North Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed The Roosters, is an Australian rules football club affiliated with the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and SANFL Women's League (SANFLW). The club plays its home games at Prospect Oval, located in Prospect, a northern suburb of Adelaide. The club joined the SAFA in 1888 as the Medindie Football Club, changing its name to North Adelaide in 1893. It is the fourth oldest club still in operation in the SANFL after South Adelaide (1877), Port Adelaide (1877) and Norwood (1878). North Adelaide's first premiership was won in 1900, and the club has won a total of fourteen senior men's premierships in the SANFL, most recently in 2018.
Steven King is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Western Bulldogs.
Hayden Kennedy is a former Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is also a teacher at St. Bernard's College, Melbourne.
Scott McLaren is a former Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League (AFL). He umpired 328 career games in the AFL.
Jordan Scott Bannister is a former Australian rules football player and umpire, who played for Carlton and Essendon and umpired in the Australian Football League.
Stephen McBurney is a former Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League, and the current Australian Building and Construction Commissioner since February 2018.
Brett Rosebury is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has umpired 418 career games in the AFL since his debut in Round 13, 2000, as of the end of the 2017 season. He umpired his 350th AFL game in Round 4, 2017, in a match between GWS and Port Adelaide.
Matt Stevic is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has umpired 400 career games in the AFL, including eight grand finals.
Scott Jeffery is a Tasmanian Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. To the end of the 2016 AFL season, he has umpired 309 career games in the AFL. Jeffery umpired in the 2016 AFL Grand Final alongside Matt Stevic and Simon Meredith. It was his first AFL Grand Final.Jeffery commenced his umpiring with the Southern Tasmanian Football League and umpired his first AFL game in round 6, 2001.
Mathew Nicholls is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League.
Michael Avon was an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League.
Shaun Ryan is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League.
Simon Meredith is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 387 career games in the AFL as of the end of 2020. One of the league's most experienced umpires, he has officiated in six AFL Grand Finals: 2012, 2013, 2014,2016, 2017 and 2020.
Rowan Sawers is a former Australian rules football umpire and current Australian Football League Umpires' Coach. Sawers umpired 410 VFL/AFL senior games, including four grand finals, in his career.
Jeff Gieschen is the former National Umpire Manager of the Australian Football League (AFL) and a former Australian rules football player and coach who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1974 and 1978 for the Footscray Football Club. He was the senior coach of AFL club Richmond from late 1997 until the end of the 1999 season.
The 2008 Australian Football League season was the 112th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 18th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. This season commenced on 20 March 2008 and concluded on 27 September 2008. The season consisted of twenty-two rounds of home-and-away matches, and four rounds of finals. The premiership was won by Hawthorn, who beat minor premiers Geelong by 26 points in the 2008 AFL Grand Final.
Peter Peter Cameron is a former Australian rules football field umpire, who umpired 306 matches between 1977 and 1993 in the Australian Football League, including nineteen finals and three AFL Grand Final appearances. Since completing his umpiring career, he has continued to maintain a public presence through appearances in the E. J. Whitten Legends Game. He also worked at a school in Melbourne Victoria Australia called Wallarano Primary School.
Ashton Kane Hams is an Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited from the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and played 39 games for West Coast from 2010 to 2013 as a small forward.
Henry "Harry" Crapp, commonly known as "Ivo" Crapp was a leading Australian rules football field umpire in the Victorian Football League (VFL) at its formation in the 1890s, and with the West Australian Football League in the early 1900s.
The 2014 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Sydney Swans and the Hawthorn Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 September 2014. It was the 118th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 2014 AFL season. The match, attended by 99,460 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 63 points, marking the club's second consecutive premiership and twelfth VFL/AFL premiership victory overall. Hawthorn's Luke Hodge was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.
