The Adelaide Football Club,nicknamed the Crows,is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide,South Australia that was founded in 1990. The Crows have fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1991,and a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition since 2017. The club's offices and training facilities are located in the western Adelaide suburb of West Lakes,at the site of the club's former home ground Football Park. Since 2014 Adelaide have played home matches at the Adelaide Oval,a 53,500-seat stadium located on the northern bank on the River Torrens in North Adelaide.
The Adelaide Oval is a stadium in Adelaide in the state of South Australia. It is located in the parklands. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football,but has also played host to rugby league,rugby union,soccer,and tennis,as well as regularly being used to hold concerts.
Anthony Dale Modra is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Adelaide and Fremantle in the Australian Football League (AFL) and West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Known for his spectacular marking ability in the full-forward position,Modra had the physical strength and size to match the best opposition full-backs in the competition. As of 2023,he is the only Adelaide player to kick more than 100 goals in a season,achieving the feat in 1993 by registering 129 goals for the year.
Gregory Anderson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the Essendon Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Bruce Abernethy is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club Collingwood Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL),and the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and is a media personality.
Martin Mattner is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans and Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was traded to Sydney from the Crows in October 2007 in exchange for draft pick number 28.
Jesse Jackson White is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for SANFL club North Adelaide Football Club and formerly for the Sydney Swans and Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Sydney Swans with pick 79 in the 2006 national draft.
Christopher James Davies is a retired first-class cricketer who played for the South Australia cricket team. Since retiring at the early age of 24 due to incessant shoulder injuries,he has held numerous sports administration positions,including GM Operations of the Australian Cricketers' Association,CEO of the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club,GM Football at the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and is currently the GM Football Operations at the Port Adelaide Football Club (PAFC) in the AFL.
Bradley Gotch is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and St Kilda in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL). He is currently the head coach of West Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL.
Isaac Weetra is a semi-professional Australian rules footballer.
Jack Ziebell is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Ziebell is currently playing for Avondale Heights in the EDFL Ziebell received a nomination for the 2009 AFL Rising Star award in round 7 of the 2009 season. He was North Melbourne captain from 2017 to 2022.
Carl Dilena is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and North Melbourne in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL).
The Australian Football League stages the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in the country.
Jarryd Lyons is a former professional Australian rules footballer who last played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL) before his retirement in 2024. He also previously played for the Adelaide Football Club from 2011 to 2016 and the Gold Coast Suns from 2017 to 2018.
Dean Terlich is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the club with draft pick 68 in the 2012 national draft. He made his debut in round 2,2013,against Essendon at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,in the match where Melbourne were defeated by 148 points.
Rory Laird is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Adelaide with pick 5 in the 2011 Rookie Draft.
Jake Lever is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A defender,1.95 metres tall and weighing 89 kilograms (196 lb),Lever plays primarily as a half-back and is known for his intercept marking and ability to read the play. Originally from Romsey,Victoria,he played top-level football at a young age when he played with the Calder Cannons in the TAC Cup,and represented and captained Victoria in the AFL Under 18 Championships as a bottom-aged player. He suffered a serious knee injury which forced him to miss the entire season in his final junior year.
Alex Neal-Bullen is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A midfielder,1.82 metres tall and weighing 80 kilograms (180 lb),Neal-Bullen plays primarily as a half-forward. He played top-level football early when he played senior football for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) at eighteen years of age,in addition to representing South Australia at the 2014 AFL Under 18 Championships. He was recruited by the Melbourne Football Club with pick 40 of the 2014 AFL draft and he made his AFL debut during the 2015 season.
Victorian bias in the Australian Football League is an assertion by critics of the Australian Football League (AFL) that there is a bias or favouritism towards its Victorian-based clubs.
Nicholas Murray is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). As a junior,Murray played for the Murray Bushrangers and the Greater Western Sydney Giants' reserves team. He was overlooked at the AFL draft for two seasons in a row before being signed to a rookie contract with Adelaide in early 2021 and making his AFL debut less than three weeks later. Murray has since become an integral part of Adelaide's backline.
