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).
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL, is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but has also played host to rugby league, rugby union, soccer, tennis among other sports as well as regularly being used to hold concerts. Austadiums.com described Adelaide Oval as being "one of the most picturesque Test cricket grounds in Australia, if not the world." After the completion of the ground's most recent redevelopment in 2014, sports journalist Gerard Whateley described the venue as being "the most perfect piece of modern architecture because it's a thoroughly contemporary stadium with all the character that it's had in the past."
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.
Paul Thomas is a retired Australian rules football player who played in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) with Central District Football Club. He has been announced as their Coach for the 2021 Season.
The 2014 South Australian National Football League season was the 135th season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Australian rules football competition.
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 1972 South Australian National Football League season was the 93rd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 2011 South Australian National Football League season was the 132nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1989 South Australian National Football League season was the 110th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1947 South Australian National Football League season was the 68th 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 1977 South Australian National Football League season was the 98th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia and marked 100 years since the inaugural 1877 SAFA season.
The 1975 South Australian National Football League season was the 96th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1969 South Australian National Football League season was the 90th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 2015 South Australian National Football League season was the 136th season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Australian rules football competition.
The 2018 South Australian National Football League season was the 139th season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Australian rules football competition. The season commenced on Friday, 30 March and concluded with the SANFL Grand Final on Sunday, 23 September. North Adelaide, who had finished last in 2017 and fifth place at the end of the home-and-away season, defeated minor premier Norwood by 19 points to win their fourteenth premiership, their first since 1991.
The 2021 South Australian National Football League season was the 142nd season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the highest-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. The season commenced on 1 April and concluded with the Grand Final on 3 October. It was contested by 10 clubs, an increase of two on the previous season, due to the return of the Adelaide and Port Adelaide reserves teams.
The 2022 South Australian National Football League season was the 143rd season of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the highest-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. The season commenced on 1 April and concluded with the Grand Final on 18 September.
