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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
K.A.Thomas

President
D.J.Koch

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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2018 Season (SANFL) Fixture

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Port Adelaide Magpies' 2018 Fixture

Rnd
H&A
Club
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
R
Opponent
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
Mgn
Grd
Date
SC
1 H Port Adelaide Magpies 3.65.1015.1119.14 128 WON Adelaide Reserves 0.32.43.44.9 33 95 ALB Mar 31 (Sat, 2:40) Scores
2 A Port Adelaide Magpies 3.26.311.514.8 92 WON Glenelg 4.48.410.414.5 89 3 GLE Apr 6 (Fri, 7:10) Scores
3 H Port Adelaide Magpies 2.12.22.34.4 28 DRAW Woodville West Torrens 0.10.50.102.16 28 0 ALB Apr 14 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
4 A Port Adelaide Magpies 1.12.64.78.10 58 LOST Sturt 4.45.109.1112.11 83 -25 UNL Apr 25 (Wed, 1:10) Scores
5 Port Adelaide Magpies       Bye        
6 A Port Adelaide Magpies 1.45.78.913.12 90 LOST Norwood 5.511.714.917.12 114 -24 NOR May 4 (Fri, 7:20) Scores
7 H Port Adelaide Magpies 2.23.35.68.8 56 LOST West Adelaide 3.48.612.713.10 88 -32 ALB May 20 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
8 H Port Adelaide Magpies 1.21.42.74.8 32 LOST North Adelaide 5.111.313.717.9 111 -79 ALB May 26 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
9 A Port Adelaide Magpies 0.33.77.710.11 71 LOST South Adelaide 5.28.410.616.11 107 -36 HIC Jun 3 (Sun, 1:10) Scores
10 A Port Adelaide Magpies 1.24.310.312.5 77 WON Central District 4.35.38.49.5 59 18 ELZ Jun 9 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
11 H Port Adelaide Magpies 2.43.46.510.7 67 WON Sturt 3.07.18.29.6 60 7 ALB Jun 17 (Sun, 2:40) Scores
12 H Port Adelaide Magpies 2.44.76.108.12 60 LOST Norwood 2.25.68.713.10 88 -28 ALB Jul 1 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
13 A Port Adelaide Magpies 5.07.39.49.5 59 LOST Woodville West Torrens 2.23.37.811.10 76 -17 WOO Jul 8 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
14 A Port Adelaide Magpies 1.72.78.128.12 60 LOST Adelaide Reserves 3.27.97.1017.14 116 -56 KAD Jul 15 (Sun, 1:10) Scores
15 H Port Adelaide Magpies 0.63.85.99.14 68 LOST Glenelg 3.38.312.616.7 103 -35 ALB Jul 21 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
16 H Port Adelaide Magpies 0.03.45.56.7 43 LOST South Adelaide 3.54.1010.1117.15 117 -74 ALB Jul 28 (Sat, 2:20) Scores
17 A Port Adelaide Magpies 0.04.34.49.7 61 LOST West Adelaide 1.55.710.1312.15 87 -26 RIC Aug 4 (Sat, 1:10) Scores
18 H Port Adelaide Magpies 1.35.37.310.6 66 LOST Central District 6.07.211.314.4 88 -22 ALB Aug 19 (Sun, 1:10) Scores
19 A Port Adelaide Magpies 2.17.410.711.8 74 LOST North Adelaide 4.56.87.1011.12 78 -4 PRO Aug 25 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
 

Footnotes

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