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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; Port Magpies Reserves; Port Magpies U18s; Port Adelaide-West Torrens; Port 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@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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2016 Season (SANFL) Fixture

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Port Adelaide Magpies' 2016 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 A Port Adelaide Magpies 5.06.07.112.3 75 LOST Norwood 4.38.511.815.10 100 -25 NOR Mar 24 (Thu, 7:40) Scores
2 A Port Adelaide Magpies 1.55.89.1310.14 74 LOST Adelaide Reserves 3.37.78.1015.14 104 -30 MAN Apr 3 (Sun, 1:40) Scores
3 H Port Adelaide Magpies 4.114.315.521.7 133 WON North Adelaide 4.34.69.913.12 90 43 ALB Apr 9 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
4 Port Adelaide Magpies       Bye        
5 H Port Adelaide Magpies 3.05.05.69.8 62 LOST Central District 4.45.610.1113.14 92 -30 ALB Apr 24 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
6 A Port Adelaide Magpies 1.24.44.59.6 60 LOST Sturt 3.68.1013.1318.15 123 -63 UNL May 1 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
7 H Port Adelaide Magpies 3.45.711.1114.16 100 WON West Adelaide 2.14.68.910.13 73 27 ALB May 7 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
8 A Port Adelaide Magpies 3.05.45.46.7 43 LOST Woodville West Torrens 3.15.211.712.10 82 -39 WOO May 14 (Sat, 1:40) Scores
9 H Port Adelaide Magpies 3.49.717.820.11 131 WON South Adelaide 4.27.310.812.11 83 48 ALB May 22 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
10 H Port Adelaide Magpies 1.38.512.617.6 108 LOST Glenelg 5.26.613.1019.13 127 -19 ALB Jun 4 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
11 H Port Adelaide Magpies 2.25.36.59.10 64 LOST Sturt 7.410.1011.1212.14 86 -22 ALB Jun 12 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
12 A Port Adelaide Magpies 3.25.46.58.6 54 LOST South Adelaide 1.34.89.1214.13 97 -43 HIC Jun 18 (Sat, 1:10) Scores
13 Port Adelaide Magpies       Bye        
14 A Port Adelaide Magpies 2.28.312.515.8 98 WON Central District 5.17.27.39.5 59 39 ELZ Jul 2 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
15 A Port Adelaide Magpies 4.48.812.919.15 129 WON West Adelaide 1.52.86.117.14 56 73 RIC Jul 9 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
16 H Port Adelaide Magpies 4.26.57.712.10 82 WON Woodville West Torrens 0.12.34.56.5 41 41 ALB Jul 17 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
17 Port Adelaide Magpies       Bye        
18 H Port Adelaide Magpies 4.25.410.512.7 79 LOST Adelaide Reserves 3.17.611.616.8 104 -25 ALB Jul 31 (Sun, 1:40) Scores
19 A Port Adelaide Magpies 5.49.613.716.11 107 WON North Adelaide 1.22.36.77.8 50 57 PRO Aug 7 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
20 A Port Adelaide Magpies 4.211.714.1220.14 134 WON Glenelg 4.65.89.1111.13 79 55 GLE Aug 13 (Sat, 1:40) Scores
21 H Port Adelaide Magpies 7.49.615.716.7 103 WON Norwood 0.01.07.012.6 78 25 ALB Aug 21 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
22 Port Adelaide Magpies       Bye        
 

Footnotes

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