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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
A.R.C.McLean

President
F.B.Harvey

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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1954 Season (SANFL) Fixture

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Port Adelaide's 1954 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 A Port Adelaide 2.34.49.911.11 77 WON West Torrens 2.26.68.610.8 68 9 ADO Apr 26 (Mon, 2:10) Scores
2 H Port Adelaide 2.36.513.919.14 128 WON Sturt 3.44.65.98.11 59 69 ALB May 1 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
3 H Port Adelaide 4.39.716.1018.13 121 WON North Adelaide 1.21.54.711.12 78 43 ALB May 8 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
4 A Port Adelaide 3.39.915.1419.16 130 WON South Adelaide 2.05.07.212.3 75 55 ADO May 15 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
5 A Port Adelaide 4.65.138.1516.19 115 WON West Adelaide 4.36.49.1010.11 71 44 ADO May 22 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
6 H Port Adelaide 1.06.49.814.10 94 WON Norwood 3.43.44.74.13 37 57 PTP May 29 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
7 A Port Adelaide 8.49.613.915.17 107 WON Glenelg 4.18.610.811.9 75 32 GLE Jun 5 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
8 H Port Adelaide 5.28.713.1018.16 124 WON West Torrens 2.33.68.99.10 64 60 ALB Jun 12 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
9 A Port Adelaide 2.44.68.714.14 98 WON South Adelaide 0.10.53.55.8 38 60 ADO Jun 26 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
10 A Port Adelaide 1.23.65.96.14 50 LOST Norwood 4.65.85.137.14 56 -6 NOR Jul 3 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
11 A Port Adelaide 2.36.510.913.13 91 WON North Adelaide 3.73.104.115.12 42 49 PRO Jul 10 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
12 H Port Adelaide 3.35.59.611.9 75 WON West Adelaide 2.15.26.39.7 61 14 ALB Jul 17 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
13 H Port Adelaide 5.27.410.512.9 81 LOST Norwood 1.57.912.1015.13 103 -22 ALB Jul 31 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
14 H Port Adelaide 6.99.1010.1612.16 88 WON Glenelg 0.02.42.47.7 49 39 ALB Aug 7 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
15 A Port Adelaide 2.13.26.78.9 57 LOST West Torrens 2.48.69.615.6 96 -39 THB Aug 14 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
16 H Port Adelaide 0.06.86.129.14 68 WON South Adelaide 3.54.76.108.12 60 8 ALB Aug 21 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
17 H Port Adelaide 3.210.711.1616.24 120 WON West Adelaide 4.08.29.512.8 80 40 KEN Aug 28 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
18 A Port Adelaide 4.36.512.1014.12 96 WON Sturt 0.32.93.127.16 58 38 UNL Sep 4 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
2SF H Port Adelaide 0.81.106.148.17 65 WON West Adelaide 1.14.56.97.12 54 11 ADO Sep 18 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
GF H Port Adelaide 2.43.69.1011.13 79 WON West Adelaide 7.77.79.1210.16 76 3 ADO Oct 2 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
 

Footnotes

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