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 it is nicknamed the Power,while its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL),where it is nicknamed the Magpies. Since its founding,the club has won an unequalled 36 SANFL premierships and four Championship of Australia titles,in addition to an AFL Premiership in 2004. It has fielded a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition 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 in the state of South Australia. It is 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,and tennis,as well as regularly being used to hold concerts.
Russell Frank Ebert was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He is considered one of the greatest players in the history of Australian rules football in South Australia. Ebert is the only player to have won four Magarey Medals,which are awarded to the best and fairest player in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He is one of four Australian rules footballers to have a statue at Adelaide Oval,the others being Ken Farmer,Malcolm Blight and Barrie Robran. Football historian John Devaney described Ebert as coming "as close as any player in history to exhibiting complete mastery over all the essential skills of the game," and he is widely regarded as the Port Adelaide Football Club's greatest-ever player. Aside from his 392 games at Port Adelaide,Ebert played 25 games for North Melbourne in the 1979 VFL season and collected over 500 possessions as a midfielder for the club,which reached the preliminary final. Ebert was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996,and he was posthumously elevated to Legend status in June 2022,the highest honour that can be bestowed onto an Australian footballer.
Pembroke School is an Australian independent co-educational and non-denominational day and boarding school located in Kensington Park,a suburb 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of the centre of Adelaide,South Australia. It was founded in 1974 as an amalgamation of King's College,a boys' school,and the Girton Girls' School.
The Showdown is the Australian rules football derby played by the two Australian Football League (AFL) teams from South Australia,the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs. The first AFL premiership fixture between the two clubs took place on 20 April 1997.
John Cahill is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During his illustrious career he played football for Port Adelaide,and coached Port Adelaide,West Adelaide,South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL).
West Torrens Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1895 to 1990. In 1991,the club merged with neighbouring Woodville Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles.
Phillip Carman is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Norwood in the SANFL and Collingwood,Melbourne,Essendon and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s and 1980s.
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).
Morphett is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. The electorate is located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) slightly south of west of the Adelaide city centre,bounded by the Holdfast Bay coastline to the west and Marion Road to the east. It is approximately 14 km2 (5.4 sq mi) in area,and includes the suburbs of Camden Park,Glenelg,Glenelg East,Glenelg North,Glenelg South,Glengowrie,Morphettville,Novar Gardens,and Park Holme,as well as a portion of Somerton Park.
In South Australia,Australian rules football is traditionally a popular participation and spectator sport. It is governed by the South Australian Football Commission which runs the South Australia National Football League in the capital Adelaide,the highest profile competition among the 24 spread across the state. Participation has fallen substantially in recent years to a current rate of 4.1% and 63,969 adults and 28,692 children less than a quarter of which are female. Prior to 2019 it was the most participated team sport in the state,however it dropped to third after both basketball and soccer there surpassed it in 2024.
The Southern Football League (SFL) is an Australian rules football league in South Australia. The League was formed,as the Southern Football Association,in 1886. The league is a not-for-profit organisation.
Duncan McFetridge is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Morphett for the Liberal Party from the 2002 election until 2018. Entering shadow cabinet in 2004,he was re-elected at the 2006,2010 and 2014 elections,and holds the seat with a margin of 12.9 points. This was reduced to 7.7 points following the 2016 redistribution. McFetridge lost his shadow cabinet position in January 2017.
Brett James is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Scott Bassett is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League,and Norwood in the South Australian National Football League.
Michael S. Taylor is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also played 13 interstate games for South Australia in interstate and State of Origin football.
Matthew Williams is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives seat of Hindmarsh in South Australia from the 2013 election until the 2016 election.
Bella R. Smith is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She played for Norwood in the SANFL Women's League (SANFLW) before she was signed to an AFLW contract by Collingwood as an undrafted free agent.
