Adelaide Fire

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Adelaide Fire
Adelaide Fire logo.png
Full nameAdelaide Fire
Founded17 April 2019;4 years ago (2019-04-17)
Home ground State Hockey Centre, Adelaide, Australia
(Capacity 4,000)
League Hockey One
Website hockeysa.com.au

Adelaide Fire is an Australian professional field hockey club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The club was established in 2019, and is one of 7 established to compete in Hockey Australia's new premier domestic competition, Hockey One. [1]

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The club unifies both men and women under one name, [2] unlike South Australia's former representation in the Australian Hockey League as the SA Hotshots (men) and SA Suns (women). [3] [4]

Adelaide Fire will compete for the first time in the inaugural season of Hockey One, which will be contested from late September through to mid November 2019.

History

Adelaide Fire, along with six other teams, was founded on 17 April 2019 as part of Hockey Australia's development of hockey. [5] The establishment of the club however, was not met without challenges. It was feared Hockey SA would not enter Hockey One due to financial restraints, however after a public fundraiser the entry quota was met. [6]

The club name of the Fire is a natural progression and combination of the former club names – the Hotshots and the Suns.

Uniform

The club colours are a modern take on traditional SA colours, the yellow, now replaced with white provides a cleaner, modern feel to the uniforms.

Adelaide Fire Men's Uniform Adelaide Fire Men's Uniform.jpg
Adelaide Fire Men's Uniform
Adelaide Fire Women's Uniform Adelaide Fire Women's Uniform.jpg
Adelaide Fire Women's Uniform

Home Stadium

Adelaide Fire are based out of the State Hockey Centre in South Australia's capital city, Adelaide. The stadium has a capacity of 4,000 spectators, with 330 fixed seats. [7]

Throughout the Hockey One league, Adelaide Fire will play a number of home games at the stadium. [8]

Teams

Men's team

The following players were named in the men's squad for the 2023 season.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Kieran Govers
2DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Connor Richmond-Spouse
3MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Lucas Toonen
4FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Jack Holland
6FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Matthew Magann
7DFFlag of England.svg  ENG Peter Scott
8FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Brodie Gleeson
9MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Fred Gray
10DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Lachlan Arneil
11FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Kyton Rayner
12MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Mitchell Dell
No.Pos.NationPlayer
13FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Alastair Oliver
14FWFlag of Scotland.svg  SCO Fraser Heigh
15MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Paxton Silby
16DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Hugh Snowden
17DFFlag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Charl Ulrich
18DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Richard Hancock
20DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Chris Wells
21GKFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Jed Snowden
22GKFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Edward Chittleborough
23FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Hassan Singh
24FWFlag of South Africa.svg  RSA Jethro Eustice

Women's team

The following players were named in the women's squad for the 2023 season.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Chloe Carter
2DFFlag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Brittany Wang
3MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Gabriella Mitreska
4DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Harriet Shand
5MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Holly Evans-Gill (C)
6DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Euleena MacLachlan
7FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Ella du Preez
8FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Michaela Spano
9FWFlag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Marjolein Ceulen
10MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Carly Hoffmann
11DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Lucy Sharman
No.Pos.NationPlayer
12FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Erin Cameron
13FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Chloe Holland
14DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Asta Fisher
15FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Brooke Peris
17MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Katie Sharkey
18DFFlag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Anna Crowley
21GKFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Amy Hammond
22GKFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Zoe Newman
25MFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Jane Claxton
26DFFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Linzi Appleyard
27FWFlag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Sherilyn Cass

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