state or territory containing at least one supporter group. In addition, many country towns within South Australia have their own supporter group, many of which travel to both home and away games, including the Port Adelaide Cheer Squad, the Outer Army, The Alberton Crowd and The Portress Podcast.[87]

text: Number one ticket holders[edit]

text: Current[edit]

text: Hugh Sheridan – Australian actor and singer.

text: Former[edit]

text:
David Koch – Seven Network's Sunrise co-host, current club chairman[88]
Stuart O'Grady – Australian professional road bicycle racer[89]
Teresa Palmer – Australian model and actress[90]
Bob Quinn – former Port Adelaide player[91]
Tony Santic – owner of racehorse Makybe Diva[92]

text: Notable followers[edit]

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Jimmy Barnes – Australian rock singer and member of Cold Chisel.[93]
Sir Donald Bradman – Australian cricketer.[94]
Darren Cahill – Australian professional tennis player/coach and son of John Cahill.
Dean Canto – Australian professional touring car driver.
Kyle Chalmers – Australian gold medal swimmer.[95]
Peter Goers – Adelaide art and radio personality.[96]
Travis Head – Australian cricketer.
Thanasi Kokkinakis – Australian professional tennis player.[97]
Anna Meares – Australian gold medal track cyclist.[98]
Alison Mitchell – British cricket commentator.
Jason Momoa – American/Hawaiian actor and writer.[99]
Stuart O'Grady - Australian professional cyclist.[100]
Roger Rasheed – Australian professional tennis player/coach.[101]
Daniel Smith – Australian hip-hop artist and member of the Hilltop Hoods.[102]
Michael Turtur – Australian gold medal track cyclist.[103]
Ben Baker – Australian photographer.[104][105]

text: Membership and attendance[edit]

text:
Year
Membership
AFL audited
Membership
change
Minor
round
Finals
Home crowd
average
Home crowd
average change

1997

35,809

N/A

9th

-

35,703

N/A

1998

38,305

 2,496

10th

-

31,657

 4,046

1999

37,166

 1,139

7th

7th

31,270

 387

2000

34,935

 2,871

14th

-

26,376

 4,894

2001

33,296

 999

3rd

5th

30,789

 4,413

2002

36,299

 3,003

1st

3rd

30,414

 375

2003

35,425

 126

1st

4th

31,845

 1,431

2004

36,340

 915

1st

1st

29,877

 1,968

2005

36,834

 494

8th

6th

32,911

 3,034

2006

33,648

 1,186

12th

-

28,546

 4,365

2007

34,073

 1,575

2nd

2nd

27,870

 676

2008

34,185

 112

13th

-

22,126

 5,744

2009

30,605

 3580

10th

-

24,349

 2,223

2010
29,029

 783

10th

-

24,256

 93

2011
32,581

 5,236

16th

-

23,066

 1,190

2012
35,543

 1,003

14th

-

19,911

 3,155

2013
39,838

 3,383

7th

5th

26,915

 7,004

2014

48,968

 9,130

5th

3rd

44,429

 17,514

2015
54,057

 5,089

9th
-

43,749

 680

2016
53,743

 314

10th
-
39,665

 4,048

2017
52,129

 1,614

5th
7th
38,136

 1,529

text: Club honour boards[edit]

text: See Also

text:
List of Port Adelaide Football Club players (Pre AFL entry)
List of Port Adelaide Football Club players (Post AFL entry)

text: Honour roll[edit]

text:
Port Adelaide Football Club honour roll

Interclub matches

Year
Position

W-L-D

%
Chairman
CEO
Coach
Captain
Best and fairest
Leading goalkicker

1870
3
0-1-2
50
John Hart Jr.
Richard Leicester
John Wald
John Wald
George Dale
John Wald
John Wald (2)

1871
3
1-2-1
0
John Hart Jr.
George Ireland
Fred Stone
Fred Stone
Fred Stone
N/A

1872
2 (Runner Up)
0-1-2
0
John Hart Jr.
George Ireland
George Middleton
George Middleton
N/A
N/A

1873
2 (Runner Up)
1-2-0
25
John Hart Jr.
F.Ireland
H.Sparnon
H.Sparnon
George Middleton
Samuel Tyzack
Samuel Tyzack (1)

1874
2 (Runner Up)
2-3-1
100
John Hart Jr.
F.Ireland
John Rann
John Rann
Charles Wells
N/A
N/A

1875
2 (Runner Up)
3-3-1
140
John Hart Jr.
F.Ireland
Robert Sandilands
Robert Sandilands
Henry Ford
Henry Ford (2)
Warren (2)

1876
5
2-6-0
38
John Hart Jr.
Charles Wells
William Fletcher
William Fletcher
Ernest LeMessurier
Samuel Tyzack (1)
John Rann (1)
E.LeMessurier (1)

South Australian Football Association era

1877
4
9-4-2
177
John Hart Jr.
Charles Wells
William Fletcher
William Fletcher
Thomas Smith
Alfred LeMessurier (5)

1878
2 (Runner Up)
5-2-4
400
John Hart Jr.
Charles Wells
William Fletcher
William Fletcher
Thomas Smith
E.LeMessurier (3)
Joseph Carter (3)

1879
2 (Runner Up)
5-2-2
183
John Hart Jr.
Charles Wells
William Fletcher
William Fletcher
Thomas Smith
E.LeMessurier (4)

1880
6
3-3-5
89
John Formby
J.W.Channon
J.A.Atkins
J.A.Atkins
Joseph Carter
Jack Sidoli
E.LeMessurier (3)

1881
5
2-6-5
43
John Formby
E.LeMessurrier
Joseph Carter
J.H.Sandilands
William Fletcher
J.H.Sandilands
Jack Sidoli
Henry Watt (6)

1882
3
7-7-0
157
John Formby
E.C.LeMessurier
Charles Kellett
Charles Kellett
James Munro
George Slatter (6)

1883
2 (Runner Up)
7-5-2
114
John Formby
E.C.LeMessurier
Nowell Turpenny
Ernest Le Messurier
Nowell Turpenny
Robert Kirkpatrick
James Litchfield (13)*

1884
1 (Premiers)
11-2-2
252
John Formby
E.C.LeMessurier
Nowell Turpenny
Nowell Turpenny
Charles Kellett
George Cairns
Robert Roy (25)*

1885
3
6-8-1
120
John Formby
E.C.LeMessurier
Nowell Turpenny
Nowell Turpenny
Charles Kellett
Michael Coffee
Robert Roy (13)

1886
4 (Wooden Spoon)
3-11-1
64
John Formby
James Litchfield
Jack McGargill
William Bushby
Charlie Fry
Michael Coffee (6)

1887
2 (Runner Up)
12-3-2
239
John Formby
E.C.LeMessurier
Jack McGargill
William Bushby
William Bushby
Richard Walsh
Alfred Bushby (22)

1888
2 (Runner Up)
14-2-1
280
John Formby
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
William Bushby
Harold Phillips
Harold Phillips (24)

1889
2 (Grand Finalist)
14-3-1
385
John Formby
Robert Cruickshank
Jack McGargill
William Bushby
Goody Hamilton
Charlie Fry (32)*

1890
1 (Premiers)
Champions of Australia
16-2-0
388
John Formby
Robert Cruickshank
Jack McGargill
Ken McKenzie
Charlie Fry
John Mckenzie (54)*

1891
2 (Runner Up)
12-4-0
288
John Formby
Robert Cruickshank
Alfred Bushby
Jack McGargill
Ken McKenzie
Harold Phillips
John Mckenzie (37)

1892
2 (Runner Up)
11-4-1
193
John Formby
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Ken McKenzie
Harold Phillips
Alexander McKenzie (43)

1893
3
10-6-2
202
John Cleave
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Ken McKenzie
Walter Murray
Harold Phillips
Alexander McKenzie (59)

1894
3
9-9-0
114
John Cleave
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Ken McKenzie
Alfred Miers
Alexander McKenzie (36)

1895
3
8-7-1
141
W.Fisher
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Alfred Miers
Oscar L'estage
Alexander McKenzie (25)

1896
5 (Wooden Spoon)
4-13-1
69
W.Fisher
Charles Tucker
Henry Hills
Jack McGargill
Ken McKenzie
George Linklater
Adam Lees (19)

Modern scoring system adopted

1897
1 (Premiers)
14-2-1
266
W.Fisher
Charles Tucker
Henry Hills
Jack McGargill
Ken McKenzie
Ken McKenzie
Adam Lees (26)*

First regular SAFA Grand Finals held

1898
2 (Grand Finalist)
12-6-0
199
W.Fisher
Henry Hills
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Ken McKenzie
Archibald Hosie
William Stark (31)

1899
3
9-5-0
155
W.Fisher
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Harold Phillips
Stan Malin
William Stark (13)

1900
6 (Wooden Spoon)
2-12-0
66
W.Fisher
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Harold Phillips
Jack Quinn
Hedley Tompkins (16)

Federation of Australia

1901
2 (Grand Finalist)
12-7-0
131
Robert Cruickshank
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Archibald Hosie
Ted Strawns
Jack Quinn (27)

1902
3 (Disqualified by SAFA)
10-2-0
198
William Mattinson
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Archibald Hosie
Lewis Corston
Matthew Healy (25)

1903
1 (Premiers)
12-2-1
248
William Mattinson
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Archibald Hosie
Jimmy Tompkins
Jimmy Tompkins (40)

1904
2 (Grand Finalist)
10-3-1
173
William Mattinson
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Archibald Hosie
Jack Quinn
Lewis Corston
Jimmy Tompkins (28)

1905
2 (Grand Finalist)
11-2-1
170
William Mattinson
John Sweeney
Jack McGargill
Jack Quinn
Jack Quinn
James Mathison (30)*

1906
1 (Premiers)
12-2-0
213
William Mattinson
James Hodge
Jack McGargill
Jack Fletcher
Lewis Corston
Ted Strawns
James Mathison (42)*

South Australian Football League era

1907
2 (Grand Finalist)
11-4-0
192
William Mattinson
James Hodge
Jack McGargill
Lewis Corston
Jack Mack
Jack Quinn (32)*

1908
3
8-5-0
137
William Mattinson
James Hodge
Jack McGargill
Ted Strawns
Mick Donaghy
James Dickson
James Mathison (33)*

1909
2 (Grand Finalist)
9-5-0
134
William Mattinson
James Hodge
Archibald Hosie
Mick Donaghy
James Dickson
Angelo Congear (12)

1910
1 (Premiers)
Championship of Australia
14-2-0
150
William Mattinson
James Hodge
Archibald Hosie
John Woollard
Sampson Hosking
Frank Hansen (46)

1911
2 (Grand Finalist)
12-3-0
171
Robert Cruickshank
James Hodge
Mick Donaghy
John Woollard
George Dempster
Harold Oliver
Frank Hansen (41)*

1912
2 (Grand Finalist)
12-2-0
205
Robert Cruickshank
James Hodge
Sampson Hosking
Cliff Cocks
Sampson Hosking
Harold Oliver
Frank Hansen (37)*

1913
1 (Premiers)
Championship of Australia
12-2-0
160
Alexander Benson
James Hodge
Jack Londrigan
Jack Londrigan
Henry Eaton
Frank Hansen (39)*

1914
1 (Premiers)
Championship of Australia
14-0-0
209
Alexander Benson
James Hodge
Jack Londrigan
Jack Londrigan
Jack Ashley
Jack Dunn (33)*

1915
2 (Grand Finalist)
9-4-1
175
Alexander Benson
James Hodge
Alex McFarlane
Alex McFarlane
Henry Eaton
Angelo Congear (21)

South Australian Patriotic League (World War I)

1916
1 (Premiers)
11-0-1
246

Charles Tyler

John Hayman (40)

1917
1 (Premiers)
11-0-1
164

Charles Tyler

John Hayman (37)

1918
3

Charles Tyler

Return to South Australian Football League administration

1919
4
6-6-1
127
Alexander Benson
Charles Tyler
Frank Hansen
Horrie Pope
Alexander McFarlane
Jack Ashley
Len Lackman (26)*

1920
3
8-5-0
119
Alexander Benson
Charles Tyler
Frank Hansen
John Robertson
Albert Olds
Charlie Adams
Eric Dewar (24)

1921
1 (Premiers)
13-4-0
182
Alexander Benson
Charles Tyler
Sampson Hosking
Harold Oliver
Charlie Adams
Maurice Allingham (43)

1922
5
7-7-0
101
Herbert Skipper
Charles Tyler
Samuel Howie
Samuel Howie
Clement Dayman
Maurice Allingham (47)

1923
7
5-9-0
99
Herbert Skipper
Alexander McKelvie
Clement Dayman
Clement Dayman
Les Dayman
Maurice Allingham (42)

1924
4
9-6-0
121
Herbert Skipper
Alexander McKelvie
Archibald Hosie
Clifford Keal
Les Dayman
Maurice Allingham (28)

1925
3
10-5-0
127
Herbert Skipper
Alexander McKelvie
Archibald Hosie
Clifford Keal
Peter Bampton
Harold Logan (56)

1926
3
10-5-0
123
Percival Cherry
Alexander McKelvie
Maurice Allingham
Maurice Allingham
Laurie Hodge
Harold Logan (36)

South Australian National Football League era

1927
3
10-8-0
118
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Peter Bampton
Clifford Keal
Harold Logan (66)

1928
1 (Premiers)
15-4-0
119
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Victor Johnson
Les Dayman
Les Dayman (41)

1929
2 (Grand Finalist)
15-5-0
156
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Victor Johnson
Ernest Mucklow
Les Dayman (86)*

1930
2 (Grand Finalist)
12-7-1
116
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Victor Johnson
Victor Johnson
Les Dayman (89)

1931
3
14-5-0
127
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Victor Johnson
Maurice Allingham
Les Dayman (70)

1932
4
10-8-0
99
Clement Gun
Charles Hayter
Sydney Ween
Sydney Ween
Ernest Mucklow
Ned Hender (55)

1933
5
9-7-1
104
Clement Gun
Charles Hayter
Henry Dewar
Sydney Ween
Jack Dermody
Ned Hender (48)

1934
2 (Grand Finalist)
11-7-1
121
Clement Gun
Charles Hayter
Len Ashby
Victor Johnson
Albert Hollingworth
Jim Prideaux (73)

1935
2 (Grand Finalist)
13-6-0
125
Clement Gun
Charles Hayter
Len Ashby
Robert Johnson
Jack Dermody
Jim Prideaux (95)

1936
1 (Premiers)
16-4-0
127
Clement Gun
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Jack Dermody
Albert Hollingworth
Jim Prideaux (86)

1937
1 (Premiers)
15-4-0
131
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Jack Dermody
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn (51)

1938
2 (Grand Finalist)
12-8-0
118
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Ned Hender
Robert Quinn
Albert Hollingworth (45)

1939
1 (Premiers)
15-4-0
126
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn
Allan Reval
Howard Abbott (49)

1940
3
14-5-0
118
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Robert Quinn
Allan Reval
Robert Quinn
Allan Reval
Reginald Schumann
Allan McLean (47)

1941
4
11-6-1
106
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Allan Reval
Allan Reval
Jack Skelley
Allan McLean (62)

Temporary geographical merger with West Torrens during World War II

1942
1 (Premiers)

Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Llewellyn Roberts
N/A
Merv Shaw (42)
(West Torrens)

1943
2 (Grand Finalist)

Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Llewellyn Roberts
N/A
Merv Shaw
(West Torrens)

1944
2 (Grand Finalist)

Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Sampson Hosking
Llewellyn Roberts
N/A
Merv Shaw (69)
(West Torrens)

Competition returns to unaligned teams

1945
2 (Grand Finalist)
16-3-0
133
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn (51)

1946
2 (Grand Finalist)
13-7-0
121
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn
Llewellyn Roberts
Ken Jolly (46)

1947
3
14-5-0
131
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn
Allan McLean (80)*

1948
7
4-13-0
86
Percival Cherry
Charles Hayter
Les Dayman
Llewellyn Roberts
Llewellyn Roberts
Richard Russell
Allan McLean (48)

1949
6
7-10-0
94
Percival Cherry
Allan McLean
Jack McCarthy
Reginald Schumann
Richard Russell
Lloyd Zucker (51)

1950
3
13-6-0
113
Walter Baudinet
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Fos Williams (40)

1951
1 (Premiers)
19-1-0
156
Walter Baudinet
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Richard Russell
Noel Clark (37)

1952
3
13-6-0
149
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Ray Whitaker
Roger Clift (26)

1953
2 (Grand Finalist)
16-5-0
144
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Harold McDonald
Ray Whitaker (35)

1954
1 (Premiers)
17-3-0
147
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Roger Clift
Tom Garland (44)

1955
1 (Premiers)
15-5-0
132
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Fos Williams (35)

1956
1 (Premiers)
19-1-0
187
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Edward Whelan
Rex Johns (70)*

1957
1 (Premiers)
17-2-1
170
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Neville Hayes
Rex Johns (77)

1958
1 (Premiers)
18-3-0
146
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Fos Williams
Geof Motley
Rex Johns (55)*

1959
1 (Premiers)
19-2-0
160
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Geof Motley
Geof Motley
Geof Motley
Wally Dittmar (74)*

1960
3
14-6-0
148
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Geof Motley
Geof Motley
Neville Hayes
Wally Dittmar (69)*

1961
3
15-6-0
141
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Geof Motley
Geof Motley
Jeffrey Potter
Rex Johns (54)

1962
1 (Premiers)
19-2-0
156
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Geof Motley
Peter Obst
Rex Johns (76)

1963
1 (Premiers)
15-7-0
152
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Geof Motley
Geof Motley
Rex Johns (54)*

1964
2 (Grand Finalist)
18-4-0
183
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Geof Motley
Jeffrey Potter
Jeffrey Potter (30)

1965
1 (Premiers)
19-3-0
129
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Geof Motley
Geof Motley
Eric Freeman (74)

1966
2 (Grand Finalist)
15-7-0
143
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
Geof Motley
John Cahill
Eric Freeman (81)*

1967
2 (Grand Finalist)
16-7-0
134
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
John Cahill
Jeffrey Potter
Eric Freeman (74)

1968
2 (Grand Finalist)
16-7-0
139
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
John Cahill
John Cahill
Russell Ebert (44)

1969
6
9-11-0
92
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
John Cahill
Jeffrey Potter
Mark Dittmar (28)

1970
3
17-4-1
150
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
John Cahill
John Cahill
Eric Freeman (75)

1971
2 (Grand Finalist)
17-7-0
138
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
John Cahill
Russell Ebert
Eric Freeman (50)

1972
2 (Grand Finalist)
16-8-0
122
Bert Harvey
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
John Cahill
Russell Ebert
Max James(62)

1973
5
11-11-0
105
Ken Duthie
Allan McLean
Fos Williams
John Cahill
John Cahill
John Cahill (59)

1974
3
19-5-1
123
Ken Duthie
Allan McLean
John Cahill
Russell Ebert
Russell Ebert
Darrell Cahill (54)

1975
3
14-7-0
123
Ken Duthie
Allan McLean
John Cahill
Russell Ebert
Peter Woite
Tim Evans (64)

1976
2 (Grand Finalist)
18-5-0
135
Ken Duthie
Allan McLean
John Cahill
Russell Ebert
Russell Ebert
Randall Gerlach (90)

1977
1 (Premiers)
19-4-1
146
Ken Duthie
Allan McLean
John Cahill
Russell Ebert
Russell Ebert
Tim Evans (88)*

1978
3
16-9-0
111
Ken Duthie
Allan McLean
John Cahill
Russell Ebert
Stephen Clifford
Tim Evans (90)*

1979
1 (Premiers)
17-8-0
112
Ken Duthie
Allan McLean
John Cahill
Brian Cunningham
Milan Faletic
Tim Evans (82)

1980
1 (Premiers)
21-2-1
188
Ken Duthie
Allan McLean
John Cahill
Brian Cunningham
Stephen Clifford
Tim Evans (146)*

1981
1 (Premiers)
18-7-0
122
Ken Duthie
Ron Taylor
John Cahill
Brian Cunningham
Russell Ebert
Tim Evans (98)*

1982
3
16-7-1
127
Ken Duthie
Ron Taylor
John Cahill
Brian Cunningham
Craig Bradley
Tim Evans (125)*

1983
6
10-12-0
91
Ken Duthie
Ron Taylor
Russell Ebert
Russell Ebert
Stephen Clifford
Tim Evans (63)

1984
2 (Grand Finalist)
18-6-0
127
Ken Duthie
Ian McKenzie
Russell Ebert
Russell Ebert
Craig Bradley
Tim Evans (137)

1985
7
8-14-0
88
Ken Duthie
Ian McKenzie
Russell Ebert
Russell Ebert
Craig Bradley
Tim Evans (96)

1986
4
13-11-0
103
Bruce Weber
Ian McKenzie
Russell Ebert
Russell Johnston
Martin Leslie
Darren Smith (49)

1987
4
15-9-0
112
Bruce Weber
Ian McKenzie
Russell Ebert
Russell Johnston
Bruce Abernethy
Darren Smith (71)

1988
1 (Premiers)
18-6-0
127
Bruce Weber
Ian McKenzie
John Cahill
Russell Johnston
Greg Phillips
Scott Hodges (74)

1989
1 (Premiers)
21-4-0
139
Bruce Weber
Robert Clayton
John Cahill
Russell Johnston
Russell Johnston
Scott Hodges (79)

1990
1 (Premiers)
19-4-0
150
Bruce Weber
Robert Clayton
John Cahill
Russell Johnston
Scott Hodges
Scott Hodges (153)*

1991
5
14-9-0
109
Bruce Weber
Robert Clayton
John Cahill
Greg Phillips
Paul Northeast
Darryl Borlase (25)

1992
1 (Premiers)
20-4-0
137
Bruce Weber
Brian Cunningham
John Cahill
Greg Phillips
Nathan Buckley
Mark Tylor (97)*

1993
3
16-7-0
118
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
John Cahill
Greg Phillips
Troy Bond
Mark Tylor (90)*

1994
1 (Premiers)
18-8-0
131
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
John Cahill
Tim Ginever
Tim Ginever
Scott Hodges (130)*

1995
1 (Premiers)
19-6-0
131
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
John Cahill
Tim Ginever
Robbie West
Mark Tylor (53)

1996
1 (Premiers)
16-8-0
129
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
Robert Clayton
David Hutton
John Cahill
Stephen Williams
Tim Ginever
Scott Hodges
Scott Hodges (117)

Australian Football League era

1997
9
10-11-1
92
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
John Cahill
Gavin Wanganeen
Darren Mead
Scott Cummings (70)

1998
10
9-12-1
96
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
John Cahill
Gavin Wanganeen
Adam Kingsley
Warren Tredrea (33)

1999
7
12-11-0
90
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
Mark Williams
Gavin Wanganeen
Stephen Paxman
Warren Tredrea (40)

2000
14
7-14-1
84
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
Mark Williams
Gavin Wanganeen
Brett Montgomery
Warren Tredrea (32)

2001
5
16-8-0
129
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
Mark Williams
Matthew Primus
Warren Tredrea
Warren Tredrea (51)

2002
3
19-6-0
132
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
Mark Williams
Matthew Primus
Matthew Primus
Stuart Dew (51)

2003
4
19-6-0
127
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
Mark Williams
Matthew Primus
Gavin Wanganeen
Warren Tredrea (58)

2004
1 (Premiers)
20-5-0
132
Greg Boulton
Brian Cunningham
Mark Williams
Matthew Primus
Warren Tredrea
Warren Tredrea
Warren Tredrea (81)

2005
6
12-11-1
98
Greg Boulton
John James
Mark Williams
Matthew Primus
Warren Tredrea
Warren Tredrea (65)

2006
12
8-14-0
89
Greg Boulton
John James
Mark Williams
Warren Tredrea
Brendon Lade
Josh Mahoney (29)

2007
2 (Grand Finalist)
17-8-0
113
Greg Boulton
John James
Mark Williams
Warren Tredrea
Kane Cornes
Brett Ebert (56)

2008
13
7-15-0
96
Greg Boulton
John James
Mark Haysman
Mark Williams
Warren Tredrea
Kane Cornes
Daniel Motlop (57)

2009
10
9-13-0
89
Brett Duncanson
Mark Haysman
Mark Williams
Domenic Cassisi
Warren Tredrea
Warren Tredrea (51)

2010
10
10-12-0
82
Brett Duncanson
Mark Haysman
Mark Williams
Matthew Primus
Domenic Cassisi
Kane Cornes
Jay Schulz (33)

2011
16
3-19-0
65
Brett Duncanson
Mark Haysman
Keith Thomas
Matthew Primus
Domenic Cassisi
Travis Boak
Jackson Trengove
Robbie Gray (32)

2012
14
5-16-1
79
Brett Duncanson
David Koch
Keith Thomas
Matthew Primus
Garry Hocking
Domenic Cassisi
Kane Cornes
Jay Schulz (42)

2013
5
13-11-0
102
David Koch
Keith Thomas
Ken Hinkley
Travis Boak
Chad Wingard
Jay Schulz (49)

Administrative independence from the SANFL

2014
3
16-8-0
130
David Koch
Keith Thomas
Ken Hinkley
Travis Boak
Robbie Gray
Jay Schulz (66)

2015
9
12-10-0
106
David Koch
Keith Thomas
Ken Hinkley
Travis Boak
Robbie Gray
Chad Wingard (53)

2016
10
10-12-0
106
David Koch
Keith Thomas
Ken Hinkley
Travis Boak
Robbie Gray
Chad Wingard (38)

2017
7
14-9-0
130
David Koch
Keith Thomas
Ken Hinkley
Travis Boak

Charlie Dixon (49)

text: Hall of Fame[edit]

text:
Port Adelaide Football Club

Hall of Fame

South Australian Football Association (1877-1906)

Harold Phillips

South Australian Football League (1907-1927)

Angelo Congear

Leslie Dayman

Sampson Hosking

Harold Oliver

South Australian National Football League (1928-1996)

Bruce Abernethy
Brian Cunningham
Neville Hayes
Lloyd Zucker
Bob Quinn

John Abley
Russell Ebert
Scott Hodges
Edward McMahon
Allan Reval
Fos Williams

Dave Boyd
Tim Evans
Ron Hoffman
Geof Motley
Richard Russell
Stephen Williams

Craig Bradley
Brian Fairclough
Henry Kneebone
Greg Phillips
Llewellyn Roberts
Edward Whelan

John Cahill
Tim Ginever
Allan McLean
Jeffrey Potter
Darren Smith

Australian Football League (since 1997)

Gavin Wanganeen

Players listed in bold are inductees in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
Players listed in bold and italics are legends in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

text: Greatest Team[edit]

text:
Port Adelaide's Greatest Team 1870–2000

B:
Richard Russell
John Abley
Edward Whelan

HB:
Neville Hayes
Greg Phillips
Geof Motley

C:
Craig Bradley
Russell Ebert (vc)
John Cahill

HF:
Dave Boyd
Les Dayman
Harold Oliver

F:
Scott Hodges
Tim Evans
Bob Quinn

Foll:
Russell Johnston
Allan Reval
Fos Williams (c)

Int:
Harry Phillips
Jeffrey Potter
Peter Woite

Lloyd Zucker

Coach:
Fos Williams

text: Military service[edit]

text:
War Roll of Honour [106]

World War I

Maurice Allingham
Frederick Badcock
Arthur Biscombe
William Boon †

David Bower
Howard Bungey
Hugh Challinder
Arnold Channon

Albert Chaplin †
Robert Coffen
Henry Davis
Clement Dayman

William Dempster
Henry Dewar
William 'Roy' Drummond M.M.
Edward Foggo

Archibald Gosling †
Matthew Healy
Horace Hoare
Samuel Howie

Gordon Inkster
Clarence Latimer
Lawrence Levy
William Marshall

Tom McDonald D.C.M
Frederick Meadows
Edward Oatey
John W. Robertson

Edwin Rose
Thomas Sard
Stedman Stidson
William Theodore

Harry Tobin
Arthur Tubel
Arthur Turner
Douglas Walsh M.C.†

Joseph Watson †
Edward Weeden

World War I – officials

Dr Alexander Benson
Charles Hayter
Dr Edward Morris

World War II

Howard Abbott
James Allingham
Charles A. Andersen
Charles H. Andersen

Basil Bampton
Harold Beer
Halcombe Brock †
Maxwell Carmichael †

George W.F. Chapman
Clarence Christensen
Noel Clark
John Coppin

Ivor Dangerfield
Lindsay Darling
Ralph Dawe
Clarance L. Dayman

John Dermody
Edward Dorian
James Doyle
Drozena Eden

Bert Edwards
James Farr
Dennis Fitzgerald
Frederick Galliford

Laurence Gates
Geoffrey Germein
Francis Gibaut
Arthur Gower

Colin Grant
Claude Greening
Donald Gregg
Colin Grimm

John Heaton
Colin Herbert
John Johnson
Kenneth Johnson

Clyde Kellaway
Peter Keough
Lyall Kretschmer
Robert Lander

Peter Marrett
Richard Mayne
Harold McDonald
Norman McInnes

Malcolm McKiggan †
Allan R.C. 'Bob' McLean
Harold Mills
Brian Moore

George Neaylon
John Oehme
William Owens
Alexander Pender

Harry Perry
Frederick Peters
James Prideaux
George U. Quinn †

John M. Quinn
Robert B. Quinn M.M.
Lew Roberts
Herbert Robertson

Bertram Robinson
Lloyd Rudd †
Leonard Salvemini
Reginald Schumann

John Skelley
Kenneth Slade
Gordon Temby
William Trigg

Arthur Tunbridge
Arthur Utting
John Wade †
Hercules Waldron

John White
Geoffrey Wiese
Foster Williams
John Woollard

World War II – officials/staff

Kenneth Aubert
Archibald Dowsett
Henry Naismith
William Adair

Vietnam War

Peter Chant †
Lindsay McGie
John A. Quinn

text: † denotes killed in action or died while serving

text: Club achievements[edit]

text:
Club achievements

Competition
Level
Wins
Year won

AFL
Premiers
1
2004

Runners up
1
2007

McClelland Trophy
3
2002, 2003, 2004

Championship of Australia
Champions
4
1890, 1910, 1913, 1914

SAFA/SAFL/SANFL
Premiers
36
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, 1998,
1999

Runners up
37
1878, 1879, 1883, 1887, 1888,
1889, 1891, 1892, 1898, 1901
1904, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911,
1912, 1915, 1925, 1926, 1929
1930, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1945,
1946, 1953, 1964, 1966, 1967
1968, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1984,
1997, 2014

Minor premiers
44
1889, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906,
1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913
1914, 1915, 1921, 1928, 1931,
1934, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1940
1945, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955,
1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961
1962, 1964, 1965, 1970, 1976,
1977, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988
1990, 1992, 1999, 2014

South Australian Patriotic League
Premiers
3
1916, 1917, 1942

Runner up
2
1943, 1944

text: Player achievements[edit]

text: Competition awards[edit]

text: Magarey Medal (SANFL best and fairest)

text:
1899 – Stan Malin
1907 – Jack Mack
1910 – Sampson Hosking
1914 – Jack Ashley
1915 – Sampson Hosking
1921 – Charlie Adams
1925 – Peter Bampton
1938 – Bob Quinn
1945 – Bob Quinn
1956 – Dave Boyd
1964 – Geof Motley
1967 – Trevor Obst
1971 – Russell Ebert
1974 – Russell Ebert
1975 – Peter Woite
1976 – Russell Ebert
1980 – Russell Ebert
1986 – Greg Anderson
1990 – Scott Hodges
1992 – Nathan Buckley
2001 – Tony Brown & Ryan O'Connor
2003 – Brett Ebert
2005 – Jeremy Clayton

text: Dutschke Medal (SAWFL best and fairest)

text: 2011 - Emma Sampson

text: AFLCA Champion Player of the Year

text:
2004 – Warren Tredrea
2014 – Robbie Gray

text: AFL Rising Star (Best player under 21)

text:
1997 – Michael Wilson
2006 – Danyle Pearce

text: Grand final best on ground awards[edit]

text: Norm Smith Medal (AFL Grand Final best on ground)

text: 2004 – Byron Pickett

text: Jack Oatey Medal (SANFL Grand Final best on ground)

text:
1981 – Russell Ebert
1988 – Bruce Abernethy
1989 – Russell Johnston
1990 – George Fiacchi
1992 – Nathan Buckley
1994 – Darryl Wakelin
1995 – Anthony Darcy
1996 – David Brown
1998 – Brett Chalmers
1999 – Darryl Poole

text: All-Australian[edit]

text: Sporting Life Magazine

text:
Bob Quinn - 1947 (captain)
Dick Russell - 1950
Fos Williams - 1950, 1951
Harold McDonald - 1951, 1955

text: Interstate carnivals

text:
John Abley - 1956, 1958, 1961
John Cahill - 1969
Greg Phillips - 1980
Mark Williams - 1980
Craig Bradley - 1983, 1985
Tony Giles - 1983
Stephen Curtis - 1983
Greg Anderson - 1987
Martin Leslie - 1988

text: Australian Football League

text:
Adam Heuskes - 1997
Gavin Wanganeen - 2001, 2003
Matthew Primus - 2001, 2002
Warren Tredrea - 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Brett Montgomery - 2002
Josh Francou - 2002
Chad Cornes - 2004, 2007
Mark Williams - 2004 (coach)
Kane Cornes - 2005, 2007
Brendon Lade - 2006, 2007
Shaun Burgoyne - 2006
Chad Wingard - 2013, 2015
Travis Boak - 2013, 2014
Robbie Gray - 2014, 2015, 2017
Paddy Ryder - 2017

text: Club awards[edit]

text: John Cahill Medal (best and fairest)

text: Gavin Wanganeen Medal (Best player under 21)

text:
2006 – Danyle Pearce
2007 – Justin Westhoff
2008 – Alipate Carlile
2009 – Travis Boak
2010 – Jackson Trengove
2011 – Hamish Hartlett
2012 – Chad Wingard
2013 – Ollie Wines
2014 – Ollie Wines
2015 – Ollie Wines
2016 - Jarman Impey

text: John McCarthy Medal (Community Award)

text:
2013 – Jack Hombsch
2014 – Brad Ebert
2015 – Nathan Krakouer
2016 – Jack Hombsch

text: Club records[edit]

text: Overall Win/Loss record

text:
AFL – 440 games / 224 wins / 211 losses / 5 draws (51.48%)
SANFL – 2636 games / 1727 wins / 860 losses / 65 draws (66.75%)

text: At end of 2015 season.

text: Best league record against another club

text: Over 10 league matches against a current club.

text:
AFL – West Coast – 17 wins / 10 losses / 0 draws (62.96%)
SANFL – Glenelg – 177 wins / 67 losses / 3 draws (72.27%)

text: At end of 2015 season.

text: Worst league record against another club

text:
AFL – Sydney – 7 wins / 19 losses / 0 draws (26.92%)
SANFL – Norwood – 195 wins / 190 losses / 17 draws (48.51%)

text: *as of 21/4/2015

text: Highest score

text:
AFL – 29.14 (188) vs Hawthorn, round 13, 2005, Football Park
SANFL – 37.21 (243) vs Woodville, 19 April 1980, Football Park

text: Lowest score

text:
AFL – 3.3 (21) vs Collingwood, round 20, 2011, Football Park
SANFL – 1.1 (7) vs North Adelaide, 5 May 1900, Alberton Oval

text: Greatest Winning Margin

text:
AFL – 117 points vs Hawthorn, round 13, 2005, Football Park
SANFL – 179 points vs Woodville, 8 August 1970, Woodville Oval

text: Greatest losing margin

text:
AFL – 165 points vs Hawthorn, round 21, 2011, MCG
SANFL – 114 points vs Sturt, 1965, Unley Oval

text: Most Wins in a season

text:
AFL – 20 wins (2004)
SANFL – 21 wins (1980, 1989)

text: Fewest losses in a season

text:
AFL – 5 losses (2004)
SANFL – 0 losses (1914)

text: Largest home attendances (minor round)

text:
AFL – 54,468 at Adelaide Oval (round 16, 2015 vs Adelaide)
AFL (Non-showdown) – 52,505 at Adelaide Oval (round 22, 2014 vs Carlton)
SANFL – 36,397 at Football Park (round 2, 1990 vs Norwood)
SANFL – 22,738 at Alberton Oval (round 11, 1977 vs Norwood)

text: Largest away attendances (minor round)

text:
AFL – 51,883 at MCG (round 1, 1997 vs Collingwood)
SANFL – 30,618 at Adelaide Oval (round 11, 1977 vs South Adelaide)
SANFL – 22,015 at Unley Oval (round 9, 1968 vs Sturt)

text: Largest finals attendances

text:
AFL – 97,302 at MCG (2007 AFL Grand Final vs Geelong)
SANFL – 66,897 (80,000 police estimate) at Football Park (1976 SANFL Grand Final vs Sturt)[44]

text: Longest undefeated run

text:
AFL – 8 wins (round 8 → 15, 2002, round 15 → 22, 2003, round 4 → 12, 2014)
SANFL – 33 games (21 June 1913 → 1914 → 3 July 1915)

text: Longest losing run

text:
AFL – 11 games (round 11 → 23, 2011)
SANFL – 7 games (14 May 2002 → 1 June 2002)

text: Player records[edit]

text: Most games played

text:
AFL – 300 – Kane Cornes (2001–2015)
SANFL – 391 – Russell Ebert (1968–1978, 1980–1985)[107]

text: Most games coached

text:
AFL – 274 – Mark Williams (1999–2010)
SANFL – 444 – Fos Williams (1950–1958, 1962–1973)
Combined – 465 – John Cahill (SANFL: 1974–1982, 1988–1996; AFL: 1997–1998)

text: Most premierships as player

text:
SANFL – 9 – Geof Motley (1954–1959, 1962–1963, 1965)
AFL – 1 – 2004 premiership team

text: Most premierships as coach

text:
SANFL – 10 – John Cahill (1977, 1979–81, 1988–90, 1994–96)
AFL – 1 – Mark Williams (2004)

text: Most goals at Port Adelaide

text:
AFL – 549 – Warren Tredrea (1997–2010)
SANFL – 1044 – Tim Evans (1975–1986)[108]

text: Most goals in a match

text:
AFL – 8 – Warren Tredrea (1998, round 7, vs Carlton, Princes Park) and Jay Schulz (2014, round 14, vs Western Bulldogs, Adelaide Oval)
SANFL – 16 – Tim Evans (1980, round 5, vs West Adelaide)

text: Most goals in a season

text:
AFL – 81 – Warren Tredrea (2004)
SANFL – 153 – Scott Hodges (1990)


document_title: List of United States presidential elections by Electoral College margin

question_text: what was the largest margin of victory in a presidential election

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text: Definition of the margin[edit]

text: Informal definition[edit]

text: The margin of victory in a U.S. presidential election, with the exception below, would be the difference between the number of electoral votes won by the candidate with at least a majority of electoral votes (currently 270 of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate.  Theoretically this number would be in the range of 2 to 538.  The numbers above assume that all electors vote.

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text: The exception would occur if no candidate receives a majority of the electoral vote (this includes a tie).  In that case, the House of Representatives, voting as state delegations, would choose from up to three candidates who received the most electoral votes.  Thus the winner could be an initially third-place candidate who received one electoral vote.

text: Because the Electoral College has grown in size, the results are normalized to compensate. For example, take two elections, 1848 and 1968. In the election of 1968 Richard Nixon got a majority by 32 votes. At first glance, the election of 1848 appears closer, because Zachary Taylor got a majority by only 18 votes.  But Nixon could have gotten as many as 269 votes above a majority (if he had won unanimously), while Taylor could only have gotten 145 votes above a majority.  Thus, we normalize the two elections to compare them.  We calculate Nixon's margin of victory by dividing the 32 by 269 to get 0.119.  We do the same with Taylor, dividing 18 by 145, to get 0.124.  And we find that Nixon's election was actually closer because a smaller fraction of the electors separated Nixon from a contingent election.

text: While the above explanation applies to modern elections, initially the process was different.  Prior to the passage of the 12th Amendment, the winner of the presidential election was the person who got both a majority of electors to vote for him and who got the most number of votes, because each elector cast two presidential votes.  Thus, for elections prior to 1804, if two candidates got above 50% of the electors, the margin of victory is the victorious candidate's margin over the other candidate who got above 50% of the electors.  Of the four elections prior to the 12th Amendment, two involved two candidates getting above 50% of the electors:  1792 and 1800.

text: Mathematical definition[edit]

text: The margin of victory in the election is calculated as follows:

text: Let c be the total number of electors voting in the election.  Let w be the number of electoral votes cast for the candidate with the most electoral votes, and let r be the number of votes for the runner-up.

text: The Constitution provides that if the candidate with the most votes does not receive a simple majority of the electors voting, the House of Representatives chooses the president.  So, the margin of victory is the number of electoral votes over both the runner-up and half the electoral votes cast.  For elections after the passage of the 12th Amendment, the runner-up will always have less than half of the electoral votes cast, so the absolute margin of victory will be the difference of the winner's electoral votes and half the electoral votes cast.  To express this in mathematical formulae:

text: The minimum possible value for the margin of victory is clearly zero.  The maximum possible value of the margin of victory occurs in the case in which each elector casts a vote for the winning candidate and the runner-up gets no more than half of the vote.  In this case, the maximum margin of victory is c/2.  In order to meaningfully compare election to election, we need that maximum margin to be constant from election to election.  Thus, we divide the absolute margin of victory by c/2 to get a normalized margin of victory that ranges from 0 to 1:

text: Table of election results[edit]

text: Note that the elections of 1789, 1792, 1796, and 1800 took place before the 12th Amendment and thus each elector had two votes (one for president and one for vice president, but did not distinguish between them).  The table's "runner-up" column shows the number of electoral votes for the candidate who got the second highest number of combined electoral votes (and thus was elected vice-president) for each of these years except 1800.  The 1800 election was a tie between the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the same party.  The value in the "runner-up" column for 1800 is the number of electoral votes received by the presidential candidate of the other major political party (even though the two winning candidates each received more electoral votes than he did).  The number in parentheses in the "Rank" column is the rank that would have been assigned to this election under the rules of the 12th Amendment.

text: Also note that in the following table, the election of 1824 is ranked closer than the election of 1800 because the election of 1800 resulted in a two-way draw between the same party's candidates for President and Vice President (since presidential and vice presidential electoral votes were not distinguished), while the election of 1824 resulted in the House of Representatives selecting the person who won the second largest number of electoral votes (out of the top 3) when no candidate got a majority.

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Rank

Year

Winner

Number of electors voting

Normalized victory margin

Percentage

total

winner

runner-up

(c)

(w)

(r)

58.

1824

second place winner: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford [a]

261

84

99

0.000

32.18%

57 (53).

1800

draw:  Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr [b]

138

73

65

0.000

52.90%

56.

1876

Rutherford B. Hayes

369

185

184

0.003

50.14%

55.

2000

George W. Bush

538

271

266

0.009

50.37%

54.

1796

John Adams

138

71

68

0.029

51.45%

53.

1916

Woodrow Wilson

531

277

254

0.043

52.17%

52.

2004

George W. Bush

538

286

251

0.063

53.16%

51.

1884

Grover Cleveland

401

219

182

0.092

54.61%

50.

1976

Jimmy Carter

538

297

240

0.104

55.20%

49.

1968

Richard Nixon

538

301

191

0.119

55.95%

48.

1848

Zachary Taylor

290

163

127

0.124

56.21%

47.

1960

John F. Kennedy

537

303

219

0.128

56.42%

46.

2016

Donald Trump

538

304

227

0.130

56.50%

45.

1948

Harry S. Truman

531

303

189

0.141

57.06%

44.

1836

Martin Van Buren

294

170

73

0.156

57.82%

43.

1880

James A. Garfield

369

214

155

0.160

57.99%

42.

1888

Benjamin Harrison

401

233

168

0.162

58.10%

41.

1856

James Buchanan

296

174

114

0.176

58.78%

40.

1812

James Madison

217

128

89

0.180

58.99%

39.

1860

Abraham Lincoln

303

180

72

0.188

59.41%

38.

1896

William McKinley

447

271

176

0.213

60.63%

37.

2012

Barack Obama

538

332

206

0.234

61.71%

36.

1844

James K. Polk

275

170

105

0.236

61.82%

35.

1892

Grover Cleveland

444

277

145

0.248

62.39%

34.

1900

William McKinley

447

292

155

0.306

65.32%

33.

1908

William Howard Taft

483

321

162

0.329

66.46%

32.

2008

Barack Obama

538

365

173

0.357

67.84%

31.

1828

Andrew Jackson

261

178

83

0.364

68.20%

30.

1992

Bill Clinton

538

370

168

0.375

68.77%

29.

1808

James Madison

175

122

47

0.394

69.71%

28.

1996

Bill Clinton

538

379

159

0.409

70.45%

27.

1904

Theodore Roosevelt

476

336

140

0.412

70.59%

26.

1924

Calvin Coolidge

531

382

136

0.439

71.94%

25.

1868

Ulysses S. Grant

294

214

80

0.456

72.79%

24.

1920

Warren G. Harding

531

404

127

0.522

76.08%

23.

1832

Andrew Jackson

286

219

49

0.531

76.57%

22.

1988

George H. W. Bush

538

426

111

0.584

79.18%

21.

1840

William Henry Harrison

294

234

60

0.592

79.59%

20.

1944

Franklin D. Roosevelt

531

432

99

0.627

81.36%

19.

1912

Woodrow Wilson

531

435

88

0.638

81.92%

18.

1872

Ulysses S. Grant [c]

352

286

42

0.639

81.95%

17.

1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower

531

442

89

0.665

83.24%

16.

1928

Herbert Hoover

531

444

87

0.672

83.62%

15.

1816

James Monroe

217

183

34

0.687

84.33%

14.

1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt

531

449

82

0.691

84.56%

13.

1852

Franklin Pierce

296

254

42

0.716

85.81%

12.

1956

Dwight D. Eisenhower

531

457

73

0.721

86.06%

11.

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt

531

472

59

0.778

88.89%

10.

1964

Lyndon B. Johnson

538

486

52

0.807

90.33%

9.

1980

Ronald Reagan

538

489

49

0.818

90.89%

8.

1864

Abraham Lincoln

233

212

21

0.820

90.99%

7.

1804

Thomas Jefferson

176

162

14

0.841

92.05%

6.

1972

Richard Nixon

538

520

17

0.933

96.65%

5.

1984

Ronald Reagan

538

525

13

0.952

97.58%

4.

1936

Franklin D. Roosevelt

531

523

8

0.970

98.49%

3.

1820

James Monroe [d]

232

231

1

0.991

99.57%

2.

1792

George Washington [e]

132

132

77

1.000*

100%

1.

1789

George Washington [e] [f]

69

69

34

1.000*

100%

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text:
a  None of the presidential candidates in 1824 received a majority of the electoral vote, so the presidential election was decided by the House of Representatives, who selected Adams.
b  Under the original procedure for the Electoral College, each elector had two votes and voted for two individuals. The candidate receiving the majority of votes became president and the candidate with the second highest number of votes became vice-president. While Jefferson had more electoral votes than his principal opponent, John Adams, he was tied with his own vice-presidential running mate, Aaron Burr, in electoral votes. Because of the tie, the 1800 presidential election was decided by the House of Representatives, who selected Jefferson as president. Subsequently the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution was enacted in order to provide for the president and vice-president to be elected as a single ticket.
c  Votes which were not counted don't change the majority needed to win. Although there are only 232 counted votes in 1820, winner needed 118 (majority of 235) votes to win, same in 1872: By resolution of the House, 3 votes cast for Greeley were not counted (makes 349 counted votes) but 177 votes are still needed to win (majority of 352).
d  There was a dispute as to whether Missouri's electoral votes in 1820 were valid, due to the timing of its assumption of statehood. The figures listed include those votes.
e  George Washington received the vote of every elector, but the second vote of each elector was split among other candidates.
f  Only ten of the thirteen states cast electoral votes in the first ever presidential election. North Carolina and Rhode Island were ineligible to participate since they had not yet ratified the United States Constitution. New York failed to appoint its electors before the appropriate deadline because of a deadlock in its state legislature.

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