The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The club was founded in 1990. The club has 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 at Football Park in the western Adelaide suburb of West Lakes, the site of the club's old home ground between 1991 and 2013. Since 2014 Adelaide have played home matches at the Adelaide Oval, a 53,500-seat stadium located a few hundred metres north of the Adelaide CBD. The club song is "The Pride of South Australia", to the tune of the US Marines' Hymn.
John Vincent Regan was an Australian rules footballer who represented Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s and 1940s.
Laurence John "Laurie" Nash was a Test cricketer and Australian rules footballer. An inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, Nash was a member of South Melbourne's 1933 premiership team, captained South Melbourne in 1937 and was the team's leading goal kicker in 1937 and 1945. In cricket, Nash was a fast bowler and hard hitting lower order batsman who played two Test matches for Australia, taking 10 wickets at 12.80 runs per wicket, and scoring 30 runs at a batting average of 15.
Daisy Pearce is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Widely regarded as the face of women's Australian rules football and one of its first superstars, Pearce has served as Melbourne captain since the competition's inaugural season, having also captained the club in the women's exhibition games in the years prior. She also captained Victoria in the inaugural AFL Women's State of Origin match in 2017, where she was adjudged best afield.
Shae Brown is a former Australian netball player.
Rory Sloane is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Sloane is a dual Malcolm Blight Medallist and was selected in the All-Australian team in 2016. He also won a Showdown Medal in 2017. Sloane served as Adelaide co-captain in 2019, and has served as the sole captain since the 2020 season.
Brianna Iris Davey is an Australian footballer in both the Association football (soccer) and Australian rules football codes. In soccer, she was a goalkeeper for the national women's team the Matildas and played in the W-League for Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City. In 2016, she transitioned from soccer to Australian rules football, and was one of two initial marquee recruits for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She won the inaugural Carlton best and fairest award and was named in the 2017 AFL Women's All-Australian team. Davey served as Carlton captain from 2018 to 2019 before being traded to the Collingwood Football Club. She was appointed Collingwood co-captain alongside Steph Chiocci in 2021, and won the AFLW Player's Association's Most Valuable Player award for the 2021 season.
Georgia Nanscawen is an Australian field hockey player and Australian rules footballer. As of October 2015, Nanscawen has 162 caps to her name, and has scored 32 goals. She debuted for Australia in May, 2009. Her former club is Essendon Ladies, Melbourne, Victoria. She players in the Forward position. Making her debut for Australia at 17, Georgia Nanscawen is the youngest woman ever to play 100 matches for Australia.
Katie Brennan is an Australian rules footballer with and captain of the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for and captained the Western Bulldogs from 2017 to 2019. Brennan was signed as a marquee player by the Bulldogs ahead of the inaugural AFL Women's season in 2017, and was their leading goalkicker in 2019.
Ellie Blackburn is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She has served as Western Bulldogs captain since 2019, including as co-captain with Katie Brennan in 2019, and is the Western Bulldogs games record holder with 37 games.
Darcy Vescio is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. As a heavily marketed marquee player, Vescio has been referred to as a "household name" in Australia by ESPN.
Kara Antonio is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's competition.
Stephanie Chiocci is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She has served as Collingwood captain since the competition's inaugural season in 2017, and has served as co-captain alongside Brianna Davey since the 2021 season.
Kate Lutkins is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the AFL Women's. She was the "best player on the ground" at the 2021 AFL Women's Grand Final.
Brittany Gibson is an Australian rules footballer playing for the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's. She previously played with Brisbane in 2017 and 2018.
Parris Laurie is an Australian rules footballer playing for West Coast in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Laurie was drafted by Fremantle with their fifth selection and fiftieth overall in the 2018 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the four point win against Melbourne at Casey Fields in the opening round of the 2019 season.
Angelique Stannett is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She is a former soccer player for Perth Glory in the W-League.
Kiara Bowers is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
Madison Prespakis is an Australian rules footballer playing for Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). A midfielder who won multiple accolades at junior level and played in the VFL Women's (VFLW) as a teenager, Prespakis won the 2019 AFL Women's Rising Star award in her debut season and the 2020 AFL Women's best and fairest award in her second season. She is also a dual AFL Women's All-Australian and dual Carlton best and fairest winner.
The 2020–21 A-League is the 44th season of national level soccer in Australia, and the 16th since the establishment of the A-League in 2004. The season was started on 28 December 2020 and scheduled to conclude no later than 30 June 2021. The start of the season is later than previous seasons as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand, as well as part of a gradual shift to move the competition from summer to winter. Wellington Phoenix play their home matches on in Australia, at Wollongong Showground due to travel restrictions.
