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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; Pt Adel Magpies Reserves; Pt Adel Magpies U18s; Port Torrens; Pt Adel Magpies U16s

Affiliation (Current)
South Australian National Football league (SANFL) 1877–2019, 2021–2025

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 protected]

Website
portadelaidefc.com.au

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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2024 Season (SANFL) Fixture

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Port Adelaide Magpies' 2024 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 A Port Adelaide Magpies 4.46.410.513.6 84 LOST Glenelg 4.311.517.823.12 150 -66 GLE Mar 29 (Fri, 4:40) Scores
2 A Port Adelaide Magpies 2.45.88.1011.13 79 LOST West Adelaide 2.24.58.612.11 83 -4 WAI Apr 14 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
3 A Port Adelaide Magpies 2.34.76.88.9 57 LOST Woodville West Torrens 2.35.79.912.11 83 -26 WOO Apr 21 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
4 H Port Adelaide Magpies 1.24.35.46.7 43 LOST Norwood 2.35.78.118.13 61 -18 ALB Apr 27 (Sat, 7:10) Scores
5 A Port Adelaide Magpies 1.43.85.88.14 62 LOST Adelaide Reserves 6.211.414.616.7 103 -41 ADO May 2 (Thu, 3:20) Scores
6 H Port Adelaide Magpies 3.23.43.45.5 35 LOST North Adelaide 2.47.613.918.11 119 -84 ALB May 11 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
7 A Port Adelaide Magpies 2.03.26.27.2 44 LOST South Adelaide 6.511.714.1117.15 117 -73 NOA May 25 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
8 H Port Adelaide Magpies 0.10.13.14.3 27 LOST Sturt 2.34.66.116.15 51 -24 ALB May 31 (Fri, 7:10) Scores
9 Port Adelaide Magpies       Bye        
10 H Port Adelaide Magpies 6.36.310.515.7 97 WON West Adelaide 1.34.85.1310.17 77 20 ALB Jun 15 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
11 A Port Adelaide Magpies 2.33.44.65.9 39 LOST Norwood 5.310.713.918.14 122 -83 NOR Jun 23 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
12 H Port Adelaide Magpies 1.34.64.97.11 53 LOST Central District 0.24.410.512.6 78 -25 ALB Jun 29 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
13 A Port Adelaide Magpies 4.45.512.613.8 86 WON North Adelaide 3.15.27.58.9 57 29 PRO Jul 7 (Sun, 2:30) Scores
14 H Port Adelaide Magpies 4.05.46.59.7 61 WON Glenelg 1.43.54.86.11 47 14 ALB Jul 13 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
15 H Port Adelaide Magpies 1.35.47.612.8 80 LOST South Adelaide 6.39.412.1014.11 95 -15 ALB Jul 21 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
16 A Port Adelaide Magpies 3.44.56.76.9 45 LOST Sturt 2.44.95.129.14 68 -23 UNL Jul 27 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
17 H Port Adelaide Magpies 2.28.610.915.13 103 WON Woodville West Torrens 4.46.66.108.11 59 44 ALB Aug 11 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
18 H Port Adelaide Magpies 3.33.64.86.11 47 LOST Adelaide Reserves 2.47.613.819.10 124 -77 ADO Aug 17 (Sat, 3:20) Scores
19 A Port Adelaide Magpies 3.13.23.55.6 36 LOST Central District 4.910.913.1215.14 104 -68 ELZ Aug 24 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
 

Footnotes

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