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KEY FACTS

Official name
Port Adelaide Football Club

Known as
Port Adelaide Magpies

Nickname
Magpies

Former name
Port Adelaide

Former name date
1997-01-01

Formed
1996

Colours
Black and white

Associated clubs
Port Adelaide; Pt Adel Magpies Reserves; Pt Adel Magpies U18s; Port Torrens; Pt Adel Magpies U16s

Affiliation (Current)
South Australian National Football league (SANFL) 1877–2019, 2021–2024

Home Ground
Alberton Oval

SANFL Premierships
1884, 1890, 1897, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913-14, 1921, 1928, 1936-37, 1939, 1951, 1954-55-56-57-58-59, 1962-63, 1965, 1977, 1979-80-81, 1988-89-90, 1992, 1994-95-96,1998 & 1999 (36 total)

Senior Premierships
Championship of Australia: 1890, 1910, 1913-14 (4 total); Stanley H. Lewis Memorial Trophy: 1962-3-4, 1970, 1977, 1979-80, 1988-9, 1992, 1994, 1999 (12 total); SANFL Night/Knock-out/Pre-season Series: 1961, 1973, 1989 (3 total)

Most Games
392 - Russell Ebert (1968-78; 1980-85)

Most Goals
1044 - Tim Evans (1975–86)

League Top Goalkickers
J.Litchfield (13) 1883; R.Roy (22) 1884; C.Fry (32) 1889; J.McKenzie (32) 1890; J.Tomkins (27) 1897; J.Mathieson (30) 1905, (42) 1906 & (33) 1908; J.Quinn (32) 1907; F.Hansen (46) 1910, (41) 1911, (37) 1912 & (39) 1913; J.Dunn (33) 1914; L.Lackman (25) 1919; L.Dayman (86) 1929; A.McLean (80) 1947; R.Johns (70) 1956, (55) 1958, (69) 1960, (76) 1962 & (54) 1963; W.Dittmar (74) 1959 & (69) 1960; E.Freeman (81) 1966; T.Evans (87) 1977, (90) 1978, (146) 1980, (98) 1981, (125) 1982 & (127) 1984; S.Hodges (153) 1990, (129) 1994 & (117) 1996; M.Tylor (97) 1992 & (90) 1993; B.Eddy (53) 2017 (37 total)

Magarey Medalists
S.Malin (1899); J.Mack (1907); S.Hosking (1910, 1915); J.Ashley (1914); C.Adams (1921); P.Bampton (1925); B.Quinn (1938, 1945); D.Boyd (1956); G.Motley (1964); T.Obst (1967); R.Ebert (1971, 1974, 1976, 1980); P.Woite (1975); G.Anderson (1986); S.Hodges (1990); N.Buckley (1992); T.Brown and R.O'Connor (tied) (2001); B.Ebert (2003); J.Clayton (2005)

Headquarters
Brougham Place, Alberton, SA 5014

Postal Address
PO Box 379, Port Adelaide, SA, 5015

Phone: (08) 8447 4044 

Email
[email protected]

Website
portadelaidefc.com.au

CEO
J.Sweeney

President
W.Fisher

Port Adelaide Magpies



"On Saturday 29 March 1997, six months after defeating Central District in the 1996 SANFL grand final, Port Adelaide embarked on its 116th season of senior football in the state’s premier competition with a seven-point win over Sturt. To all external appearances, it was business as usual - except that, underneath the facade of normality, everything had changed. No longer was the team that took to the field in the trademark black-and-white prison bar guernseys the primary manifestation of a club that could trace its origins all the way back to 13 May 1870 ... The club’s primary manifestation was now playing on a bigger stage, and that very afternoon, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ..."

John Devaney on the split which resulted in Port Adelaide teams being fielded in both the SANFL and AFL

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1900 Season (SAFA) Fixture

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Port Adelaide's 1900 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 H Port Adelaide 1.01.01.01.1 7 LOST North Adelaide 0.13.64.96.10 46 -39 ALB May 5 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
2 H Port Adelaide 0.00.31.41.5 11 LOST West Torrens 2.12.22.42.4 16 -5 ALB May 12 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
3 H Port Adelaide 0.00.00.05.6 36 WON West Adelaide 0.00.00.03.3 21 15 ALB May 19 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
4 Port Adelaide       Bye        
5 A Port Adelaide 0.00.32.45.5 35 LOST Norwood 6.16.18.29.5 59 -24 ADO May 28 (Mon, 2:10) Scores
6 A Port Adelaide 0.42.44.55.7 37 LOST North Adelaide 2.76.117.119.23 77 -40 JUB Jun 2 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
7 A Port Adelaide 0.50.72.74.8 32 LOST South Adelaide 1.25.66.98.10 58 -26 ADO Jun 9 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
8 Port Adelaide       Bye        
9 A Port Adelaide 0.01.21.21.2 8 LOST Norwood 2.52.64.94.10 34 -26 ADO Jun 23 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
10 Port Adelaide       Bye        
11 H Port Adelaide 0.41.54.96.11 47 WON South Adelaide 0.20.40.61.7 13 34 ADO Jun 30 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
12 A Port Adelaide 1.32.32.53.5 23 LOST Norwood 1.33.43.73.11 29 -6 ADO Jul 7 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
13 H Port Adelaide 2.33.34.74.8 32 LOST West Adelaide 0.54.98.98.13 61 -29 JUB Jul 14 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
14 H Port Adelaide 0.12.43.55.6 36 LOST South Adelaide 3.15.17.37.3 45 -9 ADO Jul 28 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
15 H Port Adelaide 1.31.43.74.7 31 LOST West Torrens 0.22.33.45.8 38 -7 ALB Aug 4 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
16 Port Adelaide       Bye        
17 A Port Adelaide 0.11.12.23.2 20 LOST Norwood 0.12.12.33.4 22 -2 ADO Aug 18 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
18 H Port Adelaide 1.12.22.62.9 21 LOST West Torrens 4.16.27.38.3 51 -30 ALB Aug 25 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
19 Port Adelaide       Bye        
 

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.