West Adelaide Football Club

West Adelaide
Names
Full nameWest Adelaide Football Club
Nickname(s)Westies
The Bloods
Blood and Tars
The Wolves
Red and Blacks
The Bottle Tops
2022 season
Leading goalkickerJosh Gore 28
Best and fairestHamish Hartlett
Club details
Founded1892; 132 years ago (1892)[1]
Colours  Black and   Red
CompetitionAdelaide and Suburban Football Association 1892-1896 South Australian National Football League since 1897
PresidentMurray Forbes
CoachAdam Hartlett
Captain(s)Kaiden Brand (men's) Madi Russell (women's)
Premierships9
1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1927, 1947, 1961, 1983, 2015
Ground(s)Richmond Oval (currently Hisense Arena) (capacity: 16,500)
Uniforms
Home
Other information
Official websitewestadelaidefc.com.au

West Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Nicknamed the Bloods and commonly known as the Westies, the club's home base is Richmond Oval (currently known as Hisense Stadium under a sponsorship agreement). The Oval is located in Richmond, an inner-western suburb of Adelaide.

The club has won nine SANFL premierships, the most recent coming in 2015 – breaking a thirty-two-year premiership drought dating back to 1983; the second longest in the SANFL.

  1. ^ [1] Archived 23 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine