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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 they are nicknamed the Power, while its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where they are nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding, the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and 4 Championship of Australia titles, in addition to an AFL Premiership in 2004. It has also fielded a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) league since 2022 (S7).
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Foster Neil "Fos" Williams was a leading Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Port Adelaide and West Adelaide Football Clubs and coached South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in a career spanning 1946–1978. He also played 34 interstate games for South Australia, captaining the team from 1954 to 1958 and he coached the team in 45 games from 1955 to 1969.
The Port Adelaide–Norwood rivalry is Australian rules football's oldest and one of its most intense rivalries. It is contested between the Norwood Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club. Together, Port Adelaide (36) and Norwood (31) have won 66 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) premierships since the founding of the competition in 1878, 48.9% of all SANFL grand finals as of the 2023 SANFL Grand Final. As the SANFL competition has been suspended due to war, only 132 seasons have been played, therefore together Norwood and Port Adelaide have won exactly half of all SANFL premierships awarded. The two clubs have met in finals 50 times, with 17 of those grand finals including two war-time grand finals.
The 2011 South Australian National Football League season was the 132nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1959 South Australian National Football League season was the 80th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1996 South Australian National Football League season was the 117th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1975 South Australian National Football League season was the 96th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1958 South Australian National Football League season was the 79th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1956 South Australian National Football League season was the 77th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1957 South Australian National Football League season was the 78th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1955 South Australian National Football League season was the 76th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1953 South Australian National Football League season was the 74th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1952 South Australian National Football League season was the 73rd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1951 South Australian National Football League season was the 72nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1950 South Australian National Football League season was the 71st season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1949 South Australian National Football League season was the 70th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1948 South Australian National Football League season was the 69th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1939 South Australian National Football League season was the 60th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
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- ↑ "Magarey Medal To Bob Hank". The Advertiser . Adelaide. 9 September 1947. p. 10. Retrieved 20 December 2014– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Australian Football - SANFL Season 1947". Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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