List of Port Adelaide Football Club captains

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The following is a list of players who have captained the Port Adelaide Football Club at a game of Australian rules football in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1997, the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and earlier iterations of competition between 1870 and 1996, and the AFL Women's (AFLW) since 2022.

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History

Tradition dictates that the captain of the Port Adelaide Football Club wear the number one guernsey – this started when Clifford Keal wore the number as club captain for the first time in 1924. [1] The tradition was cemented, at least in the view of then-secretary Charles Hayter, when in 1929 he received a letter from a junior Kilkenny player requesting a number one Port Adelaide guernsey as he had just become captain of his underage team. [2] Hayter granted the wish of the junior and provided him with a number one Port Adelaide guernsey. [2] Since 1924, there have been few exceptions to the tradition. The most notable exception was Geof Motley, who followed the captaincy of Fos Williams. Following his appointment as captain-coach, Motley elected to continue wearing the number 17, and continued to do so for the remainder of his career. [1] When Motley handed the captaincy to John Cahill in 1967, at the insistence of coach Fos Williams, the tradition of Port Adelaide captains wearing the number one guernsey resumed. [1] When co-captains were appointed for the 2019 season the No. 1 guernsey was temporarily retired, but it was re-instated the following season when the club returned to appointing a single captain. [3]

List of Port Adelaide captains

SANFL/AFL

Foundation era
NoYearCaptain
11870 John Wald
21870George Dale
31871Fred Stone
41872–1973George Middleton
51873H.Sparnon
61874John Rann
71874Charles Wells
81875Robert Sandilands
91876William Fletcher
South Australian Football Association era
YearCaptain
1876–1879William Fletcher
101880John A.Atkins
111880Joseph Carter
1881William Fletcher
121881J.H.Sandilands
131882Nathaniel Frayne
141882Charles Kellett
151883Ernest Le Messurier
161883–1885Richard Turpenny
1885Charles Kellett
171886–1889William Bushby
181890–1894 Ken McKenzie
191895Alfred Miers
1896–1898 Ken McKenzie
201899–1900 Harold Phillips
211901–1904 Archibald Hosie
221904–1905 Jack Quinn
231906 Jack Fletcher
241906 Lewis Corston
South Australian Football League era
YearCaptain
1907 Lewis Corston
251908 Ted Strawns
261908–1909 Mick Donaghy
271910 Jack Woollard
281911 George Dempster
291912 Clifford Cocks
301912 Sampson Hosking
311913–1914 Jack Londrigan
321915 Alexander McFarlane
World War One
1919 Alexander McFarlane
331919 Horrie Pope
341920 John W. Robertson
351920 Bert Olds
361921 Harold Oliver
371922 Samuel Howie
381923 Clement Dayman
391924–1925 Clifford Keal
401926 Maurice Allingham
South Australian National Football League era
YearCaptain
411927 Peter Bampton
421928–1931 Victor Johnson
431932–1933 Sydney Ween
1934 Victor Johnson
441935 Robert Johnson
451936–1937 Jack Dermody
461938 Ned Hender
471939–1940 Robert Quinn
481940–1941 Allan Reval
Patriotic League begins
491942–1944 Llewellyn Roberts
Patriotic League ends
1945–1947 Robert Quinn
501948 Llewellyn Roberts
511949 Reginald Schumann
521950–1958 Fos Williams
531959–1966 Geof Motley
541967–1973 John Cahill
551974–1978 Russell Ebert
561979–1982 Brian Cunningham
1983–1985 Russell Ebert
571986–1990 Russell Johnston
581991–1993 Greg Phillips
591994–1996 Tim Ginever
Australian Football League era
YearCaptain
601997–2000 Gavin Wanganeen
612001–2005 Matthew Primus
622006–2008 Warren Tredrea
632009–2012 Domenic Cassisi
642013–2018 Travis Boak
65, 662019 Ollie Wines/Tom Jonas
662020–2023 Tom Jonas
672024– Connor Rozee


AFLW
NoYearCaptain
12022 (S7)–2023 Erin Phillips
22024– Janelle Cuthbertson

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