West Adelaide Football Club

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West Adelaide
Names
Full name	West Adelaide Football Club
Nickname(s)	Westies The Bloods Blood and Tars The Wolves Red and Blacks The Bottle Tops
2022 season
Leading goalkicker	Josh Gore 28
Best and fairest	Hamish Hartlett
Club details
Founded	1892; 132 years ago (1892)[1]
Colours	Black and   Red
Competition	Adelaide and Suburban Football Association 1892-1896 South Australian National Football League since 1897
President	Murray Forbes
Coach	Adam Hartlett
Captain(s)	Kaiden Brand (men's) Madi Russell (women's)
Premierships	9 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1927, 1947, 1961, 1983, 2015
Ground(s)	Richmond Oval (currently Hisense Arena) (capacity: 16,500)
Uniforms
Home
Other information
Official website	westadelaidefc.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.