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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, 2021–2025

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@pafc.com.au

Website
portadelaidefc.com.au

CEO
J.Hodge

President
Dr.A.V.Benson

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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1914 Season (SAFL) Fixture

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Port Adelaide's 1914 Fixture

Rnd
H&A
Club
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
R
Opponent
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
Mgn
Grd
Date
SC
1 A Port Adelaide 3.36.68.1010.13 73 WON South Adelaide 1.12.54.67.8 50 23 ADO May 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 Port Adelaide       Bye        
3 H Port Adelaide 3.57.108.1414.16 100 WON Sturt 0.22.43.44.5 29 71 ALB May 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 H Port Adelaide 2.36.58.913.11 89 WON West Torrens 1.11.22.42.9 21 68 ALB May 23 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 A Port Adelaide 4.35.59.813.13 91 WON Norwood 1.22.55.58.5 53 38 NOR May 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A Port Adelaide 4.46.49.411.8 74 WON North Adelaide 1.12.23.86.10 46 28 ADO Jun 8 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
7 H Port Adelaide 3.56.1210.1614.21 105 WON West Adelaide 0.31.53.64.6 30 75 ALB Jun 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 H Port Adelaide 2.73.106.109.15 69 WON South Adelaide 0.14.45.55.7 37 32 ALB Jun 20 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H Port Adelaide 4.05.76.1111.15 81 WON West Torrens 3.13.15.29.5 59 22 ADO Jun 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 Port Adelaide       Bye        
11 A Port Adelaide 3.43.510.713.10 88 WON Sturt 2.06.36.56.5 41 47 UNL Jul 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 H Port Adelaide 4.111.315.719.17 131 WON Norwood 2.22.55.67.8 50 81 ALB Jul 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A Port Adelaide 3.18.59.1111.14 80 WON North Adelaide 3.23.45.78.11 59 21 ADO Aug 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A Port Adelaide 5.55.610.1212.15 87 WON West Adelaide 0.03.24.45.5 35 52 ADO Aug 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
1SF H Port Adelaide 3.73.116.1312.17 89 WON Sturt 0.04.35.35.5 35 54 ADO Sep 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF H Port Adelaide 2.15.77.813.15 93 WON North Adelaide 0.30.40.81.8 14 79 ADO Sep 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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