Adelaide Football Club

This article is about the Australian rules football club. For the association football club, see Adelaide United FC. For the unaffiliated 19th-century club, see Adelaide Football Club (SAFA). For the club's SANFL team, see Adelaide Football Club (SANFL).

Adelaide Football Club
Names
Full nameAdelaide Football Club Limited[1]
Nickname(s)Crows
Crom (jocular)[citation needed]
Indigenous rounds: Kuwarna
MottoWe Fly As One
Made From South Australia
2024 season
After finalsDNQ (AFL)
DNQ (SANFL)
TBA (AFLW)
Home-and-away season15th (AFL)
6th (SANFL)
4th (AFLW)
Leading goalkickerDarcy Fogarty (41) (AFL)
Lachlan Gollant (29) (SANFL)
TBA (AFLW)
Malcolm Blight MedalBen Keays, Jordan Dawson (AFL)
Kieran Strachan (SANFL)
TBA (AFLW)
Club details
Founded12 September 1990[2]
ColoursNavy blue, red, gold
     
CompetitionAFL: Senior men
AFLW: Senior women
SANFL: Reserves men
ChairmanJohn Olsen
CEOTim Silvers
CoachAFL: Matthew Nicks
AFLW: Matthew Clarke
SANFL: Matthew Wright
Captain(s)AFL: Jordan Dawson
AFLW: Chelsea Randall
SANFL: Jack Madgen
PremiershipsAFL (2)
AFLW (3)
Ground(s)AFL: Adelaide Oval (53,500)
AFLW: Norwood Oval (10,000)
Unley Oval (10,000)
Former ground(s)Football Park (1991–2013)
Training ground(s)Football Park
Thebarton Oval (future)
Uniforms
Home
Clash
Other information
Official websiteafc.com.au
Current season

The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia that was founded in 1990. The Crows have fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1991, and a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition since 2017.[3] The club's offices and training facilities are located in the western Adelaide suburb of West Lakes, at the site of the club's former home ground Football Park. Since 2014 Adelaide have played home matches at the Adelaide Oval, a 53,500-seat stadium located on the northern bank on the River Torrens in North Adelaide.[4]

The Crows were formed in 1990 as the de facto state team representing South Australia in the AFL. They were originally owned by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), though they gained administrative independence in 2014.[5] They played their first season in 1991 and finished in 9th place, the highest ranking of any expansion club in the AFL in a debut year.[6][7] The men's team won both the 1997 and 1998 Grand Finals, and have appeared in 15 finals series in their 33-year history. Adelaide is the most successful team in the AFL Women's competition, and is one of two clubs (the other being Brisbane) that have won multiple premierships; winning in 2017, 2019 and 2022 (S6). It also fields a reserves team in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), along with the other South Australian football team in the Port Adelaide Football Club.

The men's team is currently coached by Matthew Nicks and is captained by Jordan Dawson.[8][9]

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  2. ^ "Victorian clubs jittery over recruiting rules". The Canberra Times. Vol. 65, no. 20, 244. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 14 September 1990. p. 12. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "History of the SANFL". SANFL. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  4. ^ "Adelaide Oval news hub". Adelaide Football Club. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
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  6. ^ "About the SANFL". SANFL. Archived from the original on 13 July 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  7. ^ "Adelaide Crows – A Short History". Adelaide Football Club. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  8. ^ "Dawson honoured to become Crows Captain". Adelaide Football Club. 11 February 2023. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Matthew Nicks". Adelaide Football Club. Archived from the original on 20 April 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2024.