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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
W.E.Mattinson

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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1908 Season (SAFL) Fixture

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Port Adelaide's 1908 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 1.12.34.55.8 38 WON West Torrens 1.01.12.22.4 16 22 ALB May 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 H Port Adelaide 4.39.511.915.11 101 WON West Adelaide 1.11.21.41.7 13 88 ALB May 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 A Port Adelaide 2.27.107.1410.17 77 WON Sturt 1.01.01.44.5 29 48 UNL May 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 Port Adelaide       Bye        
5 A Port Adelaide 4.16.57.69.7 61 WON South Adelaide 0.32.44.78.10 58 3 ADO May 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A Port Adelaide 1.23.73.83.9 27 LOST Norwood 2.42.52.124.15 39 -12 ADO Jun 8 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
7 A Port Adelaide 1.41.63.94.9 33 LOST North Adelaide 4.27.29.710.11 71 -38 ADO Jun 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 A Port Adelaide 3.89.1112.1216.14 110 WON West Torrens 0.23.55.86.11 47 63 HIN Jun 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 A Port Adelaide 1.14.15.35.3 33 LOST West Adelaide 1.02.34.55.9 39 -6 ADO Jul 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 H Port Adelaide 1.15.65.119.14 68 WON Sturt 2.22.33.54.5 29 39 ALB Jul 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 Port Adelaide       Bye        
12 H Port Adelaide 4.27.59.89.16 70 WON South Adelaide 2.48.78.109.11 65 5 ALB Jul 25 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A Port Adelaide 2.65.75.77.8 50 LOST Norwood 1.45.57.510.11 71 -21 NOR Aug 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 H Port Adelaide 3.84.86.106.12 48 WON North Adelaide 2.14.94.96.9 45 3 ALB Aug 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2SF A Port Adelaide 1.04.26.36.4 40 LOST Norwood 4.37.79.1011.12 78 -38 ADO Sep 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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