Port Adelaide Football Club

Port Adelaide Football Club
Names
Full name	Port Adelaide Football Club Limited[1]
Nickname(s)	AFL/AFLW: Power, Port SANFL: Magpies Indigenous rounds: Yartapuulti
Former nickname(s)	Cockledivers, Seaside Men, Seasiders, Magentas, Portonians, Ports
Motto	We Exist To Win Premierships[2]
Club song	AFL/AFLW: Power to Win SANFL: Cheer, Cheer the Black and the White
2024 season
After finals	4th
Home-and-away season	2nd
Club details
Founded	12 May 1870; 154 years ago (1870-05-12)
Colours	AFL/AFLW:   Black   White   Teal   Silver SANFL:   Black   White
Competition	AFL: Senior men AFLW: Senior women SANFL: Reserves men
Chairman	David Koch
CEO	Matthew Richardson
Coach	AFL: Ken Hinkley AFLW: Lauren Arnell SANFL: Hamish Hartlett
Captain(s)	AFL: Connor Rozee AFLW: Janelle Cuthbertson SANFL: Nick Moore
Premierships	AFL (1) 2004 Championship of Australia (4) 1890 1910 1913 1914 SANFL (36) 1884 1890 1897 1903 1906 1910 1913 1914 1921 1928 1936 1937 1939 1951 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1962 1963 1965 1977 1979 1980 1981 1988 1989 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 SA Patriotic League (2) 1916 1917 SANFL merger league (1) 1942 (as Port-Torrens)
Ground(s)	AFL: Adelaide Oval (53,500) AFLW: Alberton Oval (11,000) SANFL: Alberton Oval (11,000)
Former ground(s)	Glanville Hall Estate (1870–1879) Football Park (1974–2013)
Training ground(s)	Alberton Oval
Uniforms
Home Clash Traditional / SANFL
Other information
Official website	portadelaidefc.com.au
Current season

Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where it is nicknamed the Power, while its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where it is nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding, the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and four Championship of Australia titles, in addition to an AFL Premiership in 2004. It has fielded a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition since 2022 (S7).

Founded in 1870, Port Adelaide is the oldest professional football club in South Australia. Port Adelaide was a founding member of the South Australian Football Association, later renamed as the SANFL. Port Adelaide has repeatedly asserted itself as a dominant force within South Australian football, going undefeated in all competitions in 1914, and enjoying sustained periods of success under coaches Fos Williams and John Cahill, sharing a combined 19 premierships between them. The club's sustained success in the SANFL eventually led it being granted a licence to compete in the AFL from 1997, becoming the second South Australian based side in the competition after the Adelaide Football Club in 1991. It its time in the AFL, the club has claimed four minor premierships and one premiership.

Port Adelaide holds a unique status among AFL clubs, being the only pre-existing non-Victorian club to have entered the AFL from another league.^[3] It has an intense rivalry with intra-city opponents Adelaide; the two compete in twice-yearly fixture known as the Showdown, while historically it enjoyed a long-standing rivalry with fellow SANFL club Norwood. It has played home games in the SANFL, at both senior and reserves level, at its club headquarters of Alberton Oval, since 1880, and the venue is also used for home games in the AFLW and occasional pre-season fixtures in the AFL. In the national competition the club has played home games at Adelaide Oval since the venue's redevelopment concluded in 2014.

Port Adelaide first adopted the colours of black and white in 1902, in a design commonly known as the 'prison bars' guernsey, which is still worn to this day in the SANFL. Upon entering the AFL in 1997, the colours of teal and silver were added to the club palette and the Power nickname was adopted, to enable differentiation from the Collingwood Football Club, who also wore black and white and were nicknamed the Magpies.